Dr. Kevin Patrick

Dr. Patrick is a Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego and Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine since 1996. Dr. Patrick is a Senior Advisor to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Active Living Research project, a member of the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board, and a member of the Community-level Health Promotion Study Section of the NIH Center for Scientific Review.

He is a past President of the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine and has served on the Secretary's Council for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). He has been PI or Co-PI on more $20 million in research and training grants. His current research explores how patients and consumers can optimize health-related behaviors with the assistance of interactive health communication technologies. Dr. Patrick has authored over 110 scientific articles, book chapters, commentaries and abstracts.