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As a medical anthropologist, my goal is to improve healthcare and reduce health disparities for historically underserved populations using qualitative, multi-method and community-based methodologies. My research program is broadly focused on addressing gaps in cancer prevention and treatment for populations that have been historically marginalized due to hierarchies of race and social class. I have examined how cancer care is affected by immigration status, social class, and gender. My current work centers on the practices of advance care planning among English and Spanish-speaking people living with cancer and their providers, and access to cancer care for people with disabilities.Show Less
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Courses
- BMIMABodies in Medicine: Introduction to Medical Anthropology
- WHGPWomen's Health in Global Perspective
Grants
- Building capacity to include people with IDD in health-related research
Co-Investigator (COI)
2022
$250.0K
Active - Refugees with I/DD Research
Principal Investigator (PI)
2022
$75.0K
Active - Testing the Efficacy of A Scalable, Telephone-Delivered, Guided Imagery Tobacco Cessation Intervention
Co-Investigator (COI)
2021
$1.4M
Active - Developing Online Learning Modules for Primary Care Providers about Shared Decision-Making with Women with IDD
Principal Investigator (PI)
2021
$100.0K
Active - The Partnership for Native American Cancer Prevention (2 of 2)
Co-Investigator (COI)
2019
$6.0M
Active - Expanding Patient-Centered Cancer Care for Underserved Patients in Southern Arizona
Co-Investigator (COI)
2017
$2.0M
Active - Assessing the Feasibility of Characterizing the Treatment and Survivorship Outcomes of Racial/Ethnic Minorities with IDD using SEER-Medicare Data
Principal Investigator (PI)
2020
$7.5K
- Building SUCEDD and Community Capacity for Diverse Leadership in TBI and Other Developmental Disabilities
Principal Investigator (PI)
2017
$43.2K
- Improving Advance Care Planning for Cancer Patients Through Better Care Coordination: Seeking Insights from Family Physicians, Medical Oncologists, and People Living with Cancer
Principal Investigator (PI)
2017
$9.9K
- A Guided Imagery Tobacco Cessation Intervention Delivered by a Quitline and Website
Co-Investigator (COI)
2016
$702.6K
Publications (53)
Recent
- Artificial Intelligence and Cancer Control: Toward Prioritizing Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) in Emerging Decision Support Technologies
2023
- Testing the Efficacy of a Scalable, Telephone-Delivered, Guided Imagery Tobacco Cessation Treatment: Protocol for a Randomized Clinical Trial (Preprint)
2023
- An Adapted Cancer Screening Education Program for Native American Women With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Their Caregivers: Protocol for Feasibility and Acceptability Testing
2023
- Improving Cancer Screening Among Native American Women with Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities and their Caregivers: Testing the Feasibility and Acceptability of an Adapted Cancer Education Program (Preprint)
2022
- Adapting a Cancer Screening Education Program for Native American Women with Disabilities
2022
- Why Employment During and After COVID-19 Is a Critical Women s Health Issue.
2021
- Implementation of Un Abrazo Para La FamiliaTM in southern Arizona with extension to survivors and assessment of effects on distress
2021
- Use of a Guided Imagery Mobile App (See Me Serene) to Reduce COVID-19–Related Stress: Pilot Feasibility Study (Preprint)
2021
- Providing Equitable Access to Health Care for Individuals with Disabilities: An Important Challenge for Medical Education
2021
- The Evolution of Un Abrazo Para La Familia: Implications for Survivors of Cancer
2021
- Community-Engaged Research to Address Health Disparities of Indigenous Women With Disabilities
2021
- A Scoping Review of Barriers and Facilitators to Pap Testing in Women with Disabilities and Serious Mental Illnesses: Thirty Years After the Americans with Disabilities Act
2021
- Exploring the Experiences of University Students with a History of Cancer: A Pilot Study.
2021
- Are Researchers Addressing Cancer Treatment and Survivorship Among People With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in the U.S.? A Scoping Review.
