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• I hold masters' degrees in communications(focusing on Journalism) and history, and a doctoral degree in education/communication (Columbia University). My postdoctoral training (Columbia University) focused on health Informatics/health communication...More

  I hold masters' degrees in communications(focusing on Journalism) and history, and a doctoral degree in education/communication (Columbia University). My postdoctoral training (Columbia University) focused on health Informatics/health communication. I have taught interactive media design for 13 years at the Art Institute of Philadelphia, including 8 years at Drexel University in Philadelphia. My students have been of all ages, and I have taught in classrooms as well as online. I am a full professor at The Art Institute of Philadelphia, and was awarded the “Teaching Excellence Award” and the “Honored Faculty of the Year Award”. I am scheduled to teach an online course in Healthcare Communication for the Integrated Marketing Communications program at West Virginia University. My postdoctoral research has focused on exploring how design principles can contribute to the efficacy of health communication across health literacy levels. My doctoral work focused on understanding design issues of government and non-government HIV/AIDS websites. My research interests are to explore possibilities of how design and presentation modalities, particularly interactive multimedia technologies(including immersive interactive 3D environments), can be effectively used in the domains of education, health, communication and business - delivered in a variety of formats: smart phones, interactive TV, gaming consoles, etc. I am also interested in the evaluation of human factor principles used in these tools. Less

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