Dr. Rosemary Cress is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences and Co-director at Climate Adaption Research Center. Her research focuses on using cancer registry data to identify disparities by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status in cancer treatment and survival.

Positions at UC Davis

• Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Health Sciences
• Co-Director, Climate Adaptation Research Center

Major Research Papers

Yuan, Yao & Dyke, Alison & Petkov, Valentina & Tuan, Alyssa & Singhi, Aatur & Matrisian, Lynn & Rahib, Lola & Pearson, John & Nones, Katia & Waddell, Nicola & Zhao, Yongmei & Shen, Tsai-wei & Tran, Bao & Shetty, Jyoti & Gillanders, Elizabeth & Carrick, Danielle & Cress, Rosemary & Mueller, Lloyd & Hernandez, Brenda & Penberthy, Lynne. (2020). Abstract 224: Evaluation of next generation sequencing of DNA and RNA from archival formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded pancreatic cancer tissue: A pilot study of the SEER-linked virtual tissue repository. Cancer Research. 80. 224-224. 10.1158/1538-7445.AM2020-224. 

Shrestha, Anshu & Stewart, Eric & Cress, Rosemary. (2021). Are We Undercounting MDS? An Analysis of Incidence Patterns of Myelodysplastic Syndromes in SEER 21 Regions: 2001-2016. Journal of registry management. 48. 168-173. 

Potosky, Arnold & Graves, Kristi & Lin, Li & Pan, Wei & Fall-Dickson, Jane & Ahn, Jaeil & Ferguson, Kristin & Keegan, Theresa & Paddock, Lisa & Wu, Xiao-Cheng & Cress, Rosemary & Reeve, Bryce. (2021). The prevalence and risk of symptom and function clusters in colorectal cancer survivors. Journal of Cancer Survivorship. 16. 1-12. 10.1007/s11764-021-01123-6. 

Ssenyonga, Naomi & Stiller, Charles & Nakata, Kayo & Shalkow, Jaime & Redmond, Sheilagh & Bulliard, Jean-Luc & Girardi, Fabio & Fowler, Christine & Marcos-Gragera, Raphael & Bonaventure, Audrey & Saint-Jacques, Nathalie & Minicozzi, Pamela & De, Prithwish & Rodriguez-Barranco, Miguel & Larønningen, Siri & Carlo, Veronica & Mägi, Margit & Valkov, Mikhail & Seppä, Karri & Lewis, Chris. (2022). Worldwide trends in population-based survival for children, adolescents, and young adults diagnosed with leukemia, by subtype, during 2000–14 (CONCORD-3): analysis of individual data from 258 cancer registries in 61 countries. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. 6. 10.1016/S2352-4642(22)00095-5. 

Noel, Onika & Stewart, Eric & Cress, Rosemary & Dall'Era, Marc & Shrestha, Anshu. (2023). Underutilization of intravesical chemotherapy and immunotherapy for high grade non-muscle invasive bladder cancer in California between 2006-2018: Effect of race, age and socioeconomic status on treatment disparities. Urologic oncology. 41. 10.1016/j.urolonc.2023.05.019