Biography - Barbara A Kreling

Barbara Kreling holds an MPH and PhD from Walden University. Her dissertation title was, Beliefs, Perceptions, and Preferences for Treatment in Latinas with Breast Cancer. She has more than 25 years of experience in qualitative and quantitative research methods in health care and health policy. She has been research director for three multi-site clinical trials. Currently on the faculty of Georgetown University at the Lombardi Cancer Center, she conducts research projects in cancer control. As a teacher, she has lectured on qualitative research methods, focus group methods, survey research, and issues of psycho oncology and cancer survivorship. As an advisor, she has mentored minority staff in grant writing and publication. As Research Director of the Latin American Cancer Research Coalition, funded by the National Cancer Institute, her role was to advise members on research plans, publications, and grant funding. Author of numerous peer reviewed publications in journals such as Cancer, Psycho-oncology, The Health Care Finance Review and Journal of Clinical Epidemiology.sh, has been Principal Investigator of three research grants funded by the National Institute of Health.

She lives in Bethesda, Maryland, outside Washington DC, and serves on the DC Cancer Coalition and other volunteer organizations. She is a plein air landscape painter and enjoys travel.