I-HDS (Institute for Healthcare Delivery Science) invites you to join its Seminar Series, Wednesday, May 12th at 12:00pm via Zoom Conferencing.
Our guest speaker will be Nihal Mohamed, PhD, Associate Professor, ISMMS.
Biography:
Dr. Nihal Mohamed is an Associate Professor of Health Psychology and the Director of Behavior Research and Patient Education at The Department of Urology and Oncological Science. She is also the Director of the Aging and Cancer Program (CAP) at the Icahn School of Medicine, and the Director of Education and Training at the Center for Scientific Diversity at Mount Sinai. Dr. Mohamed has over 10 years’ experience in research focusing on improving survivorship and follow-up care in patients with urologic cancer.
Dr. Mohamed has a broad background in health psychology with specific training in key research areas including illness and risk perception, patient-provide communication, quality of life and emotional adjustment following cancer diagnosis and treatment. She has been leading several funded studies supported by the American Cancer Society, The Department of Defense, the National Cancer Institute, and the National Institute of Nursing Research focusing on several areas including improving patient-provider communication and treatment decision making in muscle invasive bladder cancer patients; examining unmet needs of cancer patients across the disease and treatment trajectories; and enhancing treatment decisions and stoma care in bladder and colorectal cancer patients following surgeries. Her research findings have led to the development of several educational and training interventions to meet the needs of our patients and their family caregivers. Preliminary findings from these studies showed high acceptability and feasibility of these interventions.
Dr. Mohamed is committed to improving health care and outcomes of our patients and their caregivers. As a health psychologist with training in social psychological and psycho-oncology research, her goal is to identify ways to improve both patient and family caregiver outcomes across the cancer prevention and control continuum. What distinguishes her work in the field of urologic-oncology is its focus on the processes involved in psychosocial adjustment and quality of life of cancer patients and their family caregivers. As a woman of color working in cancer research, Dr. Mohamed understands and fully appreciates the value of achieving equity in a culture of health for all patients especially those with low health literacy and racial minority patients who are historical known for receiving low quality care and experiencing the worst clinical outcomes after a urologic cancer diagnosis.
Background:
Abstract
Purpose: Assessing the unmet needs of cancer patients can help providers tailor health care services to patients’ specific needs. Our behavioral program within the urology department examines supportive care needs of urologic oncology patients and whether these needs vary across the disease trajectory.
Methods and materials: We have recruited > 100 patients with prostate, bladder, and colorectal cancer and their informal caregivers from the Mount Sinai Medical Center and through advertisements posted on a national Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network website. Data were collected using mixed method qualitative and quantitative approaches including individual interviews, focus groups, surveys, and electronic medical record review.
Results: Qualitative data analyses using immersion/ crystallization approach, confirmed the prevalence of unmet needs across the urologic cancer trajectory. Survey data analyses confirmed results of qualitative data analyses and describe significant unmet needs in eight major domains including psychological, health care system/information, care and support, physical and daily functioning, logistics, sexuality, communication with care providers, and communication with partners/family caregivers and significant associations between unmet needs and worse quality of life and adjustment.
Conclusions: Examining unmet informational and supportive needs of patients with cancer is imperative to improve cancer care. Interventions and supportive care resources should be tailored to address patient specific unmet needs.
Dial-In Information
Instructions to join remotely:
Zoom Link: https://mountsinai.zoom.us/j/96396977526
Dial In: 646-876-9923
Meeting ID: 963 9697 7256
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual EventAlumni, Faculty, Postdocs, Staff, Students, Health Care Professionals, Prospective Students, Prospective Faculty
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Mount Sinai Hospital
Instructions to join remotely:
Zoom Link: https://mountsinai.zoom.us/j/96396977526
Dial In: 646-876-9923
Meeting ID: 963 9697 7256
Nihal Mohamed, PhD, Associate Professor, ISMMS.