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Erica T. Warner, ScD, MPH

Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School

Erica T. Warner, ScD, MPH

Harvard Medical School

EDUCATIONAL TITLES

  • Assistant Professor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  • Assistant Investigator, Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

DF/HCC PROGRAM AFFILIATION

DF/HCC ASSOCIATIONS

  • Deputy Associate Director, Membership, Executive Committee
  • Member, Center Scientific Council

Research Abstract

Dr. Warner is a cancer epidemiologist, studying how the social and physical environment including policies, stressors, lifestyle and behavior affect cancer screening, cancer risk, and survivorship, with a particular interest in racial/ethnic and socioeconomic health disparities. She conducts clinical and community-based research.

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  • Muhandiramge J, Zalcberg JR, van Londen GJ, Warner ET, Carr PR, Haydon A, Orchard SG. Cardiovascular Disease in Adult Cancer Survivors: a Review of Current Evidence, Strategies for Prevention and Management, and Future Directions for Cardio-oncology. Curr Oncol Rep 2022. PubMed
  • Warner ET. Race, place, and socioeconomic status: A path toward lung cancer early detection. Cancer 2022. PubMed
  • Isehunwa OO, Warner ET, Spiegelman D, Zhang Y, Palmer JR, Kanaya AM, Cole SA, Tworoger SS, Shields LO, Gu Y, Kent BV, De Vivo I, Shields AE. Depression, religiosity, and telomere length in the Study on Stress, Spirituality, and Health (SSSH). Int J Ment Health Addict 2022; 20:1465-1484. PubMed
  • Muhandiramge J, Orchard SG, Warner ET, van Londen GJ, Zalcberg JR. Functional Decline in the Cancer Patient: A Review. Cancers (Basel) 2022. PubMed
  • Nguyen LH, Joshi AD, Drew DA, Merino J, Ma W, Lo CH, Kwon S, Wang K, Graham MS, Polidori L, Menni C, Sudre CH, Anyane-Yeboa A, Astley CM, Warner ET, Hu CY, Selvachandran S, Davies R, Nash D, Franks PW, Wolf J, Ourselin S, Steves CJ, Spector TD, Chan AT, . Self-reported COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and uptake among participants from different racial and ethnic groups in the United States and United Kingdom. Nat Commun 2022; 13:636. PubMed
  • Warner ET, Park ER, Luberto CM, Rabin J, Perez GK, Ostroff JS. Internalized stigma among cancer patients enrolled in a smoking cessation trial: The role of cancer type and associations with psychological distress. 2021. PubMed
  • Shields AE, Zhang Y, Argentieri MA, Warner ET, Cozier YC, Liu C, Dye CK, Kent BV, Baccarelli AA, Palmer JR. Stress and spirituality in relation to HPA axis gene methylation among US Black women: results from the Black Women's Health Study and the Study on Stress, Spirituality and Health. Epigenomics 2021; 13:1711-1734. PubMed
  • Spence ND, Warner ET, Farvid MS, VanderWeele TJ, Zhang Y, Hu FB, Shields AE. The Association of Religion and Spirituality with Obesity and Weight Change in the USA: A Large-Scale Cohort Study. 2021. PubMed
  • Spence ND, Warner ET, Farvid MS, VanderWeele TJ, Zhang Y, Hu FB, Shields AE. Religious or spiritual coping, religious service attendance, and type 2 diabetes: A prospective study of women in the United States. Ann Epidemiol 2021. PubMed
  • Isehunwa OO, Warner ET, Spiegelman D, Huang T, Tworoger SS, Kent BV, Shields AE. Religion, spirituality and diurnal rhythms of salivary cortisol and dehydroepiandrosterone in postmenopausal women. Compr Psychoneuroendocrinol 2021. PubMed
