ADDRESS:
School of Nursing
University at Buffalo
201C Wende Hall
Buffalo, NY 14214-3079
PHONE: 716-829-2178
EMAIL: darrylso@buffalo.edu
Darryl Somayaji earned her BSN from Niagara University. She went on to earn an MSN from D'Youville College with a focus on community health and teaching, as well as her PhD in Nursing from the University of Utah. She recently completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in cancer and health disparities from the Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center and the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her research areas of interest include cancer and health disparities with a focus on access to care in cancer survivorship and recruitment and retention of underserved individuals to cancer clinical trials.
Somayaji, D., Melendez, M., Kwon, M., & Lathan, C. (2019). Access to cancer care resources in a federally qualified health center: A mixed methods study to increase the understanding of met and unmet needs of cancer survivors. Journal of Cancer Education, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13187-019-01669-1
Somayaji, D., Blok, A., Hayman, L., Colson, Y., Jaklisch, M., & Cooley, M. E. (2019) Enhancing behavioral change among lung cancer survivors participating in a lifestyle risk reduction intervention: A qualitative study. Supportive Care in Cancer, 27(4), 1299-1308.
Somayaji, D., & Bellury, L. (2019). Post-treatment and survivorship care. In M. M. Olsen, K. B., LeFebvre, & K. J. Brassil (Eds.), Chemotherapy and immunotherapy guidelines and recommendations for practice (pp.597-614). Pittsburgh, PA: Oncology Nursing Society.
Somayaji, D., Chang, Y. P., Casucci, S., Xue, Y., & Hewner, S. (2018). Exploring Medicaid claims data to understand predictors of healthcare utilization and mortality for Medicaid individuals with or without a diagnosis of lung cancer: A feasibility study. Translational Behavioral Medicine, 8(3), 400-408.
Blok, A. C., Blonquist, T. M., Nayak, M. M., Somayaji, D., Crouter, S. E., Hayman, L. L. ... & Cooley, M. E. (2017). Feasibility and acceptability of “healthy directions” a lifestyle intervention for adults with lung cancer. Psycho‐Oncology, 27(1), 250-257.
Sriphanlop, P., Crookes, D., DeMairo, K., Somayaji, D., Killack, M., McFarlane, A., LePere, J., & Jandorf, L. (2016). New York state health care provider participation in clinical trials: A brief report. Annals of Cancer Research. doi:10.7243/2049-7962-5-3
Crookes, D., Wang, C., Karen R. DeMairo, K., Killack, M., LePere, J., McFarlane, A., Somayaji, D. ... & Jandorf, L. (2015). Perceptions about participation in cancer clinical trials in New York state. The Journal of Community and Supportive Oncology, 13(2), 1-11.
Somayaji D, & Cloyes, K. G. (2015). Cancer fear and fatalism: How African American participants construct the role of research subject in relation to clinical cancer research. Cancer Nursing, 38(2), 133-44.
Naholi, R., Nosek, C. L., & Somayaji, D. (2015). Stress among new oncology nurses. Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, 19(1), 115-117.
Somayaji D, & Cloyes, K. G. (2014). Uniting postcolonial, discourse, and linguistic theory to explore participation of African Americans in cancer research as an effect of social and historical race relationships. ANS Advancing Nursing Science, 37(1), 32-47.
Term: 2019-2022
Role: Co-Investigator (Co-PIs: Laurene Tumiel-Berhalter & Cherrise Walker-Betts)
Funding Source: New York State Department of Health
Award Amount: $250,000
Abstract: The goal of this study is to reduce morbidity and mortality from breast cancer among African American women by actively engaging family history as a tool to modify screening regimens and enhance communication between women and their providers.
Term: 2019-2020
Role: Co-investigator (PI: Laurene Tumiel-Berhalter)
Funding Source: Erie County Department of Health
Award Amount: $225,000
Abstract: This project fosters patient and provider conversations that will build awareness of cancer risks to activate screening. Community-based partners will develop and deploy an innovative outreach approach that will use “patients as teachers” in a modified version of the academic detailing model that we will refer to as “engagement detailing.”
Term: 2018-2019
Role: Principal Investigator (Multiple interdisciplinary co-investigators)
Funding Source: University at Buffalo CTSI
Award Amount: $50,000
Term: 2017-2018
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding Source: Patricia H. Garman Behavioral Health Nursing Endowment Fund
Award Amount: $10,000
Term: 2015-2016
Role: Principal Investigator (Mentored Research Support)
Funding Source: Gregory J. Dimitriadis Research Mentoring Fellowship
Award Amount: $5,000
Term: 2014-2015
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding Source: Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center
Award Amount: $20,000