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CURRICULUM VITAE

Rachel N. Cusatis PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Division of Hematology and Oncology - Medicine

OFFICE ADDRESS:
Clinical Cancer Center
9200 W Wisconsin Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53226

EDUCATION:
09/03/2007 - 12/17/2010 Bachelor's of Arts, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI
09/05/2011 - 05/18/2013 Master's of Arts, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
09/04/2013 - 06/07/2017 Doctorate of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING AND FELLOWSHIP APPOINTMENTS:
10/01/2017 - 09/30/2019 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

AWARDS AND HONORS:
09/2010 - Present Chancellor's Graduate Student Award, University of Wisconsin -
12/2011 - Present Alpha Kappa Delta Honor Society
09/2013 - Present Chancellor's Graduate Student Award, University of Wisconsin -
06/2016 - Present Scholarship to attend Time Use Data Access System Workshop
10/2019 - Present International Society for Quality of Life Research New Investigator
University of Maryland
Poster Award Recipient
Milwaukee
Milwaukee

MEMBERSHIPS IN HONORARY AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
09/2014 - 09/2015 Student-Editor (Medical Sociology Section Quarterly)
12/2014 - 12/2017 American Sociological Association
05/2018 - Present American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR)
06/2018 - Present International Society of Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL)
01/2019 - Present PROMIS Health Organization (PHO)
Newsletter (American Sociological Association)
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL ELECTED/APPOINTED LEADERSHIP AND COMMITTEE POSITIONS:

PEER REVIEWED WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS:
International
Cusatis, Rachel, Jeana Holt, Onur Asan, Joni Williams, Sandile Nukuna, Kathryn E. Flynn, Bradley Crotty "Patient/Clinician Communication: Understanding How Patient Contextual Data Augments Patient/Clinician Interaction from the Providers Perspective." Annual Conference for the North Ameri, - 11/12/2018
Holt, Jeana, Rachel Cusatis, Onur Asan, Joni Williams, Sandile Nukuna, Kathryn E. Flynn, Bradley Crotty. "Barriers and Facilitators to Integrating Patient Contextual Data into Primary Care." Annual Conference for the North American Primary Care Research Group, Chicago, - 11/12/2018
Gundacker Constance, Rachel Cusatis, Rebecca Yi, Sandra Bogar. "Systematic Literature Review of Child Social Determinants of Health Screening Instruments in Primary Care." Annual Conference for the North American Primary Care Research Group, Chicago, - 11/10/2018
Cusatis, Rachel, Heather Tecca, Anita D'Souza, Bronwen Shaw, Kathryn E. Flynn. "Decisional Regret in the first year after Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation." Annual Conference for the International Society of Quality of Life Research, San Diego, - 10/22/2019
Cusatis, Rachel, Nicole Fergestrom, Alexandra Cooper, Kathryn E. Flynn. "Anxiety, Depression, and Fertility-Specific Quality of Life Among Couples Experiencing Infertility." Annual Conference for the International Society of Quality of Life Research, Dublin, - 10/25/2018
Bogar, Sandra, Constance Gundacker, Rachel Cusatis, Rebecca Yi. "Screening for Social Determinants of Health Among Adolescents in Primary Care." Annual Conference for the North American Primary Care Research Group, Chicago, - 11/10/2018
 
