Key words:

• Health Psychology
• Medical Empathy, compasssion, medical communication, doctor-patient relationships, empathic accuracy
• Cancer, oncology; chronic diseases
• Therapeutic Patient Education: healthcare professionals implication - patient adherence
• Emotional skills in health
• Palliative care research, advanced cancer patients' needs

Current Research topics:

• The impact of medical empathy and patient emotional skills on patient outcomes in diverse settings : cancer settings, chronic diseases (including the impact of the GP and the pharmacists on patient outcomes), and nursing home for the elderly
• Predictors of patients' uptake of Therapeutic Patient Education Programs and of obese women adapted behaviors during pregnancy