Whitney R Robinson
Associate Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology
I design studies and interpret results from big datasets to figure out why rates of health and disease vary across groups. More generally, I love thinking up new ways to draw causal inference from observational data.
Non-cancerous gynecologic conditions, like endometriosis, fibroids, and PCOS, are my particular focus. They affect the well-being of a huge number of people but can be difficult to diagnose and treat. And treatment often involves complex trade-offs regarding quality of life, fertility, and permanence of treatment effectiveness. I typically investigate these questions using health care data that were not originally intended for research, such as electronic health records, state physician licensing data, etc.
As a Faculty Epidemiologist in the OB-GYN Department, I genuinely love seeing others thrive in their research. I have a gift for identifying where people can add the most value on a research team.
Non-cancerous gynecologic conditions, like endometriosis, fibroids, and PCOS, are my particular focus. They affect the well-being of a huge number of people but can be difficult to diagnose and treat. And treatment often involves complex trade-offs regarding quality of life, fertility, and permanence of treatment effectiveness. I typically investigate these questions using health care data that were not originally intended for research, such as electronic health records, state physician licensing data, etc.
As a Faculty Epidemiologist in the OB-GYN Department, I genuinely love seeing others thrive in their research. I have a gift for identifying where people can add the most value on a research team.
Office Hours
Wednesdays: Office hours for in-person and Zoom meetings at Duke campus
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Associate Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women's Community & Population Health, Obstetrics and Gynecology 2022
- Core Faculty Member, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, Duke - Margolis Center For Health Policy, Initiatives 2021
- Member of the Duke Cancer Institute, Duke Cancer Institute, Institutes and Centers 2021
Contact Information
- DUMC Box 3084, Durham, NC 27710
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whitney.robinson489@duke.edu
(919) 681-7150
- Background
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Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill 2008
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Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Instructor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women's Community & Population Health, Obstetrics and Gynecology 2021 - 2022
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Academic Positions Outside Duke
- Faculty Fellow (research leave), Carolina Population Center. 2021 - 2022
- Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Research leave), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 2021 - 2022
- Recognition
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Awards & Honors
- Expertise
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Subject Headings
- Breast--Cancer--Epidemiology
- COVID-19 (Disease)
- Confounding Factors (Epidemiology)
- Demography
- Epidemiology
- Epidemiology--Research--Methodology
- Epidemiology--Statistical methods
- Gender
- Gender Dysphoria
- Gender Identity
- Generative organs, Female--Cancer--Epidemiology
- Generative organs, Female--Surgery
- Gynecology
- Gynecology--Social aspects
- Health Equity
- Health Services for Transgender Persons
- Hysterectomy
- Hysterectomy, Vaginal
- Information storage and retrieval systems--Clinical epidemiology
- Life Course
- Medical epidemiology
- Pharmacoepidemiology
- Population aging
- Salpingo-oophorectomy
- Transgender Persons
- Research
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Selected Grants
- Multilevel Forms of Structural Racism and Racial Inequalities in AD/ADRD Risk awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill 2022 - 2027
- Racial Differences in Treatment with Hysterectomy: a Multilevel Investigation awarded by National Institutes of Health 2017 - 2023
- Reevaluation of TVUS to improve early detection of Endometrial Cancer among US Black women awarded by University of Washington 2021 - 2023
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External Relationships
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
- National Institutes of Health
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Society for Epidemiologic Research
- University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Academic Articles
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LeMasters, Katherine, Audrey Renson, Jesse K. Edwards, Whitney R. Robinson, Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, Paul Delamater, and Brian Pence. “Inequities in life course criminal legal system sanctions: measuring cumulative involvement.” Ann Epidemiol 76 (December 2022): 83–90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2022.10.007.Full Text Link to Item
