PhD, MSc
Associate Professor
UNC-Chapel Hill
Cancer Epidemiology
Area of Interest
My research is focused on improving women’s health by providing epidemiologic evidence to guide sound personal and medical decision-making around breast and other cancers. Recent projects have centered on exposures that contribute to breast cancer risk in reproductive-age women, and on survivorship concerns after breast or other cancers diagnosed in adolescence or young adulthood. My work addresses factors that are routinely considered during health care delivery (e.g. fertility and contraception, gynecologic surgery, physiologic reserve, endocrine therapy, etc.) and therefore feasibly targeted for future intervention to prevent breast cancer or improve post-diagnosis outcomes. This research is based in large observational studies and data resources, including the Sister Study, the Premenopausal Breast Cancer Collaborative Group, the Cancer Research Network, and the UNC Cancer Information Population Health Resource.
Awards and Honors
- HMO Research Network Early Career Investigator Award, HMORN, Phoenix, AZ, 2013
- Electra Paskett Annual Scholarship Award, ASPO, Memphis, TN, 2013
- AACR Translational Research Scholarship, CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, 2010
- Travel award for the New Investigators Workshop, American Society of Preventive Oncology, 2010
- Doctoral Thesis Research Fund Award, Johns Hopkins University, 2010
- Carol Eliasberg Martin Scholarship in Cancer Prevention, Johns Hopkins University, 2009
- Travel Award for the Student Dissertation Workshop, Society for Epidemiologic Research, 2009
- Mary B. Meyer Scholarship, Johns Hopkins University, 2007-2008
