Since joining the department, Cami Sima has collaborated with researchers in the epidemiology, health outcomes and liver surgery services.
Ms Sima's collaborations with the epidemiological group focus on understanding how genes, hormones and diet interact in their effect on the development of endometrial cancer, as well as on characterizing the association between occupational risk factors (specifically: exposure to pesticides) and the risk of breast cancer. Recently, she has started working with Dr. Begg on estimating the penetrance of breast cancer in individuals with high genetic risk, using data from the WECARE study.
Ms. Sima works closely with Drs. Schrag, Panageas and Heller to characterize the patterns of chemotherapy diffusion in US, using the SEER-Medicare national database.
In the field of clinical applications, together with Dr. Gonen, she is collaborating with the liver surgery service on building a statistical model to predict the risk of transfusion during partial liver resection, based only on preoperative factors.
