Dr. Jordan Alpert, PhD

Research Interests:

eHealth, patient-provider communication, health information technology, social media

Bio:

Dr. Alpert is an assistant professor in the Department of Advertising in the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida. He is also a member of the Cancer Population Sciences and Cancer Informatics Shared Resource program, as well as an advisory board member of the STEM Translational Communication Center. Previously, Dr. Alpert was a postdoctoral fellow in cancer prevention and control in the Department of Health Behavior and Policy at Virginia Commonwealth University's School of Medicine. He received his Ph.D. in Communication from George Mason University. Dr. Alpert’s research focuses on how technology can facilitate communication between patients and providers

Education:

Undergraduate Education

• B.S. Warrington College of Business, University of Florida, 2003

Graduate Education

• M.A. Media, Culture, & Communication, New York University, 2012

Post Graduate Education

• Ph.D. Communication, George Mason University, 2015

• Dissertation: Assessing the communication immediacy of an online health portal: Analysis and recommendations to increase personalization and interactivity to create a communicatively competent health information system

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Alpert, JM, Rashidi, P, Kota, NSP, Mendoza, TV, Solberg, LM, Manini, T. (In press). Evaluating a graphical interface of patient smartwatch data to integrate with electronic health records. JMIR Human Factors. In Press.

• Paige, S, Alpert, JM, Bylund, C. (in Press). Fatalistic Cancer Beliefs across Generations and Geographic Classifications: Examining the Role of Health Information Seeking Challenges and Confidence. Journal of Cancer Education. 2020.

• Alpert, J. M., Manini, T., Roberts, M., Kota, N. S. P., Mendoza, T. V., Solberg, L. M., & Rashidi, P. (2020). Secondary care provider attitudes towards patient generated health data from smartwatches. npj Digital Medicine, 3(1), 1-7. 2020.

• Alpert, J. M., Jaisle, A., & Chen, H. (2019). A content analysis of the promotional strategies employed by e-cigarette brands on Twitter. Health marketing quarterly, 36(4); 1-15. 2019.

• Alpert, J, Chen, H, Adams, KA. E-Cigarettes and social media: Attitudes and perceptions of young adults to social media messages. Addiction Research and Theory, doi: 10.1080/16066359.2019.1663835. 2019.

• He, X, Zhang, R, Rizvi, R, Vasilakes, J, Yang, X, Guo, Y, He, Z, Prosperi, M, Huo, J, Alpert, J, Bian, J. ALOHA: developing an interactive graph-based visualization for dietary supplement knowledge graph through user-centered design. 2019. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 19(Suppl 4):150 doi: 10.1186/s12911-019-0857-1

• Alpert, JM, Markham, MJ, Bjarnadottir, RI, Bylund, CL. Twenty-first century bedside manner: Exploring patient-centered communication in secure messaging with cancer patients. Journal of Cancer Education. 2019. doi: 10.1007/s13187-019-01592-5

• Alpert, JM, Morris, BB, Matin, K, Sabo, RT, Brown, RF. Patient access to clinical notes in oncology: A mixed method analysis of oncologists’ attitudes and linguistic characteristics towards notes. Patient Education and Counseling. 2019.

• Alpert, JM, Morris, BB, Thomson, MD, Matin, K, Brown, RF (2019). Identifying How Patient Portals Impact Communication in Oncology, Health Communication, 34:12, 1395-1403. 2019. DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2018.1493418

• Alpert, JM, Morris, BE, Matin, K, Geyer, CE, Brown, RF. OpenNotes in oncology: oncologists’ perceptions and a baseline of the content and style of their clinician notes. Translational Behavioral Medicine. 2018. doi: 10.1093/tbm/iby029

• Alpert JM, Morris BB, Thomson MD, Matin K, Brown RF. Implications of patient portal transparency in oncology: Qualitative interview study on the experiences of patients, oncologists, and medical informaticists. JMIR Cancer, 4(1):e5. 2018. DOI: 10.2196/cancer.8993

• Alpert, JM, Dyer, KE, Lafata JE. Patient-centered communication in digital medical encounters. Patient Education and Counseling, 100(10), 1852-1858. 2017. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2017.04.019

• Alpert, JM, Krist, AH, Aycock, BA, Kreps, GL. Designing User-Centric Patient Portals: Clinician and Patients’ Uses and Gratifications. Telemedicine and e-Health, 23(3), 248-253. 2017. doi:10.1089/tmj.2016.0096

• Brown, RF, Davis, R, Wilson-Genderson, M, Grant, S, Cadet, D, Lessard, M, Alpert, JM, Ward, J, Ginder, G. African-American cancer patients Talking About Clinical Trials (TACT) with oncologists during consultations: Evaluating the efficacy of tailored health messages in a randomized controlled trial- the TACT study protocol. BMJ Open, 6(12), e012864. 2016. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012864

• Alpert, JM, Krist, AH, Aycock, BA, Kreps, GL. Applying Multiple Methods to Comprehensively Evaluate a Patient Portal’s Effectiveness to Convey Information to Patients. J Med Internet Res, 18(5): e112. 2016. doi:10.2196/jmir.5451

• Alpert, JM, Desens, L, Krist, AH, Aycock, BA, Kreps, GL. Measuring health literacy levels of a patient portal using the CDC’s Clear Communication Index. Health Promotion Practice, 18(1), 140-149. 2016. doi:10.1177/1524839916643703

• Gibson, TA, Craig, RT, Harper, AC, Alpert, JM. Covering global warming in dubious Times: Environmental reporters in the new media ecosystem. Journalism: Theory, Practice, and Criticism, 17(4), 417-434. 2016. doi: 10.1177/1464884914564845

• Alpert, JM & Womble, FE. Just what the doctor tweeted: Physicians’ challenges and rewards of using Twitter. Health Communication, 33(7), 824-832. 2015. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2015.1007551

• Alpert, JM & Womble, FE. Coping as a caregiver for an elderly family member. Health Communication, 30(7), 714-721. 2015. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2013.879560

• Alpert, JM. Evaluating the content of family physician websites in the U.S. Journal for Healthcare Quality, 37(5), 311-318. 2014. doi: 10.1111/jhq.12060