Grants per year
Personal profile
Research Interests
Courtney Scherr's research agenda focuses on the theory guided design and evaluation of messages containing scientific information about risk to patients. The goal of her work is to increase patient understanding, engage patients in informed decision making, and increase adherence to medical recommendations. Her current projects examine the communication of hereditary cancer risk and patient outcomes from genetic testing.
Education/Academic qualification
Applied Health Communication, PhD, Purdue University
Communication Arts; International Relations, MA, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Communication, MA, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Breast Neoplasms
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Medicine & Life Sciences
Genetic Testing
Medicine & Life Sciences
Health
Medicine & Life Sciences
Genetic Services
Medicine & Life Sciences
Mutation
Medicine & Life Sciences
Survivors
Medicine & Life Sciences
Network
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Grants 2015 2023
Project 3
Castillo, L. M., Duquette, D., Rasmussen-Torvik, L. J., Scherr, C. E. L., Swanson, A. L., Wicklund, C. A. & Gordon, A. S.
7/1/19 → 6/30/23
Project: Research project
Diversity Supplement for The role of parent phenotype in parent-mediated language interventions for autism
Roberts, M. Y. & Scherr, C. E. L.
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
8/1/15 → 7/31/20
Project: Research project
autism
supplement
parents
intervention strategy
language
Communicate and LEarn About youR Variant of Uncertain Significance (CLEAR VUS)
2/15/16 → 1/31/19
Project: Research project
Pamphlets
Genetic Testing
Focus Groups
Decision Making
Interviews
Research Output 2010 2019
A Framework for Pilot Testing Health Risk Video Narratives
Scherr, C. E. L., Nam, K., Augusto, B., Kasting, M. L., Caldwell, M., Lee, M. C., Meade, C. D., Pal, T., Quinn, G. P. & Vadaparampil, S. T., Jan 1 2019, In : Health Communication.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Health risks
health risk
video
Interviews
narrative
A randomized controlled intervention to promote readiness to genetic counseling for breast cancer survivors
Kasting, M. L., Conley, C. C., Hoogland, A. I., Scherr, C. E. L., Kim, J., Thapa, R., Reblin, M., Meade, C. D., Lee, M. C., Pal, T., Quinn, G. P. & Vadaparampil, S. T., May 1 2019, In : Psycho-oncology. 28, 5, p. 980-988 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Genetic Counseling
Survivors
Breast Neoplasms
Genetic Testing
Pamphlets
A review of African Americans' beliefs and attitudes about genomic studies: Opportunities for message design
Scherr, C. E. L., Ramesh, S., Marshall-Fricker, C. & Perera, M., Jan 1 2019, In : Frontiers in Genetics. 10, JUN, 548.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
Open Access
Epoprostenol
African Americans
Precision Medicine
Population
Pharmacogenetics
Correction to: Intersections of health and gender imperatives: stratified decision-making among women with a BRCA mutation (BioSocieties, (2019), 10.1057/s41292-019-00154-8)
Ross Arguedas, A. A., Scherr, C. E. L., Dean, M., Getachew-Smith, H. & Clements, M., Jan 1 2019, In : BioSocieties.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate
Open Access
Names
Decision Making
decision making
Mutation
gender
2
Citations
(Scopus)
Health beliefs associated with readiness for genetic counseling among high risk breast cancer survivors
Reblin, M., Kasting, M. L., Nam, K., Scherr, C. E. L., Kim, J., Thapa, R., Meade, C. D., Lee, M. C., Pal, T., Quinn, G. P. & Vadaparampil, S. T., Jan 1 2019, In : Breast Journal. 25, 1, p. 117-123 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Genetic Counseling
Survivors
Breast Neoplasms
Health
Appointments and Schedules