Suzanne Miller, PhD
Professor, Cancer Prevention and Control Program
The overarching goal of Dr. Miller's lab is to make cancer prevention and control programs more effective by identifying the distinctive ways in which individuals make decisions, adjust to risk information, and manage recommended medical regimens. She employs a transdisciplinary team approach in designing, developing, and evaluating both traditional (e.g., print materials, telephone counseling) and new technology (e.g., text-messaging, web-based applications) interventions tailored to individual differences and targeted to group differences among patients and their families. Dr. Miller's work is based on her integrative theory-based framework, the Cognitive-Social Health Information Processing (C-SHIP) model, and focuses on interventions to enhance decision-making for prevention, treatment, and clinical trial options; adherence to recommended screening, prevention, and treatment regimens; adjustment to cancer risk, diagnostic, and survivorship feedback; and the translation and dissemination of psychosocial interventions into clinical, community, and related service settings and systems.