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Helen Diller Family Compr Cancer Ctr
SUSAN LEROY STEWART, PHD

Associate Adjunct Professor of Medicine, UCSF

CONTACT

sstewart@cc.ucsf.edu
(415) 514-8112 (voice)
(415) 514-8109 (fax)

Box 0981, UCSF; San Francisco, CA 94143-0981

EDUCATION

University of California, Berkeley, AB, 1974, Applied Mathematics
University of California, Berkeley, MA, 1982, Statistics
University of California, Berkeley, PhD, 1987, Statistics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1975 - 1979

Computer Scientist/Programmer, Lawrence Livermore Lab, Livermore, CA

1979 - 1980

Programmer/Analyst, Potomac Research, Inc., San Francisco, CA

1980 - 1983

Programmer/Analyst, Sohio Petroleum Company, San Francisco, CA

1983 - 1984

Research Assistant, Institute of International Studies, U. of California, Berkeley

1984 - 1985

Teaching Associate, Statistics Department, University of California, Berkeley

1985 - 1987

Senior Statistician, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley

1987 - 1990

Research Specialist, Bank of America, San Francisco, CA

1990 - 1993

Statistician, InfoUse, Berkeley, CA

1993 - 2003

Biostatistician, Northern California Cancer Center, Union City, CA

2003 - present

Associate Adjunct Professor, University of California, San Francisco

PUBLICATIONS

Jenkins CNH, Le T, McPhee SJ, Stewart S, Ha N-T. Health care access and preventive care among Vietnamese immigrants: are traditional beliefs and practices a barrier? Soc Sci Med 43:1049-1056, 1996.

Hiatt RA, Pasick R, Perez-Stable E, McPhee S, Engelstad L, Lee M, D'Onofrio C, Stewart S. Pathways to early cancer detection in the multiethnic population of the San Francisco bay area. Health Educ Q 23(S):S10-S27, 1996.

Engelstad L, Bedeian K, Schorr K, Stewart S. Pathways to early detection of cervical cancer for a multi-ethnic, indigent emergency department population. Health Educ Q 23(S):S89-S104, 1996.

McPhee SJ, Stewart S, Brock KE, Bird JA, Jenkins CNH, Pham GQ. Factors associated with breast and cervical cancer screening practices among Vietnamese American women. Cancer Detect Prev 21:510-521, 1997.

Jenkins CNH, Dai PX, Ngoc DH, Kinh HV, Hoang TT, Bales S, Stewart S, McPhee SJ. Tobacco use in Vietnam: prevalence, predictors and the role of transnational tobacco corporations. JAMA 277:1726-1731, 1997.

Bloom JR, Stewart SL, Johnston M, Banks P. Intrusiveness of illness and quality of life in young women with breast cancer. Psychooncology 7:89-100, 1998

Stewart SL, Swallen KC, Glaser SL, Horn-Ross PL, West DW. Adjustment of cancer incidence rates for ethnic misclassification. Biometrics 54:774-781, 1998.

McBride MR, Pasick RJ, Stewart S, Tuason N, Sabogal F, Due–as G. Factors associated with cervical cancer screening among Filipino women in California. Asian Am Pac Isl J Health 6:358-367, 1998.

Stewart SL, Swallen KC, Glaser SL, Horn-Ross PL, West DW. Comparison of methods for classifying Hispanic ethnicity in a population-based cancer registry. Am J Epidemiol 149:1063-1071, 1999.

Lee M, Lee F, Stewart S, McPhee S. Cancer screening practices among primary care physicians serving Chinese Americans in San Francisco. West J Med 170:148-155, 1999.

Hiatt RA, Pasick RJ, Stewart S, Bloom J, Davis P, Gardiner P, Johnston M, Luce J, Schorr K, Brunner W, Stroud F. Community-based cancer screening for underserved women: design and baseline findings from the Breast and Cervical Cancer Intervention Study. Prev Med 33:190-203, 2001.

