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Click on a name below to review their Health & Risk Research experience:
Charles Atkin Franklin J. Booster
Paul Cooke Stephen Lacy
Maria Lapinski Peter LaPine
Carmen M. Lee Jerry Punch
Nora Rifon Charles Salmon
Kami Silk    

Charles Atkin: Profile
Chuck regularly teaches COM 475, Communication Design and Analysis, which devotes more than half of the course to media health campaigns.

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Frankin J. Boster: Profile
Frank taught a course titled, "Persuasion and Health", at the University of Iowa Fall , 2005.

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Paul Cooke: Profile
Paul is teaching ASC 453 Mind-Body Communication for the first time Spring 2006. Several topics within this course  relate to health issues such as stress, mind over matter, the placebo effect, emotions, attitudes, and beliefs.
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Stephen Lacy: Profile
Steve as worked with the J-school victims and media program, which teachers students to deal with various forms of work stress, such as post traumatic stress syndrome.

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Peter LaPine: Profile
Peter teaches about head/neck cancer rehabilitation, Neuroanatomy/neurophysiology with emphasis on neuropathologies in adults with communicative disorders, voice disorders including rehabilitation, phonosurgery, and acoustics and congenital anomalies including clefting and craniofacial malformation. He does forensic voice identification for federal, national or international law enforcement agencies, anti-terror and homeland security firms, as well as to legal and civil litigants.

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Maria Lapinski: Profile
Maria teaches two of the core courses in the Health Communication MA Program.  CAS 826 examines how members of different cultural groups respond to health and environmental risk messages.  She is teaching Risk Communication as CAS 892 or CAS 992.

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Carmen M. Lee: Profile
Carmen is teaching a course on the Dark Side of Interpersonal Relationships during Spring, 2007.

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Jerry Punch: Profile
Jerry developed the Hearing Handicap Inventory: Multimedia Version (MHHI) in late 1990s (with Barbara E. Weinstein). The MHHI is an interactive CD-ROM program designed to screen for hearing handicap, and to measure outcomes of intervention procedures in young and elderly adult populations. It is available through MSU’s Instructional Media Center .

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Nora Rifon: Profile
I use health comm. Examples in ADV 823.I co-taught a grad seminar in “Behavioral Principles for Health Promotion” with faculty in Psychiatry and Ed. Psych. (a few years ago; we don’t do it anymore).

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Charles Salmon: Profile
Chuck has conducted workshops on a variety of health issues, although he is currently pretty busy serving as the Dean of the College of Communication Arts and Sciences.

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Kami Silk: Profile
Kami teaches CAS 825, the basic Health Communication Theory course in the Health Communication MA program.  She also teaches Com. 475, the Communication Campaign course regularly.

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