Shama D Karanth,
Assistant Professor
Department:
MD-SURG-POPULATION HEALTH SCI
Business Phone:
(352) 273-9390
Business Email:
shama.karanth@ufl.edu
About Shama D Karanth
Dr. Karanth has a broad and rigorous doctoral-level training in biostatistics and epidemiology. Her current research focuses is on the application of causal inference methods in the field of aging epidemiology. Conventional statistical methods have limitations, Dr. Karanth is particularly interested in the use of advanced newer statistical methods to account for various types of biases that are inherent to observational studies. As an epidemiologist, Dr. Karanth believes that prevention is crucial to reduce the burden of diseases in advanced age. Dr. Karanth research interests are cancer epidemiology, particularly on lung and oropharyngeal cancer survivorship.
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Accomplishments
Southeastern Conference Visiting Faculty Travel Grant
2024
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University of Florida
Trainee/Early-Stage Investigator Travel award
2023
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GMaP Region 2
Trainee/Early Stage Investigator Travel award
2022
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GMaP Region 2
Highest Scored Abstract Travel Award
2022
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American Society of Preventive Oncology
Conference Travel Award
2020
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Graduate Student Congress, University of Kentucky
Women and Philanthropy Travel Scholarship
2020
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Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, University of Kentucky
Medical Center Provost Scholarship
2018
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College of Public Health, University of Kentucky
Teaching Profile
Courses Taught
2024-2025
PHC6001 Principles of Epidemiology in Public Health
Board Certifications
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General Dentistry LicenseGoa State Dental Council, Dental Council of India
Research Profile
Areas of Interest
- Cancer epidemiology
- Causal inference
- Dementia
- Health Disparities
- Neurodegenerative diseases of aging
Publications
Academic Articles
2025
Participation in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Clinical Trials in the United States by Race/Ethnicity.
Clinical lung cancer.
26(1):52-57.e2
[DOI] 10.1016/j.cllc.2024.09.009.
[PMID] 39462747.
2024
Disparities in Utilization of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy Among Older Patients With Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A SEER-Medicare Analysis.
JCO oncology advances.
1
[DOI] 10.1200/OA.24.00008.
[PMID] 39758136.
2024
Evaluating ChatGPT’s accuracy in providing screening mammography recommendations among older women: Artificial Intelligence and cancer communication
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
72(7):2237-2240
[DOI] 10.1111/jgs.18854.
[PMID] 38485652.
2024
Genetic associations with dementia‐related proteinopathy: Application of item response theory
Alzheimer's & Dementia.
20(4):2906-2921
[DOI] 10.1002/alz.13741.
[PMID] 38460116.
2024
Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950-2021, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.
Lancet (London, England).
403(10440):1989-2056
[DOI] 10.1016/S0140-6736(24)00476-8.
[PMID] 38484753.
2024
Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990-2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.
Lancet (London, England).
403(10440):2162-2203
[DOI] 10.1016/S0140-6736(24)00933-4.
[PMID] 38762324.
2024
Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990-2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.
Lancet (London, England).
403(10440):2100-2132
[DOI] 10.1016/S0140-6736(24)00367-2.
[PMID] 38582094.
2024
Global, regional, and national burden of disorders affecting the nervous system, 1990-2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.
The Lancet. Neurology.
23(4):344-381
[DOI] 10.1016/S1474-4422(24)00038-3.
[PMID] 38493795.
2024
Health Care Access Dimensions and Racial Disparities in End-of-Life Care Quality among Patients with Ovarian Cancer.
Cancer research communications.
4(3):811-821
[DOI] 10.1158/2767-9764.CRC-23-0283.
[PMID] 38441644.
2024
Household Income Is Associated with Chronic Pain and High-Impact Chronic Pain among Cancer Survivors: A Cross-Sectional Study Using NHIS Data.
Cancers.
16(16)
[DOI] 10.3390/cancers16162847.
[PMID] 39199618.
2024
Metabolic Phenotype and Risk of Obesity-Related Cancers in the Women’s Health Initiative
Cancer Prevention Research.
OF1-OF10
[DOI] 10.1158/1940-6207.capr-24-0082.
2024
Patient-Provider Discussion About Lung Cancer Screening by Race and Ethnicity: Implications for Equitable Uptake of Lung Cancer Screening.
Clinical lung cancer.
25(1):39-49
[DOI] 10.1016/j.cllc.2023.08.013.
[PMID] 37673782.
2024
Persistent poverty disparities in incidence and outcomes among oral and pharynx cancer patients.
Cancer causes & control : CCC.
35(7):1063-1073
[DOI] 10.1007/s10552-024-01867-3.
[PMID] 38520565.
2024
Racial and socioeconomic disparities in survival among women with advanced-stage ovarian cancer who received systemic therapy.
Cancer causes & control : CCC.
35(3):487-496
[DOI] 10.1007/s10552-023-01810-y.
[PMID] 37874478.
2024
Rethinking how mobile units can catalyze progress on lung cancer screening: a scoping review of what we have learned.
