Work In Progress Session
Title: “Internal S-SPIRE Center Round Table Check-In”
Each week, S-SPIRE hosts an in-person Work-In-Progress session (WIP) for faculty members and trainees to present their research and receive feedback on projects in every phase of development—from drafting specific aims pages, to parsing grant review committee comments, to abstracts/papers/methods in preparation.
Please refer inquiries to Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu
Presented by: Manali Patel, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Oncology, Stanford Health Care.
Talk Title: “Barriers and Facilitators in the Conduct of Multilevel Community-Based Cancer Research.”
Bio: Dr. Manali Patel is an Assistant Professor at Stanford in the Division of Oncology and a Staff Thoracic Oncologist at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. She is a health services researcher and directs a research program that focuses on improving equitable delivery of value-based cancer care. She uses principles of community-based participatory research in her work and is the principal investigator of multiple externally funded awards such as the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine, the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, and the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Patel serves on several national committees focused on improving cancer care delivery and value-based care. She earned her MD and Masters in Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, followed by Internal Medicine Residency, Hematology and Oncology Fellowship and several research fellowships in addition to obtaining a Masters in Health Services Research at Stanford
Speaker: Liam Rose, PhD, Health Economist and Investigator with the Health Economics Resource Center at VA Palo Alto.
Talk Title: “An Introduction to Causal Inference with Observational Data.”
Bio: Dr. Rose’s research focuses on applied microeconomics with an emphasis on econometric techniques that can provide causal inference. His work focuses on access to care, utilization, and changes in health in the transitions to Medicare and retirement. Liam has a PhD in Economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Each week, S-SPIRE hosts a Work-In-Progress session (WIP) for faculty members and trainees to present their research and receive feedback on projects in every phase of development—from drafting specific aims pages, to parsing grant review committee comments, to abstracts/papers/methods in preparation.
Please refer inquiries to Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu
Work In Progress Session
Each week, S-SPIRE hosts an in-person Work-In-Progress session (WIP) for faculty members and trainees to present their research and receive feedback on projects in every phase of development—from drafting specific aims pages, to parsing grant review committee comments, to abstracts/papers/methods in preparation.
Please refer inquiries to Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu
Presented by: Isabella Chu, MPH, Associate Director, Data Core, Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences, Stanford School of Medicine
Talk Title: TBD
Bio: Isabella Chu is the Associate Director of the Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences Data Core. Her research interests focus on the impact of housing and transportation policy on health and equity.
Her role at PHS is the acquisition of high value health datasets for research. The PHS Data Core specializes in hosting high-risk data which are used by hundreds of researchers to answer questions in precision and population health. PHS scope includes governance, regulatory compliance, data security, privacy, ethics and data management. The computational platform developed at PHS has been used by several universities throughout the United States.
Please refer inquiries to Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu
Presented by: Julie Tsu-Yu Wu, MD, PhD, Medical oncologist, VA Palo Alto Healthcare System
Talk Title: “Implementing Precision Oncology for Lung Cancer Survivors”
Bio: Julie Wu is a staff medical oncologist at the VA Palo Alto Healthcare System and with the VA National Oncology Program. With primary mentor Shipra Arya and co-mentors Leah Backhus and Summer Han, she works on improving lung cancer outcomes through the rapidly growing fields of implementation science and data science. Specific projects include targeting high risk Veterans for lung cancer screening, guiding lung cancer treatment by leveraging nation-wide clinical tumor sequencing, and informing clinical trial policy. Her work with Shipra Arya is funded through a Merit Supplement to the PAUSE trial, a multi-center clinical trial to improve outcomes in surgery patients through multidisciplinary intervention.
Each week, S-SPIRE hosts a Work-In-Progress session (WIP) for faculty members and trainees to present their research and receive feedback on projects in every phase of development—from drafting specific aims pages, to parsing grant review committee comments, to abstracts/papers/methods in preparation.
Please refer inquiries to Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu
Presented by: Cherisse Berry, MD, FACS, Chief, Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery. Medical Director, Kimmel Pavilion Inpatient Surgery, NYULH.
Talk Title: “Health equity in trauma care: Analysis of disparities in the trauma care system”
Bio: Dr. Cherisse Berry, born and raised in Kansas City, MO, completed her undergraduate degree in Neuroscience with a minor in French at the Johns Hopkins University. She went on to complete her Master’s Degree in Biology at Harvard University, Medical Degree at the University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, and General Surgery Residency at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA. She spent three years at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center/University of Maryland where she completed an Acute Care Surgery Fellowship and Trauma Research Fellowship before joining the Division of Acute Care Surgery at New York University Grossman School of Medicine in New York City.
Dr. Berry is double board certified by the American Board of Surgery in General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care. Dr. Berry has had a formidable interest in research and trauma systems. She has 80 peer-reviewed published manuscripts/book chapters / editorials / commentaries, received the 2021 AAMC Herbert W. Nickens Faculty Fellowship Award, the 2016 Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) Trauma Research Scholarship in addition to institutional funding for her research, was selected as an NIH Early Career Reviewer, and has held numerous leadership roles on various local, regional, and national committees including reappointment as the American College of Surgeons Diversity Pillar Lead and member of the American College of Surgeons Board of Governors Executive Committee, Chair of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) DEI Committee, Immediate Past Chair of the Society of Black Academic Surgeons (SBAS) Women in Surgery Committee, and Chair of the Young Surgeons Committee for the Western Surgical Association (WSA).
Please refer inquiries to Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu