Current Appointments & Affiliations
Associate Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health
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2026 - Present
Family Medicine and Community Health, Prevention Research,
Family Medicine and Community Health
Member of the Duke Cancer Institute
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2014 - Present
Duke Cancer Institute,
Institutes and Centers
Recent Publications
Validity of Military Service as Reported on U.S. Death Certificates.
Journal Article Epidemiology · July 1, 2026 BACKGROUND: Although death certificates are widely used to study mortality in the general population, their use to study mortality among individuals with military service has been limited in part by a lack of information on the validity of military service ... Full text Link to item CiteUnderstanding the Causes of Nonadherence to Chronic Medications Among Patients With Cancer and Multimorbidity: A Qualitative Study.
Journal Article J Gen Intern Med · May 2026 BACKGROUND: When patients with multimorbidity (≥ 2 chronic diseases) are diagnosed with cancer, their adherence to non-cancer medications declines. Nonadherence in this patient population has been linked to an increased risk of disease progression, hospita ... Full text Link to item CitePATIENT UNDERSTANDING OF QUALITY-OF-LIFE OUTCOMES IN PROSTATE CANCER TREATMENTS: A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS
Conference JOURNAL OF UROLOGY · May 2026 Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
Development and pilot testing of a behavioral intervention to improve pelvic dilator therapy use among cancer survivors who received pelvic radiation
ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2025 - 2030Feasibility of cue-based treatment intervention to promote cessation among people who smoke lightly (<=10 cigarettes per day) or non-daily
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2025 - 2028Large-scale Implementation of Community Co-led Maternal Sepsis Care Practices to Reduce Morbidity and Mortality from Maternal Infection
ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development · 2021 - 2027View All Grants
Education
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ·
2006
Ph.D.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ·
1992
M.P.H.