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Staff Bios
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Dr. Jane Armer
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Center Co-Director and Scientific Advisor
Ellis Fischel Cancer Center, Room 408
115 Business Loop 70 West
Columbia, MO 65203
• Phone: (573) 882-0287
• E-mail: armer@missouri.edu
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Dr. Jane Armer is the co-director and scientific advisor of the Health Communication Research Center at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Armer has experience as a cancer survivor and expertise in post-breast cancer lymphedema research. She has five years of experience as the co-director of the Office of Research in the Sinclair School of Nursing at the University of Missouri-Columbia and has received honors and awards for her teaching skills and her research abilities.
In 1998, Dr. Armer became a Lymphedema Therapist, as designated by the Lerner Lymphedema Institute Academy of Lymphedema Studies. In 2000, she was named Director of Nursing Research at Ellis Fischel Cancer Center. She serves on the medical advisory committee for the National Lymphedema Network, is a board member for the Lymphology Association of America, has expertise in mentoring junior researchers, and is principal investigator on an NIH-funded R01 research project on post-breast cancer lymphedema.
Her duties in the Center include working with an interdisciplinary team of researchers to better understand the critical role of communications in health care and providing expert scientific guidance and leadership to the projects and acting as a resource to the scientific community. She also provides assistance to project leaders for mentoring and training of junior faculty and graduate students. In addition, Dr. Armer works to encourage investigators from relevant disciplines to study cancer communications as part of interdisciplinary teams and increase the number of peer-reviewed publications in the area of health-related communication processes. Her expertise in nursing enables her to focus on the biomedical communication issues in her Center advisory role.
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Glen T. Cameron, Ph.D.
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Center Co-Director and Scientific Advisor
214 A Walter Williams
Missouri School of Journalism
Columbia, MO 65211
• Phone: (573) 884-2607
• Fax: (573) 882-4823
• E-mail: camerong@missouri.edu
• Personal Web site
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Dr. Glen T. Cameron is the co-director and scientific advisor of the Health Communication Research Center at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has received many academic awards and honors, including in 1998 being named Professor and Maxine Wilson Gregory Chair in Journalism Research at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. In bibliometric analyses of journalism and mass communication scholarship, he is cited as the most published researcher nationally in major refereed journals over the past five years. In 1996, he received the Pathfinder Award for Career Research Contributions from the Institute for Public Relations Research & Education.
Dr. Cameron's research includes studies of public relations and news production, information processing of news and commercials, and print media advertising, and he is co-author of the leading introductory text to public relations, Public Relations: Strategies and Tactics, published by Allyn & Bacon, now in its seventh edition. His direction of research projects for Center for Advanced Social Research (CASR) clients has included 40,000 health-related phone interviews covering topics such as alcohol abuse, tobacco use, and child well-being.
Other notable scholarly accomplishments include several additional textbooks as well as the development of the contingency theory of conflict in public relations. He also worked to develop Publics PR Research Software™, a program widely used in marketing and public relations research, and founded Empiricom, a research enterprise of the Missouri School of Journalism focusing on new media as a tool for journalism and mass communication.
His duties in the Center include working with an interdisciplinary team of researchers to better understand the critical role of mass communication, particularly public relations, in health care. He also provides expert scientific guidance and leadership to HCRC projects, pilot projects, and staff, acting as a resource to the scientific community. He also provides assistance to project leaders for mentoring and training junior faculty and graduate students. In addition, Dr. Cameron works to encourage investigators from relevant disciplines to study cancer communication as part of interdisciplinary teams and increase the number of peer-reviewed publications in the area of communication processes. His expertise in journalism, public relations, and advertising enables him to focus on written, visual, and oral communication issues in his Center advisory role.
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Jon Stemmle
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Director of Strategic Communication
Missouri School of Journalism
375 McReynolds Hall
Columbia, MO 65211
• Phone: (573) 882-6225
• E-mail: stemmlej@missouri.edu
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Jon Stemmle is the Center's cancer communication specialist and director of strategic communication. His role in the Center involves handling all strategic communication resulting from Center research projects and events, including press releases and Web sites. He works with project leaders to develop communication materials, such as white papers and grant summaries, and does the Center's media relations. Stemmle has a decade of experience as a journalist and has spent the last eight years in public relations. He has an M.A. in Journalism from the University of Arizona.
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