National
Cusatis, Rachel and Noelle Chesley. "Can Housework Help? Gender, Time Use
and Disparities in Meeting Physical Activity Requirements." Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, - 08/23/2015
Joosten, Tanya and Rachel Cusatis. "Creating & Diffusing Online Instructional & Institutional Practices from Data & Evidence." Annual WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies (WCET), Minneapolis, - 10/13/2016
Joosten, Tanya and Rachel Cusatis, "Research in Distance Education and Technological
Advancements (DETA)." Annual WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies (WCET), Minneapolis, - 10/14/2016
Joosten, Tanya and Rachel Cusatis. "Creating & Diffusing Online Instructional & Institutional Practices from Data & Evidence." Annual Online Learning Consortium (OLC) Accelerate, Orlando, - 11/18/2016
Tanya Joosten, Rachel Cusatis, and Lindsey Harness, "What do we do with research findings? Creating and Diffusing Online Instructional Practice from Data and Evidence." Annual Educause Learning Initiative (ELI) Conference, New Orleans, - 01/29/2017
Cusatis, Rachel and Lindsey Harness, "Understanding the Impact of Instructional
Characteristics on Student Outcomes." Annual Educause Learning Initiative (ELI) Conference, Houston, - 02/15/2017
Joosten, Tanya and Rachel Cusatis, "What Do We Do with Distance Education Research Findings? Developing New Instructional and Institutional Practices." Annual UPCEA Conference, Chicago, - 03/22/2017
Joosten, Tanya and Rachel Cusatis. "Creating & Diffusing Online Instructional & Institutional Practices From Data & Evidence." Annual Online Learning Consortium (OLC) Innovate, New Orleans, - 04/06/2017
Joosten, Tanya and Rachel Cusatis. "Creating & Diffusing Online Instructional & Institutional Practices From Data & Evidence." University of Nebraska Online Symposium, Lincoln, - 05/09/2017
Joosten, Tanya and Rachel Cusatis. "Creating & Diffusing Online Instructional & Institutional Practices from Data & Evidence." Annual New Media Consortium Conference, Boston, - 06/13/2017
Joosten, Tanya and Rachel Cusatis, "Research in Distance Education and Technological
Advancements (DETA)." Annual Online Learning Consortium (OLC) Accelerate, Orlando, - 11/16/2018
Cusatis, Rachel. "What Activities Count?: Using Experimental Data to Understand
Conceptualizations of Physical Activity." Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, Quebec, - 08/09/2017
Cusatis, Rachel and Dana Garbarski. "What Activities Count?: Using Experimental Data to Understand Conceptualizations of Physical Activity." American Association for Public Opinion Research Annual Conference, Denver, - 05/18/2018
Cusatis Rachel and Dana Garbarski, "Survey Measurement of Physical Activity: The Role of Leisure, House/Care Work, in Socioeconomic Disparities in Reported Physical Activity, " American Association for Public Opinion Research Annual Conference, Denver, - 05/18/2018
Cusatis, Rachel, Nicole Fergestrom, Alexandra Cooper, Kathryn E. Flynn, Too Much Time? Associations Between Time Spent on Family-Building Decision Tasks and Fertility-Related Quality of Life, Academy Health Annual Conference, Seattle, - 06/24/2018
Kruper Abbey, Rachel Cusatis, Jay Sandlow, Katherine Schoyer, Alexandra Cooper, Joseph David, Kathryn E. Flynn, "Importance of Baseline Psychological Screening in Infertility For Men and Women, " American Society for Reproductive Medicine Annual Meeting, Denver, - 10/06/2018
Crotty, Bradley, Jeana Holt, Rachel Cusatis, Onur Asan, Joni Williams, Kathryn Flynn, Jennifer Moore, Gregory Makoul. "Humanizing the Chart: Becoming More Responsive to Patient Needs Through Implementation of PatientWisdom." Connected Health Conference, Boston, - 10/18/2018
Holt, Jeana, Rachel Cusatis, Onur Asan, Joni Williams, Kathryn E. Flynn, Bradley Crotty, "Can Patients Humanize their Electronic Health Record to Facilitate Stronger Connections with Care Teams?, " Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) Annual Meeting, Washington, - 05/09/19
Cusatis, Rachel and Noelle Chesley, "Gender and Time Use: Different Conceptualizations in Physical Activity and the Role of Housework, Care, and Paid Work, " American Association of Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), Toronto, - 05/16/19
 
Regional
Fuhrmann, Daniel, Rachel Cusatis, and Laura Otto-Salaj, "A Feasibility, Reliability, and
Confirmatory Factor Analysis in urban African-American women using the SF-36, " Annual Meeting of the Midwest Economics Association, Minneapolis, - 03/26/2015
Cusatis, Rachel. "What Activities Count?: Using Experimental Data to Understand
Conceptualizations of Physical Activity, " Annual Meeting of the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research, Chicago, - 11/18/2016
 
Local
Cusatis, Rachel, "Patient-Generated Contextual Data Facilitates In-Visit Communication: A Qualitative Assessment." Center for Healthy Communities & Research Fellowship Grand Rounds. Department of Family and Community, 06/08/2019 - Present
Cusatis, Rachel, "Which Activities Count? Gender and Socioeconomic Differences in the Conceptualization of Physical Activity: The Role of Leisure, Housework and Dependent Care, and Paid Work." Center for Healthy Communities & Research Fellowship Grand Rounds
Cusatis, Rachel, "Gender Differences in Decision Making, Time Use, and Fertility-Related Quality of Life Among Men and Women Seeking Care for Infertility
Cusatis, Rachel, "Clinicians' & Patients' Perspectives on How Patient Contextual Data Impacts Patient-Clinician Communication." Department of Medicine Research Retreat
 

MCW TEACHING ACTIVITIES:
Medical Student Education
04/2018 - Present Taught Introduction to Epidemiology and Population Health to
10/2018 - Present Taught Introduction to Research Methods, Specifically Survey
Methodology, to 2nd year Residents
M1 Students
 
