Publications & Scholarship
My scholarship examines how language shapes care, authority, and decision-making in clinical, educational, and institutional contexts. Across research, teaching, and applied work, I focus on moments where communication carries ethical, professional, and material consequences.
Clinical Communication, Ethics, and Care
This body of work focuses on dialogue, decision-making, and ethical deliberation in healthcare and clinical training contexts, drawing on perspectives from health communication and the medical humanities.
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Medical Dialogue and Its Alternatives
Bartesaghi & Forbes (2026, John Benjamins)
This edited volume examines how clinical dialogue is structured, constrained, and sometimes disrupted in healthcare settings, and explores alternative communicative practices that emerge when standard dialogue is insufficient for addressing ethical, emotional, or institutional complexity.
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Communicating Care: Case-Based Learning in Health Communication and the Medical Humanities
Forbes & Seifert (2026, Routledge UK)
This book uses case-based pedagogy to explore communication challenges in healthcare, emphasizing narrative, ethics, and relational care. It is designed for future health professionals navigating uncertainty, vulnerability, and high-stakes decision-making.
Language, Power, and Institutional Discourse
This research examines how institutional language constructs moral authority, expertise, and access—particularly in bureaucratic and professional settings where decisions carry lasting consequences.
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The Discursive Organization of Disability as a Moral and Epistemic Construct within a University Accommodations Office, Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice (2023)
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This article analyzes how disability is discursively produced within university accommodation processes, showing how institutional language shapes moral responsibility, epistemic authority, and students’ access to resources.
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Measuring Disability: The Agency of an Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Diagnostic Questionnaire, Discourse Studies (2014)
This study examines how diagnostic questionnaires function as active agents in institutional decision-making, shaping how disability is interpreted, legitimized, and acted upon within professional contexts.
Applied Communication, Technology, and Equity in Healthcare
This work bridges communication scholarship and emerging health technologies, with particular attention to equity, bias, and ethical implications in data-driven clinical decision-making.
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AI Bias in Lung Cancer Radiotherapy (2024)
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Ding, Forbes, Ma, Luo, Zhou, & Qi
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This interdisciplinary study investigates bias in artificial intelligence–driven radiotherapy planning, highlighting how algorithmic systems can reproduce inequities in cancer treatment and unders
Future Work & Collaboration
I am interested in collaborative projects that engage questions of communication, ethics, and institutional practice—particularly in healthcare, education, and technology-mediated environments. I welcome conversations with scholars, clinicians, and organizations exploring interdisciplinary research, curriculum development, or applied communication initiatives.