Jinani Jayasekera, Ph.D., MSc
Earl Stadtman Investigator
Division of Intramural Research
Health Disparities and Decision Sciences Lab
jinani.jayasekera@nih.gov
Dr. Jinani Jayasekera is an Earl Stadtman Investigator in the Division of Intramural Research at the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD). Prior to joining NIMHD, she was an assistant professor of oncology at the School of Medicine at Georgetown University.
Dr. Jayasekera has over a decade of experience in cancer health services research and mathematical modeling. Her research has been previously funded by the National Cancer Institute and the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. In 2021, Dr. Jayasekera received the John F. Potter award for Outstanding Early-Stage Researcher from the Georgetown-Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center in recognition of her work in translational breast cancer research. She is the recipient of several research awards, including the 2024 NIH/NIMHD Merit Award for Scientific Innovation, the 2020 Eisenberg Career Development Award from the Georgetown Women in Medicine, and a Cancer Prevention Research Fellowship from the American Society of Preventive Oncology. Dr. Jayasekera has served as a reviewer for several journals and was recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer by the Annals of Internal Medicine in 2020. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI), and Cancer.
Dr. Jayasekera received her master's and doctorate in pharmaceutical health services research from the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
Selected Publications
- Schechter, C. B., & Mandelblatt, J. (2021). Development and Validation of a Simulation Model-Based Clinical Decision Tool: Identifying Patients Where 21-Gene Recurrence Score Testing May Change Decisions. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 39(26), 2893-2902. https://doi.org/10.1200/jco.21.00651
- Jayasekera, J., Stein, S., Wilson, O. W. A., Wojcik, K. M., Kamil, D., Røssell, E. L., Abraham, L. A., O'Meara, E. S., Schoenborn, N. L., Schechter, C. B., Mandelblatt, J. S., Schonberg, M. A., & Stout, N. K. (2024). Benefits and Harms of Mammography Screening in 75 + Women to Inform Shared Decision-making: a Simulation Modeling Study. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 39(3), 428-439. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-023-08518-4
- Jayasekera, J., Zhao, A., Schechter, C., Lowry, K., Yeh, J. M., Schwartz, M. D., O'Neill, S., Wernli, K. J., Stout, N., Mandelblatt, J., Kurian, A. W., & Isaacs, C. (2023). Reassessing the Benefits and Harms of Risk-Reducing Medication Considering the Persistent Risk of Breast Cancer Mortality in Estrogen Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 41(4), 859-870. https://doi.org/10.1200/jco.22.01342
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