Research Nurse
Translational Research Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Gail started with the ARCH cohort when it was first born and lovingly known as Spit for the Cure.  She has been on countless recruiting events that she lost count!  Gail has entered data by scanning in surveys and entering the data off the consent and follow up forms, collected samples, carried countless tables, chairs and tarps to events, and so much more.  By being one of the major faces of the cohort, she said one of the many things that she has mastered is, “the amazing skill of deciphering hand writing!”  This project has become her “baby” (well actually teenager, since this started 15 years ago).  Without Gail, the ARCH cohort would not be where it is today and the entire team is indebted to her efforts over the many years of maintaining the study.

Principal Investigator for the ARCH Cohort
Associate Professor, Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health
Department of Environmental Health Sciences

Dr. Hsu is an Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) with the expertise in environmental exposure and cancer health disparities. She was involved in the population studies including the Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Centers (TTURC) study at Georgetown University, the Buckeye Teen Health Study at the Ohio State University, and now the PI for the Arkansas Rural Community Health (ARCH) cohort of 26,375 women representing every county in Arkansas. She was a Project Leader for the P20 COBRE Center for Studies on Host Response to Cancer Therapy at UAMS, which aims to understand early prediction markers for chemotherapy-induced cardiotoxicity in breast cancer patients. She is currently a PI and a co-I for two Prostate Cancer Research Program Health Disparity Research Awards from the United States Department of Defense to address the racial disparity of lethal prostate cancer among African American men, and is extremely honored to be able to work with all the great people toward a healthier Arkansas!