Kristen Jennifer Wells, PhD, MPH

Dr. Wells’ research focuses on cancer health disparities and cancer communication.  Dr. Wells has significant interest in designing and evaluating community health worker interventions.  She recently completed a systematic review evaluating the effect of community health worker interventions on rates of screening mammography.  She also is involved in two NCI-funded patient navigation programs designed to reduce health disparities related to breast, cervical, and colorectal cancers.  Dr. Wells currently leads one of these initiatives which has created and implemented and is evaluating a patient navigator program to promote early detection of cervical abnormalities in Hispanic women living in a rural agricultural community. Dr. Wells also designs and evaluates cancer education materials. Recently, she collaborated with other Moffitt investigators to develop two multimedia interventions to assist patients in making a decision about cancer clinical trials. Additionally, Dr. Wells leads a project to evaluate biobanking educational materials.

• Quinn GP, McIntyre J, Gonzalez LE, Antonia TM, Antolino P, Wells KJ. Improving Awareness of Cancer Clinical Trials Among Hispanic Patients and Families: Audience Segmentation Decisions for a Media Intervention. J Health Commun. 2013 May. Pubmedid: 23639101.
• Piñeiro-Albero RM, Ramos-Pichardo JD, Oliver-Roig A, Velandrino-Nicolás A, Richart-Martínez M, García-de-León-González R, Wells KJ. The Spanish version of the Prenatal Breast-feeding Self-efficacy Scale: Reliability and validity assessment. Int J Nurs Stud. 2013 Jan. Pubmedid: 23312464.
• Jean-Pierre P, Fiscella K, Winters PC, Paskett E, Wells K, Battaglia T. Cross-cultural validation of a Patient Satisfaction with Interpersonal Relationship with Navigator measure: a multi-site patient navigation research study. Psychooncology. 2012 Dec;21(12):1309-1315. Pubmedid: 21726018. Pmcid: PMC3634567.
• Koskan A, Arevalo M, Gwede CK, Quinn GP, Noel-Thomas SA, Luque JS, Wells KJ, Meade CD. Ethics of clear health communication: applying the CLEAN Look approach to communicate biobanking information for cancer research. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2012 Nov;23(4 Suppl):58-66. Pubmedid: 23124500.
• Wells KJ, Lee JH, Calcano ER, Meade CD, Rivera M, Fulp WJ, Roetzheim RG. A cluster randomized trial evaluating the efficacy of patient navigation in improving quality of diagnostic care for patients with breast or colorectal cancer abnormalities. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2012 Oct;21(10):1664-1672. Pubmedid: 23045541. Pmcid: PMC3511588.
• Jean-Pierre P, Fiscella K, Winters PC, Post D, Wells KJ, McKoy JM, Battaglia T, Simon MA, Kilbourn K, Roetzheim R. Psychometric development and reliability analysis of a patient satisfaction with interpersonal relationship with navigator measure: a multi-site patient navigation research program study. Psychooncology. 2012 Sep;21(9):986-992. Pubmedid: 21681995. Pmcid: PMC3640800.
• Jean-Pierre P, Fiscella K, Winters PC, Paskett E, Wells K, Battaglia T. Psychometric validation and reliability analysis of a Spanish version of the patient satisfaction with cancer-related care measure: a patient navigation research program study. Support Care Cancer. 2012 Sep;20(9):1949-1956. Pubmedid: 22038482. Pmcid: PMC3298841.
• Wells KJ, Quinn GP, Meade CD, Fletcher M, Tyson DM, Jim H, Jacobsen PB. Development of a cancer clinical trials multi-media intervention: clinical trials: are they right for you?. Patient Educ Couns. 2012 Aug;88(2):232-240. Pubmedid: 22525803.