Journal of thoracic disease.
16(10):7143-7154
[DOI] 10.21037/jtd-24-846.
[PMID] 39552879.
2024
Risk factors for long COVID syndrome in postmenopausal women with previously reported diagnosis of COVID-19.
Annals of epidemiology.
98:36-43
[DOI] 10.1016/j.annepidem.2024.08.003.
[PMID] 39142425.
2024
The Use of Chatbots in Head and Neck Mucosal Malignancy Treatment Recommendations.
Otolaryngology–head and neck surgery : official journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.
171(4):1062-1068
[DOI] 10.1002/ohn.818.
[PMID] 38769872.
2023
Abstract B001: Elevated all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in cancer survivors with sarcopenia
Cancer Research.
83(2_Supplement_1):B001-B001
[DOI] 10.1158/1538-7445.agca22-b001.
2023
Allostatic load and risk of all‐cause, cancer‐specific, and cardiovascular mortality in older cancer survivors: An analysis of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999–2010
Aging and Cancer.
4(2):74-84
[DOI] 10.1002/aac2.12064.
[PMID] 37576467.
2023
Association of Physical Frailty and Cognitive Function in a Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study of American Older Adults
Gerontology.
70(1):1-11
[DOI] 10.1159/000533919.
[PMID] 37903474.
2023
Association of reproductive risk factors and breast cancer molecular subtypes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
BMC cancer.
23(1)
[DOI] 10.1186/s12885-023-11049-0.
[PMID] 37430191.
2023
Association of type 2 diabetes mellitus with dementia‐related and non–dementia‐related mortality among postmenopausal women: A secondary competing risks analysis of the women’s health initiative
Alzheimer's & Dementia.
20(1):234-242
[DOI] 10.1002/alz.13416.
[PMID] 37563765.
2023
Associations of Total Body Fat Mass and Skeletal Muscle Index with All-Cause and Cancer-Specific Mortality in Cancer Survivors.
Cancers.
15(4)
[DOI] 10.3390/cancers15041081.
[PMID] 36831420.
2023
Clinician and patient perspectives on screening mammography among women age 75 and older: A pilot study of a novel decision aid
PEC Innovation.
2
[DOI] 10.1016/j.pecinn.2023.100132.
[PMID] 37124453.
2023
Food insecurity is associated with chronic pain and high-impact chronic pain in the USA.
Public health nutrition.
27(1)
[DOI] 10.1017/S1368980023002732.
[PMID] 38087858.
2023
Global burden of chronic respiratory diseases and risk factors, 1990-2019: an update from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.
EClinicalMedicine.
59
[DOI] 10.1016/j.eclinm.2023.101936.
[PMID] 37229504.
2023
Global investments in pandemic preparedness and COVID-19: development assistance and domestic spending on health between 1990 and 2026
The Lancet Global Health.
[DOI] 10.1016/s2214-109x(23)00007-4.
2023
Global, regional, and national burden of diabetes from 1990 to 2021, with projections of prevalence to 2050: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.
Lancet (London, England).
402(10397):203-234
[DOI] 10.1016/S0140-6736(23)01301-6.
[PMID] 37356446.
2023
Sex‐specific association of physical frailty and cognitive function in a population‐based cross‐sectional study of American older adults
Alzheimer's & Dementia.
19(S6)
[DOI] 10.1002/alz.068336.
2023
Socioeconomic disparities in immunotherapy use among advanced-stage non-small cell lung cancer patients: analysis of the National Cancer Database.
Scientific reports.
13(1)
[DOI] 10.1038/s41598-023-35216-2.
[PMID] 37210410.
2023
Survival Differences by Comorbidity Burden among Patients with Stage I/II Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer after Thoracoscopic Resection.
Cancers.
15(7)
[DOI] 10.3390/cancers15072075.
[PMID] 37046735.
2023
The Global, Regional, and National Burden of Adult Lip, Oral, and Pharyngeal Cancer in 204 Countries and Territories: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.
JAMA oncology.
9(10):1401-1416
[DOI] 10.1001/jamaoncol.2023.2960.
[PMID] 37676656.
2023
The Intersectionality Between Race, Ethnicity, and Residential-level Socioeconomic Status in Disparities of Head and Neck Cancer Outcomes: A SEER study.
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology.
32(4):516-523
[DOI] 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-22-1167.
[PMID] 36780193.
2023
Trends and factors associated with secondhand smoke exposure among US cancer survivors, 2013-2020.
Cancer.
129(19):3053-3063
[DOI] 10.1002/cncr.34891.
[PMID] 37254857.
2022
An evaluation of injurious falls and Fall-Risk-Increasing-Drug (FRID) prescribing in ambulatory care in older adults.
BMC geriatrics.
22(1)
[DOI] 10.1186/s12877-022-02877-z.
[PMID] 35272628.
2022
Cancer diagnosis is associated with a lower burden of dementia and less Alzheimer’s-type neuropathology
Brain.
[DOI] 10.1093/brain/awac035.
[PMID] 35094057.