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Powers, Kimberly A., Kristin M. Sullivan, Sabrina L. Zadrozny, Bonnie E. Shook-Sa, Rosemary Byrnes, David A. Bogojevich, Douglas L. Lauen, et al. “North Carolina public school teachers' contact patterns and mask use within and outside of school during the prevaccine phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.” Am J Infect Control 50, no. 6 (June 2022): 608–17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2021.12.020.Full Text Link to Item
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Roberson, Mya L., Hazel B. Nichols, Andrew F. Olshan, Stephanie B. Wheeler, Katherine E. Reeder-Hayes, and Whitney R. Robinson. “Trends in surgical treatment of early-stage breast cancer reveal decreasing mastectomy use between 2003 and 2016 by age, race, and rurality.” Breast Cancer Res Treat 193, no. 2 (June 2022): 445–54. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-022-06564-w.Full Text Link to Item
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Fliss, Michael Dolan, Frank R. Baumgartner, Paul Delamater, Steve W. Marshall, Charles Poole, and Whitney Robinson. “Public health critical race praxis at the intersection of traffic stops and injury epidemiology.” Inj Epidemiol 9, no. 1 (March 21, 2022): 9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40621-022-00375-9.Full Text Link to Item
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Doll, Kemi M., Annie Green Howard, Till Stürmer, Tim Carey, Wanda K. Nicholson, Erin Carey, Evan Myers, David Nerenz, and Whitney R. Robinson. “Development of an algorithm to assess unmeasured symptom severity in gynecologic care.” Am J Obstet Gynecol 226, no. 3 (March 2022): 388.e1-388.e11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajog.2021.11.020.Full Text Link to Item
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Kennedy, Susan, Narges Farahi, Rathika Nimalendran, Kim Boggess, Elizabeth Stringer, Whitney Robinson, and Lisa Rahangdale. “Prevalence of SARs-CoV-2 Infection Among Pregnant Women in a Rural Pandemic Hotspot in the Southern U.S.” American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 226, no. 2 (February 2022): 321–321. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajog.2021.11.1333.Full Text
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Roberson, Mya L., Hazel B. Nichols, Stephanie B. Wheeler, Katherine E. Reeder-Hayes, Andrew F. Olshan, Christopher D. Baggett, and Whitney R. Robinson. “Validity of breast cancer surgery treatment information in a state-based cancer registry.” Cancer Causes Control 33, no. 2 (February 2022): 261–69. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10552-021-01520-3.Full Text Link to Item
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Wouk, Kathryn, Alan C. Kinlaw, Narges Farahi, Henry Pfeifer, Brandon Yeatts, Moo Kho Paw, and Whitney R. Robinson. “Correlates of Receiving Guideline-Concordant Postpartum Health Services in the Community Health Center Setting.” Womens Health Rep (New Rochelle) 3, no. 1 (2022): 180–93. https://doi.org/10.1089/whr.2021.0084.Full Text Link to Item
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Wright, Maya A., Kemi M. Doll, Evan Myers, William R. Carpenter, Danielle R. Gartner, and Whitney R. Robinson. “Changing trends in Black-White racial differences in surgical menopause: a population-based study.” Am J Obstet Gynecol 225, no. 5 (November 2021): 502.e1-502.e13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajog.2021.05.045.Full Text Link to Item
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Gartner, Danielle R., Paul L. Delamater, Robert A. Hummer, Jennifer L. Lund, Brian W. Pence, and Whitney R. Robinson. “Patterns of black and white hysterectomy incidence among reproductive aged women.” Health Serv Res 56, no. 5 (October 2021): 847–53. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.13633.Full Text Link to Item
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Doll, Kemi M., Sarah S. Romano, Erica E. Marsh, and Whitney R. Robinson. “Estimated Performance of Transvaginal Ultrasonography for Evaluation of Postmenopausal Bleeding in a Simulated Cohort of Black and White Women in the US.” Jama Oncol 7, no. 8 (August 1, 2021): 1158–65. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaoncol.2021.1700.Full Text Link to Item
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Cromeens, Martha Grace, Erin T. Carey, Whitney R. Robinson, Kathleen Knafl, and Suzanne Thoyre. “Timing, delays and pathways to diagnosis of endometriosis: a scoping review protocol.” Bmj Open 11, no. 6 (June 24, 2021): e049390. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-049390.Full Text Link to Item
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Pedraza, Lilia S., Barry M. Popkin, Linda Adair, Whitney R. Robinson, and Lindsey Smith Taillie. “Mexican households' food shopping patterns in 2015: analysis following nonessential food and sugary beverage taxes.” Public Health Nutr 24, no. 8 (June 2021): 2225–37. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980020001858.Full Text Link to Item
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Alson, J. G., W. R. Robinson, L. Pittman, and K. M. Doll. “Incorporating measures of structural racism into population studies of reproductive health in the United States: A Narrative Review.” Health Equity 5, no. 1 (February 1, 2021): 49–58. https://doi.org/10.1089/heq.2020.0081.Full Text
