Biography
I am a lifetime learner with a commitment to using geospatial approaches in understanding health disparities. My recent interest is in investigating geographic variations of cancer diagnosis (i.e., later-stage diagnosis and access to screening services) and treatments (i.e., delayed time to treatment initiation, breast cancer conserving therapy, and breast reconstruction surgery) to understand the cause of cancer disparities using statistical, geographic, and machine learning methods.
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Interests
- Spatial Epidemiology
- Health Disparities
- Geographic Information Systems
Education
PhD in Geography, 2021
Kent State University
Master of Arts in Geography, 2015
The State University of New York at Buffalo
Applied Mathematics, 2011
Heilongjiang University of Technology
Recent Publications
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(2022).
An informatics infrastructure to catalyze cancer control research and practice.
Cancer Causes Control.
(2022).
Describing and assessing a new method of approximating categorical individual-level income using community-level income from the census (weighting by income probabilities).
Health Serv Res.
(2022).
Factors affecting timely breast cancer treatment among black women in a high-risk urban community: a qualitative study.
BMC Womens Health.
(2022).
Is Medicaid Expansion Narrowing Gaps in Surgical Disparities for Low-Income Breast Cancer Patients?.
Ann Surg Oncol.
(2022).
Medicaid Expansion Associated With Reduction in Geospatial Breast Cancer Stage at Diagnosis Disparities.
J Public Health Manag Pract.
(2022).
Phenotype Discovery and Geographic Disparities of Late-Stage Breast Cancer Diagnosis across U.S. Counties: A Machine Learning Approach.
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev.
(2022).
Post–Affordable Care Act Improvements in Cancer Stage Among Ohio Medicaid Beneficiaries Resulted From an Increase in Stable Coverage.
Medical Care.
(2022).
Risk Factors and Geographic Disparities in Premature Cardiovascular Mortality in US Counties: A Machine Learning Approach.
researchsquare preprint.
(2022).
Variation in and Factors Associated With US County-Level Cancer Mortality, 2008-2019.
JAMA Netw Open.
(2021).
Changing Reasons for Visiting Primary Care Over a 35-Year Period.
J Am Board Fam Med.
(2019).
Changes in Age Distribution of Obesity-Associated Cancers.
JAMA Netw Open.