Salene Jones, Assistant Professor at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Dr. Jones is an assistant professor in the Cancer Prevention Program, Public Health Sciences at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. She has a Doctor of Philosophy degree in psychology from the Ohio State University and completed post-doctoral training in aging and women’s health research at Group Health Research Institute (now Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute). Dr. Jones is a clinical psychologist and psychometrician who studies financial hardship, financial anxiety and health. She is also working on creating patient-centered methods of determining meaningful change on patient-reported outcomes and developing measures to improve implementation of evidence-based practice. Her previous studies have investigated fear of cancer recurrence/progression and the relationship between physiological markers of health and distress.