Associate Professor
Focus: Patient-Provider Interaction
518-694-7139
paul.denvir@acphs.edu
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Education
- Ph.D. in Sociology and Communication, State University of New York at Albany
- M.A. in Communication, State University of New York at Albany
- B.A. in Public Communication, The College of Saint Rose
Courses Taught at ACPHS
- Provider-Patient Communication
- Health Teamwork
- Intercultural Communication in Healthcare
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Interpersonal Communication
- Introduction to Public Speaking
- Principles of Communication
- Public Health Capstone
Academic/Research Interests
My research is centered on interpersonal communication in healthcare settings, with attention to both patients’ and providers’ perspectives. In the area of provider-patient communication, I have a longstanding interest in identifying strategies for productively addressing potentially sensitive health topics, such as diet, exercise, substance use, and sexual activities. More recently, I have been investigating pharmacist-patient interaction during Medication Therapy Management (MTM) service provision, with a particular interest in discussions about medication adherence. I am also interested in the interpersonal processes involved in healthcare teamwork, with recent work emphasizing the communication dynamics between pharmacists and physicians.
Selected Publications
Publications
Denvir, P., Cardone, K., Parker, W. & Cerulli, J. (2018). “How do I say that?”: Using communication principles to enhance medication therapy management instruction. Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning, 10, 185-194.
Denvir, P. & Brewer, J. (2015). “How dare you question what I use to treat this patient?”: Student pharmacists’ reflections on the challenges of communicating recommendations to physicians in interdisciplinary healthcare settings. Health Communication, 30, 504-512.
Denvir, P. (2015). Healthcare team meetings. In Tracy, K., Ilie, C. & Sandel, T. (eds.) The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction. Boston: John Wiley & Sons.
Wingard, L. & Denvir, P. (2015). Dilemmas in interaction. In Tracy, K., Ilie, C. & Sandel, T. (eds.) The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction. Boston: John Wiley & Sons.
Denvir, P. (2014). Saving face during routine lifestyle history taking: How patients report and remediate potentially problematic conduct. Communication and Medicine, 11, 263-274.
Denvir, P. (2012). When patients portray their conduct as normal and healthy: An interactional challenge for thorough substance use history taking. Social Science & Medicine, 75, 1650-1659.
Brewer, J. & Denvir, P. (2011). Balancing competing patient care philosophies during ambulatory care advanced pharmacy practice experiences. In T. D. Zlatic and W. A. Zellmer (Eds.) Nourishing the Soul of Pharmacy: Stories of Reflection. Lenexa, KS: American College of Clinical Pharmacy.
Teas Gill, V., Pomerantz, A. & Denvir, P. (2010). Preemptive resistance: Patients' participation in diagnostic sense-making activities. Sociology of Health and Illness, 32, 1-20.
Denvir, P & Pomerantz, A. (2009). A qualitative analysis of a significant barrier to organ and tissue donation: Receiving less-than-optimal medical care. Health Communication, 24, 597-607.
Pomerantz, A., Teas Gill, V. & Denvir, P. (2007). When patients present serious health conditions as unlikely: Managing potentially conflicting issues and constraints. In A. Hepburn and S. Wiggins (Eds.) Discursive Research in Practice: New Approaches to Psychology and Interaction. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Pomerantz, A. & Denvir, P. (2006). Enacting the institutional role of chairperson in upper management meetings: The interactional realization of provisional authority. In F. Cooren (Ed.) Interacting and Organizing: Analyses of a Management Meeting. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Smith, M., Misener, E., Fink, MJ., & Denvir, P. (2006) Cultural diversity matters: A medical school elective course using reflection and praxis to effect change. Annals of Behavioral Science and Medical Education, 12(2), 84-88.
Mason, A , Misener, E, & Denvir, P. (2004). An exploratory study of patient perspectives on having one physician care for the entire family. Family, Systems & Health, 22(2).
Presentations
Denvir P. Constructing medication nonadherence: Patients’ practices for balancing agency and accountability during in-depth pharmacy counseling. 8th Annual Meeting of LANSI (Language and Social Interaction Working Group), October 2018.
Niles K, Guiffre K, Varriele B, Denvir P. Adherence counseling during comprehensive medication reviews: Preliminary patterns of pharmacist-patient communication. American Society of Hospital Pharmacists Midyear Clinical Meeting, Anaheim CA, December 2018. [student project]
Niles K, Guiffre K, Varriele B, Denvir P. Adherence talk during comprehensive medication reviews: Preliminary patterns of pharmacist-patient communication. 5th Annual ACPHS Student Research Symposium at Albany College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, April 2018. [student project]