Faculty

Diana Buist

Affiliate Professor, Epidemiology


dsmbuist@gmail.com

Education

PhD Epidemiology, University of Washington, 1999
MPH Epidemiology, Yale University, 1995

Contact


dsmbuist@gmail.com

Seattle, WA

Bio

Diana Buist, PhD, MPH, is an epidemiologist and health services researcher with extensive experience conducting comparative effectiveness research. Her work focuses on reducing harms and increasing benefits for patients in the area of cancer screening and outcomes spanning across patient, provider, and system factors.

Dr. Buist has an extensive record of practical research that has led to many efforts to improve care, including the development and refinement of national breast cancer screening guidelines. She has been conducting research within Kaiser Permanente Washington for more than 20 years and is a strong believer in patient-centered care and the important role patients play in improving the value and quality of health care.

Research Areas

Research Interests

  • Comparative effectiveness research
  • Delivery system science
  • Learning health care system research
  • Dissemination and implementation
  • Pragmatic clinical trials
  • Epidemiology
  • Health services

Recent Publications (PubMed)

Performance of statistical and machine learning risk prediction models for surveillance benefits and failures in breast cancer survivors.
(2023 Jan 25)
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev
Su YR, Buist DS, Lee JM, Ichikawa L, Miglioretti DL, Aiello Bowles EJ, Wernli KJ, Kerlikowske K, Tosteson A, Lowry KP, Henderson LM, Sprague BL, Hubbard RA
Effect of Patient Characteristics on Uptake of Screening Using a Mailed Human Papillomavirus Self-sampling Kit: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial.
(2022 Nov 1)
JAMA Netw Open 5(11): e2244343
Winer RL, Lin J, Tiro JA, Miglioretti DL, Beatty T, Gao H, Kimbel K, Thayer C, Buist DSM
External Validation of an Ensemble Model for Automated Mammography Interpretation by Artificial Intelligence.
(2022 Nov 1)
JAMA Netw Open 5(11): e2242343
Hsu W, Hippe DS, Nakhaei N, Wang PC, Zhu B, Siu N, Ahsen ME, Lotter W, Sorensen AG, Naeim A, Buist DSM, Schaffter T, Guinney J, Elmore JG, Lee CI
Women's Breast Cancer Screening Confidence by Screening Modality and Breast Density: A Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium Survey Study.
(2022 Nov)
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 31(11): 1547-1556
Tosteson ANA, Schifferdecker KE, Smith RE, Wernli KJ, Zhao W, Kaplan CP, Buist DSM, Henderson LM, Sprague BL, Onega T, Budesky J, Jackson-Nefertiti G, Johnson D, Miglioretti DL, Kerlikowske K
Design of a pragmatic randomized controlled trial of home-based human papillomavirus (HPV) self-sampling for increasing cervical cancer screening uptake in a U.S. healthcare system: The STEP trial.
(2022 Nov)
Contemp Clin Trials 122(): 106960
Winer RL, Lin J, Anderson ML, Tiro JA, Meenan RT, Hansen K, Gao H, Sparks A, Greene DN, Kilgore-Martin S, Green BB, Buist DSM
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