Insight Sessions: Research Methods & Analysis

About

"Methods for Place, the Patient Voice, and Scale in Cancer Outcomes Research"

About the Speaker: Kelly Kenzik, Ph.D.

Dr. Kelly Kenzik is an epidemiologist and health services researcher who applies advanced epidemiologic and statistical methods to questions in cancer care delivery and patient-centered outcomes. She is Associate Director of the Patient-Reported Outcomes, Value, and Experience (PROVE) Center at Mass General Brigham in the Department of Surgery; previously she was Associate Chair for Research in the Department of Surgery at Boston University/Boston Medical Center and has also held faculty appointments at University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her work spans patient-reported outcomes, healthcare utilization and costs, surgical outcomes, and population-level cancer outcomes, drawing on psychometrics and latent variable modeling, causal inference and effect decomposition, multilevel models, and quasi-experimental designs. Her National Cancer Institute–funded research examines geographic variation in cancer mortality and the community- and county-level factors behind it. She mentors trainees and early-career investigators across oncology, surgery, epidemiology, and health services research.

About the Series

Insight Sessions: Research Methods and Analysis, a seminar series hosted by the UAB Comprehensive Healthy Living Research Center, co-sponsored by the CARES Center and the Deep South RCMAR. This series will offer insight into innovative quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research and data analysis using actual examples of community-engaged and population health research.