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Megan Mullins, Ph.D.

Megan Mullins, Ph.D.

Titles and Appointments

Assistant Professor

School
School of Public Health
Department
Public Health | Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center | Internal Medicine
  • Biography

    Megan A. Mullins, Ph.D., M.P.H., is an Assistant Professor in the O'Donnell School of Public Health at UT Southwestern Medical Center and a member of the Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Department of Internal Medicine.

    Dr. Mullins holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, and a master's degree in epidemiology from the University of Michigan School of Public Health in Ann Arbor, where she also earned her doctorate in epidemiologic sciences. She completed post-doctoral training at the University of Michigan’s Rogel Cancer Center where she was a T32 fellow in cancer care delivery research and the inaugural Cancer Care Delivery Research Fellow at NRG Oncology, a research base in the NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP).

    Dr. Mullins joined the faculty in 2022. 

    Dr. Mullins’ research program is focused on improving the quality and equity of cancer care for people with advanced stage cancers. Her work is centered in three broad areas: 1) team-based care; 2) actionable patient data collection; and 3) palliative and end-of-life care. Dr. Mullins uses mixed-methods approaches for care delivery research to inform the implementation of evidence-based interventions. She has specific expertise in the analysis of large population-based and medical claims data, in-depth interviewing, surveying patients and providers, and health disparities research.

  • Education
    Graduate School
    Uni of Michigan - Ann Arbor (2015), Epidemiology
    Graduate School
    Uni of Michigan - Ann Arbor (2020), Epidemiology
  • Research Interest
    • Advanced/metastatic cancer
    • Cancer care delivery research
    • End-of-life care
    • Goal concordant care
    • Gynecologic cancers
    • Implementation science
    • Palliative care
  • Publications

    Star Featured Publications

    Physician Influence on Variation in Receipt of Aggressive End-of-Life Care Among Women Dying of Ovarian Cancer.
    Mullins MA, Uppal S, Ruterbusch JJ, Cote ML, Clarke P, Wallner LP, JCO Oncol Pract 2022 Mar 18 3 e293-e303
    Validation of Self-reported Cancer Diagnoses Using Medicare Diagnostic Claims in the US Health and Retirement Study, 2000-2016.
    Mullins MA, Kler JS, Eastman MR, Kabeto M, Wallner LP, Kobayashi LC, Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2022 01 31 1 287-292
    Trends and racial disparities in aggressive end-of-life care for a national sample of women with ovarian cancer.
    Mullins MA, Ruterbusch JJ, Clarke P, Uppal S, Wallner LP, Cote ML, Cancer 2021 07 127 13 2229-2237
    Perceived discrimination, trust in physicians, and prolonged symptom duration before ovarian cancer diagnosis in the African American Cancer Epidemiology Study.
    Mullins MA, Peres LC, Alberg AJ, Bandera EV, Barnholtz-Sloan JS, Bondy ML, Funkhouser E, Moorman PG, Peters ES, Terry PD, Schwartz AG, Lawson AB, Schildkraut JM, Cote ML, Cancer 2019 12 125 24 4442-4451
  • Honors & Awards
    • THR Clinical Scholar
      Texas Health Resources (2022-2025)
    • Amy and Lawrence Cho Scholar
      Center for the Education of Women (2017)
    • Dean's Award
      University of Michigan School of Public Health (2013-2015)
    • Dean's Research Award
      University of Michigan School of Public Health (2013-2015)
    • Chemistry Scholar
      Welch Foundation (2007)
    • Benjamin A. Gilman Scholar
      U.S. Department of State (2006)
  • Professional Associations/Affiliations
    • Academy Health
    • American Association for Cancer Research
    • American Society of Clinical Oncology
    • American Society of Preventive Oncology