Gary L. Kreps is an American educator. Since 2020, he has been a Distinguished Professor of communication at Virginia's George Mason University, where he directs the Center for Health and Risk Communication.[1] Kreps is one of the founding scholars of the field of health communication, having published several of the earliest seminal books and articles on the topic, worked to establish the Health Communication Divisions at both the International Communication Association (ICA) and the National Communication Association (NCA), helped to found the Society for Health Communication, and spurred the introduction of major health communication research programs, courses and curricula around the globe.
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| Born | August 17, 1952 Queens, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | East Meadow High School |
| Alma mater | City College of San Francisco University of Colorado (BA)(MA) |
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| Years active | 1978–present |
At George Mason University, Kreps served as Chair of the Department of Communication from 2004 to 2013. He, spearheaded introduction of the department's leading international doctoral program in Health, Risk, and Strategic Communication. He held the Eileen and Steve Mandell Endowed Chair in Health Communication from 2004 to 2010, and was appointed as University Distinguished Professor in 2010. Prior to joining the faculty at George Mason University, he served as Founding Chief of the Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), where he introduced important national health communication research programs. He was the Founding Dean of the School of Communication at Hofstra University, Executive Director of the Greenspun School of Communication at UNLV, and served as a professor at Northern Illinois University, Rutgers University, Indiana University, Indianapolis, and Purdue University Northwest universities. research and policy.
Kreps has received many distinguished awards and honors for his work. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Health Behavior in 2010[2] and as a Fellow of the ICA in 2019. He was elected as an NCA Distinguished Scholar in 2019. He received the Research Laureate Award from the American Academy of Health Behavior in 2015. Kreps has also received the NCA Dale Brashers Mentorship Award, the Gary Gumpert Urban Communication Research Award, the Endeavour Executive Fellowship from the Australian Department of Education, the FIRST Scholar Award from the University of Colorado, the Distinguished Communicator Award from the Virginia Academy of Communication Arts & Sciences, the NCA Distinguished Administrator Award, the ECA Health Communication Centennial Scholar Award, the Pfizer Professorship in Clear Health Communication, the Lewis Donahue Outstanding Health Communication Scholar Award from the University of Kentucky, the Future of Health Technology Award, the Distinguished Achievement Award in Consumer Health Informatics and Online Health, the NCA/ICA Outstanding Health Communication Scholar Award, and the NCA Gerald M. Phillips Distinguished Applied Communication Scholar Award.
Education
editKreps studied at the University of Colorado Boulder, obtaining a bachelor's degree in Communication in 1975 and a master's degree in Communication the following year. He then studied at the University of Southern California, earning a PhD in Communication in 1979.[citation needed]
References
edit- ^ "Research Team". The Center for Health & Risk Communication. Retrieved 2020-09-13.
- ^ "American Academy of Health Behavior - Fellows Directory". www.aahb.org. Retrieved 2020-09-13.
External links
edit- Faculty biography
- Gary Kreps publications indexed by Google Scholar