Drake named Associate Director of Cancer Health Equity

Bettina Drake, PhD, MPH, associate professor of surgery in the Division of Public Health Sciences at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been named associate director of cancer health equity for Siteman Cancer Center. Read the news release.

Bettina Drake Video of Disparities in Veterans featured on DOD website

Bettina Drake, PhD, MPH, associate professor of surgery in the Division of Public Health Sciences, is featured on a Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) video comparing prostate cancer outcomes in VA Hospitals among African-American veterans vs. other veterans. As a whole, African-American men are more likely to develop and die from prostate cancer than […]

Cancer Causes and Control Publication

Dr. Drake and colleagues analyzed the burden of prostate cancer in Trinidad and Tobago in a May 2018 publication in Cancer Causes and Control. Citation: Warner WA, Lee TY, Fang F, Llanos AAM, Bajracharya S, Sundaram V, Badal K, Sookdeo VD, Roach V, Lamont-Greene M, Ragin C, Slovacek S, Ramsoobhag K, Brown J, Rebbeck TR, […]

American Journal of Men’s Health Publication

Dr. Bettina Drake and lab staff members, Drs. Saira Khan, Marvin Langston, and Victoria Hicks have published in the American Journal of Men’s Health. The publication, Predictors of Follow-Up Visits Post Radical Prostatectomy, found disparities and the need for additional follow-up for high risk groups of men following a prostatectomy. Citation: Khan S, Hicks V, […]