Designing for Quality: eHealth Development Workshop
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)/Advanced Technology Program, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Library of Medicine (NLM), and the Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
NIST, Gaithersburg, MD
June 24-25, 2003

Gary L. Kreps, Ph.D. (1979, University of Southern California) is Chief of the Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch of the National Cancer Institute's Behavioral Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences. He plans, develops, and coordinates major new research initiatives concerning risk communication, health promotion, behavior change, and information dissemination relevant to cancer prevention and control. Before joining the National Cancer Institute, he served as Founding Dean and Professor in the School of Communication at Hofstra University. Prior to that, he was Executive Director and Professor in the Greenspun School of Communication at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He also served in faculty and administrative positions at Northern Illinois, Rutgers, Indiana, and Purdue Universities.

His areas of expertise include health communication, information technology, organizational communication, multicultural relations, and applied research methods. He is the author/editor of more than 20 books and 150 articles examining the important roles performed by communication in society and has received numerous academic honors and awards. For example, he received both the Future of Health Technology Award and the Ferguson Report's Distinguished Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions in Consumer Health Informatics and Online Health in 2002, the Outstanding Health Communication Scholar Award in 2000, and the Gerald M. Phillips Distinguished Applied Communication Scholarship Award in 1998.