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Anna N. A. Tosteson, ScD

Title(s)
Professor of The Dartmouth Institute
Professor of Medicine
Professor of Community and Family Medicine
James J. Carroll 1948 Professor of Oncology

Additional Titles/Positions/Affiliations
Director, Comparative Effectiveness Research Program, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
Associate Director for Population Sciences, Dartmouth Cancer Center
Principal Investigator, SYNERGY, Dartmouth's Clinical and Translational Science Institute

Department(s)
The Dartmouth Institute
Medicine
Community and Family Medicine

Education
Biostatistics (Health Decision Sciences), Harvard University, ScD
Biostatistics, Harvard University, MS
Statistics & Biometry, Cornell University, BS

Programs
Norris Cotton Cancer Center
SYNERGY
The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice

Contact Information

Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
HB7505
One Medical Center Drive
Lebanon NH 03756

Office: WTRB 526, DHMC
Phone: 603-646-5664
Email: Anna.Tosteson@dartmouth.edu

Assistant: Christopher Jacobs
Asst. Phone: 603-646-5237
Asst. Email: Christopher.R.Jacobs@Dartmouth.EDU


Professional Interests

Dr. Anna Tosteson is a decision scientist and health services researcher who studies how the diffusion of innovations in health care are changing health, costs and quality of care. Through study of diverse data sources including registries, electronic health record data, clinical and epidemiological studies, and administrative claims data, she seeks insights into the long-term clinical and economic effects of alternative approaches to health care delivery with a focus on cancer screening, musculoskeletal disease, and women’s health.

Grant Information

Promoting follow-up of abnormal cancer screening tests using population-based systems to support stepped care multilevel intervention. (NCI: U01CA225451 )

Risk-based breast cancer screening and surveillance in community practice. (NCI, P01CA154292)

Courses Taught

PH 119/121; QBS 140 Decision and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis


Selected Publications

 

Harnessing the Collective Expertise of Patients, Care Partners, Clinical Teams, and Researchers Through a Coproduction Learning Health System: A Case Study of the Dartmouth Health Promise Partnership.
Tosteson ANA, Kirkland KB, Holthoff MM, Van Citters AD, Brooks GA, Cullinan AM, Dowling-Schmitt MC, Holmes AB, Meehan KR, Oliver BJ, Wasp GT, Wilson MM, Nelson EC
J Ambul Care Manage. 2023 Apr-Jun 01;46(2):127-138. doi: 10.1097/JAC.0000000000000460.
PMID: 36820633

Association of rurality with utilization of palliative care and hospice among Medicare beneficiaries who died from pancreatic cancer: A cohort study.
Ramkumar N, Wang Q, Brooks GA, Tosteson ANA, Wong SL, Loehrer AP
J Rural Health. 2023 Jan 11; doi: 10.1111/jrh.12739. Epub 2023 Jan 11.
PMID: 36631820

An experience- and preference-based EQ-5D-3L value set derived using 18 months of longitudinal data in patients who sustained a fracture: results from the ICUROS.
Svedbom A, Borgstom F, Hernlund E, Alekna V, Bianchi ML, Clark P, Diaz-Curiel M, Dimai HP, Jurisson M, Lesnyak O, McCloskey E, Sanders KM, Silverman S, Tamulaitiene M, Thomas T, Tosteson ANA, Jonsson B, Kanis JA
Qual Life Res. 2022 Dec 10; doi: 10.1007/s11136-022-03303-y. Epub 2022 Dec 10.
PMID: 36495384

Comparison of Oncologist and Model Estimates of Risk for Hospitalization During Systemic Therapy for Advanced Cancer.
Emery LP, Muralikrishnan S, Schrag D, Tosteson ANA, Brooks GA
JCO Oncol Pract. 2023 Mar;19(3):e336-e344. doi: 10.1200/OP.22.00422. Epub 2022 Dec 7.
PMID: 36475736

Women's Breast Cancer Screening Confidence by Screening Modality and Breast Density: A Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium Survey Study.
Tosteson ANA, Schifferdecker KE, Smith RE, Wernli KJ, Zhao W, Kaplan CP, Buist DSM, Henderson LM, Sprague BL, Onega T, Budesky J, Jackson-Nefertiti G, Johnson D, Miglioretti DL, Kerlikowske K
J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2022 Nov;31(11):1547-1556. doi: 10.1089/jwh.2021.0649.
PMID: 36356184

Prioritizing Screening Mammograms for Immediate Interpretation and Diagnostic Evaluation on the Basis of Risk for Recall.
Ho TH, Bissell MCS, Lee CI, Lee JM, Sprague BL, Tosteson ANA, Wernli KJ, Henderson LM, Kerlikowske K, Miglioretti DL
J Am Coll Radiol. 2023 Mar;20(3):299-310. doi: 10.1016/j.jacr.2022.09.030. Epub 2022 Oct 20.
PMID: 36273501

Primary Care Practitioner Perceptions on the Follow-up of Abnormal Cancer Screening Test Results.
Atlas SJ, Tosteson ANA, Burdick TE, Wright A, Breslau ES, Dang TH, Wint AJ, Smith RE, Harris KA, Zhou L, Haas JS
JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Sep 1;5(9):e2234194. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.34194. Epub 2022 Sep 1.
PMID: 36173627

Adoption of Telemedicine in a Rural US Cancer Center Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: Qualitative Study.
Mackwood M, Butcher R, Vaclavik D, Alford-Teaster JA, Curtis KM, Lowry M, Tosteson TD, Zhao W, Tosteson ANA
JMIR Cancer. 2022 Aug 16;8(3):e33768. doi: 10.2196/33768. Epub 2022 Aug 16.
PMID: 35895904

Prioritizing Measures That Matter Within a Person-Centered Oncology Learning Health System.
Van Citters AD, Kennedy AM, Kirkland KB, Dragnev KH, Leach SD, Buus-Frank ME, Malcolm EF, Holthoff MM, Holmes AB, Nelson EC, Reeves SA, Tosteson ANA, Promise Partnership Delphi Panel
JNCI Cancer Spectr. 2022 May 2;6(3) doi: 10.1093/jncics/pkac037.
PMID: 35736219

Decision quality and regret with treatment decisions in women with breast cancer: Pre-operative breast MRI and breast density.
Wernli KJ, Smith RE, Henderson LM, Zhao W, Durham DD, Schifferdecker K, Kaplan C, Buist DSM, Kerlikowske K, Miglioretti DL, Onega T, Alsheik NH, Sprague BL, Jackson-Nefertiti G, Budesky J, Johnson D, Tosteson ANA
Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2022 Aug;194(3):607-616. doi: 10.1007/s10549-022-06648-7. Epub 2022 Jun 20.
PMID: 35723793

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