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Cromeens, Martha G., Suzanne Thoyre, Erin T. Carey, Kathleen Knafl, and Whitney R. Robinson. “Inquiry into women's pathways to diagnosis of endometriosis: A qualitative study protocol.” J Adv Nurs 77, no. 2 (February 2021): 1017–26. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.14616.Full Text Link to Item
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Root, H., R. Boyce, and W. R. Robinson. “Learning from LMICs: Best practices for leveraging sentinel surveillance systems to track the US COVID-19 pandemic.” Bmj Global Health 5, no. 12 (December 30, 2020). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-004685.Full Text
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Martinez-Miller, Erline E., Whitney R. Robinson, Christy L. Avery, Yang C. Yang, Mary N. Haan, Aric A. Prather, and Allison E. Aiello. “Longitudinal Associations of US Acculturation With Cognitive Performance, Cognitive Impairment, and Dementia.” Am J Epidemiol 189, no. 11 (November 2, 2020): 1292–1305. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwaa088.Full Text Link to Item
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McClure, Elizabeth S., Pavithra Vasudevan, Zinzi Bailey, Snehal Patel, and Whitney R. Robinson. “Racial Capitalism Within Public Health-How Occupational Settings Drive COVID-19 Disparities.” Am J Epidemiol 189, no. 11 (November 2, 2020): 1244–53. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwaa126.Full Text Link to Item
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Hoffman, Sarah R., Leslie V. Farland, Kemi M. Doll, Wanda K. Nicholson, Maya A. Wright, and Whitney R. Robinson. “The epidemiology of gynaecologic health: contemporary opportunities and challenges.” J Epidemiol Community Health, October 27, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2019-213149.Full Text Link to Item
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McClure, Elizabeth S., Pavithra Vasudevan, Nathan DeBono, Whitney R. Robinson, Stephen W. Marshall, and David Richardson. “Cancer and noncancer mortality among aluminum smelting workers in Badin, North Carolina.” Am J Ind Med 63, no. 9 (September 2020): 755–65. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajim.23150.Full Text Link to Item
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Sandt, L. S., S. K. Proescholdbell, K. R. Evenson, W. R. Robinson, D. A. Rodrıguez, K. J. Harmon, and S. W. Marshall. “Comparative analysis of pedestrian injuries using police, emergency department, and death certificate data sources in north carolina, u.S., 2007–2012.” Transportation Research Record 2674, no. 9 (July 3, 2020): 687–700. https://doi.org/10.1177/0361198120931504.Full Text
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Gartner, Danielle R., Paul L. Delamater, Robert A. Hummer, Jennifer L. Lund, Brian W. Pence, and Whitney R. Robinson. “Integrating Surveillance Data to Estimate Race/Ethnicity-specific Hysterectomy Inequalities Among Reproductive-aged Women: Who's at Risk?” Epidemiology 31, no. 3 (May 2020): 385–92. https://doi.org/10.1097/EDE.0000000000001171.Full Text Link to Item
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Robinson, Whitney R., Audrey Renson, and Ashley I. Naimi. “Teaching yourself about structural racism will improve your machine learning.” Biostatistics 21, no. 2 (April 1, 2020): 339–44. https://doi.org/10.1093/biostatistics/kxz040.Full Text Link to Item
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Robinson, Whitney R., and Zinzi D. Bailey. “Invited Commentary: What Social Epidemiology Brings to the Table-Reconciling Social Epidemiology and Causal Inference.” Am J Epidemiol 189, no. 3 (March 2, 2020): 171–74. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwz197.Full Text Link to Item
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Huang, Jing-Huei, J Aaron Hipp, Oriol Marquet, Claudia Alberico, Dustin Fry, Elizabeth Mazak, Gina S. Lovasi, Whitney R. Robinson, and Myron F. Floyd. “Neighborhood characteristics associated with park use and park-based physical activity among children in low-income diverse neighborhoods in New York City.” Prev Med 131 (February 2020): 105948. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2019.105948.Full Text Link to Item
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Roberson, Mya L., Hazel B. Nichols, Andrew F. Olshan, Melissa A Troester, and Whitney R. Robinson. “Premenopausal gynecologic surgery and survival among black and white women with breast cancer.” Cancer Causes Control 31, no. 2 (February 2020): 105–12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10552-019-01255-2.Full Text Link to Item
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Fliss, Mike Dolan, Frank Baumgartner, Paul Delamater, Steve Marshall, Charles Poole, and Whitney Robinson. “Re-prioritizing traffic stops to reduce motor vehicle crash outcomes and racial disparities.” Inj Epidemiol 7, no. 1 (January 20, 2020): 3. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40621-019-0227-6.Full Text Link to Item
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Pedraza, Lilia S., Barry M. Popkin, Carolina Batis, Linda Adair, Whitney R. Robinson, David K. Guilkey, and Lindsey Smith Taillie. “The caloric and sugar content of beverages purchased at different store-types changed after the sugary drinks taxation in Mexico.” Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 16, no. 1 (November 12, 2019): 103. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-019-0872-8.Full Text Link to Item
