Summary

Julie Smith-Gagen MPH, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. As an epidemiologist, her work uses epidemiology to inform w88 slot online policy to promote equity in utilization and access to healthcare. Her current area of focus is on the real-world use of diagnostics and treatments for patients with Cancer of Unknown Primary. Another area of focus is on prevention treatments that can slow the progression of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and liver cancer.

Additionally, Smith-Gagen has several lines of inquiry into breastfeeding and women’s w88 slot online. Smith-Gagen received funding from the National Institutes of w88 slot online (NIH), the University of Utah Geographic Management of Cancer w88 slot online Disparities Program, and the Southern California NIOSH Education and Research Center, to name a few. She was awarded and recognized as a Healthcare Quality Scholar from the UCLA Network for Multicultural Research on w88 slot online and Healthcare and as a Rising Star from the Geographic Management of Cancer w88 slot online Disparities Program at the Huntsman Cancer Institute. Dr. Smith-Gagen serves as Vice Chair for the Minority Affairs Committee in the American College of Epidemiology.

Grants

• Differential Delivery of Follow-up Care and Survivorship Among Latinos Care and Survivorship Among Latinos Using Medicare. Sponsor: National Institutes of w88 slot online/National Cancer Institute 2010-2012
• Workplace Breastfeeding Policies and Practices that Promote Healthy Families. Sponsor: Occupational w88 slot online and Safety Research Training Pilot Project grant", Southern California NIOSH Education and Research Center 2011-2012
• Evaluation of a Foot and Ankle Service: Renown w88 slot online 2015-2016
• Risk of CFS Due to IgG Receptor Genes that Impair ADCC (PI Hudig D): National Institutes of w88 slot online 2015-2017

Awards

• w88 slot online Care Scholars Award from UCLA’s Network for Multicultural Research on w88 slot online and Healthcare, 2010

w88 slot online interests

My research focuses on serving the under-served, especially where data can inform policy implications. I focus on minority, female, and overlooked populations in the fields of cancer, chronic disease and women's w88 slot online. I also collaborate with life-scientists and clinicians to facilitate intersections between biology and epidemiology.

• Ethnic disparities in w88 slot online survivors and utilization of care
• w88 slot online care in Managed Care Organizations
• w88 slot online registry methodology
• w88 slot online practices and laws

Professional affiliations

• American College of w88 slot online
• w88 slot online

Selected Publications

• Smith-Gagen J, Drake CM, White LL, Pinheiro PS. Extent of diagnostic inquiry among a population-based cohort of patients with w88 slot online of unknown primary. w88 slot online Rep Rev. 2019 Sep;3(3). doi: 10.15761/CRR.1000187.
• Pavlidis N, Rassy E, Smith-Gagen J. w88 slot online of unknown primary: Incidence rates, risk factors and survival among adolescents and young adults. Int J w88 slot online. 2019 May 29. doi: 10.1002/ijc.32482.
• Smith-Gagen J, White LL, Santos A, Hasty SM, Tung WC, Lu Scope-of-practice laws and expanded w88 slot online services: the case of underserved women and advanced cervical cancer diagnoses. J Epidemiol Community w88 slot online. 2019 Mar;73(3):278-284. doi: 10.1136/jech-2018-210709.
• See, H**, Smith Gagen, J., Hollen, R**., White, L**., Christiansen, E. Pragmatic effectiveness of the Loving Support Peer Counseling Program to Increase Breastfeeding Duration w88 slot online Nevada WIC Participants. Clinical Lactation. In Press. Accepted 1/12/2018
• Thiel de Bocanegra H, Carter-Pokras O, Ingleby JD, Pottie K, Tchangalova N, Allen SI, Smith-Gagen J, Hidalgo B. Addressing refugee w88 slot online through evidence-based policies: a case study. Ann Epidemiol. 2017 May 12. pii: S1047-2797(17)30074-1. doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2017.05.010
• Malone RW, Homan J, Callahan MV, Glasspool-Malone J, Damodaran L, De Bernardi Schneider A, Zimler R, Talton J, Cobb RR, Ruzic I, w88 slot online J, Janies D, J Wilson J; Zika Response Working Group. Zika Virus: Medical Countermeasure Development Challenges PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016 Mar 2;10(3):e0004530.
• Smith-Gagen J, Loux T, Drake C, Pérez-Stable EJ, How does managed care improve the quality of breast w88 slot online care among Medicare-insured minority women? J Racial and Ethn Disparities. 2016 (3):496-507. doi: 10.1007/s40615-015-0167-y.
• Deadmond MA**, Smith-Gagen J. Changing Incidence of Myeloproliferative Neoplasms: Trends and Subgroup Risk Profiles in the United States, 1973-2011. w88 slot online Research and Clinical Oncology. 2015 Dec;141(12):2131-8.
• Dieringer P**, Klass EM, Smith-Gagen J. Body Mass Index and Diagnosis of Thyroid w88 slot online. Journal of w88 slot online Research and Clinical Oncology. 2015 Jan;141(1):93-8. PMID: 25968903.
• Mnatsakanyan E**, Tung WC, Caine B, Smith-Gagen J. w88 slot online of Unknown Primary: Time Trends in Incidence, United States. w88 slot online Causes and Control. 2014 Jun;25(6):747-57. PMID: 24710663.
• Smith-Gagen J, Goodwin GA 3rd**, Tay J. Multiple primary tumors following Stage II and III rectal w88 slot online in patients receiving radiotherapy, 1998-2010. J w88 slot online Res Clin Oncol. 2014 Jun;140(6):949-55. PMID: 24663823.
• Smith-Gagen, J, Hollen R, Tashiro S**, Cook DM, Yang W. The Association of State Law to Breastfeeding Practices in the US. Maternal and Child w88 slot online J. 2014 Nov;18(9):2034-43. PMID: 24535146.
• Smith-Gagen J, Cress RD, Drake CM, Romano PS, Yost KY, Ayanian JZ. Quality-of-Life and Surgical Treatments for Rectal w88 slot online-a Longitudinal Analysis Using the California w88 slot online Registry. Psycho-Oncology. 2010 Aug;19(8):870-8. PMID: 19862692.

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Education

• PhD, Epidemiology, w88 slot online California, Davis, 2004
• MPH, w88 slot online South Florida. Tampa, 1998
• BS, Biology, Florida State w88 slot online, 1989
• BS, Physics, Frostburg State w88 slot online, MD, 1987