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Julia H. Rowland, PhD
Director
Dr. Rowland received her PhD in Developmental Psychology from Columbia University and was one of the first two psychologists at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City to be awarded an NIH funded two-year post-doctoral Research Fellowship in the psychosocial aspects of cancer. She has written extensively about women’s reactions to breast cancer as well as on the role of coping, social support and developmental stage in a patient’s adaptation to cancer and has been a frequent speaker on quality of life issues for cancer survivors for lay, advocacy and medical audiences.
Noreen M. Aziz, MD, PhD
Senior Program Director
Dr. Noreen Aziz is responsible for identifying emerging priority areas for cancer survivorship research, developing initiatives to stimulate extramural research in key areas, the scientific oversight of a complex portfolio of ongoing studies at academic institutions across the country and internationally, and for conducting survivorship research. Through a joint appointment within the NCI Intramural Research Program, Dr. Aziz is the Principal Investigator of a study examining the mechanisms underlying weight gain among breast cancer patients post chemotherapy. She is also the Principal Investigator of a population-based study of 1600 adult survivors of breast, prostate, colorectal, and gynecologic cancer that is examining the prevalence of late and long term effects of cancer treatment and follow-up care experiences and practices among these individuals. Her personal research interests include late and long term effects of cancer diagnosis and treatment; post-treatment follow-up care of survivors and best practices for such care; long-term cancer survivorship issues; methodology in survivorship research; health behaviors and the role of weight, physical activity, and diet as risk or prognostic factors for breast, prostate, and other hormonally dependent cancers.
Keith Bellizzi, PhD, MPH, MA
Program Director
Dr. Keith Bellizzi received his PhD in human development and family studies in 2003 and completed a three-year postdoctoral training program in cancer prevention and control at the National Cancer Institute. He received his Master's in Public Health (epidemiology) in 2004 and his Master's in Psychology in 1998. His research interests and publications have focused on understanding the health related quality of life of older cancer survivors, the role health behaviors play in attenuating late health effects of cancer, resilience and posttraumatic growth in the aftermath of cancer, and caregiver/family issues.
Diana D. Jeffery, PhD
Program Director
Dr. Jeffery received her PhD in Health Psychology from Yeshiva University and completed postdoctoral training at Vanderbilt University and NCI where she was a two-year fellow from 1986 to 1988. Her research and publications have focused on the quality of life of cancer patients, sexual functioning after gynecologic and breast cancer, racial differences in coping with cancer, and cancer screening tailored to religious beliefs. Licensed as a psychologist in New York, Hawaii and Maryland, she has assisted cancer patients and their families with adjusting to the physical and psychological effects that accompany a cancer diagnosis.
Melba Mitchell
Grants Clerk
Kathryn Weaver, PhD, MPH
Cancer Prevention Fellow
Kathryn Weaver is a Cancer Prevention Fellow. She earned her MS and PhD in clinical psychology, with a specialization in health psychology from the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL. She completed her clinical internship in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois-Chicago, and received her MPH with a concentration in epidemiology and biostatistics from the University of Illinois-Chicago in 2007. Dr. Weaver’s research interests are focused on a variety of outcomes in cancer survivors, including psychosocial adjustment, quality of life, health behaviors, recurrence, and mortality, with a particular interest in understanding disparities. She has a strong interest in the application of advanced statistical methods, including latent variable and hierarchical modeling, to cancer survivorship and the development of mediational models.
Office of Cancer Survivorship
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences
National Cancer Institute
6116 Executive Blvd. Suite 404
Bethesda, MD 20892-7397
Phone Number (301) 402-2964
Fax (301) 594-5070
ncidccpsocsweb-r@mail.nih.gov
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