Lauren P Wallner, PhD, MPH

Dr. Lauren Wallner, PhD, MPH is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine-General Medicine and Epidemiology, Assistant Division Chief for Faculty Development and Mentoring in General Medicine, Co-leader of the Cancer Control and Population Sciences Program at Rogel Cancer Center, and Program Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Training Center in Cancer Care Delivery (T32). She is a faculty member in the Cancer Surveillance and Outcomes Research Team (CanSORT) and Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation. Dr. Wallner is a cancer health services and care delivery researcher. Dr. Wallner received her BS, MPH and PhD degrees at University of Michigan and completed her post-doctoral training in cancer health services research at Kaiser Permanente Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research program focuses on improving the quality, delivery, and equity of cancer care. Dr. Wallner's research experience spans the cancer continuum and includes multiple cancer sites. She has conducted population-based studies to understand the determinants, outcomes and utilization of health services associated with cancer. She has expertise in the design, evaluation and implementation of multilevel interventions to improve cancer care delivery. She also has experience in the analyses of large medical claims data and conducting population-based survey studies of cancer patients, their families, and their care teams in partnership with cancer registries. Her work has been continually funded by the National Institutes for Health, the American Cancer Society, and industry partners for the past 15 years. She is passionate about mentoring the next generation of health services researchers.

-Cancer health services and care delivery research
-Understanding and improving the delivery, quality and equity of cancer care
-Coordination of cancer survivorship care
-Evaluation and implementation of care delivery interventions
-Cancer and aging