Dr. Tiffany Avery of NantHealth: 5 Things We Must Do To Improve the US Healthcare System

Ensuring that everyone has access to healthcare is essential. Access should be coupled with an emphasis on screening and prevention efforts, as well. For example, patients without healthcare access are diagnosed with cancers at later stages, which leads to worse outcomes. Being able to catch those cancers earlier with appropriate screening would directly impact survival. Being able to prevent some cancers altogether on a large scale, using the HPV vaccine, for example, would be even better.

As a part of my interview series with leaders in healthcare, I had the pleasure to interview Dr. Tiffany Avery.

Dr. Tiffany Avery is Medical Director of Oncology at NantHealth. Prior to her role at NantHealth, she served as an Assistant Professor of Oncology at Thomas Jefferson University and Wake Forest Baptist Health. She earned her BS and MPH in Epidemiology from Tulane University, and MD from LSU Health Sciences Center-New Orleans. In her academic roles…