Dr. Tracy A. Battaglia M.D.
Preventative Medicine Specialist | Public Health & General Preventive Medicine
725 Albany St Shapiro 5, Suite A Boston MA, 02118About
Tracy Battaglia is a preventative medicine specialist practicing in Boston, MA. Battaglia specializes in the health of individuals, communities, and particular populations, focusing on how to protect and maintain health as well as prevent disease and dangers. As a preventative health specialist, Battaglia participates in the planning and evaluation of health services, researches diseases in specific populations and helps manage health care organizations. Preventative medicine specialists can specialize further in aerospace medicine, occupational medicine, or public health and general preventive medicine.
Education and Training
Boston Univ Sch of Med, Boston Ma 1996
Boston University School of Medicine 1996
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The two faces of health care for women.
- Cancer prevention trials and primary care physicians: factors associated with recommending trial enrollment.
- Improving follow-up to abnormal breast cancer screening in an urban population. A patient navigation intervention.
- Predictors of aggressive therapy for nonmetastatic prostate carcinoma in Massachusetts from 1998 to 2002.
- The role of numeracy on cancer screening among urban women.
- The influence of black race on treatment and mortality for early-stage breast cancer.
- Patient navigation: development of a protocol for describing what navigators do.
- Patient navigation to increase mammography screening among inner city women.
- Lifestyle behaviors in Massachusetts adult cancer survivors.
- Assessing the impact of patient navigation: prevention and early detection metrics.
- Depression and anxiety diagnoses are not associated with delayed resolution of abnormal mammograms and pap tests among vulnerable women.
- Feasibility of chronic disease patient navigation in an urban primary care practice.
- Adherence to conservative management recommendations for abnormal pap test results in adolescents.
- Patterns of task and network actions performed by navigators to facilitate cancer care.
- What do public housing residents say about their health?
Awards
- 2003 BIRCWH Faculty Research Scholar
Treatments
- Women's Health, Cancer Prevention, General Care
- Pain
- Vascular Disease
Fellowships
- General Internal Medicine/Preventive Care, Boston Medical Center, Boston MA 2001
- Boston Medical Center, Fellow:Internal Medicine 1999
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