Noelle Calabro Conover, MS

  • Project Manager, SurvivorConnect

I am the Project Manager for the SurvivorConnectTM program in the Division of Pediatric Hematology Oncology at the UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. SurvivorConnectTM is part of the Survivorship Program that is offered to survivors of pediatric cancer who are five years or more off treatment. SurvivorConnectTM enables us to "connect" survivors and improve education and communication between annual face-to-face visits with the Survivorship Clinic team. It optimizes information exchange with this young, adult, mobile population, provide resources that will aid in transition to adult care.

I use my skills at database management, marketing, PR, social media marketing, fundraising and project coordination to maintain and support the SurvivorConnectTM program for our more than 1100 survivors. I have been a part of several research initiatives within the Survivorship program. I have almost 40 years of experience in research including research design and methodology, data collection and management, analysis and interpretation, manuscript writing and editing, and presentation.

Education & Training

  • BS, Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, 1982
  • MS, Information Science, University of Pittsburgh, 1985

Selected Publications

Edelbrock, C., Costello, A. J., Dulcan, M. K., Kalas, R., & Conover, N. C. (1985). Age differences in the reliability of the psychiatric interview of the child. Child Development, 56(1), 265-275. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.1985.tb00104.x

Edelbrock, C., Costello, A. J., Dulcan, M. K., Conover, N. C., & Kala, R. (1986). Parent-child agreement on child psychiatric symptoms assessed via structured interview. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines, 27(2), 181-190. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.1986.tb02282.x

Edelbrock, C., Greenbaum, R., & Conover, N. C. (1985). Reliability and concurrent relations between the teacher version of the child behavior profile and the conners revised teacher rating scale. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 13(2), 295-303. doi:10.1007/BF00910649

Edelbrock, C., Costello, A. J., Dulcan, M. K., Conover, N. C., & Kala, R. (1986). parent‐child agreement on child psychiatric symptoms assessed via structured interview. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 27(2), 181-190. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.1986.tb02329.x

BRENT, D. A., KALAS, R., EDELBROCK, C., COSTELLO, A. J., DULCAN, M. K., & CONOVER, N. (1986). Psychopathology and its relationship to suicidal ideation in childhood and adolescence. Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 25(5), 666-673. doi:10.1016/S0002-7138(09)60292-2

Costello, A. G., Nugent, B. D., Conover, N., Moore, A., Dempsey, K., & Tersak, J. M. (2017). Shared care of childhood cancer survivors: A telemedicine feasibility study. Journal of Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology, 6(4), 535-541. doi:10.1089/jayao.2017.0013