Amy Geller

About

Amy M. Geller is an award-winning creative producer and filmmaker with over 20 years of experience in fiction and documentaries for broadcast, educational media, industrials, and branded content. Her work has been broadcast on PBS, the BBC, Documentary Channel, Turner Classic Movies, and YES Satellite TV in Israel, and is available on platforms such as Netflix, Apple TV, Amazon, Tubi, and HERE TV. She served as the Artistic Director of the Boston Jewish Film Festival and was President of Women in Film & Video/New England. Geller produced the widely-seen documentary 'For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism' (2009) and co-directed two acclaimed feature documentaries, 'The Guys Next Door' (2016) and 'The Rabbi Goes West' (2019). Currently, she is producing, co-hosting, and co-writing a seven-part audio documentary series titled 'The Rabbis Go West,' scheduled for release in 2024. She holds an MFA in Film & TV from Boston University and a BA in Women's Studies from Bates College.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Environmental health
• Gerontology
• Demography
• Pathology
• Internal medicine
• Psychology
• Nursing
• Surgery
• Social psychology

Selected publications

• Barriers and facilitators of adherence to social distancing recommendations during COVID-19 among a large international sample of adults

  PLoS ONE · 2020 · 391 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  BACKGROUND: Social distancing measures (e.g., avoiding travel, limiting physical contact with people outside of one's household, and maintaining a 1 or 2-metre distance between self and others when in public, depending on the country) are the primary strategies used to prevent transmission of the SARS-Cov-2 virus that causes COVID-19. Given that there is no effective treatment or vaccine for COVID-19, it is important to identify barriers and facilitators to adherence to social distancing to info…

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• Widening Gender Gap in Life Expectancy in the US, 2010-2021

  JAMA Internal Medicine · 2023-11-13 · 47 citations

  articleOpen access

  This cross-sectional study systematically examines the contributions of COVID-19 and other underlying causes of death to the widened gender life expectancy gap from 2010 to 2021.

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• Disparities in melanoma incidence and mortality in rural versus urban Michigan

  Cancer Reports · 2022 · 13 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  INTRODUCTION: We sought to identifying the possible existence of disparities between rural and urban residents of Michigan for the incidence by stage of disease and disease-specific mortality for cutaneous melanoma (CM). METHODS: Incidence rates for stage of disease and disease-specific mortality of cutaneous melanoma were calculated and controlled for gender, age, and area of residence from January 1, 2014, to December 31, 2018, from data collected form the Michigan Department of Health and Hum…

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• Advancing Survivors Knowledge (ASK Study) of Skin Cancer Surveillance After Childhood Cancer: A Randomized Controlled Trial in the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study

  Journal of Clinical Oncology · 2023-01-09 · 11 citations

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  PURPOSE To improve skin cancer screening among survivors of childhood cancer treated with radiotherapy where skin cancers make up 58% of all subsequent neoplasms. Less than 30% of survivors currently complete recommended skin cancer screening. PATIENTS AND METHODS This randomized controlled comparative effectiveness trial evaluated patient and provider activation (PAE + MD) and patient and provider activation with teledermoscopy (PAE + MD + TD) compared with patient activation alone (PAE), which…

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• Oral Antiviral Therapy Utilization Among Adults with Recent COVID-19 in the United States

  Journal of General Internal Medicine · 2023-02-28 · 10 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior author
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Recent grants

• Reducing Skin Cancer Risk in Childhood Cancer Survivors

  NIH · $3.4M · 2013–2019

• Technology-Enabled Activation of Skin Cancer Screening for Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Survivors and their Primary Care Providers

  NIH · $4.1M · 2020–2026

• NIH Grant R25CA091958

  NIH · $1.6M · 2009

Frequent coauthors

• Martin A. Weinstock

  Providence College

  217 shared

• Allan C. Halpern

  174 shared

• Stephen W. Dusza

  151 shared

• Waqas R. Shaikh

  National University of Medical Sciences

  136 shared

• Susan M. Swetter

  122 shared

• Howard K. Koh

  109 shared

• Donald R. Miller

  North Dakota State University

  96 shared

• Maryam M. Asgari

  Harvard University

  89 shared

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