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UNC PCPC Lab | People

Principal Investigator

Gita Mody, MD, MPH

Research interests: Patient-centered perioperative outcomes and surgical capacity building in low resource areas.

Postdoctoral Researchers

Chase Cox, MD | Department of Surgery

Research interests: Patient-centered communication in the perioperative setting and health-related quality of life data visualization.

Meghan O’Leary, PhD | Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

Research interests: The intersection between systems science and implementation science in the context of cancer prevention and control.

Panagiotis Tasoudis, MD | Department of Surgery

Research interests: Cardiothoracic surgery, vascular surgery, systematic reviews and meta-analysis.

Predoctoral Researchers

Maria Victoria Fonseca Bauza, MD Candidate | UNC School of Medicine

Research interests: Cardiothoracic surgery outcomes in minority populations.

Tori Hester, MPH Candidate | UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health 

Research interests: Patient education, social determinants of health, smoking cessation following surgery, and language access.

Elizabeth Kwong, PhD Candidate | Carolina Health Informatics Program 

Research interests: User-centered design and human factors engineering.

Ashlyn Zebrowski, PhD Candidate | Carolina Health Informatics Program 

Research interests: Immersive technologies as adjunct therapies for patients with cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.

Graduate Student Researchers

Staff

Amanda Gentry, MPH, ACRP-CP | Research Project Manager

Kacee Little, MS, CCRC | Study Coordinator

 

Alumni

Caroline Hoch, MPH  

Research interests: Global public health.

Alix, Boisson, MSc

Research interests: Effective strategies to distribute vaccines in low-resource settings, such as sub-Saharan Africa, and strengthen health systems.

Josh Herb, MD, MSCR

Research interests: Determinants of rural-urban differences in surgical resection of early-stage non-small cell lung cancer in North Carolina.

Aurelie Merlo, MD

Research interests: Quality of life after lung cancer surgery and pleural effusion management outcomes.

Brittney Williams, MD, MPH

Research interests: Outcomes of esophageal cancer patients in Malawi.

Carolina Medical Student Research Program 

2025

2022
  • Mallory Happ, BS
  • Cameron Kurz, BS

2021
  • Katherine Drew Marapese, BS
  • Jillian Thompson, BS
  • Courtney Thomas, BS

2020
  • Moshin Shah, MS