Health communication and relational communication. Much of his work has explored communication dimensions of persons living with chronic illness including: (a) relationship maintenance in couples coping with HIV or AIDS, (b) the communicative management of uncertainty in illness, and (c) patient self-advocacyin physician-patient interactions. His research has been published in communication and medical journals such as Human Communication Research, Communication Monographs, the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Health Communication, AIDS Care, and the Journal of Nursing in AIDS Care. He also has published several book chapters including a forthcoming chapter in Maintaining Relationships through Communication: Relational, Contextual, and Cultural Variations (Lawrence Earlbaum).
