Specializing In:
- Health services research
- Cancer survivorship
- Cancer screening
- Alignment of population health data and models of care delivery
Research Interests:
- Infrastructure building to support program evaluation and assessment of models of care
- Cancer screening and survivorship
- Access to care and care utilization
- Rural health
Biography
I am a Research Assistant Professor of Oncology and Director of Population Health Outreach in the Department of Medicine. I focus on addressing the burden of cancer in our community by improving access to high-quality, comprehensive cancer care. This includes a focus on cancer screening and cancer survivorship, as well as whole-person care along the cancer continuum. I am responsible for implementing and testing different models of Survivorship care across a statewide network of oncology practices.
I am an epidemiologist, health services researcher and implementation scientist with extensive experience in multi-level evaluations, including quantitative data collection and analysis and mixed methods research. My experience includes working in multidisciplinary teams to address population health problems and working with diverse community and academic partners to advance research and health-related programming.
My research focus includes the application of Implementation Science principles to address barriers to care access for rural populations by better understanding social, neighborhood, and contextual risk factors for inadequate healthcare access, particularly rural cancer survivorship care. I use existing data to inform major gaps in knowledge related to healthcare access and utilization and work with clinical and administrative teams to identify data-driven priorities for cancer screening and survivorship and to build and implement programs in our communities.
Positions
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Research Assistant Professor of Oncology
- Director, Population Health Outreach
- Director, Cancer Screening and Survivorship Outreach
- Department of Medicine
Background
Education and Training
- PhD - 2020 - Epidemiology, Health Services, Policy and Practice, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
- MPH - 2021 - Epidemiology, Infectious Disease, Global Health, Access to Care, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
- 2021 - Certificate Healthcare Management and Delivery, Harvard Business School of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Fellowship
- 2023 - Postdoctoral Fellowship, Cancer Screening and Survivorship, Population Science, Health Services Research, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY
Honors & Awards
- 2022 - Honorable mention and invited lecture, American Association of Cancer Institutes Clinical Research Innovation 14th annual meeting
- 2020 - Nominated for the University at Buffalo Student Academic Excellence Award
- 2020 - Featured Member IAPHS Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Sciences
- 2019 - Robert O’Shea travel award to attend AcademyHealth Science of Dissemination and Implementation Conference, Washington, DC
- 2018 - Robert O’Shea travel award to attend AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, Seattle WA
- 2016 Inducted into the Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society, Gamma Lambda Chapter, School of Public Health and Health Professions, State University of New York at Buffalo
Publications
1. Crabtree-Ide C, Flores, T. Best Practice Standards and Models of Care for High-Quality Survivorship. In: Fathi J, Mortman, M., editor. Lung Cancer Navigation and Care: A Comprehensive Guide for Navigators and Allied Health Professionals. London: Springer Nature; In Press
2. Flores, T., Crabtree-Ide, C.R., Glaser, K.M. et al. The Cancer Screening and Survivorship Program at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. J Cancer Surviv 18, 11–16 (2024).
3. Glaser, Kathryn M., Christina R. Crabtree-Ide, Alyssa D. McNulty, Kristopher M. Attwood, Tessa F. Flores, Allana M. Krolikowski, Kevin T. Robillard, and Mary E. Reid. "Improving Guideline-Recommended Colorectal Cancer Screening in a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC): Implementing a Patient Navigation and Practice Facilitation Intervention to Promote Health Equity." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 21, no. 2 (2024): 126.
4. Glaser, Kathryn M., Cassy Dauphin, Detric Johnson, Narseary Harris, Christina R. Crabtree‐Ide, and Elizabeth G. Bouchard. "Advancing community–academic partnerships to achieve breast health equity: Applying the community‐based participatory model to build capacity for sustained impact." Cancer 129, no. S19 (2023): 3162-3170.
5. Crabtree-Ide, C, et al., Strategies for Improving Access to Cancer Services in Rural Communities: A Pre-implementation Study. Frontiers in Health Services, 14 March 2022.
6. Crabtree-Ide C, Lillvis DF, Nie J, Fagnano M, Tajon RS, Tremblay P, Halterman JS, Noyes K. Evaluating the Financial Sustainability of the School-Based Telemedicine Asthma Management Program. Popul Health Manag. 2021 Dec; 24(6):664-674. PMCID: PMC8713272