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Anna N. A. Tosteson serves as Professor of The Dartmouth Institute, Professor of Medicine, and Professor of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine, holding the James J. Carroll 1948 Professorship in Oncology. She directs the Comparative Effectiveness Research Program at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, serves as Associate Director for Population Sciences at Dartmouth Cancer Center, and is Principal Investigator for SYNERGY (Dartmouth's Clinical and Translational Science Institute).
Her educational background includes an ScD in Biostatistics (Health Decision Sciences) and MS in Biostatistics from Harvard University, plus a BS in Statistics & Biometry from Cornell University. She teaches PH 119/121 and QBS 140 on Decision and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis.
As a decision scientist and health services researcher, Tosteson investigates healthcare innovation diffusion impacts on health outcomes, costs, and quality through diverse data sources including registries, EHRs, clinical studies, and claims data. Her research focuses on cancer screening, musculoskeletal disease, and women's health with emphasis on comparative effectiveness. Recent publications reveal strong trends in telehealth accessibility disparities, risk-based cancer screening protocols, rural-urban care access gaps, and diagnostic pathway optimization - particularly examining digital divides in mammography follow-up and cross-state cancer care travel patterns.
Her active NIH-funded research includes Promoting follow-up of abnormal cancer screening tests using population-based systems (NCI: U01CA225451) and Risk-based breast cancer screening and surveillance in community practice (NCI: P01CA154292). She mentors through SYNERGY's CTSA program and leads population sciences initiatives at Dartmouth Cancer Center.
