Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Member of Division of Population Sciences, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
CLASS OF 2020
Current TOPS Fellows
Micah Aaron received a PhD in Health Policy from Harvard Medical School in 2022. She works under the mentorship of Mary Beth Landrum at HMS to study variation in quality performance across large provider organizations to elucidate the conditions under which these organizations actually practice evidence-based medicine.
Stephen Lo received an PhD from clinical psychology from Ohio State University. He’s interested in addressing psychological and behavioral issues in patients with cancer, with a focus on developing and implementing scalable interventions to enhance patient outcomes in cancer. His mentor will be Joseph Greer at MGH.
Tom Roberts received an MD and an MBA from Stanford University and is currently a medical oncology fellow at DFCI. His research centers on two related challenges in cancer care: 1) how to deliver equitable clinical care at scale; and 2) how to improve healthcare efficiency to control costs and improve value for patients. He’ll work with Mike Hassett as his mentor at DFCI.
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Camille Mathey-Andrews received an MD from Harvard Medical School in 2018. During her TOPS fellowship, she will work at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute with Dr. Eliezer Van Allen. She will study computational cancer genomics and use bioinformatic approaches to investigate gene expression signatures that contribute to treatment resistance in cancer.
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Lucy Finkelstein-Fox received a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Connecticut in June 2021. She plans to work under the mentorship of Dr. Elyse Park at the Massachusetts General Hospital developing resilience interventions for breast and gynecologic cancer survivors adjusting to stressful sexual health and relational changes.
Michael Anne Kyle received a PhD in management and health policy from Harvard Business School in 2021. She is also a registered nurse. Under the mentorship of Dr. Nancy Keating, she plans to focus on nonfinancial costs of care, with an emphasis on patient-facing administrative burden. In addition, she also plans to work on patient-reported outcome measures and whether they can be used as summary measures of quality.
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TOPS Alumni - Where are they now?
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CLASS OF 2022
Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Member of Division of Population Sciences, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Instructor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Member of the Division of Population Sciences, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
CLASS OF 2021
Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Member of Division of Population Sciences, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Andrew Hantel, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine and Department of Population Health,
Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin
Jennifer Spencer, PhD
Ashley Nelson, PhD
Clinical Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital
and Harvard Medical School
TOPS (formerly called “PCORT, Program in Cancer Outcomes Research Training”, PI Dr. Scott Gazelle) has a strong history of success! From 2002-2017, the program supported over 40 fellows in their research training. Our alumni hold leadership and research positions in a number of academic medical centers, cancer centers, policy and other positions around the U.S.
To find out more about past fellows' research activities, funding, and publications, click to check them out online!
CLASS OF 2015
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Jose Alejandro Rauh-Hain, MD MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Gynecologic Oncology and Reproductive Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Assistant Professor, Department of Health Services Research, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Gynecologic Oncologist, MD Anderson Cancer Center
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Pari Pandharipande, MD MPH
Chair, Department of Medicine, Ohio State University College of Medicine
