Amy Sanders, MA
Cancer Research Training Award Fellow
Amy Sanders is a Cancer Research Training Award (CRTA) Fellow in the National Cancer Institute’s Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch (HCIRB). Currently, her tasks include assisting the branch with its Cyberinfrastructure initiatives, specifically supporting the strategic planning, management, and actualization of its PopSciGrid. Her other responsibilities include contributions to the development of an alert service in conjunction with the 2009 Informatics for Consumer Health: Summit on Communication, Collaboration, and Quality, as well as collaborating on a renovation of the HCIRB website.
Amy’s main interest centers on the dissemination of cancer information through narratives using social media and Web 2.0 technologies. She maintains a strong research interest in healthcare narratives, specifically the metamorphosis of the cancer narrative from the traditional war metaphor to the recently emerging sporting metaphor. A main theme of her research is the reshaping of the cancer narrative landscape through the sporting metaphor, opening a space for survivorship and prevention initiatives to comingle with social media and web applications; thus, a “team” narrative emerges consistent with the technologies of our culture and its interconnected nature.
Prior to joining the NIH, Amy interned at the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) in Web Marketing, managing their online social networks, updating and coding for the foundation website, and analyzing email campaign efficiency. In the summer of 2008, Amy worked for the San Antonio International Affairs Department in Mexico City while undertaking a media focused independent research project as a student of Texas A&M University’s Mexico Global Media Program. Amy received her M.A. in Communication with an emphasis on health and media from Texas A&M University in May 2009.
Amy graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.A. in Psychology and University Honors. She also received the esteemed University of Texas Halsell Endowed Presidential Scholarship for Liberal Arts and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
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