1. Irena Stepanikova is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. Her research interests include social psychology, racial and ethnic relations, and medical sociology. She currently studies the role of race and ethnicity in physician-patient encounters.
2. Stefanie Mollborn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Faculty in the Health and Society Program of the Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her research focuses on social psychological approaches to understanding health behaviors over the life course. Current projects include an analysis of the importance of material resources for teenage parents' educational outcomes and an examination of the antecedents and consequences of social norms about...
3. Karen S. Cook is the Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences at Stanford University. She has published widely on topics such as social exchange, networks, power-dependence relations, and trust. Most recently she coauthored (with R. Hardin and M. Levi) Cooperation Without Trust? (Russell Sage Foundation, 2005). She has also done work on managed care and physician-patient trust relations.
4. David Thom is Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Thom received his MD from the University of California, San Diego, and his MPH and PhD from the University of Washington. He has studied patient-physician trust since 1994, when he was named as one of five national Picker Scholars. He has authored more then 60 original research papers and book chapters, many of them on the topic of doctor-patient trust.
5. Roderick Kramer is the William R. Kimball Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He earned his Ph.D. in social psychology from UCLA in 1985. He has been a visiting associate professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Oxford University, London Business School, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In the 2004–2005 academic year, he was a Visiting Senior Scholar at the Hoover Institution.