Dr. Stewart is an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of California, Davis.  Dr. Stewart received her Ph.D. in statistics from the University of California, Berkeley and has 15 years of experience in population-based cancer research.  She has provided oversight to the statistical aspects of several cancer epidemiology and control studies in Asian American, Latino, and African American populations, first at the Northern California Cancer Center and then at UCSF since 2003.  Dr. Stewart has directed the biostatistics cores of 4 program projects funded by the National Cancer Institute, including an ongoing study of liver cancer control in Asian Americans led by Principal Investigator Moon Chen.  In addition to the design and evaluation of behavioral intervention trials, her research interests include the assessment of quality of life of cancer survivors and statistical issues pertaining to measurement and data quality.  She also serves in the biostatistics core of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.