Louise Davis

Dr. Davies is Professor of Surgery – Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.

Her research focuses on cancer epidemiology and screening with a particular focus on the patient experience of and management of the downstream effects of screening detected and incidentally detected cancers.

She collaborated with the COMET Study Team on recruitment from 2018 – 2022, bringing together with COMET colleagues she began working with at the University of Bristol while a Fulbright Global Scholar Research grantee in 2017-18. Together, they brought to COMET the QuinteT Recruitment Intervention, an  approach to trial recruitment that is well established in the U.K. but which is new to many outside the U.K. Dr. Davies will share details of these approaches and the research protocol that underpins them, which holds promise to support trials to reach recruitment targets, while optimizing informed consent and ensuring all eligible patients have the opportunity to hear about trials, increasing the likelihood of diversity in recruitment.