Dr. Graetz sees patients and leads the St. Jude Global programs that improve communication practices and culturally aware patient-centered care for pediatric oncology patients. Her work supports St. Jude Global in ensuring that children have access to quality care and treatment in more than 70 countries. Her organization studies interactions between patients, families and their healthcare teams to understand how those exchanges impact cancer care in global settings. Dr. Graetz has studied childhood cancer-associated stigma in Zimbabwe, Jordan and Guatemala. The data obtained from her studies are now being used to develop a quantitative way to assess stigma worldwide and mitigate this impediment to quality care. Her recent research on these topics have been published in the journals Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, Cancer, Cancer Medicine, Global Qualitative Nursing Research, Frontiers in Oncology, Pediatric Blood & Cancer and JCO Global Oncology. Most recently, Dr. Graetz was awarded the “Conquer Cancer Young Investigator Award” from American Society of Clinical Oncology.