2021
- Use of a Guided Imagery Mobile App (See Me Serene) to Reduce COVID-19-Related Stress: Pilot Feasibility Study
2021
- A telephone-based guided imagery tobacco cessation intervention: results of a randomized feasibility trial.
2021
- A Systematic Review of Facilitators and Barriers to Pap Testing in Women with Disabilities and Serious Mental Illnesses: Thirty Years After the Americans with Disabilities Act
2020
- Why Employment During and After COVID-19 Is a Critical Women's Health Issue
2020
- Abstract PO-026: Refining a breast and cervical cancer screening program for Native American women with disabilities
2020
- Developing a Guided Imagery Telephone-Based Tobacco Cessation Program for a Randomized Controlled Trial
2020
- Medical-Legal Partnerships to Enhance Residency Training in Advance Care Planning
2019
- Abstract 2431: Working with stakeholders to adapt a cancer screening education program for Native American women with intellectual disabilities
2019
- Exploring the Experiences of University Students with a History of Cancer: A Pilot Study
2019
- Administrative (in)Visibility of Patient Structural Vulnerability and the Hierarchy of Moral Distress among Health Care Staff
2019
- Health Research among Racial and Ethnic Minorities with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, A Scoping Review
2019
- Testing the feasibility of a Guided Imagery Tobacco Cessation Intervention Delivered by a Telephone Quitline: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial
2019
- Cancer treatment and survivorship outcomes for people with developmental disabilities, a review of the literature
2019
- Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine: Selling HPV and Cervical Cancer. S. D. Gottlieb, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2018, 200 pp.
2019
- Oregon's Familias en Acción replicates benefits for underserved cancer co-survivors through Un Abrazo Para la Familia
2018
- The ethical implications of cancer screening in non-U.S. citizen populations
2018
- Survivorship Care Plan Outcomes for Physicians, Cancer Survivors and Systems: A Scoping Review
2018
- Recruiting Women to a Mobile Health Smoking Cessation Trial: Low- and No-Cost Strategies
2017
- Development of a multi-behavioral mHealth app for women smokers
2017
- Development and Evaluation of the See Me Smoke-Free Multi-Behavioral mHealth App for Women Smokers
2017
- Lessons learned in the development and evaluation of RxCoach™, an mHealth app to increase tobacco cessation medication adherence.omen smokers.
2017
- Scoping review of lifestyle modification intervention in hispanic prostate cancer survivors
2017
- User Participation and Engagement with the See Me Smoke-Free mHealth App: Results of a Prospective Feasibility Trial
2017
- Low- and No-Cost Strategies to Recruit Women to a Mobile Health Smoking Cessation Trial
2017
- User Participation and Engagement With the See Me Smoke-Free mHealth App: Prospective Feasibility Trial
2017
- See Me Smoke-Free: Protocol for a Research Study to Develop and Test the Feasibility of an mHealth App for Women to Address Smoking, Diet, and Physical Activity
2016
- Development of RxCoach™: A theory-based mobile app to improve adherence to smoking cessation medication
2016
- Online Recruitment Methods for Web-Based and Mobile Health Studies: A Review of the Literature
2015
- Breast self-examination beliefs and practices, ethnicity, and health literacy: Implications for health education to reduce disparities
2014
- Book Review: Arizona, A History. Thomas E. Sheridan.
2013
- Diet and exercise adherence and practices among medically underserved patients with chronic disease: variation across four ethnic groups
2013
- Diet and Exercise Adherence and Practices Among Medically Underserved Patients With Chronic Disease
2012
- Chronic disease self-management and health literacy in four ethnic groups
2012
- Consistency in attitudes across cancer screenings in medically underserved minority populations
2012
- The ethical self-fashioning of physicians and health care systems in culturally appropriate health care
2011
- Considerations of culture and social class for families facing cancer: the need for a new model for health promotion and psychosocial intervention
2011
- The Role of Culture in Health Literacy and Chronic Disease Screening and Management
2009
- Abstract B85: Consistency attitudes towards cancer screenings in four ethnic groups
2009