TOPSPostdoc
Training in Oncology Population Sciences
T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
CLASS OF 2019
Current TOPS Fellows
CLASS OF 2019
CLASS OF 2020
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Anny Fenton received a doctorate in sociology from Harvard University in 2019. Her research focuses on understanding medical interactions to identify ways to improve patient and caregiver experiences and decision-making, specifically for women with gynecological cancers. She plans to continue her work under the mentorship of Dr. Alexi Wright studying factors behind repeated hospitalizations of ovarian cancer patients and developing interventions for patients and caregivers to self-manage symptoms and avoid unnecessary hospitalization.
Daniel Lage received a MD from Harvard Medical School in 2017 and a masters from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He has completed his clinical hematology/oncology fellowship in the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/ Massachusetts General Hospital Oncology Fellowship Program. During his TOPS fellowship, he will work with Dr. Jennifer Temel at MGH exploring the use of post-acute care, transitions of care, and hospice in order to develop an intervention for hospitalized patients with advanced cancer transitioning from hospital to home to prevent readmission.
Christopher Manz received an MD from Duke University in 2012 and an MSc from the University of Pennsylvania. As a TOPS fellow, he will work with Dr. Deborah Schrag to investigate how pharmaceutical and payment policies influence the treatment that patients receive and assess if they contribute to disparities in cancer outcomes. This research agenda includes completed or ongoing policy analysis, retrospective claims evaluation, prognostic model development, qualitative interviews and pragmatic clinical trials applied to issues of financial toxicity, payment policy, application of machine-learning and end-of-life care for cancer patients.
Dr. Andrew Hantel is an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School working in the Division of Population Sciences with Dr Gregory Abel. His research focuses on health outcomes and ethics, specifically patient and provider understanding of medication shortages, as well as their allocation and disclosure preferences. He also sees patients in the Division of Oncology Hospital Medicine. Andrew was a hematology/oncology fellow at the University of Chicago and a senior fellow at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago.
Dr. Jennifer Spencer is a post-doctoral fellow working at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health with Dr. Jane Kim. Jenny received her PhD from the University of North Caroline at Chapel Hill. She is interested in using econometric and decision making science methods to address issues of health equity in access and care quality, focusing on HPV and cervical cancer outcome disparities in racial and sexual minority populations.
Dr. Ashley Nelson is a post-doctoral fellow working at Massachusetts General Hospital with Drs. Joseph Greer and Areej El-Jawahri. Ashley received her PhD from the University of South Florida. Her research focuses on understanding quality of life impairments stemming from cancer diagnosis and treatment and adapting psychosocial interventions to alleviate physical and emotional side effects and improve quality of life.
TOPS Alumni - Where are they now?
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 2016
Oreofe Odejide, MD MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Member of both Hematologic Malignancies and Division of Population Sciences, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
CLASS OF 2015
Kelly Edwards Irwin, MD MPH
Director, Collaborative Care and Community Engagement Program, Psychiatric Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)
Attending Psychiatrist, MGH Cancer Center and MGH Schizophrenia Center
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Vanessa Merker, PhD
Instructor in Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Winta Mehtsun, MD MPH
Clinical Fellow, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital
Research Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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
CLASS OF 2014
Christy E. Cauley, MD
Colorectal and Gastrointestinal Surgeon, Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Loren Saulsberry, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Department of Public Health Sciences
CLASS OF 2013
Gabriel Brooks, MD MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine
Assistant Professor of The Dartmouth Institute
Medical Oncologist, Norris Cotton Cancer Center/Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Mark G. Shrime, MD MPH PhD FACS
Research Director, Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology and Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
CLASS OF 2012
Jennifer A. Shin, MD
Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Physician in Hematology-Oncology and Palliative Care, Massachusetts General Hospital
Thomas Tsai, MD MPH
Surgeon, Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
CLASS OF 2011
Paola Friedrich-Medina, MD
Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Director, Mexico Region, St. Jude Global
Carrie C. Lubitz, MD MPH
Senior Scientist, Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital
Attending Surgeon, Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
CLASS OF 2010
Inga Lennes, MD MBA MPH
Senior Vice President Performance Improvement and Service Excellence, Massachusetts General Hospital
Director of Clinical Quality, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
Medical Director, Ambulatory Services, MGH Cancer Center
Nick Menzies, PhD
Assistant Professor of Global Health, T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University
Shoshana M. Rosenberg, MPH ScD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor, Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
CLASS OF 2009
Shilpa Grover, MD MPH
Founder and Director Onco-Gastroenterology Program, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Staff Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Division of Gastroenterology
Haejin In, MD MBA MPH
Assistant Professor of Surgery, and Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Surgical Oncologist, Montefiore Medical Center
Health Services Researcher, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Nadine Jackson McCleary, BSN MD MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Medical Oncologist, Gastrointestinal Cancer Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
CLASS OF 2008
Nadine Jackson McCleary, BSN MD MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Medical Oncologist, Gastrointestinal Cancer Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Stacy W. Gray, MD AM
Associate Clinical Professor, Division of Clinical Cancer Genetics, Department of Population Sciences, City of Hope
Susannah L. Rose, PhD
Scientific Director of Research, Office of Patient Experience, Cleveland Clinic
Assistant Professor and Professional Staff, Cleveland Clinic, Department of Bioethics
Alexi A. Wright, MD MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor, Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
CLASS OF 2007
Gregory A. Abel, MD MPH
Associate Professor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, Older Adult Hematologic Malignancy Program, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Julia H. Hayes, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Medical Oncologist, Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
CLASS OF 2006
Stacey B. Dacosta-Byfield, PhD MPH
Vice President of Research, OPTUM, Heath Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR) – Oncology & Immunology
CLASS OF 2005
Michael Hassett, MD MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Attending Physician, Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Amy Knudsen, PhD
Senior Scientist, Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
CLASS OF 2004
Mary Buss, MD MPH
Assistant Professor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, Ambulatory Palliative Care Services, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical School
Christopher Lathan, MD MS MPH
Medical Director, DFCI at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center
Chief of Hematology/Oncology, St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center
Faculty Director for Cancer Care Equity, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Pari Pandharipande, MD MPH
Director, Institute for Technology Assessment, MGH
Radiologist in the MGH Division of Abdominal Imaging and Interventional Radiology
Associate Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
Jennifer M. Yeh, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital
Associate Scientific Researcher, Division of General Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital
Affiliated Faculty, Center for Health Decision Science, Harvard School of Public Health
CLASS OF 2003
Tanya Bentley, PhD
CEO, Health & Human Performance Foundation
Research Scientist at UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC)
Janie Lee, MD MSc
Senior Scientist, Institute for Technology Assessment, MGH
Associate Professor, Radiology, University of Washington School of Medicine
Director, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA) Breast Imaging
CLASS OF 2002
Pamela McMahon, PhD
Project Director, Precision Medicine Prevention and Treatment, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute
Thomas Roberts, MD
Managing Member, Farallon Capital Management
Partner and Health Care Portfolio Manager at Noonday Asset Management, LP