Jennifer Croswell, MD, MPH, MA

Jennifer Croswell, MD, MPH is a Medical Officer and Program Director in the Healthcare Assessment Research Branch (HARB) of the Healthcare Delivery Research Program. She serves as Medical Officer and Director of the SEER Patterns of Care (POC) study, which collects data on dissemination of state-of-the art cancer diagnostics and treatments into community oncology practice under a Congressional Mandate to NCI.

Dr. Croswell also focuses on the assessment of cancer screening modalities and manages relevant grants, including large initiatives such as the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium, the Hawaiʻi and Pacific Island Mammography Registry, the New Hampshire Colonoscopy Registry, and the North Carolina Lung Screening Registry. Dr. Croswell coordinates the Cancer Control Supplement of the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) for NCI, which assesses trends in cancer-related health behaviors in the U.S. population, such as screening. She is the Project Scientist for the lung and colorectal cancer screening Research Centers of the Population-based Research to Optimize the Screening Process (PROSPR II) network. She previously served as the Editor-in-Chief of the NCI’s Physician Data Query (PDQ) Cancer Screening and Prevention Editorial Board.

Prior to joining HARB, Dr. Croswell was a Senior Program Officer at the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, where she helped launch a legislatively mandated program in evidence synthesis.

Dr. Croswell received a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago. She received her MD from the University of Illinois at Chicago and obtained training in general surgery before transitioning to an interest in preventive medicine. She then received an MPH with a concentration in epidemiology and biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.