Dr. Wanda Nicholson
OBGYN & Epidemiologist
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Dr. Wanda Nicholson is an OBGYN and epidemiologist at George Washington University's Milken Institute School of Public Health in Washington, DC.
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Episode # 448 • 10 Jul 2024
USPSTF Breast Cancer Screening
In this episode of The Curbsiders Podcast, the team delves into the recently updated breast cancer screening recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) with Dr. Wanda Nicholson (@wnicholsonobgyn), an expert in preventive medicine, diversity, equity and inclusion, and women’s health and the Chair of the Task Force. Join us as we review the newest screening mammography recommendations, evidence for earlier screening for all women, the challenge of dense breast findings, and more. Importantly, we discuss disparities in breast cancer outcomes and the need to better understand and address them.
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About
Dr. Wanda Nicholson is a physician dually trained in obstetrics and gynecology and epidemiology, current Chair of the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), and a researcher in perinatal and women’s population health. Her research portfolio has centered on social determinants of health and perinatal diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD), particularly postpartum CVD prevention. She views women’s health as maternal health and maternal health as an indicator of the social/economic environments where women live and work. Dr. Wanda Nicholson is committed to creating a strategic vision for population health for organizations and developing and operationalizing research priorities and performance measures for value-based care and better health outcomes. At GW, she teaches the course, Translating Evidence into Practice for Primary Care settings.
She currently serves as a MPI for a NIH-funded study of long-term outcomes among 2,500 women following gynecologic surgery, and an American Diabetes Association grant on prevention of type 2 diabetes through a healthy dietary lifestyle intervention. She is a former Associate Editor for the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, former Chair of the Committee on Childbirth and Postpartum Hemorrhage for the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics and served on the board of directors for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She has been interviewed by multiple media on prevention as well as Medscape, Vogue and Elle.
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