Mentor Areas
Anna Jo Smith, MD, MPH grew up in a small town in the South where the nearest hospital was over 45 minutes away and nearly everyone smoked. This inspired a lifelong interest in access to care and cancer prevention. Now, as a gynecologic oncology fellow and health services researcher, she focuses on how insurance design—and public health programs—can impact women’s cancer outcomes. Her recent research on the Affordable Care Act’s benefits for women with ovarian and cervical cancer has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and at ASCO. Her current work focuses on interventions in insurance policy to reduce health disparities for women with gynecologic cancer, including rural women. She is passionate about research mentoring and has guided undergraduates, medical students, and residents through projects, while in clinical training herself.
Description:
I am currently researching how insurance denial of cancer care impacts clinical outcomes and health disparities through a mixed methods approach. There are opportunities to be involved in qualitative research (patient interviews), large database analysis, and/or clinical data extraction and analysis.
Preferred Qualifications
Word processing, Stata experience preferred
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Preferred Student Year
First-year, Second-Year, Junior, Senior
Volunteer
Yes
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Yes
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No
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