BLOCS Members List

NAME TITLE DEPARTMENTAL AFFILIATION RESEARCH INTERESTS
Zackary Berger, MD, PhD Associate Professor Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine; Health, Behavior and Society; Berman Institute shared decision making, health inequities, solidarity and health, bioethics, language-concordant care, cancer and primary care, immigrant health
Joann Bodurtha, MD, MPH Professor  Genetic Medicine, Pediatrics, Oncology,  Bloomberg Health, Behavior and Society communication, disparities, family history and risk
Evans Brown, MD Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine environmental epidemiology, geographic health disparities, climate change, cancer
Youngjee Choi, MD Assistant Professor Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine cancer survivorship, primary care
Stacy Cooper, MD Assistant Professor Department of Oncology, Division of Pediatric Oncology; Department of Pediatrics survivorship, disparities, communication, primary care providers and oncology, medical education
Dulce M. Cruz-Oliver, MD Assistant Professor Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine disparities, caregivers, quality of end of life care, shared-decision making, Latinos
Sara Dudley, MD Assistant Professor Department of Radiation Oncology access to palliative care in community setting, cancer survivorship, assessing quality of care, patient reported outcomes
Sydney Dy, MD, ScM Professor Health Policy & Management; Oncology cancer survivorship, palliative care
Josephine Feliciano, MD Associate Professor Department of Medicine Oncology, Johns Hopkins Bayview health disparities in lung cancer, patient reported outcomes, cost of care for cancer, community outreach, quality of care, health outcomes
Christine Gourin, MD, MPH, FACS Professor and Vice Chair for Quality, Safety and Service  Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery; Head and Neck Surgical Oncology quality of life, quality of care, functional outcome measurement, palliative care
Susan Hannum, PhD Assistant Scientist Department of Health, Behavior and Society aging, pain, survivorship, patient/physician interactions 
Amol Narang, MD Assistant Professor Department of Radiation Oncology health economics, patient-reported outcomes
Eniola Oluyemi, MD Assistant Professor Department of Radiology, Breast Imaging Division disparities in the timely diagnosis of breast cancer, and disparities in access to breast imaging services
Channing Paller, MD Associate Professor Department of Oncology/Genitourinary Oncology disparities
Chintan Pandya PhD, MPH, MBBS Assistant Scientist Department of Health Policy and Management, Center for Population Health IT quality of care, palliative care, patient-reported outcomes, prediction modeling, racial disparities
Kimberly Peairs, MD Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Ambulatory Operations Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine; Oncology survivorship, transitions of care
Rachel Peterson, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences survivorship, disparities, long-term neuropsychological outcomes, quality of life 
Craig Pollack, MD, MHS Professor Department of Health Policy and Management; School of Nursing; School of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine social determinants, housing, inequities, structure and organization of cancer care
Jeffrey Scott, MD, MHS Assistant Professor Department of Dermatology quality of care, patient-reported outcomes, quality of life, shared-decision making, goal-oriented planning
Jennifer Sheng, MD Assistant Professor Department of Oncology symptom management, survivorship, multidisciplinary care coordination
Karen Smith, MD, MPH Assistant Professor Department of Oncology cancer survivorship, minimizing toxicity of breast cancer therapy, breast cancer in young patients, reproductive health issues of breast cancer patients, PROs
Katherine Smith, PhD Professor  Department of Health, Behavior and Society survivorship, disparities, communication, research methods, behavior
Thomas Smith, MD, FACP, FASCO, FAAHPM Professor/Director Department of Oncology; Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine neuromodulation to treat pain in cancer and other patients; communication, financial impact on patients; "Choosing Wisely"
Claire Snyder, PhD Professor  Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine; Oncology; Health Policy & Management quality of care, survivorship, patient-reported outcomes, coordination with primary care
Samantha Vogt, MD, MPH Assistant Professor Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology; Department of Oncology,  Cancer Prevention and Control Program  quality of care, patient-reported outcomes, coordination with primary care in a low resource setting (South Africa), HIV-associated malignancies
K. Ranh Voong, MD, MPH Assistant Professor Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences thoracic cancers, patient reported outcomes, quality of life, immunologic effects of ablative radiation alone and in context of receipt of immune checkpoint inhibition, cost and decision making analyses 
Jennifer Wenzel, PhD, RN, CCM Associate Professor School of Nursing; School of Medicine, Department of Oncology navigation, survivorship, disparities, family & community-level interventions, health information technology applications, decision-making
Antonio Wolff, MD Professor Department of Oncology clinical trials, new therapies, care coordination, 
quality of life
Jean Wright, MD Associate Professor  Department of Radiation Oncology quality of care, survivorship, patient-reported outcomes, radiation-induced skin toxicity, locoregional and overall outcomes in locally advanced breast cancer 
Robin Yabroff, PhD, MBA Scientific Vice President, Health Services Research, American Cancer Society, Adjunct Associate Professor Department of Medicine quality of care, survivorship, economic burden, access to care
Jiajia Zhang, MD, MPH Research Associate Department of Oncology outcomes research, quantitative oncology