Sunita Patel, PhD

Sunita Patel, Ph.D., is a neuropsychologist whose research focuses on the risk and protective factors of cancer-related neurocognitive morbidities. Her research has been funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health, American Cancer Society and California Breast Cancer Research Program. She has conducted interdisciplinary projects to identify inflammatory biomarkers of behavioral symptoms in adult-onset cancer patients, examined functional outcomes into long-term survivorship, and evaluated interventions to improve health-related quality of life in children with cancer. She has collaborated on funded multicenter studies focused on cancer treated neurocognitive effects in older patients treated for cancer, web-based caregiver interventions, neurocognitive late effects and neuroimaging correlates of treatment-associated cognition.