Louis A. Penner, Ph.D.
pennerl@karmanos.org


Departmental Role:

I have recently joined the Department in conjunction with my appointment in the Communication and Behavioral Oncology Program at the Karmanos Cancer Institute. I expect to use my training and experience in personality and social psychology, research design and methodology, and statistics in behavioral research concerned with improving the quality of health care for underserved and disadvantaged populations. I have begun collaborations in this area with other members of the Department. I would also expect that I will be able to contribute in a similar way to the education of medical students.

Education:

B.A. Psychology – Miami University, Ohio, 1964
M.A. Social Psychology – Miami University, Ohio, 1966
Ph.D. Social Psychology – Michigan State University, MI, 1969 (Minor: Personality Theory)


Training and Experience:

1969-1973 Assistant Professor, University of South Florida
1973-1978 Associate Professor, University of South Florida
1978-2003 Professor, University of South Florida
1984-1985 Associate Chair and Professor
1986-1993 Professor and Chair
1995-1998 Coordinator Undergraduate Program, University of South Florida
2000-2003 Chair University Institutional Review Board (Social and Behavioral)
2003-present Senior Research Scientist, Communication and Behavioral Oncology, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Professor Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences


Primary Research Interests:

Doctor-patient communication, the role of personality and social variables in patient treatment and recovery, the role of race and ethnicity in quality of health care.


Selected Grants:

Effects of Physician Communication on Patient Accrual (2001-2004) NIH/National Cancer Institute RO1 CA75003-03 (T. Albrecht PI).

The parental antecedents of prosocial tendencies Research Council of University of South Florida. (2002) (PI)

Parental Role in Pediatric Cancer Pain and Survivorship (2003-2006) NIH/National Cancer Institute RO1 CA10027-01 (T. Albrecht PI)

Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research (2002-2007) National Institute on Aging (J. Jackson & P. Lichtenburg, Co-directors

Parental Role in Pediatric Cancer Pain and Survivorship (2003-2006) NIH/National Cancer Institute (T. Albrecht PI).
 
 
Community Network Program for Older Underserved African American Adults (2005-2009) National Cancer Institute (T. Albrecht PI)
 
 
Using Doctor Patient Teams to Reduce Health Disparities (2006-2008) National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.. (L. Penner PI)
 
 
Building a Clinical Encounter Communication Research Program to Reduce Health Disparities (2005 -2008) HRSA Bureau of Health Profession ( M Schenk PI)

Selected Publications:

Borman, W. C., Penner, L. A., Allen T. D. & Motowidlo, S (2001). Personality predictors of citizenship performance. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 9, 52-69.

Rioux, S. & Penner, L. A. (2001). The Causes of Organizational Citizenship Behavior: A Motivational Analysis. Journal of Applied Psychology, 86, 1306-1314

Penner; L. A. (2002). The Causes of Sustained Volunteerism: An Interactionist Perspective Journal of Social Issues. 58, 447-468.

Penner, L. A., Dovidio, J. F., Schroeder, D. A., & Piliavin, J. A. (in press) Altruism and prosocial behavior. Annual Review of Psychology

Albrecht, T. L, Ruckdeschel, J. C., Riddle, D. L., Blanchard, C.G., Penner L. A., Coovert, M.D., & Quinn, G. (in press). Discussing clinical trials with cancer patients. Medical Encounter.

Albrecht, T. L, Ruckdeschel, J. C., Riddle, D.L., Blanchard, C.G., Penner L.A., Coovert, M.D., & Quinn, G. (in press). Communication and consumer decision making about cancer clinical trials. Patient Education and Counseling.

Riddle, D.L., Albrecht, T. L., Coovert, M. D. & Penner, L. A., Quinn, G., Ruckdeschel, J., Blanchard, C. E. & Urbizu, D. (2003). Differences in coding audiotaped versus videotaped physician-patient interaction data. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 26, 219-240.

Penner, L. A., Brannick, M., Connell, P., & Webb, S. (in press). The effects of the September 11 attacks on volunteering: An Archival analysis. Journal of Applied Social Psychology.

Penner, L. A. (In press) Volunteerism and social problems: Making things better or worse? Journal of Social Issues

Penner, L. A., Dovidio, J. F., & Albrecht, T. L. (2000) Helping Victims of Loss and Trauma: A Social Psychological
Perspective. In J. H. Harvey & E. D. Miller (Eds.), Loss and trauma: General and close relationships New York: Bruner/Mazel.

