Using Medicare Data for Cancer Research

About this Class

Attend this webinar to hear a moderated, five-person panel expand on the presentation, “Perspectives on CMS Linkage for Cancer Research in Cohort Studies.” This presentation is from the recent 2022 Annual Meeting of the NCI Cohort Consortium. Cohort investigators will discuss their experiences working with Medicare data to explore linkages that are relevant to cancer research. Take advantage of their insights on the use of existing data to further cancer research! Moderators: Yu Chen, PhD, MPH Professor of Epidemiology, Departments of Population Health and Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine Lynne Wilkens, DrPH, MS​ Director, Biostatistics Shared Resource, University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center​ Associate Director, Shared Resources, University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center​ Full Member, Population Sciences in the Pacific Program (Cancer Epidemiology), University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center Featured speakers: A. Heather Eliassen, ScD Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Lindsey Enewold, PhD, MPH Epidemiologist Healthcare Assessment Research Branch Healthcare Delivery Research Program National Cancer Institute James V. Lacey, Jr., PhD, MPH Professor and Director Division of Health Analytics Department of Computational and Qualitative Medicine City of Hope