Share CBT-I

Our team promotes the American College of Physicians 2016 Clinical Guideline for adult chronic insomnia assisting clinicians to strive for a 100% referral rate to CBT-I (the best non-drug treatment), via a shared digital bridge (Insomnia Hub). As well, we aim to improve dissemination of CBT-I research (and where to find services) to health consumers.

Aim:
The team will develop and test a new open ‘digital bridge’ (the Insomnia Hub) - via Share CBT-I - by which any clinician can easily and effectively inform and refer health consumers to the most trusted CBT-I help. 'Share CBT-I' will ultimately combine (1) a brief online tutorial for how to conduct the referral, and (2) a curated and crowdsourced knowledge-sharing platform, provided by ON, enabling healthcare faculty and students (anywhere) to share what they know about CBT-I and where to find it - interprofessionally.

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Health Communication 620

 

Summary

Health Communication 620 examines interpersonal communicative processes associated with health in consumer-provider, family, and health communication campaign contexts. The instructor is Professor Gary Kreps.

Focus on understanding cultural differences in perceptions of/communication about health and disease.

 

Information

Instructor: Gary Kreps Office Hours: 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Location: Thompson Hall 2022 Time: Monday 7:20 pm to 10 pm

 

Syllabus

Share CBT-I projects

Write an article (potentially for UPI publication) related to the Share CBT-I Health Communication Campaign (which will also be a published Insomnia Hub post) Conduct formative research to ask the question, “What are the barriers to current primary care providers referring to CBT-I, instead of prescribing sleep pills?”

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Gary Kreps

 

Summary

University Distinguished Professor, Department of Communication, George Mason University Director, Center for Health and Risk Communication

Gary Kreps’ areas of expertise include health communication and promotion, information dissemination, organizational communication, information technology, multicultural relations, risk/crisis management, health informatics, and applied research methods.

Dr. Kreps is an advisor to numerous health communications-related organizations.

 

Information

GMU website    CHRC website Curriculum Vitae (docx) Wikipedia page   LinkedIn page

Email: gkreps@gmu.edu Phone: 703.993.1094 Office Hours: Address:  Robinson Hall A 339AB Fairfax, Va. 22030

 

About

Gary L. Kreps is a University Distinguished Professor of the Department of Communication at George Mason University. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Communication Research, Health Communication, Organizational Communication, Consumer-Provider Health Communication, Health Communication Campaigns, and E-Health Communication.

 

Education

Dr. Kreps received his BA and his MA in Communication from the University of Colorado, Boulder and his PhD from the University of Southern California.

 

Areas of expertise

Dr. Kreps’ areas of expertise include health communication and promotion, information dissemination, organizational communication, information technology, multicultural relations, risk/crisis management, health informatics, and applied research methods.

 

Positions

He is the Director of the Center for Health and Risk Communication, serves on the Governing Board of the Center for Social Science Research, and is a faculty affiliate of the National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases, the ...

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Jeffrey E. Herrick

 

Summary

Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Program Director, Department of Rehabilitation Science in the College of Health and Human Services

Dr. Herrick is an exercise physiologist with extensive experience in analyzing biological mechanisms underlying cardiopulmonary responses in a wide range of clinical populations.

He is presently doing research on Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Muscle Fatigue.

 

Information

CHHS webpage:  chhs.gmu.edu/faculty-and-staff/herrick

Email:  jherrick@gmu.edu Phone:  703-993-1263 Address: Robinson A451D Department of Rehabilitation Science MS: 2G7, 4400 University Dr Fairfax, VA 22030-4444

 

Biosketch

Dr. Herrick is an Assistant Professor and the undergraduate program director at the Department of Rehabilitation Science in the College of Health and Human Services. Dr. Herrick is an exercise physiologist with extensive experience in analyzing biological mechanisms underlying cardiopulmonary responses in a wide range of clinical populations.

Dr. Herrick earned a doctorate in Rehabilitation and Movement Science with a concentration in Cardiopulmonary Physiology at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2009. He also earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from Utica College of Syracuse University in 1994 and a Master’s Degree in Exercise Physiology from James Madison University in 2005. Dr. Herrick is a professional member of American College of Sports Medicine and American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

Education

Virginia Commonwealth University Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Rehabilitation and Movement Science 2005 – 2009

James Madison University Master’s Degree, Exercise Physiology 2002 – 2005

Syracuse University Bachelor’s Degree, Biology and ...

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Meredith Cary

I am also the Lead Curator and founding member of the Insomnia Hub. Collaborating with an interdisciplinary George Mason University team, we are developing 'Share CBT-I' ... an ongoing, course-based health communication campaign to create a 'digital bridge' between healthcare professionals and consumers to provide open access to knowledge about 'what works' for insomnia and where to find it.

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Sergei A. Samoilenko

 

Summary

Instructor, Communication Department, George Mason University Faculty Advisor, Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA)

Sergei Samoilenko’s research focus is on public relations, crisis communication, reputation management, new media.

 

Information

Webpagecommunication.gmu.edu/people/ssamoyle

Websites: Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA);  Academia.edu;  YouTube;   Twitter;  LinkedIn

Email:  ssamoyle@gmu.edu Phone: 703.993.8472 Address: Robinson Hall A 339 Fairfax, Va. 22030

 

About

In addition to instructing, Sergei A. Samoilenko is the faculty advisor for the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA). He develops and coordinates career-building activities for communication students, including: professional workshops, public outreach projects, job fairs and student mixers in the Washington D.C. area. He also assists the Center for Global Education (CGE) at George Mason with developing CGE summer programs in public relations in Austria and Germany.

Sergei actively contributes to the development of communication education internationally. He is the Immediate Past President of the Eurasian Communication Association of North America (ECANA) established to facilitate former Soviet Union-related communication research, education and its practical social application in Russia and the US, and promote joint projects between scholars from Russia, CIS and Baltic states and their North American counterparts. He is a co-founder and a board member of the Kazakhstan Communication Association. He is also an ...

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