2022
Global Noncoding microRNA Profiling in Mice Infected with Partial Human Mouth Microbes (PAHMM) Using an Ecological Time-Sequential Polybacterial Periodontal Infection (ETSPPI) Model Reveals Sex-Specific Differential microRNA Expression
International Journal of Molecular Sciences.
23(9)
[DOI] 10.3390/ijms23095107.
2022
Low muscle mass is associated with a higher risk of all-cause and cardiovascular disease-specific mortality in cancer survivors
Nutrition.
107
[DOI] 10.1016/j.nut.2022.111934.
[PMID] 36563433.
2022
Personalised Lung Cancer Screening (PLuS) study to assess the importance of coexisting chronic conditions to clinical practice and policy: protocol for a multicentre observational study.
BMJ open.
12(6)
[DOI] 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-064142.
[PMID] 35732383.
2021
Four Common Late-Life Cognitive Trajectories Patterns Associate with Replicable Underlying Neuropathologies.
Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD.
82(2):647-659
[DOI] 10.3233/JAD-210293.
[PMID] 34057090.
2021
Inflammation in Relation to Sarcopenia and Sarcopenic Obesity among Older Adults Living with Chronic Comorbidities: Results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999-2006.
Nutrients.
13(11)
[DOI] 10.3390/nu13113957.
[PMID] 34836213.
2021
Racial Differences in Survival Among Advanced-stage Non-small-Cell Lung Cancer Patients Who Received Immunotherapy: An Analysis of the US National Cancer Database (NCDB)
Journal of Immunotherapy.
45(2):132-137
[DOI] 10.1097/CJI.0000000000000400.
[PMID] 34747372.
2020
Distinct clinicopathologic clusters of persons with TDP-43 proteinopathy.
Acta neuropathologica.
140(5):659-674
[DOI] 10.1007/s00401-020-02211-0.
[PMID] 32797255.
2020
Prevalence and Clinical Phenotype of Quadruple Misfolded Proteins in Older Adults.
JAMA neurology.
77(10):1299-1307
[DOI] 10.1001/jamaneurol.2020.1741.
[PMID] 32568358.
2019
Genetic Sample Provision Among National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center Participants.
Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD.
69(1):123-133
[DOI] 10.3233/JAD-181159.
[PMID] 30958359.
2019
Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Health-Care Access Disparities in Ovarian Cancer Treatment and Mortality: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
JNCI cancer spectrum.
3(4)
[DOI] 10.1093/jncics/pkz084.
[PMID] 31840133.
2002
Tooth exfoliation, osteonecrosis and neuralgia following herpes zoster of trigeminal nerve.
Indian journal of dental research : official publication of Indian Society for Dental Research.
13(1):11-4
[PMID] 12420562.
Presentations
2023-04-14
Persistent poverty and oral and pharynx cancer incidence and relative survival rates
National
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Other.
Poster.
2023-04-14
Associations of Fat Mass and Sarcopenia With All-Cause and Cancer-Specific Mortality in Cancer Survivors
National
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Other.
Poster.
2022-07-16
Sex-specific association of physical frailty and cognitive function in a population-based cross-sectional study of American older adults
National
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Other.
Poster.
2023-04-14
Artificial Intelligence in Oncology Clinical trials
State
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Other.
Poster.
2024-04-05
Evaluating racial and ethnic differences in advanced-stage laryngeal cancer treatment and outcomes in Florida: Unmasking the inequities
National
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Other.
Poster.
San Diego
2024-04-05
Computational exploration of genomic differences in Black patients treated with chemoradiation for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC)
National
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Other.
Poster.
San Diego
2023-09-29
Racial disparities in survival among oral cavity and pharynx cancer patients treated with immunotherapy: Insights from the US National Cancer Database (NCDB)
National
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Other.
Poster.
Orlando
2023-07-16
Effect of Interaction between APOE genotype and Type 2 diabetes on Cognitive and Neuropathology features
International
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Other.
Poster.
2023-11-12
Secondhand smoke exposure among US cancer survivors: Analysis of national health survey data 2013-2020
National
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Other.
Poster.
Atlanta
Grants
Jul 2023
ACTIVE
Advancing Precision Lung Cancer Surveillance and Outcomes in Diverse Populations (PLuS2)
Role: Co-Investigator
Funding: NATL INST OF HLTH NCI
Jun 2021
ACTIVE
Personalized screening for lung cancer: the importance of co-existing chronic conditions to clinical practice and policy
Role: Co-Investigator
Funding: NATL INST OF HLTH NCI
Education
Phd- Epidemiology and Biostatistics
2017-2021
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University of Kentucky
Advanced Training in Clinical Research Certificate
2016
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University of California, San Francisco
Contact Details
Phones:
- Business:
- (352) 273-9390
Emails:
- Business:
- shama.karanth@ufl.edu
Research Administrative Manager:
Addresses:
- Business Mailing:
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2004 MOWRY RD
GAINESVILLE FL 32611 - Business Street:
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2004 MOWRY RD
GAINESVILLE FL 32611