Sara Selig, MD, MPH

Physician

Boston, Massachusetts

United States, North America

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Cohort Year:

2017

Bio

Dr. Sara Selig is the Division Director for the Research Shared Services Division in the Center for Research and Analytics (CENTRA) at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). She trained in internal medicine, public health, and global health equity at Harvard and is an Associate Physician in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She is also a Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity.

Prior to joining ASCO Sara spent more than two decades working to improve health outcomes and advance health equity through a variety of efforts including conducting basic science and applied research, conducting community-based participatory research, building more equitable health data ecosystems, and using research and data to drive health system strengthening in the US and globally. She co-founded and served as the Associate Director of the non-profit COPE (Community Outreach and Patient Engagement- a domestic affiliate of Partners In Health) focused on improving health outcomes among American Indian/Alaska Native populations.

Among other initiatives, Sara launched and led efforts to improve oncology care and outcomes for Navajo cancer patients. She also founded the CURE OM initiative focused on improving outcomes in the rare cancer, ocular melanoma. Through CURE OM she catalyzed efforts that transformed the field including increasing research collaboration and funding as well as integrating the field into NIH’s Cancer Genome Atlas and FDA’s rare cancer initiatives and increasing patient engagement in research. Sara served as the founding Principal Investigator of the first independent ocular melanoma patient reported registry, VISION. She is committed to improving the lives of all cancer patients and their loved ones. She received her BA from Oberlin College, her MD from the University of Colorado, her MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health and completed her residency training in internal medicine and global health equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.