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Senior’s Name: Chris Koenig
Availability: 3/3

Pairing - Junior
Title: Associate Professor, ACH VP for Research
Institution: San Fancisco State University
Discipline: Communication studies
Years of experience: 15

Research

Areas of work:
  • Patient-centeredness
  • Patient–provider relationship
  • Complementary & Integrative Health, Research Methods
Research methods:
  • Implementation research
  • Microanalysis of face-to-face dialogue
  • Mixed methods
  • Observational studies
  • Qualitative methods
  • Systematic literature review
  • Video analysis

Policy/practice

Type of setting I work in:
  • Academic institution
  • Hospital or healthcare system
Interests/expertise:
  • Knowledge translation
  • Implementation
  • Health service research
  • Boundary Spanning between Academic and Health Systems
Keywords describing expertise and interest:
  1. Qualitative Methods
  2. Video-based & Observational
Field of expertise, major interests, and consultation topics:

I have extensive experience working in and consulting with inexperienced clinicians & researchers in qualitative and mixed methods for a variety of health areas, including oncology, rheumatology, mental health, and health services research and systematic reviews. I am particularly skilled at helping researchers who are novice and intermediate in qualitative methods collecting data for and analyzing interviews and focus groups. However, my passion is audiovisual-based and observational research. I have worked across analytic methods, including thematic analysis, qual content analysis, and the Grounded Theory Method (GTM), but my passion is using Discourse and Conversation Analytic approaches.

Biography/CV:

I am a communication scientist with training at the intersection of linguistics, sociology, and communication studies. My research seeks to understand communication about health and illness through investigating language as a discursive social process. Overall, my work aims to show how communication can encourage culturally and interactionally sensitive care, to facilitate holistic well-being, and to foster thoughtful reflection about the roles of health and illness in contemporary society.