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DeBono, Nathan, David Richardson, Alex Keil, Kaitlin Kelly-Reif, Whitney Robinson, Melissa Troester, and Stephen Marshall. “Employment characteristics and cause-specific mortality at automotive electronics manufacturing plants in Huntsville, Alabama.” Am J Ind Med 62, no. 4 (April 2019): 296–308. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajim.22963.Full Text Link to Item
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DeBono, Nathan, Kaitlin Kelly-Reif, David Richardson, Alex Keil, Whitney Robinson, Melissa Troester, and Stephen Marshall. “Mortality among autoworkers manufacturing electronics in Huntsville, Alabama.” Am J Ind Med 62, no. 4 (April 2019): 282–95. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajim.22933.Full Text Link to Item
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Ward, Julia B., Lydia Feinstein, Anissa I. Vines, Whitney R. Robinson, Mary N. Haan, and Allison E. Aiello. “Perceived discrimination and depressive symptoms among US Latinos: the modifying role of educational attainment.” Ethn Health 24, no. 3 (April 2019): 271–86. https://doi.org/10.1080/13557858.2017.1315378.Full Text Link to Item
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Martinez-Miller, Erline E., Aric A. Prather, Whitney R. Robinson, Christy L. Avery, Yang C. Yang, Mary N. Haan, and Allison E. Aiello. “US acculturation and poor sleep among an intergenerational cohort of adult Latinos in Sacramento, California.” Sleep 42, no. 3 (March 1, 2019). https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsy246.Full Text Link to Item
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McClure, Elizabeth, Lydia Feinstein, Evette Cordoba, Christian Douglas, Michael Emch, Whitney Robinson, Sandro Galea, and Allison E. Aiello. “The legacy of redlining in the effect of foreclosures on Detroit residents' self-rated health.” Health Place 55 (January 2019): 9–19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2018.10.004.Full Text Link to Item
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Ward, Julia B., Danielle R. Gartner, Katherine M. Keyes, Mike D. Fliss, Elizabeth S. McClure, and Whitney R. Robinson. “How do we assess a racial disparity in health? Distribution, interaction, and interpretation in epidemiological studies.” Ann Epidemiol 29 (January 2019): 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2018.09.007.Full Text Link to Item
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Ward, Julia B., Sandra S. Albrecht, Whitney R. Robinson, Brian W. Pence, Joanna Maselko, Mary N. Haan, and Allison E. Aiello. “Neighborhood language isolation and depressive symptoms among elderly U.S. Latinos.” Ann Epidemiol 28, no. 11 (November 2018): 774–82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2018.08.009.Full Text Link to Item
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Gartner, Danielle R., Kemi M. Doll, Robert A. Hummer, and Whitney R. Robinson. “Contemporary Geographic Variation and Sociodemographic Correlates of Hysterectomy Rates Among Reproductive-Age Women.” South Med J 111, no. 10 (October 2018): 585–90. https://doi.org/10.14423/SMJ.0000000000000870.Full Text Link to Item
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Ward, Julia B., Whitney R. Robinson, Brian W. Pence, Joanna Maselko, Sandra S. Albrecht, Mary N. Haan, and Allison E. Aiello. “Educational Mobility Across Generations and Depressive Symptoms Over 10 Years Among US Latinos.” Am J Epidemiol 187, no. 8 (August 1, 2018): 1686–95. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwy056.Full Text Link to Item
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Howe, Chanelle J., and Whitney R. Robinson. “Survival-related Selection Bias in Studies of Racial Health Disparities: The Importance of the Target Population and Study Design.” Epidemiology 29, no. 4 (July 2018): 521–24. https://doi.org/10.1097/EDE.0000000000000849.Full Text Link to Item
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Yourkavitch, Jennifer, Kathleen M. Rasmussen, Brian W. Pence, Allison Aiello, Susan Ennett, Angela M. Bengtson, Ellen Chetwynd, and Whitney Robinson. “Early, regular breast-milk pumping may lead to early breast-milk feeding cessation.” Public Health Nutr 21, no. 9 (June 2018): 1726–36. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980017004281.Full Text Link to Item
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DeBono, Nathan L., Whitney R. Robinson, Jennifer L. Lund, Chiu Kit Tse, Patricia G. Moorman, Andrew F. Olshan, and Melissa A. Troester. “Race, Menopausal Hormone Therapy, and Invasive Breast Cancer in the Carolina Breast Cancer Study.” J Womens Health (Larchmt) 27, no. 3 (March 2018): 377–86. https://doi.org/10.1089/jwh.2016.6063.Full Text Link to Item
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Pool, Lindsay R., Mercedes R. Carnethon, David C. Goff, Penny Gordon-Larsen, Whitney R. Robinson, and Kiarri N. Kershaw. “Longitudinal Associations of Neighborhood-level Racial Residential Segregation with Obesity Among Blacks.” Epidemiology 29, no. 2 (March 2018): 207–14. https://doi.org/10.1097/EDE.0000000000000792.Full Text Link to Item
