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Strategic Research Programs

Dell Medical School and The University of Texas at Austin drive discovery across disciplines.

Physician-scientists and life sciences investigators engage with collaborators to examine pressing challenges in health and medicine, guided by the common goal of identifying knowledge and solutions with real-world application and benefit. Research themes include translational research, novel diagnostics and therapeutics, computational and bioelectronic medicine, and more.

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Jane C. Edmond, M.D., is the vice dean of professional practice at Dell Medical School. She is also the director of the Mitchel and Shannon Wong Eye Institute and a professor and founding chair in the Department of Ophthalmology. She is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

Michael Mackert is the director of the Center for Health Communication at The University of Texas at Austin, and he holds faculty appointments in the Department of Population Health and Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations.

His research focuses primarily on the strategies that can be used in traditional and new digital media to provide effective health communication to low health literate audiences. He is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed journal publications and the book “Designing Effective Health Messages.”

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Michael Mackert is the director of the Center for Health Communication at The University of Texas at Austin, and he holds faculty appointments in the Department of Population Health and Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations.

His research focuses primarily on the strategies that can be used in traditional and new digital media to provide effective health communication to low health literate audiences. He is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed journal publications and the book “Designing Effective Health Messages.”

Michael Mackert is the director of the Center for Health Communication at The University of Texas at Austin, and he holds faculty appointments in the Department of Population Health and Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations.

His research focuses primarily on the strategies that can be used in traditional and new digital media to provide effective health communication to low health literate audiences. He is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed journal publications and the book “Designing Effective Health Messages.”

Research Programs

Research Programs

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Jane C. Edmond, M.D., is the vice dean of professional practice at Dell Medical School. She is also the director of the Mitchel and Shannon Wong Eye Institute and a professor and founding chair in the Department of Ophthalmology. She is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

Michael Mackert is the director of the Center for Health Communication at The University of Texas at Austin, and he holds faculty appointments in the Department of Population Health and Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations.

His research focuses primarily on the strategies that can be used in traditional and new digital media to provide effective health communication to low health literate audiences. He is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed journal publications and the book “Designing Effective Health Messages.”

Michael Mackert is the director of the Center for Health Communication at The University of Texas at Austin, and he holds faculty appointments in the Department of Population Health and Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations.

His research focuses primarily on the strategies that can be used in traditional and new digital media to provide effective health communication to low health literate audiences. He is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed journal publications and the book “Designing Effective Health Messages.”