Marleah Dean (Ph.D., Texas A&M University) is an associate professor at the University of South Florida. Her research intersects health, interpersonal, and applied communication—emphasizing how communication can improve health outcomes among different healthcare stakeholders. Recently, her work investigates how patients, families, and healthcare providers exchange information, manage uncertainty, and make decisions regarding issues of hereditary cancer and has been published in journals such as Academic Medicine, Social Science & Medicine, Patient Education & Counseling, Qualitative Health Research, Health Communication, Journal of Health Communication, and Journal of Genetic Counseling.