Specializing In:
Nutrition Behavioral interventions Community-based participatory research Health inequitiesAbout Karen H. Kim Yeary
Biography:
Dr. Yeary is a Nutritional Scientist who develops and tests pragmatic dietary behavioral interventions for the primary and secondary prevention of cancer. In the majority of her work, she uses a community-based participatory research approach in collaborating with communities to address health inequities. She also conducts dissemination and implementation science research to scale-up evidence-based interventions. Dr. Yeary's work has included dietary change interventions to prevent cancer recurrence in cancer patients and survivors, obesity treatment strategies to prevent cancer in Black communities of faith, and building community-academic partnerships to facilitate research addressing social determinants of health.
Positions
- Professor of Oncology
- Department of Cancer Prevention & Control
Background
Education and Training:
- 1999-2003 - PhD - Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Fellowship:
- 2003-2005 - Community-based participatory research, W.K. Kellogg Health Post-Doctorate Scholar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
Professional Memberships:
- Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM)
- American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
- American Public Health Association (APHA)
- American Society of Preventive Oncology (ASPO)
Clinical Trials
Publications
Yeary KH, Quisenberry A, Hall M, Han Yu, Henry W, Rodriguez E, Zoellner J Sugar-sweetened beverage intake and cancer: A Scoping Review. (2022) Cancer Prevention Research. Jun 2;15(6):377-39.
Yeary KH, Moore P, Gauss CH, Cornell C, Prewitt TE, Turner J(2020) The WORD: Outcome results of a randomized weight loss maintenance trial in rural African Americans of faith. Obesity 28(3):510-520.
Hirko K, Xu H, Rogers LQ; Martin MY, Roy S, Kelly KM, Christy SM, Ashing KT, Yi JC, Lewis-Thames MW, Meade CD, Lu Q, Gwede CK, Nemeth J, Ceballos RM, Menon U, Cueva K, Yeary KH, Klesges LM, Baskin ML, Alcaraz KI, Ford S (2022) Cancer disparities in the context of rurality: Risk factors and screening across various U.S. rural classification codes. Cancer Causes & Control August; 33(8): 1095-1105.
Yeary KH, Clark N, Saad-Harfouche F, Kuliszewski M, Li Q, McCann S, Yu H, Lincourt C, Zoellner J, Tang L. (2022) Development of a Cruciferous Vegetable Intervention to Prevent Cancer Recurrence in Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer Survivors. JMIR Cancer. Feb 15;8(1):e32291. doi: 10.2196/32291.
Yeary KH, Park C, Master K, Yanez B, Newton Jr. N, Silfee VJ, Lu Q, Chiu C, Yi J, Alcaraz KI, Christy SM, Felsted, Shen M, Lumpkins C (2020) Religion and spirituality in precision medicine. Translational Behavioral Medicine Feb 3;10(1):195-203. doi: 10.1093/tbm/ibz105.