Ilana Gareen, PhD, MPH, AB

Providence, RI

Associate Professor, Brown University School of Public Health

Represented: Researchers

Ilana Gareen is an epidemiologist with more than 20 years of experience in the collaborative design and conduct of studies of diagnostic imaging technologies. Her research focuses on patient outcomes associated with diagnostic imaging technologies, including the impact of imaging on patient health, patient quality of life, and medical care utilization. She currently serves as Co-Chair for the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Care Delivery Research Committee. In that role, she collaborates on the collection of the downstream consequences of medical interventions, including adverse events and patient-reported outcomes.

Gareen directs the Outcomes and Economics Assessment Unit at Brown University. She has been responsible for the collection of patient-reported outcomes in many ECOG-ACRIN clinical trials. She was Co-Chair for the American College of Radiology Imaging Network National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) and a key member of the NLST Executive Committee responsible for day-to-day operation of the trial, as well as for publication and dissemination of the primary trial results. She currently holds NIH Research Project grants to explore the impact of significant incidental finding detection in the NLST on patient morbidity and mortality and to compare lung screening efficacy in the NLST versus effectiveness in community lung screening.

Ilana served as a member of the Advisory Panel on Clinical Trials from August 2020 to August 2023.