Johnie Rose, MD, PhD, member of Case CCC's Population and Cancer Prevention Program and Director of CWRU SOM's Preventive Medicine Residency Program, has received a $1.5M award from the National Cancer Institute to develop a first-of-its-kind, transportable informatics tool that will integrate patient-level cancer registry data for an entire population with granular community- and health system-level data in a standardized data model, while providing a user-friendly query tool to facilitate quick searching by researchers and community outreach professionals.
Rose's Population Cancer Assessment and Surveillance Engine (PopCASE) is a new tool for cancer control researchers, with place-contextualized patient-level cancer data at a fine geographic scale. It also provides community outreach and engagement professionals and cancer center leaders working to curb cancer disparities at the local level with an unprecedentedly powerful catchment area data tool.