Elizabeth C. Feliciano, ScD

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Kaiser Permanente Division of Research
2000 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94612

510-891-5988 (phone)
elizabeth.m.cespedes@kp.org

Elizabeth M. Cespedes Feliciano, ScD, is a Research Scientist I at the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research. Her research focuses on identifying, understanding, and intervening on modifiable risk factors for obesity and cancer-related metabolic diseases. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University, a Masters in Social and Behavioral Sciences from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and a doctorate in Epidemiology and Nutrition, also from Harvard University. Dr. Cespedes Feliciano’s dissertation research focused on sleep duration, diet quality, and risk of obesity and diabetes in children and adults. She now applies her expertise in obesity epidemiology to the role of energy balance and body composition in cancer outcomes.

Current Position(s):

Research Scientist I, Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California

Section Affiliations:

Cancer

Primary Research Interests:

Obesity
Cancer
Ethnic minority health and health disparities
Diabetes
Behavior change
Chronic disease prevention
Dietary patterns
Sleep

Studies

Beyond Body Mass Index: Bringing Body Composition into Oncology Practice

This project consists of development of electronic tools to rapidly assess body composition in colorectal cancer and breast cancer patients and present this information to clinicians. It leverages Kaiser Permanente Northern California’s electronic medical records and repository of CT images, including 6,000 images from colorectal cancer and breast cancer patients that were previously manually analyzed for body composition. This project has three major aims: validate software to automatically assess body composition from clinically-acquired imaging (Aim 1); improve the predictive performance of established colorectal cancer risk prediction models through the addition of body composition variables (Aim 2); and develop a prototype of an electronic decision support tool that presents personalized patient risk information to clinicians in an understandable and actionable format (Aim 3).
Investigator: Feliciano, Elizabeth
Funder: National Cancer Institute

Highlighted Publications

Association of Systemic Inflammation and Sarcopenia With Survival in Nonmetastatic Colorectal Cancer: Results From the C SCANS Study

Author(s): Cespedes Feliciano EM; Kroenke CH; Meyerhardt JA; Prado CM; Bradshaw PT; Kwan ML; Xiao J; Alexeeff S; Corley D; Weltzien E; Castillo AL; Caan BJ

JAMA Oncol. 2017 Aug 10:e172319.

Current Position(s):

Section Affiliations:

Primary Research Interests:

Studies

Beyond Body Mass Index: Bringing Body Composition into Oncology Practice

Highlighted Publications

Association of Systemic Inflammation and Sarcopenia With Survival in Nonmetastatic Colorectal Cancer: Results From the C SCANS Study

Metabolic Dysfunction, Obesity, and Survival Among Patients With Early-Stage Colorectal Cancer

Multiple Healthful Dietary Patterns and Type 2 Diabetes in the Women's Health Initiative.

Long-term changes in sleep duration, energy balance and risk of type 2 diabetes

Publications

Adipose Tissue Distribution and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Among Breast Cancer Survivors

Identifying Metabolomic Profiles of Insulinemic Dietary Patterns

Identifying metabolomic profiles of inflammatory diets in postmenopausal women

Body Composition and Cardiovascular Events in Patients With Colorectal Cancer: A Population-Based Retrospective Cohort Study

Muscle segmentation in axial computed tomography (CT) images at the lumbar (L3) and thoracic (T4) levels for body composition analysis

Association of Daily Rest-Activity Patterns With Adiposity and Cardiometabolic Risk Measures in Teens

Adipose Tissue Distribution and Survival Among Women with Nonmetastatic Breast Cancer

The association of medical and demographic characteristics with sarcopenia and low muscle radiodensity in patients with nonmetastatic colorectal cancer

Associations Between Timing of Meals, Physical Activity, Light Exposure, and Sleep With Body Mass Index in Free-Living Adults

The evolution of body composition in oncology-epidemiology, clinical trials, and the future of patient care: facts and numbers

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and colorectal cancer survival

Screening for low muscularity in colorectal cancer patients: a valid, clinic-friendly approach that predicts mortality

Change in longitudinal trends in sleep quality and duration following breast cancer diagnosis: results from the Women's Health Initiative

Objective Sleep Characteristics and Cardiometabolic Health in Young Adolescents

Clinical implications of low skeletal muscle mass in early-stage breast and colorectal cancer

Muscle radiodensity and mortality in patients with colorectal cancer

The deterioration of muscle mass and radiodensity is prognostic of poor survival in stage I-III colorectal cancer: a population-based cohort study (C-SCANS)

The Obesity Paradox in Cancer: How Important Is Muscle?

An Empirical Dietary Inflammatory Pattern Score Is Associated with Circulating Inflammatory Biomarkers in a Multi-Ethnic Population of Postmenopausal Women in the United States

Associations of pre-existing co-morbidities with skeletal muscle mass and radiodensity in patients with non-metastatic colorectal cancer

The Importance of Body Composition in Explaining the Overweight Paradox in Cancer-Counterpoint

The Plausibility of the Obesity Paradox in Cancer-Response-Reply to Point

Association of Muscle and Adiposity Measured by Computed Tomography With Survival in Patients With Nonmetastatic Breast Cancer

Cardiometabolic risk factors and survival after breast cancer in the Women's Health Initiative

Actigraphy-Derived Daily Rest-Activity Patterns and Body Mass Index in Community-Dwelling Adults

Muscle mass at the time of diagnosis of nonmetastatic colon cancer and early discontinuation of chemotherapy, delays, and dose reductions on adjuvant FOLFOX: The C-SCANS study

Methodological considerations for disentangling a risk factor's influence on disease incidence versus postdiagnosis survival: The example of obesity and breast and colorectal cancer mortality in the Women's Health Initiative

Association of Systemic Inflammation and Sarcopenia With Survival in Nonmetastatic Colorectal Cancer: Results From the C SCANS Study

Explaining the Obesity Paradox: The Association between Body Composition and Colorectal Cancer Survival (C-SCANS Study)

Body mass index, PAM50 subtype, recurrence and survival among patients with nonmetastatic breast cancer

Adiposity, post-diagnosis weight change, and risk of cardiovascular events among early-stage breast cancer survivors

Actigraphic Sleep Patterns of U.S. Hispanics: The Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos

Association of Weight Change after Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis and Outcomes in the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Population

Physical activity induced protection against breast cancer risk associated with delayed parity

Physical activity from menarche to first pregnancy and risk of breast cancer

Metabolic Dysfunction, Obesity, and Survival Among Patients With Early-Stage Colorectal Cancer

Post-diagnosis Weight Change and Survival Following a Diagnosis of Early Stage Breast Cancer

What Should Cardiologists Tell Their Patients About a Healthy Dietary Pattern?

Change in Dietary Patterns and Change in Waist Circumference and DXA Trunk Fat Among Postmenopausal Women

Multiple Healthful Dietary Patterns and Type 2 Diabetes in the Women's Health Initiative.

Association between sleeping difficulty and type 2 diabetes in women

Long-term changes in sleep duration, energy balance and risk of type 2 diabetes