  • Lo CH, Nguyen LH, Drew DA, Warner ET, Joshi AD, Graham MS, Anyane-Yeboa A, Shebl FM, Astley CM, Figueiredo JC, Guo CG, Ma W, Mehta RS, Kwon S, Song M, Davies R, Capdevila J, Sudre CH, Wolf J, Cozier YC, Rosenberg L, Wilkens LR, Haiman CA, Marchand LL, Palmer JR, Spector TD, Ourselin S, Steves CJ, Chan AT, . Race, ethnicity, community-level socioeconomic factors, and risk of COVID-19 in the United States and the United Kingdom. EClinicalMedicine 2021; 38:101029. PubMed
  • Lacaze P, Bakshi A, Riaz M, Orchard SG, Tiller J, Neumann JT, Carr PR, Joshi AD, Cao Y, Warner ET, Manning A, Nguyen-Dumont T, Southey MC, Milne RL, Ford L, Sebra R, Schadt E, Gately L, Gibbs P, Thompson BA, Macrae FA, James P, Winship I, McLean C, Zalcberg JR, Woods RL, Chan AT, Murray AM, McNeil JJ. Genomic Risk Prediction for Breast Cancer in Older Women. Cancers (Basel) 2021. PubMed
  • Warner ET, Rice MS, Zeleznik OA, Fowler EE, Murthy D, Vachon CM, Bertrand KA, Rosner BA, Heine J, Tamimi RM. Automated percent mammographic density, mammographic texture variation, and risk of breast cancer: a nested case-control study. NPJ Breast Cancer 2021; 7:68. PubMed
  • Warner ET, Kent BV, Zhang Y, Argentieri MA, Rowatt WC, Pargament K, Koenig HG, Underwood L, Cole SA, Daviglus ML, Kanaya AM, Palmer JR, Huang T, Blais MA, Shields AE. "The Study on Stress, Spirituality, and Health (SSSH): Psychometric Evaluation and Initial Validation of the SSSH Baseline Spirituality Survey". Religions (Basel) 2021. PubMed
  • Warner ET, Jiang L, Adjei DN, Turman C, Gordon W, Wang L, Tamimi R, Kraft P, Lindström S. A Genome-Wide Association Study of Childhood Body Fatness. Obesity (Silver Spring) 2021; 29:446-453. PubMed
  • Kwon S, Joshi AD, Lo CH, Drew DA, Nguyen LH, Guo CG, Ma W, Mehta RS, Shebl FM, Warner ET, Astley CM, Merino J, Murray B, Wolf J, Ourselin S, Steves CJ, Spector TD, Hart JE, Song M, VoPham T, Chan AT. Association of social distancing and face mask use with risk of COVID-19. Nat Commun 2021; 12:3737. PubMed
  • Marcondes FO, Cheng D, Warner ET, Kamran SC, Haas JS. The trajectory of racial/ethnic disparities in the use of cancer screening before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A large U.S. academic center analysis. Prev Med 2021; 151:106640. PubMed
  • Breza E, Stanford FC, Alsan M, Alsan B, Banerjee A, Chandrasekhar AG, Eichmeyer S, Glushko T, Goldsmith-Pinkham P, Holland K, Hoppe E, Karnani M, Liegl S, Loisel T, Ogbu-Nwobodo L, Olken BA, Torres C, Vautrey PL, Warner ET, Wootton S, Duflo E. Effects of a large-scale social media advertising campaign on holiday travel and COVID-19 infections: a cluster randomized controlled trial. Nat Med 2021; 27:1622-1628. PubMed
  • Torres C, Ogbu-Nwobodo L, Alsan M, Stanford FC, Banerjee A, Breza E, Chandrasekhar AG, Eichmeyer S, Karnani M, Loisel T, Goldsmith-Pinkham P, Olken BA, Vautrey PL, Warner E, Duflo E, . Effect of Physician-Delivered COVID-19 Public Health Messages and Messages Acknowledging Racial Inequity on Black and White Adults' Knowledge, Beliefs, and Practices Related to COVID-19: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open 2021; 4:e2117115. PubMed
  • Adamson AS, Essien U, Ewing A, Daneshjou R, Hughes-Halbert C, Ojikutu B, Davis MB, Fox K, Warner E. Diversity, Race, and Health. 2021; 2:6-10. PubMed
  • Narayan AK, Mercaldo SF, Gupta YP, Warner ET, Lehman CD, Miles RC. Potential of using mammography screening appointments to identify high-risk women: cross sectional survey results from the national health interview survey. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2020. PubMed
  • Warner ET, Kennedy M, Maschke A, Hopkins MF, Wernli K, Gunn CM. Evaluation of existing patient educational materials and development of a brochure for women with dense breasts. Breast 2020; 50:81-84. PubMed
  • Gunn C, Maschke A, Bickmore T, Kennedy M, Hopkins MF, Fishman MDC, Paasche-Orlow MK, Warner ET. Acceptability of an Interactive Computer-Animated Agent to Promote Patient-Provider Communication About Breast Density: a Mixed Method Pilot Study. J Gen Intern Med 2020. PubMed