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Troester, Melissa A., Xuezheng Sun, Emma H. Allott, Joseph Geradts, Stephanie M. Cohen, Chiu-Kit Tse, Erin L. Kirk, et al. “Racial Differences in PAM50 Subtypes in the Carolina Breast Cancer Study.” J Natl Cancer Inst 110, no. 2 (February 1, 2018): 176–82. https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djx135.Full Text Link to Item
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Fernández-Rhodes, Lindsay, Whitney R. Robinson, Daniela Sotres-Alvarez, Nora Franceschini, Sheila F. Castañeda, Christina Buelna, Ashley Moncrieft, et al. “Accuracy of Self-reported Weight in Hispanic/Latino Adults of the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos.” Epidemiology 28, no. 6 (November 2017): 847–53. https://doi.org/10.1097/EDE.0000000000000728.Full Text Link to Item
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Rosenbloom, Julia M., Kumaran Senthil, Alexander S. Long, Whitney R. Robinson, Kenneth N. Peeples, John E. Fiadjoe, and Ronald S. Litman. “A limited evaluation of the association of race and anesthetic medication administration: A single-center experience with appendectomies.” Paediatr Anaesth 27, no. 11 (November 2017): 1142–47. https://doi.org/10.1111/pan.13217.Full Text Link to Item
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Robinson, Whitney R., Mariah M. Cheng, Annie Green Howard, William R. Carpenter, Wendy R. Brewster, and Kemi M. Doll. “For U.S. Black women, shift of hysterectomy to outpatient settings may have lagged behind White women: a claims-based analysis, 2011-2013.” Bmc Health Serv Res 17, no. 1 (August 4, 2017): 526. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-017-2471-1.Full Text Link to Item
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Grabich, Shannon C., Whitney R. Robinson, Charles E. Konrad, and Jennifer A. Horney. “Impact of Hurricane Exposure on Reproductive Health Outcomes, Florida, 2004.” Disaster Med Public Health Prep 11, no. 4 (August 2017): 407–11. https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2016.158.Full Text Link to Item
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Kershaw, Kiarri N., Whitney R. Robinson, Penny Gordon-Larsen, Margaret T. Hicken, David C. Goff, Mercedes R. Carnethon, Catarina I. Kiefe, Stephen Sidney, and Ana V. Diez Roux. “Association of Changes in Neighborhood-Level Racial Residential Segregation With Changes in Blood Pressure Among Black Adults: The CARDIA Study.” Jama Intern Med 177, no. 7 (July 1, 2017): 996–1002. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.1226.Full Text Link to Item
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Fernández-Rhodes, Lindsay, Jian Gong, Jeffrey Haessler, Nora Franceschini, Mariaelisa Graff, Katherine K. Nishimura, Yujie Wang, et al. “Trans-ethnic fine-mapping of genetic loci for body mass index in the diverse ancestral populations of the Population Architecture using Genomics and Epidemiology (PAGE) Study reveals evidence for multiple signals at established loci.” Hum Genet 136, no. 6 (June 2017): 771–800. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00439-017-1787-6.Full Text Link to Item
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Gonzalez-Nahm, Sarah, Michelle Mendez, Whitney Robinson, Susan K. Murphy, Cathrine Hoyo, Vijaya Hogan, and Diane Rowley. “Low maternal adherence to a Mediterranean diet is associated with increase in methylation at the MEG3-IG differentially methylated region in female infants.” Environ Epigenet 3, no. 2 (May 2017): dvx007. https://doi.org/10.1093/eep/dvx007.Full Text Link to Item
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Grabich, Shannon C., Whitney R. Robinson, Stephanie M. Engel, Charles E. Konrad, David B. Richardson, and Jennifer A. Horney. “Hurricane Charley Exposure and Hazard of Preterm Delivery, Florida 2004.” Matern Child Health J 20, no. 12 (December 2016): 2474–82. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-016-2069-y.Full Text Link to Item
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Snowden, Jonathan M., Whitney R. Robinson, Nicole E. Marshall, and Janne Boone-Heinonen. “Race, obesity, and birth outcomes: Unraveling a complex association to improve maternal-child health.” Obesity (Silver Spring) 24, no. 12 (December 2016): 2447. https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.21642.Full Text Link to Item
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Martin, Chantel L., Anna Maria Siega-Riz, Daniela Sotres-Alvarez, Whitney R. Robinson, Julie L. Daniels, Eliana M. Perrin, and Alison M. Stuebe. “Maternal Dietary Patterns during Pregnancy Are Associated with Child Growth in the First 3 Years of Life.” J Nutr 146, no. 11 (November 2016): 2281–88. https://doi.org/10.3945/jn.116.234336.Full Text Link to Item
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Durham, Danielle D., Whitney R. Robinson, Sheila S. Lee, Stephanie B. Wheeler, Katherine E. Reeder-Hayes, J Michael Bowling, Andrew F. Olshan, and Louise M. Henderson. “Insurance-Based Differences in Time to Diagnostic Follow-up after Positive Screening Mammography.” Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 25, no. 11 (November 2016): 1474–82. https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-16-0148.Full Text Link to Item
