Education and training Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Chicago, (2018-2020) PhD, Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, (2018) MA, Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles MS, Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago BA, Sociology, Northwestern University Publications Tate, A. and Stivers, T. (2025) "Collusion in the clinic: Constructing patients’ moral responsibility to treat cancer." Qualitative Health Research. Prochaska, M.T., Bogue, K., Williams, S., Levine, S., Zhang, H., Tate, A., Arora, V. and Meltzer, D (2024) "The Design and Early Results of a Structured Longitudinal Training Program for Undergraduate Students to Increase Diversity in Aging-Research." The International Journal of Aging and Human Development Tietbohl, C. and Tate, A. (Revise & resubmit) "The ‘O’ Word: Using old age as an interactional tool in primary care." Health Communication (Special Issue). Molitch-Hou, E., Gala, P., Zhang, H., and Tate, A. (2023) "Impact of the COVID-19 Public Health Crisis and a Structured COVID Unit on Physician Behaviors in Code Status Ordering." American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Tate, A. and Spencer, K.L. (2023) "High Stakes Treatment Negotiations Gone Awry: The Importance of Interactions for Understanding Treatment Advocacy and Patient Resistance." Journal of Health and Social Behavior. Stivers, T. and Tate, A. (2023) "The Role of Healthcare Communication in Treatment Outcomes" Annual Review of Linguistics. 9: 233-252 Tate, A. (2022) "Death and the Treatment Imperative: Decision-making in late-stage cancer." Social Science and Medicine. 306. 115129. Lazaridis, C., Goldenberg, F., Mansour, A., Kramer, C. and Tate, A. (2021) "What Does Coma Mean? Implications for Shared Decision Making in Acute Brain Injury." World Neurosurgery. 158: e377-e385. Tate, A. "Invoking Death: How oncologists discuss a deadly outcome." (2020). Social Science and Medicine. 246. 112672. Tate, A. & B.J. Rimel. (2020) "The Duality of Option-Listing in Cancer Care." Patient Education and Counseling. 103 (1) 71-76. Tate, A. (2020) "Matter Over Mind: How mental health symptom presentations shape diagnostic outcomes." Health. 24 (6), 755-772 Tate, A. (2019) "Treatment Recommendations in Oncology Visits: Implications for patient agency and physician authority." Health Communication. 34 (13): 1597–1607. Snyder, K.A, A. Tate & E. Roubenoff. (2018) "Young Women with Breast Cancer and Treatment Decision-Making: Rethinking patient involvement and empowerment." In Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld (ed.) Gender, Women’s Health Care Concerns and Other Social Factors in Health and Health Care: Research in the Sociology of Health Care, Vol. 36. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing Limited, pp.37 – 58. Robinson, J.D., A. Tate & J. Heritage. (2016) "Agenda-Setting Revisited: When and how do primary care physicians solicit patients’ additional concerns?" Patient Education and Counseling. 99 (5): 718-723 Snyder, K.A. & A. Tate (2014) "Cancer-Related Infertility and Young Women: Strategies for discussing fertility preservation" in Oncofertility Communication: Sharing information and Building Relationships Across Disciplines, ed. Theresa Woodruff et al. New York: Springer Press. 49-60. Snyder, K.A. & A. Tate. (2013) "What To Do Now? How Women with Breast Cancer Make Fertility Preservation Decisions." Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care. 39 (1): 172-178. Manuscripts in preparation Tate, A. Zeng, J., Romo, E. Bettger, J., Mansour, A. and Goldenberg, F. "Drivers of Decisions Against Organ Donation in the Context of Brain Death" Tate, A. Hyman, M, Cursio, J, and Meltzer, D. "Improving Advance Care Planning Engagement among High Utilizers of Health Care: The Role of De-fragmented Care and Clinician-Patient Relationships" Tate, A. and Stivers, T. “The Morality of Mid-Treatment Cancer Care.” Tate, A. “Using Clinical (Un)Certainty in Complex Decisions about Cancer Care.”