Roles
Research Assistant Professor
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Biography
Dr. Sara Fleszar-Pavlovic is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She also serves as Research Operations Lead for the Survivorship and Supportive Care Institute at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. She earned her PhD in Health Psychology from the University of California, Merced, and completed a two-year National Cancer Institute funded T32 postdoctoral fellowship in the Training to Reduce Burden across the Cancer Control Continuum (TRECC) program at Sylvester. Dr. Fleszar-Pavlovic’s research examines ways to improve quality of life and patient reported and clinical outcomes across the cancer care continuum. She uses theory driven approaches to design and evaluate supportive care interventions emphasizing culturally relevant and scalable solutions for Hispanic and older adult cancer survivors, addressing challenges linked to survivorship, multimorbidity, and aging related changes in physical and psychosocial well-being. Her most recent efforts involve integrating agentic artificial intelligence (AI) platforms capable of delivering guideline concordant and adaptive supportive care interventions. Her scientific contributions were recently recognized with the 2024 Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center Outstanding Population Science Early Stage Researcher of the Year award.