UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health
Congratulations to Dr. Amy Trentham-Dietz on her new 4-year Department of Defense (DoD) award ($1,555,000) titled, “Population Modeling to Optimize Equitable Ovarian Cancer Outcomes.” The long-term overarching objective is to use innovative computer simulation modeling to drive interventions to reduce the burden of ovarian cancer. The immediate objective for this proposal is to provide patients …
Dr. Phung was awarded a pilot grant from the American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant Pilot Award competition at University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center (UWCCC). The project, Frailty Trajectories and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Survival among Older Ovarian Cancer Patients, will start in the coming months. Ovarian cancer is the deadliest gynecologic cancer, with survival rates …
Read the editorial, “Mammography Screening by Age in the United States—Too Little and Too Much?” here.
Ajay K. Sethi, PhD, MHS, professor of population health sciences, was elected a Distinguished Scholar Fellow in the inaugural class of the Public Health Academy of the National Academies of Practice (NAP): Membership in the NAP is an honor extended to those who have excelled in their profession and who are dedicated to advancing interprofessional education, scholarship, research, …