Louis A. Penner received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Michigan State University in 1969 He is the author or co-author of over 115 scholarly articles and book chapters and eight books. He has served on the editorial boards of numerous professional journals and is currently a member of an NIH study panel. His current research interests are psychosocial variables in the context of serious diseases and the reduction of health disparities. He is currently the PI on one NCI grant that focuses on parents’ influence on treatment-related stress among pediatric cancer patients and their families, and a Co-PI on another grant from NCI that focuses on disparities in cancer treatment. Penner is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the Society of Experimental Social Psychologists, and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.

Psychology,behaviiur,stress,pediatric cancer patients,cancer treatment