Research

Overview

I am committed to research collaboration, both in Gynecologic Oncology and in Palliative Medicine. I am most interested in the advancement of research at the intersection of palliative medicine and oncology. I am a member of the Palliative Care Research Cooperative Group and volunteer for organizational activities such as grant review. As a PCRC member, we applied for and were accepted to be a designated site for the largest interventional palliative care study ever performed, the REACH-PC Study: Comparative Effectiveness of Early Integrated Telehealth versus In-Person Palliative Care for Patients with Advanced Lung Cancer, a Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute Grant. As the Site Principal Investigator, I aim to increase my knowledge of research administration, additionally become savvy in state-of-the-art patient care technologies, and consider how to apply these technologies to our patients in rural settings.

Additionally, my education research is focused on palliative medicine training for surgical specialists. We received a KUMC Department of OBGYN Interdepartmental Research Grant to fund qualitative research entitled, "Dual Certification in Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Surgical Specialties." I am mentoring Dr. Chelsea Salyer gynecologic oncology fellow, with Dr. Joanna Brooks.

We were awarded a service grant to establish the Woman to Woman OCRA Peer Mentoring Program at the KUCC. While we successfully administered the service component of this grant including establishing two program coordinators, training 16 mentors, and creating matches, I have also mentored a medical student Hannah Moran MS2, in collaboration with Dr. Joanna Brooks, to create a qualitative research protocol to assess the strengths and efficacy of this novel peer to peer mentoring program.

Additionally, as a gynecologic oncologist I actively participate in our Gynecologic Oncology Disease Working Group and support our clinical trials program by recruiting and enrolling patients.

  • PCRC 17-11: Comparative Effectiveness of Early Integrated Telehealth versus In-Person Palliative Care for Patients with Advanced Lung Cancer (Short Name: REACH PC), PCORI- Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, Other
  • Spoozak, L, Gotman, N, Smith, M., V, Belanger, K, Yonkers, K., A. 2009. Evaluation of a social support measure that may indicate risk of depression during pregnancy.. Journal of affective disorders, 114 (1-3), 216-23
  • Spoozak, L, Lewin, S., N, Burke, W., M, Deutsch, I, Sun, X, Herzog, T., J, Wright, J., D. 2012. Microinvasive adenocarcinoma of the cervix.. American journal of obstetrics and gynecology, 206 (1), 80.e1-6
  • Nevadunsky, N., S, Spoozak, L, Gordon, S, Rivera, E, Harris, K, Goldberg, G., L. 2013. End-of-life care of women with gynecologic malignancies: a pilot study.. International journal of gynecological cancer : official journal of the International Gynecological Cancer Society, 23 (3), 546-52
  • Spoozak, L, Seow, H, Liu, Y, Wright, J, Barbera, L. 2013. Performance status and symptom scores of women with gynecologic cancer at the end of life.. International journal of gynecological cancer : official journal of the International Gynecological Cancer Society, 23 (5), 971-8
  • Eskander, R., N, Osann, K, Dickson, E, Holman, L., L, Rauh-Hain, J., A, Spoozak, L, Wu, E, Krill, L, Fader, A., N, Tewari, K., S. 2014. Assessment of palliative care training in gynecologic oncology: a gynecologic oncology fellow research network study.. Gynecologic oncology, 134 (2), 379-84
  • Nevadunsky, N., S, Gordon, S, Spoozak, L, Van Arsdale, A, Hou, Y, Klobocista, M, Eti, S, Rapkin, B, Goldberg, G., L. 2014. The role and timing of palliative medicine consultation for women with gynecologic malignancies: association with end of life interventions and direct hospital costs.. Gynecologic oncology, 132 (1), 3-7
  • Nevadunsky, N., S, Van Arsdale, A, Strickler, H., D, Spoozak, L., A, Moadel, A, Kaur, G, Girda, E, Goldberg, G., L, Einstein, M., H. 2015. Association Between Statin Use and Endometrial Cancer Survival.. Obstetrics and gynecology, 126 (1), 144-50
  • Spoozak, Lori, Scarborough, Beth. 2019. Palliative Care
  • Spoozak, L., A. 2019. I'm Going to Be So Sad When Nancy Hammond Dies.. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 37 (36), 3556-3557