Julia C. Gage
Julia C. Gage | |
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 Gage in 2019 | |
| Alma mater | Grinnell College Milken Institute School of Public Health Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Cancer epidemiology, cervical screening, HPV |
| Institutions | National Cancer Institute |
| Doctoral advisor | Janet Holbrook |
Julia C. Gage is an American cancer epidemiologist who researches cervical screening and the human papillomavirus infection. She is a staff scientist in the clinical genetics branch at the National Cancer Institute.
Early life and education[edit]
Gage completed a B.A. in political science with a concentration in Latin American studies from Grinnell College in 1995.[1] From October 1996 to August 1998, she worked for AFL–CIO as an Organizing Institute apprentice and later a union organizer for the Service Employees International Union.[1] Gage worked for the Maxwell Stamp, Inc. in Washington, D.C. as a business development and research assistant from September 1998 to March 2000.[1]
From March 2000 to February 2002, Gage was a research assistant and consultant in the non-communicable disease program of the Pan American Health Organization were she primarily used Spanish and designed study protocols.[1] In 2001, she earned a M.P.H. in international health promotion from the George Washington Milken Institute School of Public Health.[1] Between September 2002 to August 2004, Gage worked at the Health Resources and Services Administration, first as a scholar and then as a public health analyst in the office of data and information management in the Maternal and Child Health Bureau.[1]
In 2005, Gage joined the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) division of cancer epidemiology and genetics (DCEG) as a pre-doctoral fellow while pursuing a Ph.D. in epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.[2] She completed her Ph.D. in epidemiology in 2008. Her dissertation was titled, An evaluation of visual triage of human papillomavirus-positive women.[1] Janet Holbrook was her doctoral advisor and Mark Schiffman of NCI was her mentor.[1] Gage completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the NCI, first in the hormonal and reproductive epidemiology branch, and then in the clinical genetics branch (CGB).[2]
Career[edit]
Gage has worked as a staff scientist in the CGB since 2014. She works on projects with Nicolas Wentzensen, Philip E. Castle, and Schiffman.[2] Gage is focused on translating discoveries regarding the natural history of human papillomavirus (HPV) into improved screening and diagnosis for cervical precancer.[2] In particular, she investigates improved targeting of underlying precancer through HPV tests and biomarkers.[2] Gage also pursues scientific investigations to identify and bring new technologies for cervical cancer prevention to low medical resource settings.[2] Along with Wentzensen, Gage serves as co-investigator for multiple studies within the DCEG collaboration with Kaiser Permanente of Northern California (KPNC).[2] She is a co-investigator of the Improving Risk Informed HPV Screening (IRIS) Study, involving HPV and cytology specimens from over 77,000 participants.[2]
Under the leadership of Schiffman, Gage is part of a team of investigators at the NCI and the National Library of Medicine developing a simple, low-cost visual cervical screening method called automated visual evaluation (AVE).[2] She leads the development of a deep learning algorithm that will inform clinical management decisions when testing positive.[2] Gage serves as lead NCI investigator under the direction of Schiffman to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of cervical screening and triage strategies in the Management of Risk of Cervical Cancer (MARCO) project.[2] Under the supervision of Castle, division of cancer prevention, Gage is the lead NCI scientist for an NCI grant-funded cross-sectional study of HPV screening and triage strategies among 5,000 women living with HIV. She is also the lead NCI scientist on a second Rwandan study of the impact of prophylactic HPV vaccination on HPV immunity and HPV infection in women living with HIV.[2] Gage received the Hubert H. Humphrey Award for Service to America in 2022.[2]
See also[edit]
- List of George Washington University alumni
- List of Grinnell College alumni
- List of Johns Hopkins University people
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h Gage, Julia C. (2008). An evaluation of visual triage of human papillomavirus-positive women (Ph.D. thesis). Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. OCLC 307619664.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Julia C. Gage, Ph.D., M.P.H., biographical sketch and research interests - NCI". dceg.cancer.gov. 2021-06-08. Retrieved 2022-10-17.
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