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The racial/ethnic diversity in both the Bay Area and California and the population-based nature of cancer surveillance data provides an unparalleled resource for the detailed study of racial/ethnic patterns, and factors associated with patterns, in cancer incidence and outcomes. Dr. Gomez is an Epidemiologist at CPIC, a Visiting Associate Professor with the Department of Health Research and Policy at the School of Medicine, Stanford University, and a member of the Stanford Cancer Center. She is also a Scientist in the Surveillance Research unit and Co-Investigator of the Greater Bay Area Cancer Registry (GBACR), a participant in the SEER cancer registry and in the California Cancer Registry (CCR). Dr. Gomez conducts research with registry data for and has built a growing research program that focuses on disparities across the cancer continuum. Dr. Gomez has analyzed cancer incidence, treatment, and survival data for racial/ethnic groups, with a particular focus on specific Asian ethnic subgroups, and has conducted methodologic assessments directed toward improvements of cancer registry and hospital admissions data on race, ethnicity, and birthplace. She is/has been Principal Investigator on several SEER studies (including “Using Linked Datasets to Understand Breast Cancer Disparities”; “Obtaining Information on Language Preference among Minority Cancer Patients”; “Understanding Socioeconomic, Neighborhood Social and Built environment, and Immigration Effects on Racial/Ethnic Cancer Patterns”; “Hospital Policies and Practices in the Collection of Patient Information on Race, Ethnicity, and Birthplace”; and “Accuracy of Cancer Registry Data on Race, Ethnicity, and Birthplace”). Her surveillance research work has also focused on methodologic studies to enhance surveillance data for studying immigration effects on cancer. Dr. Gomez is also Principal Investigator on several studies that seek to understand the role of neighborhood, institutional, family, and individual level factors on disparities in cancer treatment, quality of life, and survival. These studies include the Breast Cancer Treatment Choices (BCTC) Study (funded by the National Cancer Institute), the Equality in Breast Cancer Care (EBCC) Study (funded by the Department of Defense), a study to develop and test sociodemographic survey questions for research (funded by the California Breast Cancer Research Program), a study to understand the impact of contextual factors on disparities in risk and survival of breast cancer (funded by the National Cancer Institute), a study to understand the impact of contextual factors on disparities in breast and colorectal cancer treatment among Kaiser enrollees (funded by SEER), a study to investigate the role of contextual factors in racial/ethnic disparities in prostate cancer incidence and survival (funded by the Department of Defense).
All Research Projects Selected Research Publications: Warner E, Gomez SL. Impact of neighborhood racial composition and metropolitan residential segregation on disparities in breast cancer stage at diagnosis and survival between black and white women in California. J Community Health. 2010 [epublished]. Gomez SL, Clarke CA, Shema S, Chang ET, Keegan THM, Glaser SL. Disparities in breast cancer survival among Asian women by ethnicity and immigrant status: a population-based study. Am J Public Health. 2010;100(5):861-869. Gomez SL, Quach T, Horn-Ross PL, Pham JT, Cockburn M, Chang ET, Keegan THM, Clarke CA. Hidden breast cancer disparities in Asian women: dissaggregating incidence rates by ethnicity and migrant status. Am J Public Health. 2010;100(S1):S125-S131. Clarke CA, Chang ET, Miller T, Cockburn M, Gomez SL. Racial and social class gradients in life expectancy in contemporary California. Social Science & Medicine. 2010;70(9):1373-1380. Gomez SL, Aroner SA, Lee MM, West DW. Epidemiology of Cancer in Asian Americans. In: Handbook of Asian American Health: Taking Notice and Taking Action. Abesamis-Mendoza N, Ho-Asjoe H, Bateman WB (eds.) Greenwood Publishing Group, 2009. Pham JT, Allen LJ, Gomez SL. Physician perspectives on surgical treatment disparities among Asian women with early stage breast cancer. BMC Public Health. 2009;9(1):246. Chang ET, Shema SJS, Wakelee HA, Clarke CA, Gomez SL. Uncovering disparities in survival after non-small cell lung cancer in Asian/Pacific Islander ethnic populations. Cancer epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention. 2009;18:2248-2255. Gomez SL, Tan S, Keegan THM, Clarke CA. Disparities in mammographic screening for Asian women in California: a cross-sectional analysis to identify meaningful groups for targeted intervention. BMC Cancer. 2007;7:201. Gomez SL, OMalley C, Stroup A, Shema S, Satariano WA. Longitudinal populaton-based study of racial/ethnci differences in colorectal cancer survival: Impact of neighborhood socioeconomic status, treatment and comorbidity. BMC Cancer. 2007;7:193. Gomez SL, Glaser SL. Misclassification of race/ethnicity in a population-based cancer registry. Cancer Causes and Control. 2006;17:771-782. Gomez SL, Kelsey JL, Glaser SL, Lee MM, Sidney S. Immigration and acculturation in relation to health and health-related risk factors among specific Asian subgroups in a health maintenance organization. American Journal of Public Health. 2004;94:1977-84. Burchard E. Ziv E, Coyle N. Gomez SL, Tang H, Karter A, Mountain JL, Perez-Stable EJ, Sheppard D, Risch N. The importance of race and ethnic background in biomedical research and clinical practice. New England Journal of Medicine. 2003;348(12):1170-1175. Gomez SL, Le GM, West DW, Satariano WA, OConnor L. Hospital policy and practice on the collection of data on race/ethnicity and birthplace. American Journal of Public Health. 2003;93:1685-8. Lin SS, Kelsey JL. Use of race and ethnicity in epidemiologic research: concepts, methodologic issues, and suggestions for research. Epidemiologic Reviews. 2000;22(2):187-202.
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