• Jacobsen PB, Wells KJ, Meade CD, Quinn GP, Lee JH, Fulp WJ, Gray JE, Baz RC, Springett GM, Levine RM, Markham MJ, Schreiber FJ, Cartwright TH, Burke JM, Siegel RD, Malafa MP, Sullivan D. Effects of a brief multimedia psychoeducational intervention on the attitudes and interest of patients with cancer regarding clinical trial participation: a multicenter randomized controlled trial. J Clin Oncol. 2012 Jul;30(20):2516-2521. Pubmedid: 22614993.
• Quinn GP, Koskan A, Wells KJ, Gonzalez LE, Meade CD, Pozo CL, Jacobsen PB. Cancer patients' fears related to clinical trial participation: a qualitative study. J Cancer Educ. 2012 Jun;27(2):257-262. Pubmedid: 22271582.
• Luque JS, Quinn GP, Montel-Ishino FA, Arevalo M, Bynum SA, Noel-Thomas S, Wells KJ, Gwede CK, Meade CD. Formative research on perceptions of biobanking: what community members think. J Cancer Educ. 2012 Mar;27(1):91-99. Pubmedid: 21927867.
• Wells KJ, Meade CD, Calcano E, Lee JH, Rivers D, Roetzheim RG. Innovative approaches to reducing cancer health disparities: the Moffitt Cancer Center Patient Navigator Research Program. J Cancer Educ. 2011 Dec;26(4):649-657. Pubmedid: 21573740.
• Roetzheim RG, Love-Jackson KM, Hunter SG, Lee JH, Chen R, Abdulla R, Wells KJ. A cluster randomized trial of sun protection at elementary schools. Results from year 2. Am J Prev Med. 2011 Dec;41(6):615-618. Pubmedid: 22099239. Pmcid: PMC3223605.
• Whitley E, Valverde P, Wells K, Williams L, Teschner T, Shih YC. Establishing common cost measures to evaluate the economic value of patient navigation programs. Cancer. 2011 Aug;117(15 Suppl):3618-3625. Pubmedid: 21780096. Pmcid: PMC3151018.
• Wells KJ, Luque JS, Miladinovic B, Vargas N, Asvat Y, Roetzheim RG, Kumar A. Do community health worker interventions improve rates of screening mammography in the United States? A systematic review. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2011 Aug;20(8):1580-1598. Pubmedid: 21653645. Pmcid: PMC3153589.
• Hunter S, Love-Jackson K, Abdulla R, Zhu W, Lee JH, Wells KJ, Roetzheim R. Sun protection at elementary schools: a cluster randomized trial. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2010 Apr;102(7):484-492. Pubmedid: 20332388. Pmcid: PMC2902823.
• Wells KJ, Booth-Jones M, Jacobsen PB. Do coping and social support predict depression and anxiety in patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation?. J Psychosoc Oncol. 2009;27(3):297-315. Pubmedid: 19544178.
• Wells KJ, Battaglia TA, Dudley DJ, Garcia R, Greene A, Calhoun E, Mandelblatt JS, Paskett ED, Raich PC, Roetzheim R. Patient navigation: state of the art or is it science?. Cancer. 2008 Oct;113(8):1999-2010. Pubmedid: 18780320. Pmcid: PMC2679696.
• Roetzheim R, Chirikos T, Wells K, McCarthy E, Ngo L, Li D, Drews R, Iezzoni L. Managed care and cancer outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries with disabilities. Am J Manag Care. 2008 May;14(5):287-296. Pubmedid: 18471033.
• Wells K, Roetzheim R. Health disparities in receipt of screening mammography in latinas: a critical review of recent literature. Cancer Control. 2007 Oct;14(4):369-379. Pubmedid: 17914337.
• Hunter S, Wells KJ, Jacobsen PB, Lee JH, Boulware D, Love-Jackson K, Abdulla R, Roetzheim RG. Assessment of elementary school students' sun protection behaviors. Pediatr Dermatol. 27(2):182-188. Pubmedid: 19686304.
• Paskett ED, Harrop JP, Wells KJ. Patient navigation: an update on the state of the science. CA Cancer J Clin. 61(4):237-249. Pubmedid: 21659419. Pmcid: PMC3623288.