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M. Rosario Ferreira, MD, MAPP

M. Rosario Ferreira completed her medical degree at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, in 1987, and her residency in Internal Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago in 1993. She was a fellow in Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Northwestern University, completing her clinical training in 1998. From 1998 to 2000 she was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Chicago, where she also received a Master of Arts in Public Policy in 1999, from the Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies. She has been a Jesse Brown VA Medical Center staff physician and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University since 2001. She received a VA HSR&D Research Career Development Award (2003-2005).

Dr. Ferreira’s major research interests are 1) colorectal cancer screening (patient and physician barriers to screening, strategies to increase adherence); 2) racial variations in screening, early detection, and treatment; 3) low health literacy as a health care barrier. 4) patterns of care in colorectal cancer. With colleagues in Chicago she was an investigator in an intervention to increase colorectal cancer screening among Veterans, which received VA and NIH funding. She is a co-investigator on a grant examining the impact of literacy on stage of cancer at presentation for veterans with lung, prostate and colorectal cancer, and on a grant examining patterns of care for veterans with colon cancer. She is also a site investigator for a national multi-site VA and NIH study investigating patterns of care and outcomes for colorectal and lung cancer. Finally, she is a co-investigator on a recently NIH funded study, examining the impact of a patient navigator intervention among veterans with a positive colorectal cancer screening test.

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