Comprehensive Partnership to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities
 
Drs. Elyse Park, Sheila Cannon & Lara Traeger  

Elyse R. Park, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at MGH, and MIHP core faculty member, has received funding through a National Cancer Institute U54 grant to compare depression severity, cancer care experiences, and mental health care utilization between African American and non-Hispanic White lung cancer patients. The overall goal of the U54 is to facilitate collaborative research between the Dana-Farber Harvard Cancer Center and the University of Massachusetts Boston in reducing racial disparities in cancer prevention and treatment and to support the success of minority researchers.
Dr. Park’s study builds from findings of a 2007 Institute of Medicine report, “Cancer Care for the Whole Patient: Meeting Psychosocial Health Care Needs,” that found that psychosocial problems associated with ca <more...>

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