Below is the list of all seniors registered for the programme and any junior paired with them (up to a maximum of three per senior).

Basic Information

Name: Marla Clayman
Title: Research Health Scientist/Associate Professor
Institution: Veterans Health Administration (US); University of Massachusetts medical school
Discipline: Public Health
Years of experience: 20

Research

Primary methodological research approach:

• Health literacy
• Message design
• Oncology
• Patient-centeredness
• Patient education
• Patient–provider relationship
• shared decision making

Focus of research in communication and healthcare:

• Co-design
• Delphi and consensus finding methods
• Implementation research
• Mixed methods
• Observational studies
• Qualitative methods
• (Quasi-)experiential designs
• RCT
• Systematic literature review
• Video analysis

Description

Three keywords describing expertise and interest:

1. shared decision making
2. patient engagement in care

Description of field of expertise, major interests, and consultation topics:

Shared decision making; patient provider interaction; patient education; triadic communication; comparative health systems; communication and cancer.

Brief biography:

Dr. Clayman is a dedicated health services and health communication researcher with two decades’ experience in designing and carrying out studies related to patient engagement and healthcare decision making. She is an internationally known scholar in the fields of shared decision making and analysis of patient-provider interaction.