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Contact Information
Education
PhD, Indiana University
MSN, Indiana University
BSN, Indiana University
Research Areas
Prevention & Health Promotion
Global Health
Collaboration
Health Inequities
Managing Chronic Conditions
Behavioral Oncology
Breast Cancer
Health Behavior Theory
Health Information Seeking / Screening
Intervention Development / Evaluation
Lifestyle
Oncology Nursing
Quality of Life
Women’s Health
Awards and Honors
Henry R. Besch, Jr. Promotion of Excellence Award, Bloomington, IN
President's Cancer Panel Workshop on Creating an Integrated HPV Vaccination and Screening Program Report for President Obama, Chicago, IL
Excellence in Behavioral Medicine Training Program Award, Society of Behavioral Medicine, San Francisco, CA
Inducted into International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame, Prague, Czech Republic
President's Medal for Sustained Academic Excellence, Indianapolis, IN
Biography
Champion is a Distinguished Professor and the Edward and Sara Stam Cullipher named Professor at Indiana University School of Nursing and the Associate Director of Population Science and Community Outreach at IU Simon Cancer Center (IUSCC). She is recognized internationally as an expert in behavioral oncology research and as an accomplished senior mentor. Her research career has spanned 35 years, focusing on 3 primary areas: 1) tailored interactive intervention programs to increase screening for both breast and colorectal cancer; 2) use of technology to develop and deliver interventions with the intent of increasing accessibility for underserved populations; and 3) cancer survivorship, which includes the study of symptoms and symptom burden in cancer survivors. Dr. Champion has over 250 peer-reviewed publications and her work has been cited 34,833 times with an h-index of 72. Her current intervention study tests a multicomponent intervention to simultaneously increase breast, cervical, and colon cancer in rural populations in Indiana and Ohio (R01CA196246). Her research has been supported continuously for 38 years by both the National Institutes of Health and the American Cancer Society. She is Associate Director of Community Outreach and Engagement for the Indiana University Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center. She has held many national appointments including a six-year assignment to the National Cancer Advisory Board.
Champion has held National Cancer Institute training grants for 15 years and will start a new five-year grant in September 2022. She has a long history of being the primary mentor for predoctoral F31s, postdoctoral F32s and K07 career awards, who now hold academic positions in major universities and have externally funded research programs of their own.
External Funding
2022-2027. "Implementing Evidence Based Colorectal Cancer Screening in Rural Clinics." (Co-PI). NIH, $3,854,200.
2022-2027. "Interdisciplinary Training in Behavioral Oncology." (PI). NCI -T32CA117865, $2,006,137.
2021-2025. "Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Fear of Recurrence in Breast Cancer Survivors". (Johns, PI). NCI-R01CA255480. $2,569,644.
2019-2024. "National Cancer Institute Center Support Grant." (Co-I). NIH-P30 CA082709. $2,861,949.
2015-2020. "Cancer Disparities Research Network (CDRN) Cohort". (Co-I). NCI-UM1CA182884). $19,243,587.
Publications
ORCIDDescription of the video:
Cancer is not one disease, it's many diseases. And if we use the tools we have, we would reduce mortality by 65 to 75%. I'm Victoria Champion, and I'm a distinguished professor in the School of Nursing. I'm associate director for the Cancer Prevention and Control and Community Outreach and Engagement in the cancer center also. So dual role. My research interest in research really started as a child. I've always been inquisitive. I wanted to know why and how things work. My formal research started when I was in my master's work. I actually did a study in one of my courses and first publication, the only publication I've ever had without revision. So it started there. I got my PhD, and I became very interested in cancer prevention because many of my friends and relatives had cancer. My mother died of cholangiocarcinoma, which is more deadly than pancreatic cancer, but I've also known a lot of people who've died of preventable cancers. For instance, they might be cured of breast cancer with an early mammogram, but die of colon cancer because they didn't get in for colon cancer screening. I have a big study and many partners in rural Indiana, the Indiana Rural Health Association, about 130 clinics there, and we are helping the clinics implement colon cancer screening. It is the best research team in terms of how we work together that I've ever had. So, it's really satisfying to look at implementing a lot of the things that I've discovered throughout my career. Indiana University School of Nursing is one of the best environments for new faculty coming in who want to develop a research program. We have senior people here, like myself, who've been funded for a long period of time and want to give back and mentor. We are a team, we work with our collaborators across schools, across disciplines, across states in the United States. So that type of environment is not always found. Schools have different personalities. I like to think that our school has one of the most collaborative personalities going in the U.S.