Susan LeRoy Stewart, Ph.D.
Clinical Interests
Susan Stewart’s research interests and activities include statistical methods and issues in cancer,
population-based research, quality of life, health disparities, behavioral interventions, study design
and data quality.
Stewart has served as national biostatistical director and program evaluator for the Asian American
Network for Cancer Awareness, Research and Training (AANCART), and chaired a group
determining reporting measures across all 23 such Community Network Program Centers funded
by the National Cancer Institute’s Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities.
Her select recent undertakings also include quality-of-life analyses in breast cancer patients and
assessments of behavioral interventions for breast and colorectal cancers, hepatitis B and smoking
cessation. Stewart is also addressing cross- cutting statistical issues in a multi-center longitudinal
study, and investigating effects of geographical clustering on the variance of parameter estimates in
community intervention trials.
Title
Specialty
Associate Professor, PhD
Cancer, Public Health Sciences- Division of Biostatistics
Department
Public Health Sciences
Division
Public Health Sciences
Center/Program Affiliation
Address/Phone
Education
UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center
Facilities Support Services Building, 4800 2nd Ave. Suite 2209 Sacramento, CA 95817
Ph.D., UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 1987
A.B., UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 1974
M.A., UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 1982
Professional Memberships
American Public Health Association
American Statistical Association
International Biometric Society
Select Recent Publications
Chou AF, Stewart SL, Wild RC, Bloom JR. Social support and survival in young women with breast
carcinoma. Psychooncology 21(2):125-33, 2012.
Sarkar M, Stewart S, Yu A, Chen MS, Nguyen TT, Khalili M. Hepatocellular carcinoma screening
practices and impact on survival among hepatitis-B infected Asian Americans. J Viral Hepat 19(8):
Susan LeRoy Stewart, Ph.D.
594-600, 2012.
Kwong SL, Stewart SL, Aoki CA, Chen MS Jr. Disparities in hepatocellular carcinoma survival
among Californians of Asian ancestry, 1988-2007. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 19(11):
2747-2757, 2010.
Nguyen BH, McPhee SJ, Stewart SL, Doan HT. Effectiveness of a controlled trial to promote
colorectal cancer screening in Vietnamese Americans. Am J Public Health 100(5):870-6, 2010.
Stewart SL, Rakowski W, Pasick RJ. Behavioral constructs and mammography in five ethnic
groups. Health Educ Behav Health Educ Behav 36(5 Suppl):36S-54S, 2009.
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