Beattie, Sara

Psychosocial Oncology

Adjunct Assistant Professor

PhD., R. Psych

EMAIL: sara.beattie@albertahealthservices.ca

Biography

Dr. Sara Beattie is a Clinical, Health and Rehabilitation Psychologist supporting the Alberta Bone Marrow and Blood Cell Transplant and Hematology Programs at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre. She earned her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Ottawa in 2014. She completed a Clinical Fellowship specializing in Hematological Malignancies and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation (HCT) at the University of Calgary and Tom Baker Cancer Centre. Using an integrative approach, she cares for patients and their loved ones with a focus on reducing distress and improving quality of life. Dr. Beattie has a special interest in the adolescent young adult (AYA) population and helping couples cope with cancer diagnoses, treatment, survivorship, and end of life.

Dr. Beattie is a clinician investigator where she is an active researcher on the psychosocial impact of HCT on patients and their loved ones. She is currently a co-investigator on multiple peer-reviewed grants from both the Alberta Cancer Foundation (ACF) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Her recent endeavors have focused on how couples cope with HCT, the importance of caregivers and social support on medical outcomes, quality of life, fear of cancer recurrence, and screening for distress. Dr. Beattie is actively involved in program development and evaluation as well as in research and collaborations with the interdisciplinary team.

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For more information about Dr. Beattie’s latest publications, please see:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sara-Beattie

Recent Publications:

Macleod, F., Pink, J., Beattie, S., & Feldstain, A. (2021). Program Evaluation of a Class Addressing Psychosocial Topics in Preparation for Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation: a Brief Report. Advanced Online Publication. DOI: 10.1007/s13187-021-02078-z

Bona, K.., Ruta Brazauskas, R., He, N., Lehmann, L., Abdel-Azim, H., Ahmed, I.A., Al-Homsi, A.S., Aljurf, S., Arnold, S.D., Badawy, S.M., Battiwalla, M., Beattie, S., Bhatt, N.S., Dalal, J., Dandoy, C., Aljurf, M., Diaz, M.A., Frangoul, H.A., Freytes, C.O., Ganguly, S., George, B., Gomez-Almaguer, D., Hahn, T., Kamble, R.T., Knight, J.M., LeMaistre, C.F., Law, J., Lazarus, H.M., Majhail, N.S., Olsson, R.F., Preussler, J., Savani, B.N.., Schears, R., Seo, S., Sharma, A., Srivastava, A., Steinberg, A., Szwajcer, D., Wirk, B., Yoshimi-Nöllke, A., Khera, N., Wood, W., Hashmi, S., Duncan,, C., & Saber, W. (2021). Neighborhood-Poverty and Pediatric Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Outcomes: A CIBMTR Analysis. Blood. 137(4):556-568. DOI 10.1182/blood.2020006252

Hong, S., Brazauskas, R., Hebert, K.M., Ganguly, S., Abdel-Azim, H., Diaz, M.A., Beattie, S., Ciurea, S.O., Szwajcer, D., Badawy, S.M., Gratwohl, A.A., LeMaistre, C., Aljurf, M.D.S.M, Olsson, R.F., Bhatt, N.S., Farhadfar, N., Yared, J.A., Ayami Yoshimi-Nöllke, A., Seo, S., Gergis, U., Beitinjaneh, A.M., Sharma, A., Lazarus, H., Law, J., Ulrickson, M., Hashem, H., Schoemans, H., Cerny, J., Rizzieri, D., Savani, B.N., Kamble, R.T., Shaw, B., Khera, N., Wood, W.A., Hashmi, S., Hahn, T., Lee, S.J., Rizzo, J.D., Navneet S. Majhail, N.S., and Saber, W. (2021) Community Health Status and Outcomes after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation in the United States. Cancer. 127(4):609-618 doi: 10.1002/cncr.33232.

Tay, J., Beattie, S., Bredeson, C., Brazauskas, R., He, N., Ahmed, I.A., Aljurf., M., Askar., M., Atsuta, Y., Badawy, S., Barata, A., Beitinjaneh, A.M., Bhatt, N.S., Buchbinder, D., Cerny, J., Ciurea, S., D’Souza, A., Dalal, J., Farhadfar, N., Freytes, C.O., Ganguly, S., Gergis, U., Gerull. S., Lazarus, H.M., Hahn, T., Hong, S., Inamoto, Y., Khera, N., Kindwall-Keller, T., Kamble, R.T., Knight, J.M., Koleva Y.N., Kumar, A., Kwok, J., Murthy, H.S., Olsson, R.F., Angel Diaz-Perez, M., Rizzieri, D., Seo, S., Chhabra, S., Schoemans, H., Schouten H.C., Steinberg, A., Sullivan, K.M., J. Szer, J., Szwajcer, D., Ulrickson, M.L., Verdonck, L.F., Wirk, B., Wood, W.A., Yared, J.A., & Saber, W. (2020). Pre-transplant marital status and hematopoietic cell transplantation outcomes. In Press. Current Oncology.27(6):e596-e606. DOI: 10.3747/co.27.6327. Epub 2020 Dec 1

Oberoi, S., Yang, J., Woodgate R.L., Niraul, S., Banerji, S. Israels S.J., Altman, G., Beattie, S., Rabbani, R., N Askin, N., Abha Gupta, A., Sung, L., Abou-Setta, A.M., & Zarychanski, R. (2020). Mindfulness-based interventions to reduce anxiety in adults and children with cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA Network Open. 2020;3(8):e2012598. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.12598

Predictors of Loss to Follow-Up Among Pediatric and Adult Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Survivors: A Report from the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research. Buchbinder D, Brazauskas R, Bo-Subait K, Ballen K, Parsons S, John T, Hahn T, Sharma A, Steinberg A, D’Souza A, Kumar AJ, Yoshimi A, Wirk B, Shaw B, Freytes C, LeMaistre C, Bredeson C, Dandoy C, Almaguer D, Marks DI, Szwajcer D, Hale G, Schouten H, Hashem H, Schoemans H, Murthy HS, Lazarus HM, Cerny J, Tay J, Yared JA, Adekola K, Schultz KR, Lehmann L, Burns L, Aljurf M, Diaz MA, Majhail N, Farhadfar N, Kamble R, Olsson R, Schears R, Seo S, Beattie S, Chhabra S, Savani BN, Badawy S, Ganguly S, Ciurea S, Marino S, Gergis U, Kuwatsuka Y, Inamoto Y, Khera N, Hashmi S, Wood W, Saber W. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. (2020) 26(3):553-561. doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2019.11.003.

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