5 Questions – Page 2 – NCAL Research Spotlight

5 questions for…Richard Grant

"As a first-year medical student, I enjoyed learning about the pathophysiology of disease. But as I gained more experience caring for patients suffering from these diseases, I realized I wanted to focus more on understanding the patient’s experience."

5 Questions with…Stacy Sterling

The former social worker now researches how to prevent and treat alcohol abuse in primary care. She's looking at ways to reduce alcohol, drug, and other behavioral health problems in at-risk children, adolescents, and adults.

5 Questions for… Bette Caan

March 18, 2019
5 Questions, Cancer, Feature, Women’s health
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Does weight gain — or loss — change a breast cancer patient's cancer outcome? What about muscle mass? Epidemiologist Bette Caan wanted to find out about that, and more.

5 Questions for…Michael Silverberg

November 28, 2018
5 Questions, Feature, Infectious disease
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With December 1 marking World AIDS Day, this infectious disease expert looks at the state of HIV/AIDS research. And despite his Northern California location, admits he's a diehard Los Angeles Lakers fan.

5 Questions for…Julie Schmittdiel

November 5, 2018
5 Questions, Diabetes, Feature
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The math major-turned diabetes researcher now also leads several training programs, helping to form a new generation of researchers.

5 Questions for…Steve Sidney

"If other health care systems and providers had adopted Kaiser Permanente’s approach and achieved the same rate of decline, I estimated in this latest National Forum report that 40,000 heart disease and stroke deaths in this age group would have been prevented in 2015 alone."

5 Questions for…Candyce Kroenke

"As long as I can remember, my family was interested in how diet and lifestyle influenced health and longevity. It was like living life according to an epidemiological textbook!"

5 Questions for…Marilyn Kwan

Marilyn Kwan's research focuses on how wellness factors affect survivorship in breast and bladder cancer patients. Kwan is a certified CrossFit Level 1 trainer; she hopes to some day conduct lifestyle research involving CrossFit in cancer survivors.

5 Questions for…Alyce Adams

June 20, 2018
5 Questions, Delivery Science, Disparities, Feature, Health disparities
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Alyce Adams, PhD, tackles 5 questions about the barriers to health care among vulnerable patient populations and her motivation towards finding solutions.

5 Questions for…Lisa Croen

Kaiser Permanente autism researcher answers 5 questions about what motivated her to move into this research field and the challenges in better understanding these disorders.