PhD, MPH
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology
UNC-Chapel Hill
Cancer Epidemiology Research Program
Area of Interest
I am Associate Professor of Epidemiology and member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I am a cancer epidemiologist and quantitative methodologist. I obtained postdoctoral training in healthcare delivery data science as an AcademyHealth Delivery Systems Science Fellow (DSSF). I also enjoyed a 10-year career as a clinical data manager for oncology clinical trials prior to my postgraduate training period.
My research program lies at the intersection of three interrelated foci:
- Identifying patterns of, and disparities in healthcare delivery for cancer, especially screening and diagnosis
- Disentangling the drivers of healthcare disparities, especially as they relate to social determinants of health (SDoH)
- “Big data” methods for population health research, especially the development of methods to improve the “research use” of electronic health records (EHRs)
News and Stories
New research from UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center links emergency cancer diagnoses to significantly lower survival
Caroline Thompson, PhD, MPH, and colleagues published study findings that more than one in four older adults are diagnosed with cancer inside an emergency department and that their chances of surviving the first year are significantly lower.
UNC researchers publish findings in JAMA Network Open about the impact of diagnostic wait time on ovarian cancer survival
Led by a team of UNC researchers, this study explored the relationship between survival and how quickly patients are diagnosed with ovarian cancer.
