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The BRHS serves all Rutgers Cancer Institute research programs. From 2018 to 2022, BRHS has supported approximately 165 original research cancer-relevant publications. The top 25 publications (IF>10) for that period are shown below.

Section Chief

Katie Devine, PhD, MPH
Associate Director, New Jersey Pediatric Hematology Oncology Research Center of Excellence (NJ PHORCE)
Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Administrative Staff

Vanessa Johnson 
Administrative Research Associate
vj146@cinj.rutgers.edu

Lab Staff

Rachel Wagner 
rbw52@cinj.rutgers.edu

1. Kohler RE, Dharamdasani T, Tarn J, Macenat M, M Ferrante J, Mathur S, Bandera EV, Kinney AY, Satagopan JM. Breast cancer beliefs and screening behaviors among South Asian immigrant women living in the United States. BMC Womens Health. 2025 Mar 4;25(1):98.

Dr. Racquel “Kelly” Kohler received her MSPH in Health Policy and Management and her PhD in Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She lived and worked in Malawi as a Fogarty fellow to conduct her mixed methods dissertation study on advanced breast cancer diagnosis. Dr. Kohler completed her postdoctoral fellowship in Cancer Prevention at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Mission

The mission of Rutgers Cancer Institute, New Jersey’s only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, is to conduct cutting-edge research and translate those findings into new and improved therapies.

Administration

Patricia Helmick (Meetings & Appointments)
609-633-0500
Patricia.Helmick@doh.nj.gov

Cindy York (Grants & Budgets)
Administrative Research Associate
cy291@cinj.rutgers.edu

Lisa Paddock, PhD, MPH
Deputy Director
Cancer Surveillance Research
Cancer Epidemiology Services
Lisa.Paddock@doh.nj.gov