Research Mentors

A core element of the training program is the opportunity to work closely with a primary mentor, as well as a mentoring committee of approximately 3-5 faculty. In addition to the primary mentor, this committee will assist the trainee in defining and working toward his or her professional goals. Applicants are asked to state their specific interests in cancer survivorship upon applying to the program, to assure potential mentors can be identified prior to accepting a trainee into the program.

Research Mentors

Mentors currently work on a variety of funded research projects in the following areas: (1) Quality of Life; (2) Lifestyle; (3) Symptom Management; (4)Tobacco Control; and (5) Clinical Care that potential mentors and cancer control researchers are working on or have conducted is available here.

Potential mentors come from a range of disciplines, have cancer-related funding in a variety of areas, participate in collaborative research teams, and have considerable experience in mentoring. Click on a mentor’s name to link to their bio page, which provides more information about their research interests, current funding and publications.

Potential Mentors & Department	Discipline & Research Interests
Thomas Arcury, PhD Family and Community Medicine	Medical Anthropology Rural health, health disparities, qualitative research
Nancy Avis, PhD, MS Social Sciences and Health Policy	Social Psychology and Epidemiology Quality of life, symptom management, complementary and alternative medicine, long-term survivors
Bettina Beech, DrPH, MPH Social Sciences and Health Policy	Public Health Health disparities, obesity
William Blackstock, MD Radiation Oncology	Radiation Oncology Cancer treatment, quality of life, mentoring
Suzanne Danhauer, PhD	Clinical Psychology
Social Sciences and Health Policy	Complementary and alternative approaches to symptom managment, post-traumatic growth
Ann Geiger, PhD	Epidemiology
Epidemiology and Prevention	Late effects of cancer treatment, behavioral interventions and healthcare system
Tim Lash, DSc, MPH	Epidemiology
Epidemiology and Prevention	Cancer outcomes, molecular predictors of cancer treatment effectiveness, cancer survivorship
Glenn Lesser, MD Hematology/Oncology	Medical Oncology Symptom management and quality of life in brain cancer patients
Shannon Mihalko, PhD Health and Exercise Science	Exercise science Physical activity, aging and cancer, quality of life
Michelle Naughton, PhD Social Sciences and Health Policy	Sociology, Epidemiology Quality of life, long-term effects of chemotherapy, impact of cancer treatment on fertility
Stephen Rapp, PhD Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine	Clinical Psychology Cancer and cognitive functioning
Gary Schwartz, PhD Cancer Biology	Epidemiology Vitamin D, chemoprevention for reducing the progression of prostate cancer
Sally Shumaker, PhD Social Sciences and Health Policy	Social Psychology Cognition, quality of life
John Spangler, MD, MS Family and Community Medicine	Family Medicine Tobacco control
Erin Sutfin, PhD Social Sciences & Health Policy	Developmental Psychology Tobacco control, dissemination and implementation research
Janet Austin Tooze, Ph.D.	Biostatistics
Biostatistics Science	Repeated measures data, data with clumping at zero, nutritional epidemiology and surveillance, cancer prevention
Mara Vitolins, PhD Epidemiology and Prevention	Nutrition Epidemiology Dietary factors in symptom management and reducing cancer progression
Mark Wolfson, PhD Social Sciences and Health Policy	Sociology Tobacco control among college students, community interventions
Kathryn Weaver, PhD Social Sciences and Health Policy	Clinical Psychology Health behavior among cancer survivors and their family caregivers, patterns of follow-up care among cancer survivors, and cancer health disparities
Jianfeng Xu, MD Epidemiology and Prevention	Genetic Epidemiology Genetic factors in prostate cancer progression

Last Updated 5/9/2012

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