Pamela Sanchez

Pamela Sanchez joined the Surveillance Research Program as a Program Analyst for the Data Quality, Analytics, and Interpretation Branch (DQAIB). Pam currently works with colleagues in DQAIB and the SEER registries to support and enhance the quality of cancer surveillance data in three main areas: (1) Conducting analysis for data quality audits and other quality control efforts (2) Supporting the VTR pilot studies investigating associations between cancer and clinical outcomes (3) Supporting efforts to develop and implement a benchmarking tool to assess data quality.

Pam originally joined SRP in 2019 as a Cancer Research Training Award (CRTA) Fellow in DQAIB. Her main role was supporting SEER registries on the focused quality audit projects with the Quality Improvement Experts (QIE) group.

Prior to that, she earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Health Education from the University of Florida (UF), followed by her Master of Public Health in Epidemiology from UF. During her graduate career she worked as a research assistant for the Department of Epidemiology in the College of Public Health and Health Professions at UF. She primarily prepared tissue slides for analysis and managed the slide inventory in a study investigating the mTOR pathway between body fat and breast cancer etiology. For her final project, she facilitated a pilot study examining breast density-related risk factors and how they may contribute to breast cancer in women in North Florida.