Tracy Battaglia, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
Associate Program Director, Preventive Medicine Residency Program

Education:

Medical School: Boston University School of Medicine
Residency: General Internal Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Fellowship Training: General Internal Medicine/Preventive Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine
Other Education: Masters of Public Health, Boston University School of Public Health

General field of work:

Women’s Health, Health Disparities, Cancer Control and Prevention

Affiliations other than medicine:

WHIRC
Boston University School of Public Health

Cancer Center, Cancer Disparities Research Program

Contact information:

Research Office
801 Massachusetts Avenue
Crosstown Building, Suite 407
Boston, MA 02118

For Dr. Battaglia’s clinical contact information, click here.

Other research websites:

Women’s Health Unit
NCI Patient Navigation Research Project
Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH)
Avon Patient Navigation – Local Research Project
Avon Patient Navigation National Research Project
BU SPH Prevention Research Center

Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities

Research group information

Sharon Bak, MPH	Research Program Director	sharon.bak@bmc.org
Ann Han, BA	Research Administration manager	ann.han@bmc.org
Bonnie Sherman, PhD	Research Associate	bsherman@bu.edu
Sarah Lane, MPH	Research Assistant	sarah.lane@bmc.org
Mary Beth Howard, BS	Research Assistant	marybeth.howard@bmc.org
LaVondea Elow	Administrative Assistant	lavondea.elow@bmc.org
Wanda Turner, BA	Research Project Case Coordinator	wanda.turner@bmc.org

Keywords:

Breast Cancer, Cervical Cancer, Patient Navigation, Vulnerable Populations, Community based participatory research, Health Disparities

Summary of research interest:

Dr. Battaglia’s interests include breast and cervical cancer screening in minority and underserved women, reducing errors in follow-up to abnormal mammography; risk perception and screening behaviors in multi-ethnic populations. She is Associate Program Director of the Boston University Preventive Medicine Residency Program and Co-Director of the Avon Breast Health Initiative at Boston Medical Center. She is a former recipient of Career Development Awards from both NIH and the American Cancer Society and now serves as a Principal Investigator on the Patient Navigation Research Program, a community-based cancer control project supported by the Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities at the National Cancer Institute. Her research focuses on community-based approaches to reducing health disparities among underserved women.

Recent publications:

Battaglia TA, Santana MC, Bak S, Gokhale M, Lash TL Ash AS, Kalish R, Tringale S, Taylor JO, Freund KM. Predictors of timely follow-up after abnormal cancer screening among women seeking care at urban community health centers. Cancer. 2010 Feb;116(4):913-21.

Dookeran NM, Battaglia TA, Cochran J, Geltman PL. Chronic disease and its risk factors among refugees and asylees in Massachusetts, 2001-2005. Prev Chronic Dis. 2010 May;7(3):A51. PMID: 20394690.

Parker VA, Clark JA, Leyson J, Calhoun E, Carroll JK, Freund KM, Battaglia TA. Patient Navigation: Development of a Protocol for Describing What Navigators Do. Health Research and Educational Trust. 2010 Apr;45(2):514-31. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2009.01079.x.

Berz JP, Johnston KT, Backus B, Doros G, Rose AJ, Pierre S, Battaglia TA. The Influence of Black Race on Treatment and Mortality for Early Stage Breast Cancer. Med Care 2009;47(9): 986-92.

Parker VA, Clark JA, Leyson J, Calhoun E, Carroll J, Freund KM, Battaglia TA. Patient Navigation: Development of a Protocol for Describing What Navigators Do. Health Services Research. Health Research and Educational Trust. 2009. doi:10.1111/j.1475-6773.2009.01079.

Ramsey S, Whitley E, Warren-Mears V, McKoy JM, Everhart R, Caswell RJ, Fiscella K, Hurd TC, Battaglia TA, Mandelblatt J. Evaluating the cost effectiveness of cancer patient navigation programs: conceptual and practical issues. Cancer. 2009. doi: 10.1002/cncr.24603.

Freund KM, Battaglia TA, Calhoun E, Dudley DJ, Fiscella K, Paskett E, Raich PC, Roetzheim RG; The Patient Navigation Research Program Group. National Cancer Institute Patient Navigation Research Program: methods, protocol, and measures Cancer. 2008 Dec 15;113(12):3391-9. PMID: 18951521.

Wells KJ, Battaglia TA, Dudley DJ, Garcia R, Greene A, Calhoun E, Mandelblatt JS, Paskett ED, Raich PC; Patient Navigation Research Program. Patient navigation: state of the art or is it science? Cancer. 2008 Oct 15;113(8):1999-2010. Review. PMID: 18780320.

Liebschutz J, Battaglia TA, Finley E, Averbuch T. Disclosing intimate partner violence to health care clinicians – what a difference the setting makes: a qualitative study. BMC Public Health. 2008 Jul 4;8:229. PMID: 18601725.

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