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Doll, Kemi M., Stacie B. Dusetzina, and Whitney Robinson. “Trends in Inpatient and Outpatient Hysterectomy and Oophorectomy Rates Among Commercially Insured Women in the United States, 2000-2014.” Jama Surg 151, no. 9 (September 1, 2016): 876–77. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamasurg.2016.0804.Full Text Link to Item
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Robinson, Whitney R., Hazel B. Nichols, Chiu Kit Tse, Andrew F. Olshan, and Melissa A. Troester. “Associations of Premenopausal Hysterectomy and Oophorectomy With Breast Cancer Among Black and White Women: The Carolina Breast Cancer Study, 1993-2001.” Am J Epidemiol 184, no. 5 (September 1, 2016): 388–99. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwv448.Full Text Link to Item
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Sandt, Laura S., Stephen W. Marshall, Daniel A. Rodriguez, Kelly R. Evenson, Susan T. Ennett, and Whitney R. Robinson. “Effect of a community-based pedestrian injury prevention program on driver yielding behavior at marked crosswalks.” Accid Anal Prev 93 (August 2016): 169–78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2016.05.004.Full Text Link to Item
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Martin, Chantel L., Anna Maria Siega-Riz, Daniela Sotres-Alvarez, Whitney R. Robinson, Julie L. Daniels, Eliana M. Perrin, and Alison M. Stuebe. “Maternal Dietary Patterns are Associated with Lower Levels of Cardiometabolic Markers during Pregnancy.” Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 30, no. 3 (May 2016): 246–55. https://doi.org/10.1111/ppe.12279.Full Text Link to Item
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Gartner, Danielle R., Daniel R. Taber, Jana A. Hirsch, and Whitney R. Robinson. “The spatial distribution of gender differences in obesity prevalence differs from overall obesity prevalence among US adults.” Ann Epidemiol 26, no. 4 (April 2016): 293–98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2016.02.010.Full Text Link to Item
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Stern, Dalia, Jennifer M. Poti, Shu Wen Ng, Whitney R. Robinson, Penny Gordon-Larsen, and Barry M. Popkin. “Where people shop is not associated with the nutrient quality of packaged foods for any racial-ethnic group in the United States.” Am J Clin Nutr 103, no. 4 (April 2016): 1125–34. https://doi.org/10.3945/ajcn.115.121806.Full Text Link to Item
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Taber, Daniel R., Whitney R. Robinson, Sara N. Bleich, and Y Claire Wang. “Deconstructing race and gender differences in adolescent obesity: Oaxaca-blinder decomposition.” Obesity (Silver Spring) 24, no. 3 (March 2016): 719–26. https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.21369.Full Text Link to Item
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Sun, Xuezheng, Hazel B. Nichols, Chiu-Kit Tse, Mary B. Bell, Whitney R. Robinson, Mark E. Sherman, Andrew F. Olshan, and Melissa A. Troester. “Association of Parity and Time since Last Birth with Breast Cancer Prognosis by Intrinsic Subtype.” Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 25, no. 1 (January 2016): 60–67. https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-15-0864.Full Text Link to Item
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Sun, Xuezheng, Hazel B. Nichols, Whitney Robinson, Mark E. Sherman, Andrew F. Olshan, and Melissa A. Troester. “Post-diagnosis adiposity and survival among breast cancer patients: influence of breast cancer subtype.” Cancer Causes Control 26, no. 12 (December 2015): 1803–11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10552-015-0673-6.Full Text Link to Item
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Stern, Dalia, Whitney R. Robinson, Shu Wen Ng, Penny Gordon-Larsen, and Barry M. Popkin. “US Household Food Shopping Patterns: Dynamic Shifts Since 2000 And Socioeconomic Predictors.” Health Aff (Millwood) 34, no. 11 (November 2015): 1840–48. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2015.0449.Full Text Link to Item
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Jensen, E. T., J. L. Daniels, T. Stürmer, W. R. Robinson, C. J. Williams, K. Vejrup, P. Magnus, and M. P. Longnecker. “Hormonal contraceptive use before and after conception in relation to preterm birth and small for gestational age: an observational cohort study.” Bjog 122, no. 10 (September 2015): 1349–61. https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-0528.13114.Full Text Link to Item
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Taber, Daniel R., Jamie F. Chriqui, Lisa M. Powell, Frank M. Perna, Whitney R. Robinson, and Frank J. Chaloupka. “Socioeconomic Differences in the Association Between Competitive Food Laws and the School Food Environment.” J Sch Health 85, no. 9 (September 2015): 578–86. https://doi.org/10.1111/josh.12288.Full Text Link to Item
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D’Arcy, Monica, Jodie Fleming, Whitney R. Robinson, Erin L. Kirk, Charles M. Perou, and Melissa A. Troester. “Race-associated biological differences among Luminal A breast tumors.” Breast Cancer Res Treat 152, no. 2 (July 2015): 437–48. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-015-3474-4.Full Text Link to Item
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Hair, Brionna Y., Zongli Xu, Erin L. Kirk, Sophia Harlid, Rupninder Sandhu, Whitney R. Robinson, Michael C. Wu, et al. “Body mass index associated with genome-wide methylation in breast tissue.” Breast Cancer Res Treat 151, no. 2 (June 2015): 453–63. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-015-3401-8.Full Text Link to Item
