Georgetown Lombardi Survivorship Research Initiative Seminar Series: “Oncology Primary Care Partnership to Improve Comprehensive Survivorship Care”
The Georgetown Lombardi Survivorship Research Initiative works to optimize cancer survivorship across the lifespan and ensure equity for patients of every race, ethnicity, gender and socially determined status. This seminar series invites scientists from Georgetown and outside institutions to present their research. It also provides a forum in which individuals may present work in progress to receive meaningful feedback from a multidisciplinary audience.
Hoda Badr, PhD
Professor, Medicine and Epidemiology & Population Sciences
Leader, Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences Program, Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center
Baylor College of Medicine
presents
“Oncology Primary Care Partnership to Improve Comprehensive Survivorship Care”
Co-sponsored by the Georgetown Lombardi Survivorship Research Initiative and the Georgetown Lombardi Institute for Cancer and Aging Research
Meet the Speaker:
Dr. Badr will speak from 10 – 11 a.m. Immediately following the SRI seminar, there will be a 30-minute Meet the Professor session, which will provide attendees an opportunity to engage in Q&A and discuss specific research subjects with Dr. Badr.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Badr is a health psychologist and tenured Professor in the Department of Medicine, Section of Epidemiology and Population Science at Baylor College of Medicine. She is also the leader of the Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences Program at the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Badr’s research program focuses on developing and implementing psychosocial interventions that leverage family support to improve patient and caregiver health behaviors and well-being across the cancer control continuum. Her early research sought to refine the methods and models used to study dyadic processes in cancer. Over the years, she expanded that focus to elucidate how individual, interpersonal, and system factors affect patient and caregiver interactions with the healthcare system. She has also employed community-engaged research methods to develop technology-based and multilevel interventions to improve healthcare delivery and outcomes for minority and medically underserved cancer patients and their caregivers. In terms of research productivity, Dr. Badr has over 80 peer-reviewed publications and has been continuously extramurally funded for the past 20 years. Her work has been supported by the National Cancer Institute, American Cancer Society, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institute of Nursing Research, and U.S. Department of Defense.