Claire Snyder, PhD
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty
Languages
- English
Gender
FemaleAbout Claire Snyder
Professional Titles
- Program Director, Building Lifestyle, Outcomes, and Care Services Research in Cancer (BLOCS)
Primary Academic Title
Professor of Medicine
Background
Dr. Snyder’s research focuses on the quality of cancer care, with emphasis in two areas: quality of life for cancer patients and cancer survivorship care. She is Director of the Johns Hopkins Program for Building Lifestyle, Outcomes, and Care Services Research in Cancer (BLOCS). She is widely published in high-impact journals and has received competitive, peer-reviewed funding from the National Cancer Institute, American Cancer Society, and Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Dr. Snyder has held various leadership positions in international organizations focused on quality-of-life and quality-of-care. She is a past president of the International Society for Quality of Life Research. For the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), she served on the Health Services Committee, Quality of Care Committee, Survivorship Care Planning Task Force, and Patient-Reported Outcomes Panel.
Centers and Institutes
Videos
Recent News Articles and Media Coverage
ASCO 2023 | The benefit of using patient-reported outcomes for vulnerable patients, Video Journal of Oncology (June 4, 2023)
ASCO 2023 | The key take home messages surrounding patient-reported outcomes, Video Journal of Oncology (June 4, 2023)
ASCO 2023 | Using patient-reported outcomes to improve clinical care, Video Journal of Oncology (June 4, 2023)
Additional Academic Titles
Professor of Oncology
Contact for Research Inquiries
Phone: (443) 287-5469
Fax: (410) 955-0470
Research Interests
Cancer outcomes and health services research, Coordination of care, Patient-reported outcomes assessment, Quality of life, Quality of medical care
Lab Website
Claire Snyder Lab
- Researchers in the Claire Snyder Lab study the quality of cancer care, with a special focus on two areas: the quality of life for cancer patients undergoing treatment and the coordination of care between cancer specialists and primary care providers. As part of our quality-of-life research, we're investigating the use of patient-reported outcome questionnaires in routine oncology practice as well as developing a website for collecting the questionnaires and linking them with the electronic medical record. As part of our cancer-survivorship research, we've conducted large database studies to identify the physician specialties involved in the care of cancer survivors and to determine how that relates to survivors receiving recommended follow-up care. We're also working with investigators in the Sydney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center to develop care strategies for breast cancer survivors.
Research Summary
Dr. Snyder researches the quality of cancer care, with a particular focus in two areas: (1) quality of life for cancer patients and (2) cancer survivorship care.
For her quality-of-life research, she is investigating the use of patient-reported outcome questionnaires in routine oncology practice so that patients’ reports of their symptoms, functioning, and well-being can inform their care in the same way that laboratory tests and imaging studies do. This intervention involves having patients complete questionnaires and providing the responses to their clinicians. Dr. Snyder’s research has investigated technologies to collect patients’ reports and integrate them with the electronic health record, informed the selection of questionnaires to administer, and helped patients and clinicians understand the questionnaire results to address them in practice. Dr. Snyder’s quality-of-life research also seeks to optimize the collection and communication of patients’ reports in clinical trials and other research studies. Dr. Snyder currently leads the PROTEUS Consortium (Patient-Reported Outcomes Tools: Engaging Users & Stakeholders), which is partnering with over 50 patient, clinician, research, health system, industry, government, policy, and regulatory groups from the U.S. and internationally to promote systematic use of methodologic tools developed to optimize the capture and communication of patient-reported outcomes in research studies and clinical care.
In her cancer survivorship research, Dr. Snyder investigates which physician specialties are involved in cancer survivors’ care, and how this relates to whether survivors receive recommended follow-up. She has also studied interventions, such as survivorship care plans, to improve coordination between primary care providers and cancer specialists. She is working with a multidisciplinary team here in our Cancer Center to develop survivorship care strategies. Dr. Snyder co-chairs the Cancer Control & Intervention Working Group of the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study.