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Seamans, Marissa J., Whitney R. Robinson, Roland J. Thorpe, Stephen R. Cole, and Thomas A. LaVeist. “Exploring racial differences in the obesity gender gap.” Ann Epidemiol 25, no. 6 (June 2015): 420–25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2015.03.010.Full Text Link to Item
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Zeki Al Hazzouri, Adina, Mary N. Haan, Whitney R. Robinson, Penny Gordon-Larsen, Lorena Garcia, Erin Clayton, and Allison E. Aiello. “Associations of intergenerational education with metabolic health in U.S. Latinos.” Obesity (Silver Spring) 23, no. 5 (May 2015): 1097–1104. https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.21051.Full Text Link to Item
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Hair, Brionna Y., Melissa A. Troester, Sharon N. Edmiston, Eloise A. Parrish, Whitney R. Robinson, Michael C. Wu, Andrew F. Olshan, Theresa Swift-Scanlan, and Kathleen Conway. “Body mass index is associated with gene methylation in estrogen receptor-positive breast tumors.” Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 24, no. 3 (March 2015): 580–86. https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-14-1017.Full Text Link to Item
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Grabich, Shannon C., Whitney R. Robinson, Stephanie M. Engel, Charles E. Konrad, David B. Richardson, and Jennifer A. Horney. “County-level hurricane exposure and birth rates: application of difference-in-differences analysis for confounding control.” Emerg Themes Epidemiol 12 (2015): 19. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12982-015-0042-7.Full Text Link to Item
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Robinson, Whitney R., Kiarri N. Kershaw, Briana Mezuk, Jane Rafferty, Hedwig Lee, Vicki Johnson-Lawrence, Marissa J. Seamans, and James S. Jackson. “Coming unmoored: disproportionate increases in obesity prevalence among young, disadvantaged white women.” Obesity (Silver Spring) 23, no. 1 (January 2015): 213–19. https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.20913.Full Text Link to Item
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VanderWeele, Tyler J., and Whitney R. Robinson. “The authors respond.” Epidemiology 25, no. 6 (November 2014): 937–38. https://doi.org/10.1097/EDE.0000000000000186.Full Text Link to Item
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Jensen, E. T., J. L. Daniels, T. Stürmer, W. R. Robinson, C. J. Williams, D. Moster, P. B. Juliusson, K. Vejrup, P. Magnus, and M. P. Longnecker. “Maternal hormonal contraceptive use and offspring overweight or obesity.” Int J Obes (Lond) 38, no. 10 (October 2014): 1275–81. https://doi.org/10.1038/ijo.2014.114.Full Text Link to Item
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Suglia, Shakira F., Seema Kara, and Whitney R. Robinson. “Sleep duration and obesity among adolescents transitioning to adulthood: do results differ by sex?” J Pediatr 165, no. 4 (October 2014): 750–54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2014.06.052.Full Text Link to Item
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Robinson, Whitney R., Chiu Kit Tse, Andrew F. Olshan, and Melissa A. Troester. “Body size across the life course and risk of premenopausal and postmenopausal breast cancer in Black women, the Carolina Breast Cancer Study, 1993-2001.” Cancer Causes Control 25, no. 9 (September 2014): 1101–17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10552-014-0411-5.Full Text Link to Item
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Gray, Christine L., and Whitney R. Robinson. “Throwing out the baby with the bathwater?: Comparing 2 approaches to implausible values of change in body size.” Epidemiology 25, no. 4 (July 2014): 591–94. https://doi.org/10.1097/EDE.0000000000000111.Full Text Link to Item
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VanderWeele, Tyler J., and Whitney R. Robinson. “On the causal interpretation of race in regressions adjusting for confounding and mediating variables.” Epidemiology 25, no. 4 (July 2014): 473–84. https://doi.org/10.1097/EDE.0000000000000105.Full Text Link to Item
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VanderWeele, Tyler J., and Whitney R. Robinson. “Rejoinder: how to reduce racial disparities?: Upon what to intervene?” Epidemiology 25, no. 4 (July 2014): 491–93. https://doi.org/10.1097/EDE.0000000000000124.Full Text Link to Item
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Robinson, Whitney R., Mariah M. Cheng, Katherine J. Hoggatt, Til Stürmer, and Anna M. Siega-Riz. “Childbearing is not associated with young women's long-term obesity risk.” Obesity (Silver Spring) 22, no. 4 (April 2014): 1126–32. https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.20593.Full Text Link to Item
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Robinson, Whitney R., Helena Furberg, and Hailey R. Banack. “Selection bias: a missing factor in the obesity paradox debate.” Obesity (Silver Spring) 22, no. 3 (March 2014): 625. https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.20666.Full Text Link to Item