Graduate Student Education
08/2018 - 12/2018 Instructor, Survey Research Methods, an 18-week, 3
Health
credit course for PhD students in Public and Community
 

EXTRAMURAL TEACHING:
Graduate Student Education
2011 - 2013 Teaching Assistant, Sociology Department, University of Wisconsin
11/2016 - Present UW-Milwaukee, Guest Lecture Statistics in Criminology: "Analysis of
04/2018 - Present UW-Milwaukee, Guest Lecture Sociology of Gender: "Gender and Time
Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
• Sociology 101 - Introduction to Sociology
• Sociology 361 - Research Methods in Sociology
• Sociology 760 - Advanced Statistical Methods in Sociology
Variance: ANOVA"
Use"
• Sociology 982 - Advanced Quantitative Analysis
 

COMMUNITY SERVICE ACTIVITIES:
04/2015 - 06/2018 Volunteer Coach for Girls on the Run After School
04/2016 - 10/2018 Member of the Young Professionals of the American
09/2016 - 09/2017 Chair of the American Cancer Society Survivor Brunch
College Prep Lloyd St., and Northside YMCA
Committee
Cancer Society
Program at the La Causa Middle School, Milwaukee
 


BIBLIOGRAPHY
Refereed Journal Publications/Original Papers
1. Cusatis, R., Holt J., Asan O., Williams J., Nukuna S., Flynn K.E., Neuner J., Crotty B., The Impact of Patient-Generated Contextual Data on Communication in Clinical Practice: A Qualitative Assessment of Patient and Clinician Perspectives. Patient Education and Counseling, (in press).
2. Holt, J. M., Cusatis, R., Asan, O., Williams, J., Nukuna, S., Flynn, K. E., ... Crotty, B. H. (2019). Incorporating patient-generated contextual data into care: Clinician perspectives using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Science. Healthcare, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hjdsi.2019.100369
3. Flynn K.E., Whicker D., Cusatis R., Nyitray A., Weinfurt K.P. (2019). Sexual orientation and patient-provider communication about sexual problems or concerns among U.S. adults. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 1-7.
4. Cusatis, R., Fergestrom, N., Cooper A., Schoyer K., Kruper A., Sandlow J., Strawn E., Flynn K.E. (2019). Too much time? Time use and fertility-specific quality of life among men and women seeking specialty care for infertility. BMC Psychology; 7(1):45.
5. Cusatis, R. & Garbarski, D. (2019). Different domains of physical activity: The role of leisure, housework/care work, and paid work in socioeconomic differences in reported physical activity. SSM-Population Health, 7, 100387.
6. Cusatis, R. & Garbarski, D. (2018). Which activities count? Using experimental data to understand conceptualizations of physical activity. SSM-Population Health, 6, 286-294.
 
Non-Refereed Journal Publications/Original Papers
1. Joosten, T. Cusatis, R. & Harness, L. (2018). Research innovation in distance education. Planning Journal, 46, 3. Retrieved from: https://www.scup.org/page/phe/read/toc?data_id=18552
2. UNDER REVIEW
3. Anguzu R., Cusatis R., Fergestrom N., Cooper A., Sandlow J., Schoyer K., Flynn K.E., Decision-making and decisional conflict among couples seeking treatment for infertility. (Revise & Resubmit at Human Reproduction)
4. Joosten, T., Cusatis R. A Cross-Institutional Study of Instructional Characteristics and Student Outcomes: Are Quality Indicators or Online Course Able to Predict Student Success?
5. Joosten, T., Cusatis R. Student Characteristics Influencing Student Outcomes in Online Courses: A Cross-Institutional Study of Student Preparedness and Readiness.
6. WORKS IN PROGRESS
7. Bogar S., Gundacker C., Cusatis R., Yi R., Screening for Social Determinants of Health Among Adolescents in Primary Care: Systematic Literature Review.
8. Cusatis R., Fergestrom N., Cooper A., Schoyer K., Kruper A., Sandlow J., Strawn E., Flynn K.E., Fertility-Specific Quality of Life Among Couples Over Time.
9. Cusatis R., Tecca H., D'Souza A., Shaw B., Flynn K.E., Prevalence of transplantation regret among hematopoietic cell transplant patients and change in regret over time.
10. Gundacker C., Cusatis R., Yi R., Bogar S., Systematic Literature Review of Child Social Determinants of Health Screening Instruments in Primary Care.
11. Ibrahim, A., Cusatis R., Knight J., D'Souza A., Shaw B.E., Medication use and sleep disturbance in hematopoietic cell transplant patients.