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Dr. Jennifer Cullen is the newest addition to the staff at the East Jefferson site
November 14, 2004
Hired
on October 4, 2004, she is already immersed in her role as Epidemiologist
in our program and is working closely with the CPDR patient database,
the Clinical Research Center at Walter Reed and the Institutional Review
Board.
She hails from Havre de Grace, a small town near Baltimore, Maryland.
While still young, she moved with her family to California due to her
father’s career change to the UCLA Cancer Center. In fact, her father
was a major influence on her decision to specialize in the health sciences.
He was Deputy Director of the National Cancer Institute for eight years,
specializing in cancer prevention and control and even a close friend
of Dr. C. Everett Koop, the former Surgeon General of the United States.
Dr. Cullen pursued
her education in Southern California, graduating from University High
in Irvine and then attending the University of California, Berkeley.
She earned her BA in Integrative Biology from the University of California,
Berkeley in 1993 and her MPH in Epidemiology from San Diego State University
in 1997. At that time, Dr. Cullen began focusing on public health which
she feels has great potential in terms of assisting large groups of patients.
The impact of large scale clinical trials was another field in which she
became interested.
Dr. Cullen earned her Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of California,
Berkeley in 2000. Her thesis project was entitled “Predictors of
Prostate Cancer Severity at Diagnosis Among Black and White Members of
Kaiser Permanente Health System”. This was her introduction to the
field of prostate cancer and equal access to health care.
Before joining the staff at CPDR, Dr. Cullen spent two years (2002-2004)
as a research faculty Instructor in Oncology at the Georgetown University
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.
The CPDR mission is fulfilled primarily through its three principal programs – the Clinical Research Center, the Basic Science Research Program and the National Multicenter Prostate Cancer Database– and through a robust education and training program that operates out of its Headquarters location, the Clinical Research Center, and the original laboratories at USUHS. CPDR is also committed to patient outreach, primarily through its affiliation with the WRAMC US TOO! organization and through a heavy schedule of health fairs in which it participates.
