Waddah Al-Refaie

BACKGROUND: To address the persistent ethnoracial and socioeconomic disparities in access to quality surgical cancer care, it is imperative to rigorously understand the role of clinician-level factors including clinician-to-clinician connectedness…

SOCIETY: SSAT

BACKGROUND: Diet is known to alter the risk of depression. Increasing data also demonstrate a causal role of the gut microbiome in mental illness, via the gut-brain axis. However, it remains unclear how diet and the microbiome mechanistically influence depression risk in humans…

SOCIETY: SSAT

Cancer mortality is one of the leading causes of death in rural America, in part, due to poor access to screening. Rural dwellers are large and heterogeneous; yet patient-related drivers of long-standing inequities in surgical access are under-studied…