SCOR Members

SCOR Director

Evan Graboyes, M.D., MPH

Member, Cancer Control Program, Hollings Cancer Center
Associate Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina

graboyes@musc.edu

Research Interests: Dr. Graboyes is a surgical oncologist and cancer care delivery researcher. His research focuses on the development, evaluation and implementation of scalable multilevel interventions to improve the access, equity and quality of care delivery for patients with cancer along the care continuum.

SCOR Research Faculty

Jean-Sebastien K. Anoma, MA, MS

Biostatistician, Biostatistics Shared Resource, Hollings Cancer Center
Senior Research Associate, Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina

anomaj@musc.edu

Research Interests: Anoma is a biostatistician whose work focuses on clinical cancer research. He collaborates with various investigators across the cancer center, assisting with study design, data analysis, manuscript preparation, grant proposals and developing new statistical methods to address emerging approaches in ongoing cancer research.

Sundaravadivel Balasubramanian, Ph.D., C-IAYT

Member, Cancer Control Program, Hollings Cancer Center
Yoga Specialist, MUSC Health & Wellness ICCE
Assistant Professor & Wellness Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical University of South Carolina

balasubr@musc.edu

Research Interests: Dr. Balasubramanian is a cell biologist and founder of PranaScience Institute. He conducts research on yogic breathing’s mechanisms and applications with a particular focus on cancer survivors and develops methods and tools (e.g., apps) to provide training on yogic breathing.

Daniel Brinton, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Comparative Effectiveness & Data Analytics Research (CEDAR) Core, College of Health Professions
Assistant Professor, Department of Healthcare Leadership and Management, Medical University of South Carolina

brintond@musc.edu

Research Interests: Dr. Brinton is a quantitative health services researcher and quantitative methodologist whose primary area of expertise is in missing data methods for statistical modeling of non-randomized study designs. He conducts research using datasets that are both clinical (electronic health record) and non-clinical (e.g., registry, billing data).

Jennifer Dahne, Ph.D.

Member, Cancer Control Program, Hollings Cancer Center
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina

dahne@musc.edu

Research Interests: Dr. Dahne is a clinical psychologist whose program of research aims to reduce the public health impact of mental health disorders, with a focus on depression and substance use disorders among patients with cancer and other vulnerable populations (e.g., individuals with physical and mental health comorbidities, socioeconomically disadvantaged adults, rural residents).

Jihad Obeid, M.D.

Associate Director, Biomedical Informatics Center (BMIC), Medical University of South Carolina
SmartState Endowed Chair in Biomedical Informatics, Medical University of South Carolina
Member, Cancer Control Program, Hollings Cancer Center
Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina

jobeid@musc.edu

Research Interests: Dr. Obeid is a pediatrician, Associate Director of the Biomedical Informatics Center (BMIC) and Director of the Social Determinants of Health Shared Resource (SHARE) at Hollings. His research interests include artificial intelligence (AI), specifically, deep learning with EHR data for e-phenotyping and prediction of outcomes with focus on clinical text mining. Other research interests include natural language processing (NLP), social determinants of health, electronic consents, secondary use of EHR data/data warehousing, analysis of research networks and biomedical ontologies.

Suparna Qanungo, Ph.D.

Director of Global Health, College of Nursing
Member, Cancer Control Program, Hollings Cancer Center
Associate Professor, College of Nursing, Medical University of South Carolina

qanungo@musc.edu

Research Interests: Dr. Qanungo is a nursing science researcher whose interests lie in palliative care, global health, cancer and aging. Her focus is to develop and implement interventions for underserved communities to improve health outcomes, access to care and quality of life, both locally and globally.

Alana Rojewski, Ph.D.

Member, Cancer Control Program, Hollings Cancer Center
Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina

rojewski@musc.edu

Research Interests: Dr. Rojewski is a psychologist with a focus on cancer control. Her research interests include tobacco treatment interventions for populations with medical comorbidities and implementing tobacco treatment interventions in the health care system.

Ken Ruggiero, Ph.D.

South Carolina SmartState Chair, Technology Applications Center for Healthful Lifestyles, Medical University of South Carolina
Director, Digital Health Solutions Program, MUSC South Carolina Clinical & Translational Research Institute
Professor, College of Nursing, Medical University of South Carolina

ruggierok@musc.edu

Research Interests: Dr. Ruggiero is a licensed clinical psychologist whose work focuses on the development, evaluation, implementation, and dissemination of digital mental health interventions to improve access and quality of care for a wide range of trauma-affected and high-risk populations.

Annie Simpson, Ph.D.

Co-Division Director, Health and Rehabilitation Science, College of Health Professions
Professor, Department of Health Care Leadership and Management, Medical University of South Carolina

simpsona@musc.edu

Research Interests: Dr. Simpson is a health services researcher and biostatistician who specializes in methods development for bias reduction in observational studies. She has methodological expertise in statistical modeling for non-randomized study designs, electronic health record and informatics-based approaches to comparative effectiveness research, and economic cost evaluation.

Katherine Sterba, Ph.D., MPH

Co-Director, Dissemination and Implementation Science Collaborative (DISC), MUSC South Carolina Clinical & Translational Research Institute
Member, Cancer Control Program, Hollings Cancer Center
Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina

sterba@musc.edu

Research Interests: Dr. Sterba is a behavioral scientist and implementation scientist whose research focuses broadly on the development, testing and dissemination of technology-focused clinic-based interventions for cancer survivors and their caregivers.

Benjamin Toll, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Education and Training, Hollings Cancer Center
Member, Cancer Control Program, Hollings Cancer Center
Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina

toll@musc.edu

Research Interests: Dr. Toll is a clinical psychologist with a focus in cancer control. His research aims to test novel smoking cessation treatments that capitalize on message framing and motivational interventions, particularly among patients diagnosed with cancer.

Sarah Tucker Price, M.D., Ph.D.

Affiliate Member, Cancer Control Program, Hollings Cancer Center
Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina

marrison@musc.edu

Research Interests: Dr. Price is a family medicine physician and cancer survivorship researcher whose research focuses on multimorbidity among cancer survivors.

SCOR Clinical Faculty

Stacey Maurer, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina

maurers@musc.edu

Clinical Focus: Dr. Maurer is a clinical psychologist with expertise in psychosocial oncology. Her clinical practice focuses on managing distress among patients with cancer and cancer survivors who are adjusting to living with their chronic illness. She leads psychosocial oncology services at Hollings Cancer Center.

Alana Rojewski, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina

rojewski@musc.edu

Clinical Focus: Dr. Rojewski is a licensed psychologist who specializes in tobacco treatment interventions for patients with cancer. She leads tobacco treatment services for cancer survivors at Hollings Cancer Center.

Katharine Schmitt, DPT

Oncology Physical Therapist

schmitka@musc.edu

Clinical Focus: Dr. Schmitt is a physical therapist who specializes in caring for patients with cancer and cancer survivors. She leads physical therapy services at Hollings Cancer Center.

Sarah Tucker Price, M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina

marrison@musc.edu

Clinical Focus: Dr. Price is a family medicine physician with expertise in cancer survivorship. She leads onco-primary care services at Hollings Cancer Center.

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Taylor Couper
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coupert@musc.edu

For direct inquiries about research or scientific opportunities, please contact:
Evan Graboyes, M.D., MPH, FACS
Director
Survivorship and Cancer Outcomes Research
graboyes@musc.edu