Faculty
Marleah Dean Kruzel
Associate Professor
CONTACT
Email
Office: CIS 3043
BIOGRAPHY
Marleah Dean Kruzel is an Associate Professor at the 最新天美传媒 and a Collaborator Member in the Health Outcomes & Behavior Program at the Moffitt Cancer Center. Dr. Dean Kruzel鈥檚 research interests are cancer communication and the communication of genetic risk information. Most of her projects investigates how patients, families, and clinicians exchange information, manage uncertainty, and make decisions regarding issues of hereditary cancer in order to create communication tools to improve health outcomes and health experiences. She is an expert on the health experiences and decisions of previvors鈥攊ndividuals with inherited gene mutations who have not been diagnosed with cancer. Her work has been published in journals such as Genetics in Medicine, Academic Medicine, Social Science & Medicine, Supportive Care in Cancer, Patient Education & Counseling, Qualitative Health Research, Health Communication, Journal of Health Communication, and Journal of Genetic Counseling. Dr. Dean Kruzel鈥檚 research is and has been funded by the National Cancer Institute, American Cancer Society, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.
RESEARCH AREAS
Health Communication, Patient-Clinician Interaction, Cancer Communication, Health Decision Making, Inherited Cancer Risk
RESEARCH clusters
Health Communication; Interpersonal and Relational Communication
FEATURED MEDIA, PODCASTS, AND BLOGS
(Blog - Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered)
(Podcast - National Society of Genetic Counselors)
(Podcast - Health Stories)
(Podcast - Oregon State University鈥檚 Research in Action)
- (TEDxUSF)
(Video - Bring Your Brave Social Media Campaign)