Section 1. Personal data of Annegret Hannawa
Annegret Hannawa- Professore assistente, Facoltà di scienze della comunicazione
Location: Facoltà di Lugano, ex Laboratorio
Office: 011
Tel: +41 58 666 44 82
Email: annegret.hannawa@usi.ch
Role in organizational units:
Institute of Communication and Health, Assistant professorBiography
Annegret Hannawa is Assistant Professor of Health Communication at the Institute of Communication and Health. She obtained her higher educational degrees at San Diego State University (B.A., M.A., Interpersonal Communication and Quantitative Research Methods) and Arizona State University (Ph.D., Interpersonal Communication, Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods) in the United States of America. Prior to joining the faculty at USI, she served as Assistant Professor of Health Communication and Empirical Research Methods at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. In her academic discipline, she has served as secretary-elect for the interpersonal communication division of the Western United States Communication Association and as an ad-hoc reviewer for the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships and the Journal of Family Communication. Professor Hannawa’s expertise lies in the domains of interpersonal communication and advanced quantitative methodology. Her research agenda focuses on effective health care delivery and positive health outcomes that can be achieved through competent interpersonal interaction. Her most recent research line examines physicians’ verbal and nonverbal disclosure styles of medical errors to patients that facilitate positive and negative physiological (e.g., patient and physician well-being), psychological (e.g., rumination, distress, feelings of guilt), relational (e.g., trust, forgiveness, satisfaction), organizational (e.g., litigation), and systemic (e.g., doctor-switching) health outcomes. She has also investigated harmful interpersonal communication patterns in romantic, parent-child and sibling relationships. Professor Hannawa’s studies have been published in a variety of distinguished journals such as Health Communication, Patient Education and Counseling, Communication Studies, Communication Methods and Measures, Swiss Medical Weekly, Journal of Family Communication, Western Journal of Communication, Violence and Victims, and Therapeutische Umschau. Three of her investigations have received “Top Paper Awards” by the U.S. National Communication Association.
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