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Cleo A. Samuel-Ryals, PhD
Cleo A. Samuel-Ryals, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor
Department of Health Policy and Management
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.
Cleo Samuel-Ryals in the Gillings news
- Case study shares example of closing health care disparities through antiracist organizing
- Samuel-Ryals honored with prestigious Hettleman award
- Seven faculty members win 2021 Teaching Innovation Awards
- Cancer research team awarded NCI grant to help patients manage financial burdens of treatment
- Cleo Samuel selected as one of ‘40 Under 40’ leaders in minority health
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
