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Lisa Keränen Department of Communication University of Colorado Campus Box 270 Boulder, CO 80309-0270 Tel: 303-735-5119 Fax: 303-492-8411 lisa.keranen@colorado.edu

Lisa Keränen is an assistant professor of communication who studies and teaches rhetorical theory and criticism with an emphasis on the rhetoric of science and medicine. Her graduate degrees include a PhD in communication and an MA in bioethics from the University of Pittsburgh. She actively researches biomedical controversies, end-of-life discourse, and biodefense. Her essays and reviews appear in places such as Academic Medicine, Accountability in Research, Argumentation & Advocacy, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Journal of Medical Humanities, and Science Communication. Lisa is hard at work on a book, Science and Self-Defense, which explores the role of character in a high-flying breast cancer research misconduct controversy. She is currently teaching the large lecture undergraduate course, Rhetorical Foundations of Communication, and a senior seminar in rhetoric and bioterrorism. This spring, she will teach a seminar in Rhetorics of Health and Medicine. Lisa currently serves on the clinical ethics committee at the community hospital.

Since 2006, Lisa has been serving on the clinical ethics committee at Boulder Community Hospital, which has health care policy focus around issues of justice and end-of-life protocols.

Please visit Lisa's home page in the Communication Department.