1. Rachyl Pines is a Research Scientist at Cottage Health Research Institute and Transplant Education and Resource Center Fellow with the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation with over 5 years of healthcare communication research experience. She received both her PhD in Healthcare Communication from University of California, Santa Barbara. Rachyl has served as the lead on several multi-national research projects, helped hospital and health care systems to improve their provider-patient communication...
2. Bernadette Watson (PhD University of Queensland, 2000) is Professor (Intergroup Health Communication) at the Department of English and Director of the International Research Centre for the Advancement of Health Communication (IRCAHC), Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research interests psychological wellbeing and health, health communication, language and social psychology, and intercultural communication. She conducts both quantitative and qualitative research. She is a Fellow of the International...
3. Howard Giles is Distinguished Research Professor in Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Editor of both the Handbook of Intergroup Communication (2012) and the The Oxford Encyclopedia of Intergroup Communication (2018), his interests revolve around many areas in intergroup communication, including intergenerational communication and aging. Past President of the International Communication Association, and inaugural recipient of its Career Productivity Award (2000), he is founding...