LDI Research Seminar with Christine Veenstra, MD, MSHP

In connection with the University of Michigan and the University of California, San Francisco, the Emerging Scholars Exchange Program is designed to provide career development opportunities for early career faculty via invited presentations at prestigious peer universities. Through the Exchange Program, early career faculty will have the opportunity to develop relationships with potential research collaborators, mentors, and sponsors; hone their oral presentation skills; and bolster their CVs as they prepare for promotion.

Christine Veenstra is an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan. She received her medical degree from Wayne State University in 2005, completed internal medicine residency and chief residency at University of Michigan in 2009, and then completed fellowship in medical oncology at the University of Pennsylvania in 2012.

Dr. Veenstra’s research interests include identification of factors that influence the delivery of cost-efficient, high-quality cancer care. Specifically, her research involves the study of hospital and patient factors that contribute to high-value, guideline-concordant medical care. Dr. Veenstra received a K07 career development award from the National Institutes of Health entitled “Partner Engagement and Receipt of Surveillance in Colorectal Cancer Survivors” in July 2016. The goal of this project is to gather data to develop and implement interventions to improve the receipt of high-quality colorectal cancer survivorship care.