Dovidio, J. F., & Penner, L. A. (2001). Helping and altruism. In Fletcher, G. J. 0. & dark, M. S.(Eds.) International handbook of social psychology: Interpersonal processes (pp. 162-195) Oxford, UK: Blackwell.

Borman, W. C., &Penner, L. A. (2001). Citizenship Performance: Its nature, antecedents, and motives In R. Hogan and B. Roberts (Eds.) Personality and Industrial/Organizational psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Penner, L. A., Dovidio, J. F., & Schroeder, D. (2003). Managing the department chair. In J. Darley, M. Zanna; & H. Roediger (Eds.) The compleat academic. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Albrecht, T. L, Ruckdeschel, J. C., Riddle, D.L., Coovert, M. D., Blanchard, C.G., Penner L.A., & Quinn, G. (in press). New questions: Communication processes and cancer clinical trials. In G. Kreps, (Ed.) Consumer provider communication research: Implications for cancer prevention and control. Hampton Press.

Dovidio, J. Penner, L. A., Piliavin, J., & Schroeder, D. (in press). The psychology of helping and altruism (2nd ed); Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum

Riddle, D.L., Albrecht, T. L., Coovert, M. D. &Penner, L. A., Quinn, G., Ruckdeschel, J., Blanchard, C. E. & Urbizu, D. (2003). Differences in coding audiotaped versus videotaped physician-patient interaction data. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 26, 219-240.
 
 
**Penner, L. A., Dovidio, J. F., Schroeder, D. A., & Piliavin, J. A. (2005) Prosocial behavior: Multilevel perspectives. Annual Review of Psychology, 56, 365-392.
 
 
Albrecht, T., Ruckdeschel, J., Ray, F., Pethe, B., Riddle, D., Strom. J. Penner, L. Coovert, M., Quinn, G., & Blanchard, C. (2005). A portable, unobtrusive device for video recording clinical interactions.  Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 37, 165-169.
 
 
Penner, L. A., Brannick, M., Connell, P., & Webb, S. (2005). The effects of the September 11 attacks on volunteering: An archival analysis. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 35, 1333-1360.
 
 
Finkelstein, M.,Penner, L. A. & Brannick, M. (2005) Motive, role identity, and prosocial personality as predictors of volunteer activity. Social Behavior and Personality, 33, 403-418.
 
 
 
Copeland, L. A. Elshaikh, M. A.D, James Jackson, J.,  Penner, L. A.  & Underwood, W. III (2005) The Impact of Brachytherapy on Regional, Racial, Marital Status, and Age-Related Patterns of Definitive Treatment for Clinically Localized Prostate. Cancer, 104, 1372-1380.
 
 
 
Eggly, S., Penner, L. Albrecht, T. et al. (2006) Discussing 'Bad News' in the Outpatient Oncology Clinic: Rethinking Current Communication Guidelines. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 24,  716-719.
 
 
Cline, R.J.W., Harper, F. W. K., Penner, L.A., Peterson, A.M., Taub, J.W., & Albrecht, T. L. (2006). Parent communication and child pain and distress during painful pediatric cancer treatments. Social Science and Medicine, 63, 883-898.
 
 
**Eggly, S.Penner, L. A. Greene, M., Harper, F. Albrecht, T. & Ruckdeschel, J. (2006). Information seeking during 'Bad News' Oncology Interactions:  Question-Asking by Patients and their Companions.  Social Science and Medicine, 63, 2974- 2985
 
 
Penner, L. A., Orom, H. A., Albrecht, T. Franks, M., Foster, T., & Ruckdeschel, J. C. (in press). Camera-related behaviors during video recorded medical interactions.  Journal of Nonverbal Behavior.
 
 
** Penner, L. A. Albrecht, T. L., Orom, H. A. Coleman, D. & Underwood, W. III (in press) The role of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination in Black-White health disparities in the United States, In Dovidio, J.F., Hewstone, M., Glick, P., & Esses, V. M. (Eds.) Handbook of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination. London, England: Sage.

 
Dovidio, J., Piliavin, J., Schroeder, D., & Penner, L.  (2006). The social psychology of prosocial behavior. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.