Stephanie D. Boone

Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health
University of Louisville
United States of America

Professor Healthcare
Biography

Stephanie earned her BS in Biology from Spalding University in 2006 and a MPH from UofL in 2008. She was awarded her PhD in Public Health-Epidemiology from UofL in 2013. As a doctoral student she served as the coordinator of a population-based cancer case-control study and her dissertation focused on ethnic-related differences in genetic susceptibility to breast cancer. Currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health and James Graham Brown Cancer Center.

Research Intrest

Cancer Epidemiology (biological and behavioral risk factors and outcomes; Epidemiologic Methods (study design); Health disparities in cancer epidemiology; Identification of biological factors/pathways related to cancer tumor subtypes, risk, and survival;Identification of high-risk populations; Evaluation of associations between factors related to long-term quality of life and cancer

List of Publications
Kim AE, Lundgreen A, Wolff RK, Fejerman L, John EM, Torres-Mejía G, Ingles SA, Boone SD, Connor AE, Hines LM, Baumgartner KB. Red meat, poultry, and fish intake and breast cancer risk among Hispanic and Non-Hispanic white women: The Breast Cancer Health Disparities Study. Cancer Causes & Control. 2016 Apr 1;27(4):527-43.
Connor AE, Visvanathan K, Baumgartner KB, Baumgartner RN, Boone SD, Hines LM, Wolff RK, John EM, Slattery ML. Ethnic differences in the relationships between diabetes, early age adiposity and mortality among breast cancer survivors: the Breast Cancer Health Disparities Study. Breast cancer research and treatment. 2016 May 1;157(1):167-78.
Boone SD, Pinkston CM, Baumgartner KB, Baumgartner RN, Harper SM, Bonham AJ, Paynter CA, Harper DM. Associations between prior HPV4 vaccine doses and cervical cancer screening participation. Cancer epidemiology. 2016 Jun 30;42:108-14.