Cancer Prevention & Control Program
Colloquium Series
Patient Centered Decision Making: Myth or Reality
in Breast Cancer Care
Preliminary Results from Narrative Analysis and Future Direction
Friday
August
15
10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Sue P. Heiney, PhD, RN, FAAN
Dunn-Shealy Professor of Nursing
Discovery 1 | Rm. 140
915 Greene Street
College of Nursing
Faculty Profile
Dr. Sue Heiney is currently the Dunn-Shealy Professor of Nursing in the College of Nursing and
founding Director of the Cancer Survivorship Center. She is currently the Principal Investigator of
a funded award to explore cancer treatment adherence in African Americans. She has 30 years of
experience as a clinician and researcher and with a focus on behavioral interventions for cancer
patients and their families including breast and prostate as well as pediatric cancers. Dr Heiney
recently completed her R01 funded study STORY- Sisters Tell Others and Revive Yourself, a telephone
intervention for African American women with breast cancer.
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