Dr. Roscoe joined the Department of Communication in 2006.  Previously, Dr. Roscoe held faculty appointments in the School of Aging Studies, and in Geriatric Medicine and Medical Ethics and Humanities in the College of Medicine at USF.  Her research interests include health communication, aging, ethics, and end-of-life.  Current projects include investigating methods of improving communication between cancer patients, family members, and health care providers, and the ways in which spirituality and other resources give meaning to long-term caregiving for family caregivers. 

Undergraduate course offerings

• Family Communiction
• Family Communication at the End-of-Life

Representative publications

• Roscoe, L. A., Osman, H., & Haley, W. E.  (2006). Implications of the Schiavo case for understanding family caregiving issues at the end-of-life.  Death Studies, 30, 149-161. 
  
• Roscoe, L. A.,Egan, K. A.,& Schonwetter, R. S. (2004).  Creating an academic-community provider partnership in hospice, palliative care and end-of-life studies.  Cancer Control:  The Journal of the Moffitt Cancer Center, 11(6), 397-403.
  
• Roscoe, L.A., Malphurs, J.E., Dragovic, L.J., & Cohen, D. (2003). Antecedents of euthanasia and suicide among older women.  Journal of the American Medical Women’s Association, 58(1), 44-48. 
  
• Roscoe, L.A.,Malphurs, J.E., Dragovic, L.J., & Cohen, D.  (2001). A comparison of Kevorkian euthanasia cases and physician-assisted suicides in Oregon. The Gerontologist, 41(4), 439-446.
  
• Roscoe, L.A.,Malphurs, J.E., Dragovic, L.J., & Cohen, D. (2000).  Dr. Kevorkian and euthanasia cases in Oakland County, Michigan, 1990-1998 (letter).  The New England Journal of Medicine, 34(23),1735-6.

Education

PhD, Aging Studies, University of South Florida, 2000.

MLIR, (Master’s degree in Labor & Industrial Relations), Michigan State University, 1981.

BA, Communication, Michigan State University, 1980.