Sue Noell Stone, MPH

Biography

Sue Noell Stone is a Lecturer III with the College of Population Health and has been teaching and collaborating with college colleagues there since 2008. Ms. Stone completed her undergraduate degree in Spanish literature at Mount Holyoke College, earned a Master of Public Health degree in epidemiology with distinction from UNM and pursued post-graduate studies in cancer epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She began at UNM in 1994 as a prostate and colon cancer researcher with the New Mexico Tumor Registry, managed the Morbidity Surveillance Program and Hospital Inpatient Discharge Database (HIDD) for the Epidemiology and Response Division of the New Mexico Department of Health, and also worked in pediatric quality improvement and school based health center evaluation at Envision New Mexico. She is the Capstone and Interim Practicum Director for the COPH, Education Coordinator for the Maternal Child Health Graduate Public Health Certificate, and directs the New Mexico traineeships and develops on-line course content for the Region Six Public Health Training Center in partnership with the Tulane School of Public Health. Ms. Stone serves on graduate final paper committees and the exam committee of the Alternative Culminating Experience, directed the MPH admissions committee for the 2020 cohort and was a member of the recent successful CEPH accreditation submission team.

Areas of Specialty

• Public Health Surveillance
• Chronic Disease Epidemiology
• Practice-Based Research
• Applied Epidemiology

Key Publications

• Chao A, Gilliland F, Willman C, Joste N, Chen I, Stone N, Ruschulte J, Viswanatha D, Duncan P, Ming R, Hoffman R, Foucar E, Key C.Patient and tumor characteristics of colon cancers with microsatellite instability – a population-based study. Cancer Epid Biomark Prev 2000;9(6):539-44.
• Gilliland FD, Gleason DF, Hunt WC, Stone N, Harlan LC, Key CR. Trends in Gleason score for prostate cancer diagnosed between 1983 and 1993. J Urol 2001 Mar; 165(3):846-850.
• Hoffman RM, Hunt WC, Gilliland FD, Stephenson RA, Hamilton AS, Stone SN, Potosky AL. Satisfaction with treatment decisions for clinically localized prostate cancer. Results from the Prostate Cancer Outcomes Study. Cancer 2003; 97:1653-62
• Hoffman RM, Stone SN, Hunt WC, Key CR, Gilliland FD. Effects of misattribution in assigning cause of death on prostate cancer mortality rates. Ann Epidemiol. 2003 Jul; 13(6):450-4.
• Stone SN, Hoffman RM, Tollestrup K, Stidley CA, Witter JL, Gilliland FD. Family history,
• Hispanic ethnicity, and prostate cancer risk. Ethn.Dis. 2003 Spring; 13(2):233-9.
• Hoffman RM, Gilliland FD, Penson DF, Stone SN, Hunt WC, Potosky AL. Cross-sectional and longitudinal comparisons of health-related quality of life between patients with prostate carcinoma and matched controls. Cancer. 2004 Nov 1;101(9):2011-9.
• Hoffman RM, Stone SN, Espey D, Potosky AL. Differences between men with screening- detected versus clinically diagnosed prostate cancers in the USA. BMC Cancer 2005;5:27.
• Hoffman RM, Stone SN, Herman C, Jung, A M,Cotner, J, Espey, D, Kozoll, R, Gavin, MW.
• New Mexico's capacity for increasing the prevalence of colorectal cancer screening with screening colonoscopies. Prev Chronic Dis 2005;2:A07
• Woods LM, Rachet B, Riga M, Stone N, Shah A, Coleman MP. Geographical variation in life expectancy at birth in England and Wales is largely explained by deprivation. J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:115-20.
• Hoffman RM, Rhyne RL, Helitzer DL, Stone SN, Sussman AL, Bruggeman EE, Viera R, Warner TD. Barriers to colorectal cancer screening: physician and general population perspectives, New Mexico, 2006. Prev Chronic Dis. 2011 Mar;8(2):A35.
• Gonzales M, Nelson H, Rhyne RL, Stone SN, Hoffman RM. Surveillance of Colorectal Cancer Screening in New Mexico Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites. J Comm Health. 2012; DOI 10.1007/s10900-012-9568-6.
• Hoffman RM, Espey DK, Rhyne RL, Gonzales M, Rajput A, Mishra SI, Stone SN, Wiggins CL. Colorectal cancer incidence and mortality disparities in New Mexico. J Cancer Epidemiol. 2014:239619 Epub 2014 Jan 2.

Languages

• English, Spanish

Research

Ms. Stone’s current research interests are practice-based and include working with Spanish-speaking children with asthma and their families to improve medication adherence, the use of electronic health records in epidemiologic surveillance as well as developing and evaluating novel public health surveillance systems. Recently, Ms. Stone served as principal investigator for the Hispanic Family Asthma Outcomes Network funded by PCORI and as lead scientist on a project using syringe exchange data to asses and predict drug use.

Courses Taught

• Pandemics Past and Present, Co-Instructor
• Public Health Practicum
• BSPH Capstone