General Internal Medicine Research
Our mission is to design, conduct and facilitate innovative research that translates into high-quality health care and improved health outcomes for oncology patients within the area of management of cancer-related symptoms and comorbidities.We want to become the leading authority on best patient care standards in the management of cancer-related symptoms and comorbidities in acute and chronic patient care settings.
The department conducts an interdisciplinary, patient-centered, comparative effectiveness and health services research program. Specific areas of interest include:
- Effects of comorbidities on cancer outcomes (Holly Holmes, Jessica Hwang, Joanna-Grace Manzano, Jeong Oh, Maria Suarez-Almazor)
- Cancer-related fatigue (Carmen Escalante, Ellen Manzullo)
- Thrombosis in cancer patients (Carmen Escalante, Ali Zalpour)
- Viral reactivation in cancer patients (Jessica Hwang)
- Geriatric oncology (Beatrice Edwards, Holly Holmes)
- Non metastatic skeletal complication of cancer and cancer therapy (Beatrice Edwards, Huifang Lu, Maria Suarez-Almazor)
- Chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease in cancer patients (Angeles Lopez-Olivo, Maria Suarez-Almazor, Jean Tayar)
- Immunodeficiency in cancer patients (Huifang Lu)
- Hospital medicine in cancer patients (Sahitya Gadiraju, Marina George, Joanna-Grace Manzano)
- Perioperative medicine (Sunil Sahai, Ali Zalpour)
- Medical decision science and patient decision support (Suzanne Linder, Robert Volk)
- Patient education (Suzanne Linder, Angeles Lopez-Olivo, Robert Volk)
- Risk communication (Suzanne Linder)
- Methodology of systematic reviews and metanalyses (Angeles Lopez-Olivo, Jean Tayar)
- Quality of care (Sahitya Gadiraju, Josiah Halm, Joanna-Grace Manzano)
- Medication adherence and appropriate use (Holly Holmes)
- Drug safety in cancer patients (Beatrice Edwards)
- Large database analysis for outcomes research (Beatrice Edwards, Holly Holmes, Jessica Hwang, Joanna-Grace Manzano, Maria Suarez-Almazor)