Dr. Sears is currently a Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Cardiovascular Sciences at East Carolina University. He also serves as the Director of Health Psychology. Dr. Sears is a nationally recognized expert in the psychological care and quality of life outcomes of patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) and…
"What Patients Aren't Telling Us Because We're Listening in the Wrong Places: Patients as Teachers, Health Trainees as Filmmakers, and the Video Slam"
The award recognizes outstanding practitioners in psychology. Awardees are psychologists working in a wide variety of institutional practice settings (e.g. schools, military, state hospitals, Department of Veterans Affairs, etc.) Services provided to diverse client groups or patient populations, including but not limited to children/adolescents/adults/older adults; urban/rural/frontier populations; minority populations; and…
Leading drug dependence and infectious disease epidemiologist William W. Latimer, Ph.D., M.P.H., has been named chair of the department of clinical and health psychology at the University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions. Latimer comes to UF from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health,…
