Kathryn Iionka Pollak PhD

Kathryn is a social psychologist & Professor in Population Health Sciences. She also is the Associate Director of Population Sciences & Co-Leader of Cancer Control & Population Sciences in the Duke Cancer Institute. She has been developing behavioural interventions for 20 years, mostly to promote smoking cessation, predominantly among pregnant women. She has studied clinician-patient communication for the past 15 years & has served as a Communication Coach for the past 5 years. She has directly coached over 100 clinicians & currently is training three communication coaches.