Linda Fleisher, PhD, MPH

Fox Chase Cancer Center
Office of Health Communications and Health Disparities
510 Township Line Road
Cheltenham, PA
USA 19012

Biographical Sketch: Ms. Fleisher is the Assistant Vice President of Fox Chase Cancer Center’s Office of Health Communications and Health Disparities (OHCHD), and also an Assistant Research Professor at Fox Chase. OHCHD includes Community Outreach, Cancer Screening, the Resource and Education Center and other health communications research projects. The Office of Health Communications and Health Disparities is dedicated to bringing state-of-the-science prevention, screening and treatment programs to the many communities served by Fox Chase Cancer Center. She has over 25 years of experience in the fields of cancer control, health communications, program planning, management and evaluation, as well as intervention research. During her career, she has developed numerous health education materials and resources, co-authored a number of health communication tools (print and new media) and numerous publications on various health communications topics and projects. She is also a member of the Healthy People 2010 Health Communications Working Group. She has directed a number of successful cancer control efforts focusing on tailoring health communications materials to underserved audiences and on the use of formative evaluation and community participation in developing cancer-related programs. She has lead a Patient Navigation Demonstration project focused on underserved populations, lead regional workshops on patient navigation, developed a patient navigation resource guide, is a co-founder of Pennsylvania Patient Navigator Network and serves on the Steering Committee for the Academy of Oncology Nurse Navigators. A particular area of interest is health literacy and informed consent. She has developed a number of easy reading materials, co-authored the Practical Guide to Informed Consent and directed a Pfizer-funded project to train health care organizations to better understand the health literacy needs of their patients.

Papers:
3085.0 Cancer 101: A formative evaluation of a community education curriculum on biospecimen research adapted for six population groups 4266.0 Cancer disparities research network: The development of a culturally appropriate communication tool