Jean C. Wiese, Ph.D.

(University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1971)

107 Medical Behavioral Science Building
Phone: (859) 323-5573
e-mail: jwiese@uky.edu

Research Description

Dr. Wiese's research is in raising the awareness of health professionals to the wide spectrum of varied but logical human behavior; thereby, making these professionals keenly appreciative of cultural differences. She believes that the Department of Behavioral Science's required program makes the difference between a thoroughly trained and technically competent, professional, and a professional of equal technical skills but who is also finely attuned to the psychosocial experience of his/her patients. The result is a consummate medical professional in whom the individual needs of his/her patients will resonate.

2008 Accomplishments

In service to the Medical Center, in 2008 Dr. Wiese served as the Departmental Representative to the College of Medicine Curriculum Committee as well as the First-and Second Year Course Directo5rs Committee.  This fall, she was named to the Curriculum Revision Committee. Because of her teaching in the College of Dentistry, she also served on the First Year Academic Promotion Committee. In addition to standing committees, she was a member of 6 graduate student Ph.D. committees in the Counseling and Educational Psychology program.  She is a small group tutor in both Patient Centered Medicine I and II (PCM I and II) for first and second-year medical students respectively, working under the direction of John F. Wilson, Ph.D. In both of these courses, she has assisted with significant revisions. Communication and Interviewing I and II (MD 811 and 821) have essentially been subsumed into the two PCM courses.  At this point, largely because of dwindling numbers of faculty to tutor small groups, she is assisting John in folding PCM I and II into a single one-year course including MD 811.  She taught a final section of Patients, Dentists and Society (CDE 814) for first-year dental students.  Also dentistry, she helped Wilson and Nash tutor 5 two-hour small group interviewing sessions for second-year dental students (CDE 824) for a course directed by Ronald Botto, Ph.D., of Dentistry. Finally, She taught her final presentation of Behavioral Factors in Health & Disease (BSC 331) for first-year Physical Therapy students in the College of Allied Health.  This is a full-semester 3-credit course. It was an exceptionally energetic, curious and cohesive group.  After the course she received this comment from a student. “Dr. Wiese, I really do appreciate how much insight you provided me with this semester. You had the best class by far, I hope you have a great retirement and you deserve to have recognition. I learned so much from you ranging from assumptions to compassion. I did not think about half the information you discussed in class. I am an athletic trainer and there was a lot of application because I have treated athletes for years and not one I the issues we discussed in class did I learn in undergrad. I really was shooting for an A in this course and hope I sealed it. Once again, you meant a lot to me this semester and I will never forget about you or the course in my journey through PT school!  Thanks.”

Research Funding

None

Representative Publications

Wiese, H.J.C., & Gallagher, E.B. (1997). Health behavioral research and medical training and practice: A social context. In D.S. gochman (Ed.), Handbook of Health Behavior Research IV: Relevance for Professionals and Issues for the Future. New York, Plenum, 53-74.

Wiese, H.J.C. (1992). The cutting edge: Behavioral sciences in the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy (Invited Commentary). Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics, 17, 259-262.

Wiese, H.J.C., Wilson, J.F., Jones, R.A., & Nieses, M. (1992). Obesity stigma reduction in medical students. International Journal of Obesity, 16, 859-868.

Wiese, H.J.C., (author and editor) (1992). Obesity. One program of a series called, Education for Health Professionals, funded in part by NIH Division of National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Department of Television, Lexington, KY.

Wiese, H.J., Torbeck, L., & Matheny, S. Integration into curriculum of a skilles-based module on interpreter use with patients of limited English proficiency. Medical Education. May 2004. IN PRESS.

Goodrum, S., Wiese, H.J. Urban and Rural Differences in the Relationship between Substance Use and Violence. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. IN PRESS.