Dennis H. Novack

Area of research

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health · General Health Professions

Research interest

Dr. Novack has conducted educational research, developed curricula and written many articles in peer-reviewed journals about physician-patient communication, a number of which are used in various medical school curricula. He has also authored or co-authored articles on controversial topics in medical ethics, such as his articles in JAMA on "telling" the cancer patient and on physician use of deception in medicine. He has made many presentations at national and international meetings, and has been invited to serve at several consensus conferences on teaching physician-patient communication, including the Toronto Consensus Conference, whose conclusions were published in the British Medical Journal; two Kalamazoo conferences published in Academic Medicine; and an Institute of Medicine committee on the ideal behavioral sciences curriculum for medical education.