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Christina Chapman
Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, Medical School
University of Michigan
Education/Degree:
1 MD (University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine)
About
Dr. Chapman was born and raised in Hamilton, NJ. She obtained her BA in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins University and her MD from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. She completed her internal medicine internship at Mercy Medical Center/University of Maryland and radiation oncology resident at the University of Michigan. During residency, she completed an MS in health and healthcare research, and master's program designed for the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at the University of Michigan, in which she received training in statistics and research methods, social and cultural determinants of health, health policy, and leadership. In 2017, she started as an assistant professor at the University of Michigan in the Department of Radiation Oncology.Clinically, she sees patients at the Veterans Affairs (VA) Ann Arbor Healthcare System, and primarily treats head and neck and lung cancer. She is a member of the Center for Clinical Management Research, and Health Services Research and Development Center for Innovation at the Ann Arbor VA. Her research focuses on investigating and improving the quality of cancer treatment received by veterans.She also has an NIH supplement to investigate strategies to optimize screening mammography guidelines for African American women, given the higher incidence of aggressive disease and elevated mortality they experience. She also investigates diversity in the physician workforce as a means of achieving health equity.
Current Work
Dr. Chapman has an NIH Diversity Supplement to investigate optimal breast cancer screening strategies for African American women. She is working with the National Cancer Institute-funded Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network (CISNET) to use simulation modeling to address this issue, given that African American women were not adequately represented in the randomized screening mammography trials. Her research will utilize existing CISNET models, and update them using race-specific cancer and survival parameters to help determine whether African American women might benefit from a screening mammography schedule that begins earlier than age 50 and occurs annually as opposed to biennially.Dr. Chapman also investigators predictors of gender and race representation in various physician medical specialties, with an emphasis on understanding how medical school and residency application process-level factors might contribute to diversity.
Research Area Keyword(s)
cancer, diversity in medicine, gender, health equity, race/ethnicity