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Barbara Heifferon

Dr. Heifferon is an associate professor of English at Clemson University. She earned a Ph.D. in Rhetoric, Composition, and the teaching of English at the University of Arizona. Her dissertation was in medical rhetoric, doctor-patient communication. Her expertise includes such fields as: medical rhetoric; professional and technical writing, health communication, service learning, writing across the curriculum, rhetoric of science, history of medicine, computer ethics, and Aristotelian Catharsis. She will be teaching ENGL 806 - Medical Rhetoric and Writing, which will be based on the book she is currently writing.

Email: bheiffe@clemson.edu Office: 609 Strode 656-7892

Karyn Ogata Jones

Dr. Jones received her PhD. from University of Georgia in Communication Studies. She is an assistant professor in the Communication Studies Department at Clemson. Her dissertation is in Health Communication. Her specialties are health campaign planning, health communication, and public relations. She will be teaching English 807 and other courses in HCC.

Email: karynj@clemson.edu Office: 405 Strode 656-3855

Kate Hawkins

Dr. Hawkins received both of her graduate degrees in Speech Communication from the University of Texas at Austin. Her teaching focuses on areas of group communication, health communication, communication theory and research methods. Her recent research examines how media effect the choices young people make about their health and fitness.

Email: hawkins5@clemson.edu Office: 407 Strode 656-1567

Pamela E. Mack

Dr. Mack is an associate professor in History who specializes in the history of sciences, including medicine. This award-winning History professor provides in her History of Medicine course, HIST 691, a thorough historical overview for students in the HCC program. Other professors in HCC and the History Department also study the history of medicine.

Email: pammack@clemson.edu Office: 122 Hardin Hall 656-5356

Catherine Mobley

Dr. Mobley is an associate professor of Sociology at Clemson University who actually earned a B.A. in Sociology from Clemson in 1984. She continued her education at the University of Bath in England studying Policy Analysis, and she earned a Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Maryland in 1996. Dr. Mobley will be teaching Sociology 680 - Medical Sociology.

Email: camoble@clemson.edu Office: 135A Brackett 656-3815

Kelly Smith

Dr. Smith is an associate professor of Philosophy and Religion at Clemson University. He graduated Magna cum Laude in Philosophy at Georgia State University and proceeded on to Duke University where he earned his M.S. in Zoology (Genetics) in 1991 and Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1994. His areas of specialization include philosophy of science, biology and medicine along with medical ethics and ethics of biotechnology. He will be teaching Philosophy 346 - Medical Ethics.

Email: kcs@clemson.edu Office: 208 Hardin Hall 656-5366

 

 

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