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Kershaw, Kiarri N., Mariël Droomers, Whitney R. Robinson, Mercedes R. Carnethon, Martha L. Daviglus, and W. M. Monique Verschuren. “Quantifying the contributions of behavioral and biological risk factors to socioeconomic disparities in coronary heart disease incidence: the MORGEN study.” Eur J Epidemiol 28, no. 10 (October 2013): 807–14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-013-9847-2.Full Text Link to Item
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Yaemsiri, Sirin, Souvik Sen, Lesley F. Tinker, Whitney R. Robinson, Rhobert W. Evans, Wayne Rosamond, Sylvia Wasserthiel-Smoller, and Ka He. “Serum fatty acids and incidence of ischemic stroke among postmenopausal women.” Stroke 44, no. 10 (October 2013): 2710–17. https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.111.000834.Full Text Link to Item
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Robinson, W. R., R. L. Utz, K. M. Keyes, C. L. Martin, and Y. Yang. “Birth cohort effects on abdominal obesity in the United States: the Silent Generation, Baby Boomers and Generation X.” Int J Obes (Lond) 37, no. 8 (August 2013): 1129–34. https://doi.org/10.1038/ijo.2012.198.Full Text Link to Item
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Robinson, W. R., K. M. Keyes, R. L. Utz, C. L. Martin, and Y. Yang. “Birth cohort effects among US-born adults born in the 1980s: foreshadowing future trends in US obesity prevalence.” Int J Obes (Lond) 37, no. 3 (March 2013): 448–54. https://doi.org/10.1038/ijo.2012.66.Full Text Link to Item
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Robinson, Whitney R. “Gender-specific effects of early nutritional restriction on adult obesity risk: evidence from quasi-experimental studies.” Obesity (Silver Spring) 20, no. 12 (December 2012): 2464–66. https://doi.org/10.1038/oby.2012.35.Full Text Link to Item
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Naimi, Ashley I., Jay S. Kaufman, Chanelle J. Howe, and Whitney R. Robinson. “Mediation considerations: serum potassium and the racial disparity in diabetes risk.” Am J Clin Nutr 94, no. 2 (August 2011): 614–16. https://doi.org/10.3945/ajcn.111.018176.Full Text Link to Item
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Robinson, Whitney R., June Stevens, Jay S. Kaufman, and Penny Gordon-Larsen. “The role of adolescent behaviors in the female-male disparity in obesity incidence in US black and white young adults.” Obesity (Silver Spring) 18, no. 7 (July 2010): 1429–36. https://doi.org/10.1038/oby.2009.362.Full Text Link to Item
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Keyes, Katherine M., Rebecca L. Utz, Whitney Robinson, and Guohua Li. “What is a cohort effect? Comparison of three statistical methods for modeling cohort effects in obesity prevalence in the United States, 1971-2006.” Soc Sci Med 70, no. 7 (April 2010): 1100–1108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.12.018.Full Text Link to Item
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Robinson, Whitney R., Penny Gordon-Larsen, Jay S. Kaufman, Chirayath M. Suchindran, and June Stevens. “The female-male disparity in obesity prevalence among black American young adults: contributions of sociodemographic characteristics of the childhood family.” Am J Clin Nutr 89, no. 4 (April 2009): 1204–12. https://doi.org/10.3945/ajcn.2007.25751.Full Text Link to Item
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Robinson, Whitney R., Charles Poole, and Paul A. Godley. “Systematic review of prostate cancer's association with body size in childhood and young adulthood.” Cancer Causes Control 19, no. 8 (October 2008): 793–803. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10552-008-9142-9.Full Text Link to Item
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Carpenter, William R., Whitney R. Robinson, and Paul A. Godley. “Getting over testosterone: postulating a fresh start for etiologic studies of prostate cancer.” J Natl Cancer Inst 100, no. 3 (February 6, 2008): 158–59. https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djm329.Full Text Link to Item
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Robinson, Whitney R., June Stevens, Marilie D. Gammon, and Esther M. John. “Obesity before age 30 years and risk of advanced prostate cancer.” Am J Epidemiol 161, no. 12 (June 15, 2005): 1107–14. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwi150.Full Text Link to Item
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Conference Papers
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D’Arcy, Monica E., Whitney R. Robinson, Erin Kirk, Keith D. Amos, Charles M. Perou, Jodie M. Fleming, and Melissa A. Troester. “Abstract LB-292: Race-associated gene expression in tumors and breast cancer mortality disparities.” In Cancer Research, Vol. 74. American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), 2014. https://doi.org/10.1158/1538-7445.am2014-lb-292.Full Text
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Advising & Mentoring
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Faculty Reviewer for PGY-2 Research Concept Proposals, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
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Faculty Reviewer for PGY-2 Research Concept Proposals, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
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