Jessica R. Schumacher, PhD
PhD, MS, BS
Assistant Professor
jschumacher@phhp.ufl.edu
(352) 273-6069
HPNP, Room 4145
Dr. Schumacher joined the Department in 2010 after receiving her Ph.D. in Population Health from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Schumacher’s research and policy interests center around the cancer patient transition from active treatment to longer-term survivorship and how providers and health systems can adopt care strategies to optimize patient outcomes. Her dissertation research evaluated the psychological stress response pre- to post-cancer diagnosis, used a stress-process model as a heuristic for identifying a comprehensive set of factors that predict clinically significant depressive symptoms following diagnosis, and assessed the relationship between a cancer diagnosis and cancer screening. This included fundamental work in the development of a clinical prognostic tool that identifies risk factors for significant depressive symptoms following a cancer diagnosis. This effort resulted in an award for the best population-based research poster at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center in 2009. Dr. Schumacher’s doctoral training was funded by a National Research Service Award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Previous work for the State of California and and the State of Wisconsin examined preventive health behaviors related to cancer, including tobacco use. Her work has been presented at a number of national conferences and published in peer-reviewed journals, including Health Services Research. Dr. Schumacher is a member of AcademyHealth and the Gerontological Society of America.