Eleni Tolma, MPH, PhD

Associate Professor
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Department of Health Promotion Sciences
801 NE 13th St.
Room 473
Oklahoma City, OK
USA 73126

Biographical Sketch: Eleni L. Tolma, MPH, Ph.D is an associate professor at the department of Health Promotion Sciences, College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Science Center (OUHSC). Dr. Tolma has been involved in the area of breast cancer research since 1999 while working on her dissertation work promoting screening mammography among Cypriot women. As an assistant professor at the OUHSC, she continued pursuing her interest in the early detection of breast cancer by collaborating with the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, an American Indian Tribe, in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Her research goal is to find out what motivates or deters American Indian women who are being served by the Citizen Potawatomi Nation Health Services clinic to get regular mammograms. In 2005 she conducted formative research with a representative sample of American Indian women. Recently, she obtained additional funding from the Suzan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation to utilize the results of the formative research and implement through community-based participatory research a culturally sensitive intervention promoting mammography screening among the American Indian women who live in Shawnee, Oklahoma.

Papers:
3284.0 Breast cancer fatalism and its role in the prediction of past mammography experience among American Indian women in Oklahoma