Dr. Anne Cappola and the Medical Communication Research Institute at the University of Pennsylvania cordially invite you to the Inaugural Symposium

Preventing Medical Misinformation: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches

Friday, October 15, 2021, 1-5 pm.

This is a free virtual event. The agenda is attached.

Registration is required: https://upenn.irisregistration.com/Site/MedCommResearchInstitute2021VIRTUAL

With introductions from

Kevin Mahoney, MBA, CEO, University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS)

J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD, Executive Vice President, UPHS, and Dean, Perelman School of Medicine

John Jackson, Jr, PhD, Walter H Annenberg Dean, Annenberg School for Communication

Vijay Kumar, PhD, Nemirovsky Family Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science

Featured speakers

Dolores Albarracin, PhD, Alexandra Heyman Nash Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor of Communication, Nursing, and Psychology, Director, Social Action Lab, Director, Science of Science Communication Division, Annenberg Public Policy Center

Joseph Cappella, PhD, Gerald R Miller Professor Emeritus of Communication

Anne R. Cappola, MD, ScM, Director, Medical Communication Research Institute, Professor of Medicine

Damon Centola, PhD, Elihu Katz Professor of Communication, Sociology, and Engineering, Director, Network Dynamics Group

Jessica Fishman, PhD, Faculty Research Associate, PSOM and Annenberg, Director, Message Effects Lab

Zachary Ives, PhD, Adani President’s Distinguished Professor and Department Chair, Computer and Information Science

Kathleen Hall Jamieson, PhD, Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication, Director, Annenberg Public Policy Center

Kevin Johnson, MD, MS, Professor of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Computer and Information Science, Pediatrics and Communication

Melanie Kornides, ScD, RN, Assistant Professor of Nursing and Pediatrics

David Lydon-Staley, PhD, Assistant Professor of Communication, PI, Addiction, Health and Adolescence (AHA!) Lab

Raina Merchant, MD, MSHP, Professor of Emergency Medicine, Director, Center for Digital Health

Dan Roth, PhD, Eduardo D. Glandt Distinguished Professor at the Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, and the NLP Science Lead at Amazon AWS

Lyle Ungar, PhD, Professor of Computer and Information Science, Bioengineering, Genomics and Computational Biology, Operations, Information, and Decisions, and Psychology

Duncan Watts, PhD, Stevens University Professor of Communication, Operations, Information and Decisions, and Computer and Information Science

For inquiries, please contact Enjoli Barnes: enjoli.barnes@pennmedicine.upenn.edu