2012 Engel and Payer Award Recipients

AACH is pleased to announce Richard Street, as 17^th annual George Engel Awardee for Outstanding Research Contributing to the Theory, Practice and Teaching of Effective Healthcare Communication and Related Skills. Adina Kalet, was awarded the 11^th annual Lynn Payer Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Literature on the Theory, Practice and Teaching of Effective Healthcare Communication and Related Skills.

These awards were presented at the conference dinner at the 2012 AACH Research and Teaching Forum on October 13th in Providence, Rhode Island.

Please join with us in congratulating these two outstanding individuals for their ongoing work in healthcare communication.

Richard L. Street, Jr. PhD
Richard L. Street, Jr. PhD, is Professor of Communication at Texas A&M University, and Director, Health Communication and Decision-Making Program in the Houston Center for Quality of Care, Baylor College of Medicine. His research focuses on clinician-patient communication, pathways linking communication to improved health outcomes, and strategies for increasing patient involvement in care. He has published over 100 articles and book chapters, as well as a number of books, monographs, and special issues of various journals. In 2003, he was named Outstanding Health Communication Scholar by the International Communication Association. In 2008, he received the L. Donohew Health Communication Scholar Award from the University of Kentucky. In 2010, he was awarded Texas A&M Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement in Research Award. In 2012, he was awarded the George L. Engel award by the American Academy on Communication in Healthcare.

Adina Kalet, MD, MPH

Adina Kalet, MD, MPH, Arnold P. Gold Professor of Humanism and Professionalism, is Co-Director of the Program on Medical Education Innovation and Research (PrMEIR) with the mission to advance medical education scholarship and to institute best practices for patient-centered, evidence-based medical education. She is also the Director of a new Unit of the Dean's Office of Medical Education called the Program for Professional Development Assessment and Outcomes (PPDA&O). She leads the Research on Medical Education Outcomes (ROMEO) unit, as part of the Section of Primary Care, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine. ROMEO is a group of dedicated cross-disciplinary researchers seeking to link education and health services research methodology to study how educational interventions lead to long-term outcomes in learners and patients. Dr. Kalet directs the NYU Clinical Translational Science Institute Translational Research Education and Careers Mentor Development Program (NYU CTSI TREC MDP), which prepares 15-20 researchers annually for their role in mentoring translational research. She practiced and taught primary care medicine in the urban inner city, has been the PI or program director on a number of cross-disciplinary and multi-institutional curriculum development and research grants. Dr. Kalet has written extensively on issues of clinical skills evaluation and remediation, faculty development and mentoring, professional identity development assessment and psychosocial aspects of medicine. She is currently at work on a book entitled "A Midcourse Correction: A Framework for Remediation of Physician Trainees.” (Springer). In this book she seeks to bring relevant theory and practice from multiple scholarly domains to bare on the challenges of remediating health professional trainees.