University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) researchers are conducting a pilot study of a couples ballroom dance intervention for women who are breast, colorectal, endometrial and ovarian cancer survivors, and their partners. Investigators hope to learn whether this easily accessible activity has an impact on quality of life issues following cancer, specifically physical fitness and relationship intimacy.
Three University of Alabama at Birmingham faculty have been named SMART honorees by the Women’s Fund of Greater Birmingham: including Isabel Scarinci, Ph.D., a professor in the Division of Preventive Medicine. 
Cancer Prevention and Control
The overall goal of this program is to reduce cancer incidence, morbidity and mortality, and improve outcomes, with special emphasis on health disparities. The program also provides research training for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty through the Minority Health & Health Disparities Research Center training programs.
Current Projects
Current projects include behavioral intervention studies, prevention trials, observational and outcomes studies, cancer surveillance, and community-based research with a strong track record in the use of community health workers (CHW) and volunteers. The program has a significant number of scientists with research focus on African American and Hispanic populations. The Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Shared Facility of the Cancer Center is an integral part of this program.
Faculty
The studies conducted are collaborative and multi-disciplinary and capitalize on the strengths that UAB provides in its broad spectrum of researchers and scientists, including faculty at the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Center for Health Promotion.
- Monica L. Baskin, PhD (leader)
- Mona Fouad, MD MPH
- Sejong Bae, PHD
- Alan B. Cantor, PhD
- Tiffany L. Carson, PhD MPH
- Dongquan Chen, PhD MSHI
- Renee A. Desmond, DVM PhD
- Young-il Kim, PhD
- Yufeng Li, PhD
- Michelle Y. Martin, PhD
- Robert A. Oster, PhD
- Maria Pisu, PhD
- Isabel C. Scarinci, PhD MPH
- Yu-Mei M. Schoenberger, PhD
- Karan P. Singh, PhD
- Seng-jaw Soong, PhD
Faculty with a secondary research interest in this area are: