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Sarah Kerns, PhD, MPH

Sarah Kerns, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology; Secondary Appointment, School of Graduate Studies

Locations

  • Radiation Oncology

Contact Information

Education

MPH, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, 2008
PhD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, 2007
BS, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 2002

Biography

Training

  • 07/15/2008 - 05/15/2009 Intern, Health and Nutrition Unit, Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP),
    Hyderabad, India
  • 07/01/2009 - 06/30/2011 Postdoctoral Fellow, Human Genetics, New York University Langone Medical
    Center, 550 1st Ave, New York, NY 
  • 07/01/2012 - 08/15/2013 Postdoctoral Fellow, Radiation Oncology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,
    1 Gustave L. Levy Pl, New York, NY 

Research Interests

Dr. Kerns studies genetic and other host factors that predispose patients to development of adverse reactions to cancer therapy, primarily radiotherapy. The goals of this work are to identify novel targets for prevention of radiation side effects and to develop risk prediction models that could be used to personalize cancer treatment.

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