Dr. Chaelin "Karen" Ra received her PhD in Preventive Medicine at the University of Southern California and MPH at Seoul National University. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the TSET Health Promotion Research Center of Stephenson Cancer Center at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, focusing on tobacco cessation using mHealth technologies. Currently, she is an Instructor in the Section of Behavioral Sciences at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and the Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
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