Nathalie Moise, MD

To support her research, Nathalie Moise has taken full advantage of the services and resources of the Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research. Through the Columbia Community Partnership for Health (CCPH) as part of the Community Engagement Core Resource (CECR), Moise was able to conduct all of her focus groups in a community center environment.

“That success wouldn't have been possible otherwise. We got a lot of rich data from patients who felt more comfortable being in a community setting, as opposed to coming to the hospital to do focus groups.”

Moise cites that experience as foundational for her work. “A lot of the data that I gleaned from those CCPH interviews really ended up being the basis for both of my grants going forward,” she notes. 

Moise was recently named an Irving Scholar for her project “Harnessing Precision Medicine and Implementation Science to Improve Psychological Distress Treatment in Breast Cancer Patients.”  

“The Irving Scholar grant provides me with some pilot data to translate what I've been doing in the primary care and heart disease realm into the cancer realm,” she says. “What's really fascinating to me is that when you treat depression only in heart disease patients, their cardiac mortality doesn't always get better. But in cancer patients you see this kind of marked improvement in their remission rates when you treat their depression. I’m excited to explore this.”