Wen-ying Sylvia Chou is Program Director in the Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch at the NCI. She has interests in social media and health communication, patient-provider communication, and mixed methods health research. As a sociolinguist, she has expertise in qualitative analyses of patient-provider interactions and illness narratives. She also conducts research on the role of technologies and social/participatory media on health communication. In her role as a Program Director, she is leading the effort to develop funding initiatives to examine the changing communication landscape brought on by social media.  Dr. Chou came to the HCIRB from the Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program at the NCI. She holds a MS and PhD in linguistics from Georgetown University and a BA in Music from Santa Clara University, CA. She received a Master’s in Public Health from the Interdisciplinary MPH program at UC Berkeley.