Tracy Onega
Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, has appointed Tracy Onega as senior director of population sciences and professor of population sciences at the University of Utah. A cancer epidemiologist and health services researcher, Onega’s research focuses on cancer control. Onega serves as principal investigator of several National Cancer Institute (NCI) and Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) grants studying breast cancer screening and surveillance and novel approaches for access to, and evaluation of, cancer care. Onega previously served as associate director of community outreach and engagement and co-leader of the Cancer Population Sciences Program at Dartmouth’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center. She was also director of the Division of Biomedical Informatics and director of the New Hampshire Mammography Network. Onega served as a professor of biomedical data science and epidemiology in the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Onega succeeds Kathleen" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://faculty.utah.edu/u0035071-Kathi_Mooney_PhD,_RN,_FAAN/hm/index.hml">Kathleen Mooney, who held the senior director of population sciences position in an interim capacity since August 2019.