  • Warner ET, Zhang Y, Gu Y, Taporoski TP, Pereira A, DeVivo I, Spence ND, Cozier Y, Palmer JR, Kanaya AM, Kandula NR, Cole SA, Tworoger S, Shields A. Physical and sexual abuse in childhood and adolescence and leukocyte telomere length: A pooled analysis of the study on psychosocial stress, spirituality, and health. PLoS ONE 2020; 15:e0241363. PubMed
  • Nguyen LH, Tan-McGrory A, Oh AY, Barreto EA, Bartels SJ, Armstrong KA, Chan AT, Warner ET. Diversifying the biomedical workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nat Med 2020; 26:1811. PubMed
  • Oh H, Rice MS, Warner ET, Bertrand KA, Fowler E, Eliassen AH, Rosner BA, Heine J, Tamimi RM. Early-life and adult anthropometrics in relation to mammographic image intensity variation in the Nurses' Health Studies. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2019. PubMed
  • Spence ND, Farvid MS, Warner ET, VanderWeele TJ, Tworoger SS, Argentieri MA, Shields AE. Religious Service Attendance, Religious Coping, and Risk of Hypertension in Women Participating in the Nurses' Health Study II. Am J Epidemiol 2019. PubMed
  • Warner ET, Lathan CS. Race and sex differences in patient provider communication and awareness of lung cancer screening in the health information National Trends Survey, 2013-2017. Prev Med 2019; 124:84-90. PubMed
  • Miles RC, Lehman C, Warner E, Tuttle A, Saksena M. Patient-Reported Breast Density Awareness and Knowledge after Breast Density Legislation Passage. Acad Radiol 2019; 26:726-731. PubMed
  • Warner ET, Carapinha R, Weber GM, Hill EV, Reede JY. Gender Differences in Receipt of National Institutes of Health R01 Grants Among Junior Faculty at an Academic Medical Center: The Role of Connectivity, Rank, and Research Productivity. J Womens Health (Larchmt) 2017. PubMed
  • Carapinha R, McCracken CM, Warner ET, Hill EV, Reede JY. Organizational Context and Female Faculty's Perception of the Climate for Women in Academic Medicine. J Womens Health (Larchmt) 2017. PubMed
  • Spring LM, Marshall MR, Warner ET. Mammography decision making: Trends and predictors of provider communication in the Health Information National Trends Survey, 2011 to 2014. Cancer 2017; 123:401-409. PubMed
  • Devore EE, Warner ET, Eliassen H, Brown SB, Beck AH, Hankinson S, Schernhammer E. Urinary melatonin in relation to postmenopausal breast cancer risk according to melatonin 1 receptor status. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2016. PubMed
  • Partridge AH, Hughes ME, Warner ET, Ottesen RA, Wong YN, Edge SB, Theriault RL, Blayney DW, Niland JC, Winer EP, Weeks JC, Tamimi RM. Subtype-Dependent Relationship Between Young Age at Diagnosis and Breast Cancer Survival. J Clin Oncol 2016; 34:3308-14. PubMed
  • Eliassen AH, Warner ET, Rosner B, Collins LC, Beck AH, Quintana LM, Tamimi RM, Hankinson SE. Plasma 25-Hydroxyvitamin D and Risk of Breast Cancer in Women Followed over 20 Years. Cancer Res 2016; 76:5423-30. PubMed
  • Warner ET, Hu R, Collins LC, Beck AH, Schnitt S, Rosner B, Eliassen AH, Michels KB, Willett WC, Tamimi RM. Height and Body Size in Childhood, Adolescence, and Young Adulthood and Breast Cancer Risk According to Molecular Subtype in the Nurses' Health Studies. Cancer Prev Res (Phila Pa) 2016; 9:732-8. PubMed
  • Warner ET, Ballman KV, Strand C, Boughey JC, Buzdar AU, Carey LA, Sikov WM, Partridge AH. Impact of race, ethnicity, and BMI on achievement of pathologic complete response following neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer: a pooled analysis of four prospective Alliance clinical trials (A151426). Breast Cancer Res Treat 2016; 159:109-18. PubMed