Pasick RJ, Stewart SL, Bird JA, D'Onofrio CN. Quality of data in multiethnic health surveys. Public Health Rep 116(S1):223-43, 2001.

Engelstad LP, Stewart SL, Nguyen BH, Bedeian KL, Rubin MM, Pasick RJ, Hiatt RA. Abnormal Pap smear follow-up in a high-risk population. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 10:1015-20, 2001.

Bloom JR, Stewart SL, Koo J, Hiatt RA. Cancer screening in public health clinics: the importance of clinic utilization. Med Care 39(12):1345-51, 2001.

Bloom JR, Stewart SL, Johnston M, Banks P, Fobair, P. Sources of support and the physical and mental well-being of young women with breast cancer. Soc Sci Med 53:1513-1524, 2001.

Prehn AW, Topol B, Stewart S, Glaser SL, O'Connor L, West DW. Differences in treatment patterns for localized breast carcinoma among Asian/Pacific Islander women. Cancer 95:2268-75, 2002.

Otero-Sabogal R, Stewart S, Sabogal F, Brown BA, Perez-Stable EJ. Access and attitudinal factors related to breast and cervical cancer rescreening: why are Latinas still underscreened? Health Educ Behav 30(3):337-359, 2003.

Haselkorn T, Stewart SL, Horn-Ross PL. Why are thyroid cancer rates so high in Southeast Asian women living in the United States? The Bay Area Thyroid Cancer Study. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 12(2):144-50, 2003.

Hoggatt KJ, Stewart SL, Pasick R, Sabogal F, Tuason N, McBride MR, Duenas GV, Horn-Ross PL. Comparison of methods for identifying a population-based sample of Filipina women for a health survey. Ethn Dis. 14(1):21-5, 2004.

Bloom JR, Stewart SL, Chang S, Banks PJ. Then and now: quality of life of young breast cancer survivors. Psychooncology 13(3):147-60, 2004.

Kaplan CP, Crane LA, Stewart S, Juarez-Reyes M. Factors affecting follow-up among low-income women with breast abnormalities. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 13(2):195-206, 2004.

Davis S, Stewart S, Bloom J. Increasing the accuracy of perceived breast cancer risk: results from a randomized trial with Cancer Information Service callers. Prev Med 39:64-73, 2004.

Engelstad LP, Stewart S, Otero-Sabogal R, Leung MS, Davis PI, Pasick RJ. The effectiveness of a community outreach intervention to improve follow-up among underserved women at highest risk for cervical cancer. Prev Med 41:741-8, 2005.

Fobair P, Stewart SL, Chang S, D'Onofrio C, Banks PJ, Bloom JR. Body image and sexual problems in young women with breast cancer. Psychooncology 15:579-594, 2006.

Bloom JR, Stewart SL, Hancock SL. Breast cancer screening in women surviving Hodgkin Disease. Am J Clin Oncol 29:258-266, 2006.

Bloom JR, Stewart SL, Chang S, You M. Effects of a telephone counseling intervention on sisters of young women with breast cancer. Prev Med 43(5):379-84, 2006.

Bloom JR, Stewart SL, Oakley-Girvans I, Banks PJ, Chang S. Family history, perceived risk and prostate cancer screening among African American men. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 15(11):2167-73, 2006.

Chen MS Jr, Shinagawa SM, Bal DG, Bastani R, Chow EA, Ho RC, Jones L, McPhee SJ, Senie R, Taylor V, Kagawa-Singer M, Stewart S, Koh HK, Li FP. Asian American Network for Cancer Awareness, Research, and Training's legacy: the first 5 years. Cancer 107(8 Suppl):2006-14, 2006.

Otero-Sabogal R, Stewart S, Shema SJ, Pasick RJ. Ethnic differences in decisional balance and stages of mammography adoption. Health Educ Behav 34(2):278-96, 2007.

Benowitz NL, Hall SM, Stewart S, Wilson M, Dempsey D, Jacob P III. Nicotine and carcinogen exposure with smoking of progressively reduced nicotine content cigarette. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 16(11):2479-85, 2007.

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