Dr. Tiro joined UT Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW) as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences’ Division of Behavioral and Communication Sciences in April 2008. She is also a member of the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center and holds an adjoint appointment in the University of Texas-School of Public Health for the Dallas Regional Campus. From 2005 until her move to UTSW, Dr. Tiro was a Cancer Prevention Fellow at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). While there, she led a team of NCI and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) experts in designing several behavioral surveillance and health communication studies to evaluate the integration of the HPV vaccine into cervical cancer prevention and control.
