My work for the past fifteen years has been in the area of ecological and cultural health and health policy. I am especially interested in way to connect the consumer health culture to existing policy, research, and practice in healthcare so that both are improved as a result -- So that patients and family play an active, informed role in improving their own healthcare and the entire system, and health care professionals create systems that assist in this goal. I work for a day when medical consumerism is replaced with health is a civic responsibility for all to share. In my work, I utilize the tools of human communication, including deliberation, collaboration, dialogue, and negotia...