Bradley O. Boekeloo, Professor
2387 HHP Bldg, Valley Drive
College Park, MD 20742
301.405.8546
boekeloo@umd.edu
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Dr. Boekeloo is a Professor at the University of Maryland,
College Park (UMCP), and the Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of Public and Community Health,
School of Public Health.
He has conducted studies on patient-provider communication about
prevention for the last 15 years. Several of his studies have tested
interventions to change patient-provider communication, including
the use of simulated patients and educational materials to improve
provider communication skills around sexual risk assessment and
risk reduction. He was an early developer of the use of unannounced
simulated patients to evaluate provider communication around sexual
risk prevention. He has also tested interventions to improve patient-provider
communication through the use of patient priming for general medical
visits with “walkman” administered interactive audio
education.
Most recently, Dr. Boekeloo is testing whether adolescent-provider
communication about alcohol risk improves more with patient-priming
or patient- and provider-priming combined. Communication outcomes
are being measured in this study through patient and provider report,
as well as through audio-recordings of the medical encounters. Dr.
Boekeloo has published many peer reviewed journal articles and served
on numerous expert panels and research review committees regarding
STD/HIV prevention, adolescent sexual behavior, program evaluation,
and provider education.
Dr. Boekeloo served as Director of the Center for Health Promotion
and Disease Prevention Program and Director of the Doctor of Public
Health Program in Health Behavior at the George Washington University
School of Public Health and Health Services from 1996-1998. Since
1998, Dr. Boekeloo has served as the founding Director of the Laboratory
for Health Behavior Assessment and Intervention at the University
of Maryland, Department of Public and Community Health (DPCH). At
the DPCH, Dr. Boekeloo has also served as Chair of the Graduate
Program Committee.
Dr. Boekeloo has been widely recognized for his research and evaluation
achievements. He received the Young Investigator Award in recognition
of excellence in primary care research from the Agency for Health
Care Policy and Research in 1993. In 1999 and 2000, The University
of Maryland named Dr. Boekeloo as one of its top 100 “Rainmakers”
for his high level of grant funding. In 1998 and again in 2001,
he was elected by the Public Health Education and Health Promotion
section to the Governing Council of the American Public Health Association.
In 2000, Dr. Boekeloo was elected Co-Chair of the Health Resources
and Services Administration, National Evaluation Committee for the
National AIDS Education and Training Center Program. He was elected
Fellow of the American Academy of Health Behavior in 2001 and Program
Chair of the American Academy of Health Behavior Annual Meeting
in 2003.
Dr. Boekeloo is founder and director of the Laboratory
for Health Behavior Assessment and Intervention in the Department
of Public and Community Health. The Laboratory has received over
1.5 million dollars in federal funding and has provided research
opportunities for faculty as well as many undergraduate and graduate
students.
Major Research Interests
- Behavioral Intervention Research
- STD/HIV Prevention
- Physician Behavior
Courses Taught
Current
Advisees
- MPH
- Grupski, Karen
- Mirowitz, Naomi
- Proser, Maura
- Solomon, Jennifer
- Doctoral
- Bobbin, Marilyn
- Boyle, Jennifer
- Matoff-Stepp, Sabrina
- Sadler, Michelle
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