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 |