02/28/2017

CSCA 2017 Convention - Health Communication Interest Group Update

Hello CSCA Health Communication Interest Group members!

In two short weeks we will meet in Minneapolis for engaging and CREATIVE encounters with our peers and mentors. I am writing to encourage you to tie up any loose ends so that we can enjoy our time together. Loose ends may include:

Convention registration:
http://www.csca-net.org/aws/CSCA/pt/sp/convention_reg

Hotel reservations:
https://aws.passkey.com/event/14719264/owner/1182/home

Planning your panel attendance:
http://csca-net.org/aws/CSCA/asset_manager/get_file/148379?ver=1502

If you have not yet forwarded the latest draft of your paper(s) to your panel respondent(s), please do so as soon as possible.

If you have any last-minute information to share with the interest group, remember that you can post to our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/groups/137783146424405/

I am again including a schedule of the panels sponsored by the Health Communication Interest Group. Thanks to everyone for all their hard work. I look forward to seeing you in Minneapolis!

Brendan Young, Ph.D., M.B.A.
Chair and Program Planner, CSCA Health Communication Interest Group
Assistant Professor of Communication
Western Illinois University-Quad Cities

CSCA 2017 HEALTH COMMUNICATION PANELS

Thursday @ 9:30 a.m. in Lakeshore B: Creating Dialogue Around Challenging Health Topics: Research on Difficult Discussions (Includes Top Paper and Top Student Paper)

Thursday @ 11 a.m. in Lake Superior A: Women’s Reproductive Health: Choice, Desire, and Danger (co-sponsored with Women’s Caucus)

Thursday @ 5 p.m. in Greenway I: Creating the Future of Health Communication Scholarship: Debut Student Papers in Health Communication (co-sponsored with Graduate Student Caucus)

Friday @ 9:30 a.m. in Lake Superior B: Creating and Critiquing Evolutionary Practices of Defining and Providing Support for Eating Disorders

Friday @ 11 a.m. in Lake Superior B: Perspectives on Activity Trackers: Creating “Health” through Mobile Devices

Friday @ 2:30 p.m.in Lakeshore A: Creating Stigma Free Environments: Communicating About and Through Mental Health (Division Spotlight Panel)

Friday @ 4 p.m. in Greenway H: Theoretical Directions in Research Linking Health and Family Communication

Saturday @ 8 a.m. in Lakeshore C: Creating an Ethic of Care: Research on Evolving Caregiving Contexts (co-sponsored with Communication Ethics, Activism, and Social Justice Interest Group)

Saturday @ 9:30 a.m. in Greenway D: Health Communication Interest Group Business Meeting

Saturday @ 11 a.m. in Greenway F: Scholar’s Office Hour

Saturday @ 12:30 p.m. in Lakeshore B: Creating an Online Learning Environment: Lessons from Teaching Health Communication Online (Top Panel)

Saturday @ 2 p.m. in Greenway G: Creating Space for Caregivers