Lee Ellington, PhD
Current Position: Associate Professor
Contact Information
Address:
College of Nursing
10 South 2000 East
Salt Lake City , Utah 84112
Phone: (801) 793-5713
Fax: (801) 581-4642
Email: lee.ellington@nurs.utah.edu
Background
Lee Ellington is an Associate Professor at the College of Nursing, a clinical psychologist and adjunct faculty in Psychology, and a member of the Huntsman Cancer Institute-Center. She teaches in the nursing doctoral program and in the genetic counseling program.
She obtained her Doctorate from the University of Utah, Psychology Department with an emphasis in Health Psychology. Her post-doctoral training was at the University of Utah Counseling Center and at the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine.
Research
- Dr. Ellington has an interdisciplinary program of research in patient-provider communication. She has studied health communication in a range of health care contexts and among diverse groups of health care providers. For example, she has studied communication among family practice residents, genetic counselors and emergency calls to a poison control center. In particular, she is interested in the role emotional expression and personality play in client-provider communication. Her focus is on the communication mechanisms (i.e., verbal style and affect) in patient-provider interactions which predict attitudes, treatment decision making, adherence, health behaviors, and clinical outcomes. Dr. Ellington was awarded a 5 year Mentored Research Scholar Grant from the American Cancer Society to examine the biopsychosocial correlates of provider obstruction and facilitation of client emotional expression in the context of cancer clinical genetics communication.
- 2004-09 PI: "A Biopsychosocial Approach to the Analysis of Cancer Genetics Communication," Mentored Research Scholar Grant from the American Cancer Society (MRSG-04-208-01-CPPB)
- 2003-06 Utah Site PI and Co-Investigator: "Genetic Counseling Process and Analogue Client Outcome," Johns Hopkins Subcontract (D. Roter, PI; 1R01HG002688-01A1)
- 2007-2010 Co-Investigator and Site PI: "Amelioration of Literacy Deficits in Prenatal Care" NIH; {PAR 04-116; PI: D. Roter)
- 2007-09 Co-Investigator; "Target, Tailored Symptom Management for Prostate Cancer" NIH, (R21 CA120896-01A1; PI: S. Beck)
- 2002-03 PI: "Identification of Decision Making Issues Related to Randomized Clinical Trial Participation Among the Latino/Hispanic Community" (funded through Huntsman Cancer Institute 3 P30 CA42014)
- 2001-03 PI: "Communication Analysis of BRCA1 Genetic Counseling," (1R03HG002359-01)
Publications
- Ellington, L., Maxwell, A., Baty, BJ, Roter, D, Dudley, WN, & Kinney Y, A. (in press). Genetic Counseling Communication with an African American BRCA1 Kindred. Social Science and Medicine
- Roter, D, Ellington L., Hamby Erby, L, Larson, S, & Dudley, WN. (2006). The Genetic Counseling Video Project (GCVP): Models of Practice. American Journal of Medical Genetics 142C, 209-220.
Presentations
- Ellington, L, Matwin, S., Jasti, S., Endo, M., Uchino, B. Dudley, W., & Roter, D. (20070. Emotional Inhibition in Cancer Clinical Genetics: The Body's Response to Provider Communication. Paper to be presented at the 27th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Washington, D.C...
- Ellington, L, Matwin, S, Sheldon, LK, Crouch, BI, Caravati, M, & Jasti, S. An Examination of Poison Control Communication. Paper presented at the North American Congress of Clinical Toxicology. 2006, San Francisco, CA.
Academic Activities
- 1990-present Utah Psychological Association
- 1990-present American Psychological Association
- 1990-present Society of Behavioral Medicine
Areas of Teaching
- 2006/Spring Genetics Seminar I-Psychosocial Genetic Counseling, Co-developing and teaching with Bonnie Baty, MS, LGC
- N4100 Nursing Research (3)
- 2005/Fall N6199 Psycho-Oncology: The Clinical Application of Psychosocialogical Theories in Cancer; Instructor.
