Sandra petronio biography

          Sandra Petronio () was a Professor in the Indiana University (IU) Department of Communication Studies and the IU School of Medicine on the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IU Indianapolis Campus), and a Senior Affiliate Faculty in the Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics within....

          Petronio's areas of expertise are in interpersonal, health, and family communication.

        1. Sandra was born in Brooklyn, New York in to Phyllis Lendin Sporbert and Ernest (Ernie) Sporbert.
        2. Sandra Petronio () was a Professor in the Indiana University (IU) Department of Communication Studies and the IU School of Medicine on the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IU Indianapolis Campus), and a Senior Affiliate Faculty in the Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics within.
        3. About Sandra Petronio.
        4. Sandra Petronio is Professor in the Department of Communication and School of Medicine at Wayne State University.

          5. Meet the Theorist

          Sandra Petronio (1949-2024) was a Professor in the Indiana University (IU) Department of Communication Studies and the IU School of Medicine on the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IU Indianapolis Campus), and a Senior Affiliate Faculty in the Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics within IU Health.

          She received her Ph.D. in Communication and her M.A. degree in Social Psychology at the University of Michigan and her B.A. in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at the State University at Stony Brook. She served as the Founding Director of the IU Indianapolis Center for Translating Research into Practice.

          Dr.

          Petronio's areas of expertise were in interpersonal, health, and family communication. She studies privacy, disclosure, and confidentiality. She developed the evidenced-based "Communication Privacy Management" (CPM) theory.

          CPM theory has been used across a number of cultures from, for instance, Kenya, China, Germany, Mexico, and