Meet our Fellows
The Practice-Based Research Network & Cancer Control Research Fellowship at Case Western Reserve University trains research0oriented clinicians as independent and highly collaborative investigators conducting practice-based research in the broad field of cancer prevention and control.
2008 Fellows
Shari Bolen, MD, MPH was an Instructor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins University until accepting the PBRN fellowship position. Her current work is focused on health services research in the areas of obesity and diabetes. She recently had a widely publicized paper in the Annals of Internal Medicine on the Comparative Effectiveness and Safety of Oral Diabetes Medications, and just had a recent acceptance into Obesity of a paper on Obesity’s Association with Cervical Cancer Screening where she is second author. She hopes to continue her work in obesity and diabetes focusing on ways to improve care at the practice level with the help of the clinicians and researchers in the practice-based research network.
Lyla Blake-Gumbs, MD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and an MPH candidate at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Her primary research interests include identifying major determinants of health outcomes for long-term cancer survivors, especially those from underserved and ethnic minority populations. Dr. Blake-Gumbs plans to identify, through the local northeast Ohio Practice Based Research Networks, current trends in primary care of adult cancer survivors, levels of confidence of practitioners in providing this care, perceived barriers to provision of high quality care and variances in opinion between Medical Oncologists and Primary Care Physicians (Family Medicine, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics) with regard to which providers are more likely to deliver the highest quality of care to this group of individuals. She will also be collaborating with the Center for Health Disparities at Case Western Reserve University, to conduct a large, focused project aimed at explaining the disparities in long-term cancer survival between African-American patients and their Caucasian counterparts. With this information, Dr. Blake-Gumbs will utilize the infrastructure of the PBRNs to translate her research findings into the clinical setting in order to improve various aspects of the transition of care from the Oncologist to the Primary Care provider. Ultimately, her goal is to develop reproducible models of primary care for adult cancer survivors.
Carl V. Tyler, MD, MS CAQ-Geriatrics is board-certified in Family Medicine with a Certificate of Added Qualifications in Geriatrics. After nearly a decade of small group family practice in a small town in Stark County, Ohio, he entered academic practice through an Academic Fellowship in Family Medicine at CWRU, culminating in a Master of Science degree in 1999. He is presently Coordinator of Geriatric Education and Research Coordinator for the Fairview-Cleveland Clinic Family Medicine Residency. He is also the Director of the Cleveland Clinic Ambulatory Research Network, under the Department of Family Medicine and the Medicine Institute of the Cleveland Clinic. His clinical and research interests include the primary care of adults with intellectual and other developmental disabilities; cancer risk assessment; and clinical geriatrics. |
