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Alecia M. Fair DPH
Assistant Professor


Surgery

(615) 327-5719
George Hubbard Hospital (Old Hospital)
4th Floor
1005 Dr. D.B. Todd Boulevard
Nashville, TN 37208

amalin@mmc.edu


 
Professional Education

2000- 2003 Postdoc Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cancer Epidemiology Department of General Internal Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

1996-1999 DrPH School of Public Health, Department of Health Promotion and Education, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

1992-1995 MS Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, Public Policy and Administration, State University of New York at Buffalo Buffalo, NY

1988-1992 BA Department of Political Science, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

 
Research Interests

Minority female breast screening behaviors and breast cancer etiology. Relationship between measures of adiposity and chronic disease. Construction and validation of psychosocial survey instruments. Joint relationship of insulin growth factors, c-peptide and energy balance on breast cancer risk. Nutritional and physical activity epidemiology as related to disease endpoints.

 
Selected Publications
  • Wujcik, D., Fair, A. Malin. Barriers to diagnostic resolution after abnormal mammography: A Review of the Literature. (Cancer Nursing, An International Journal for Cancer Care, In press). 
  • Fair, A. Malin, Wujcik, D., Lin J-M, S. Grau, A., Egan, K. Zheng, W. Timing is everything: methodologic issues locating and recruiting medically underserved women for abnormal mammography follow-up research (Contemporary Clinical Trials, In press).
  • Fair, A.Malin., Dai, Q., Shu, X.,Matthews, C.,Yu, H., Jin, F. Gao, Y-T., Zheng, W. (2007) Energy balance, insulin-resistance biomarkers and breast cancer risk. Cancer Detection and Prevention, 31(3) 214-219.
  • Malin, A.S., Matthews, C., Shu, X., Cai, H.,  Dai, Q, Jin, F. Gao, YT, Zheng, W. (2005) Energy Balance and Breast Cancer Risk. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev,14(6) 1496-1501
  • Malin, A.S., Dai, Q., Yu, H., Shu, X., Jin, F., Gao,YT.,  Zheng, W. (2004) Evaluation of synergistic effect of insulin resistance and insulin-like growth factors on the risk of breast cancer. Cancer, 100(4) 694-700.

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