Megan Lewis

Megan  SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Lewis is a senior research scientist and director of RTI International’s Patient and Family Engagement Research Program in the Center for Communication Science. She has unique expertise in health-related interpersonal communication focusing on health promotion and chronic illness management and the use of health and social science behavior theory in guiding research and intervention development. Her current work examines how digital and internet-based interventions support informed decision making about obtaining genomic sequencing, changing behaviors that promote health and manage chronic health conditions. Her research is distinguished by the use of dyadic and interpersonal theories and analytic methods to study how couple and family functioning affect a wide array of health behaviors and disease processes, and she has published extensively on these topics.