  • Warner ET, Carapinha R, Weber GM, Hill EV, Reede JY. Faculty Promotion and Attrition: The Importance of Coauthor Network Reach at an Academic Medical Center. J Gen Intern Med 2015. PubMed
  • Warner ET, Tamimi RM, Hughes ME, Ottesen RA, Wong YN, Edge SB, Theriault RL, Blayney DW, Niland JC, Winer EP, Weeks JC, Partridge AH. Racial and Ethnic Differences in Breast Cancer Survival: Mediating Effect of Tumor Characteristics and Sociodemographic and Treatment Factors. J Clin Oncol 2015; 33:2254-61. PubMed
  • Warner ET, Carapinha R, Weber GM, Hill EV, Reede JY. Considering Context in Academic Medicine: Differences in Demographic and Professional Characteristics and in Research Productivity and Advancement Metrics Across Seven Clinical Departments. Acad Med 2015. PubMed
  • Ritzwoller DP, Glasgow RE, Sukhanova AY, Bennett GG, Warner ET, Greaney ML, Askew S, Goldman J, Emmons KM, Colditz GA, . Economic analyses of the Be Fit Be Well program: a weight loss program for community health centers. J Gen Intern Med 2013; 28:1581-8. PubMed
  • Warner ET, Colditz GA, Palmer JR, Partridge AH, Rosner BA, Tamimi RM. Reproductive factors and risk of premenopausal breast cancer by age at diagnosis: are there differences before and after age 40? Breast Cancer Res Treat 2013; 142:165-75. PubMed
  • Glasgow RE, Askew S, Purcell P, Levine E, Warner ET, Stange KC, Colditz GA, Bennett GG. Use of RE-AIM to Address Health Inequities: Application in a low-income community health center based weight loss and hypertension self-management program. Transl Behav Med 2013; 3:200-210. PubMed
  • Warner ET, Tamimi RM, Boggs DA, Rosner B, Rosenberg L, Colditz GA, Palmer JR. Estrogen receptor positive tumors: do reproductive factors explain differences in incidence between black and white women? Cancer Causes Control 2013; 24:731-9. PubMed
  • Warner ET, Glasgow RE, Emmons KM, Bennett GG, Askew S, Rosner B, Colditz GA. Recruitment and retention of participants in a pragmatic randomized intervention trial at three community health clinics: results and lessons learned. BMC Public Health 2013; 13:192. PubMed
  • Warner ET, Tamimi RM, Hughes ME, Ottesen RA, Wong YN, Edge SB, Theriault RL, Blayney DW, Niland JC, Winer EP, Weeks JC, Partridge AH. Time to diagnosis and breast cancer stage by race/ethnicity. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2012. PubMed
  • Bennett GG, Warner ET, Glasgow RE, Askew S, Goldman J, Ritzwoller DP, Emmons KM, Rosner BA, Colditz GA, . Obesity treatment for socioeconomically disadvantaged patients in primary care practice. Arch Intern Med 2012. PubMed
  • Warner ET, Wolin KY, Duncan DT, Heil DP, Askew S, Bennett GG. Differential accuracy of physical activity self-report by body mass index. Am J Health Behav 2012; 36:168-78. PubMed
  • Duncan DT, Wolin KY, Scharoun-Lee M, Ding EL, Warner ET, Bennett GG. Does perception equal reality? Weight misperception in relation to weight-related attitudes and behaviors among overweight and obese US adults. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 2011; 8:20. PubMed
  • Warner ET, Gomez SL. Impact of neighborhood racial composition and metropolitan residential segregation on disparities in breast cancer stage at diagnosis and survival between black and white women in California. J Community Health 2010; 35:398-408. PubMed
  • Yeh HC, Clark JM, Emmons KE, Moore RH, Bennett GG, Warner ET, Sarwer DB, Jerome GJ, Miller ER, Volger S, Louis TA, Wells B, Wadden TA, Colditz GA, Appel LJ. Independent but coordinated trials: insights from the practice-based Opportunities for Weight Reduction Trials Collaborative Research Group. Clin Trials 2010; 7:322-32. PubMed
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