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Psychology

Charles Holahan is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. Much of his research has examined the role of work stressors and work resources in health and well-being. He has studied coping with cardiovascular illness and work-family stress and alcohol use. Recent research with his graduate students includes studies of shift work as a psychological stressor.

James Pennebaker is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on disclosure, inhibition, and psychosomatic disease; language and health; and how individuals, groups, and cultures respond to traumatic events. Much of his research has examined social and psychological factors in the workplace that can influence physical health. Some of this work includes issues surrounding mass psychogenic illness, the value of expressive writing about job loss and re-employment, and the influence of expressive writing on absenteeism and job turnover.

Robert Helmreich is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is Director of the University of Texas Human Factors Research Project, which is internationally recognized for its leadership role in research on training, performance, and safety in aerospace, medicine, and other safety-critical work environments.

Kinesiology and Health Education

Nell Gottlieb is a Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on diffusion and implementation of health promotion programs, including cancer prevention and control (with an emphasis on tobacco control). She has applied her research to health promotion in the workplace, participative management techniques and employee well-being, and early detection for breast and cervical cancer among women working in the Texas-Mexico border region.

Carole K. Holahan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on psychosocial factors in health and well being in adulthood and aging. She has examined work/family conflict in dual-career couples and lifetime career patterns in men and women in the Terman Study of the Gifted. She has studied coping with cardiovascular illness and work-family stress and alcohol use.

Mary Steinhardt is an Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on psychosocial resilience and health promoting behaviors in occupational settings.

Business

Reuben McDaniel holds the Charles and Elizabeth Prothro Regents Chair in Health Care Management in the Graduate School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin where he is Professor of Management Science and Information Systems. His research focuses on healthcare in the corporate and public sectors, healthcare and organizational design, technological barriers to telemedicine, and the role of participatory management on job performance in hospitals and nursing homes.

Communication

Rajiv Rimal is an Assistant Professor in the Department Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on the role that individuals' communication patterns play in their long-term health and well-being, health promotion and behavior change, cross-cultural issues in health, and the use of new technologies in health promotion.

Public Affairs

David Warner is a Professor in the Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on health policy and health finance. He is currently working on projects related to improving health insurance coverage, the integration of the U.S. and Mexican health care systems, diabetes policy, public health funding, and U.S.-Mexico border health.