Cleo A. Samuel-Ryals, PhD

Cleo A. Samuel-Ryals is a health services researcher with expertise in cancer care inequities, palliative and supportive care, and health informatics. She is particularly interested in disentangling the multilevel sources (i.e., patient-, provider-, and health care system-level) of disparities in palliative and supportive cancer care using mixed methods (i.e., quantitative and qualitative data analysis) and addressing such inequities through system-level approaches that leverage health informatics tools.

Research Activities

• Cancer care
• Diffusion of innovations
• Disparities
• GIS methods
• Health information technology (IT)
• Program implementation and evaluation
• Quality measurement and improvement
• Social determinants of health
• Veterans and military health
  

Key Publications

Developing and Evaluating Composite Measures of Cancer Care Quality. Samuel, C. A., Zaslavsky, A. M., Landrum, M. B., Lorenz, K., Keating, N. L.  (2015). Medical Care, 53(1), 54-64.

Racial disparities in cancer care in the Veterans Affairs health care system and the role of site of care. Samuel, C. A., Landrum, M. B., McNeil, B. J., Bozeman, S. R., Williams, C. D., Keating, N. L.  (2014). American Journal of Public Health, 104.

Area-level factors associated with electronic health record adoption and meaningful use in the Regional Extension Center Program. Samuel, C. A.  (2014). Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, 21(6), 976-83.

Engaging providers in underserved areas to adopt electronic health records. Samuel, C. A., King, J., Adetosoye, F., Samy, L., Furukawa, M.  (2013). American Journal of Managed Care, 19(3), 229-234.

Education

BS, Psychology, University of Miami, 2007

PhD, Health Policy, Harvard University, 2014