Antonia Bennett

Biostats Core Director, Duke Site Principal Investigator, UNC Steering Committee Member

Antonia Bennett, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Gillings School of Global Public Health, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a faculty member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.  She is health services researcher and patient-reported outcomes methodologist.  She received her PhD from the University of Washington School of Public Health and completed post-doctoral fellowship training in cancer outcomes research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Her research employs both qualitative and quantitative methods to investigate valid and reliable approaches for assessing patient-reported outcomes in longitudinal research in adult and pediatric populations.

Dr. Bennett has contributed to the development, validation, and mode-equivalence testing of the NCI Patient Reported Outcomes version of the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (PRO-CTCAE).  She provides consultation to investigators regarding the design and implementation of PRO and wearable device data capture in clinical research. She directs the Measurement Core of the NIH-supported Palliative Care Research Cooperative Group, and is the Faculty Director of the UNC Patient-Reported Outcomes Core (PRO Core).