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Dr. Rees is a physician-epidemiologist who joined the CRGC, from the Dartmouth Cancer Center (DCC) and the Department of Epidemiology at the Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College. After graduating with a degree in medicine from Oxford University in the United Kingdom, she completed a three-year general practice residency in England followed by an MPH and PhD in Epidemiology at the University of California, Berkeley while working for the California Emerging Infections Program.
Dr. Rees served as the Director of the New Hampshire State Cancer Registry since 2004, overseeing a small but highly effective team that has achieved NAACCR gold certification for data quality each year since diagnosis year 2004. For the Dartmouth Cancer Center, as the Associate Director for Community Outreach and Engagement, Dr Rees led efforts to work with community partners to reduce the burden of cancer in the Cancer Center catchment area of New Hampshire and Vermont.
Dr Rees’ research interests include investigating the roles of environmental factors including infrastructural and social determinants of health on cancer occurrence and survival outcomes. Examples of her ongoing research include a community-engaged study to design, optimize and evaluate an educational intervention to promote home radon testing, and a feasibility study to investigate an excess of kidney cancer in Merrimack Town, NH. For many years she taught biostatistics and epidemiology to first year medical students at the Geisel School of Medicine, and has enjoyed mentoring researchers at all stages of their educational journey.
Thank you for joining us in welcoming Dr. Rees to CRGC.
Shared by Judy Vang, Senior Director of Operations, CRGC.
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