• Associate Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
• Medical Director, Cancer Services

• Fellowship, University of Western Ontario
• Residency, University of Western Ontario
• University of Western Ontario Medical School
  London, Ontario, Canada

• Soft tissue sarcomas
• Head and neck cancer
• Genitourinary tumors
• Quality improvement in health care through the implementation of statistical process control methods
• Intervention and assessment of palliative care methods for cancer patients
• Quality of life in breast cancer survivors

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• • Mertens, W.C., Higby, D.J., Brown, D., Parisi, R.,Fitzgerald, J, Benjamin E.M., Lindenauer, P.K. Improving the care of patients with regard to chemotherapy-induced nausea and emesis: the effect of feedback to clinicians on adherence to antiemetic prescribing guidelines. J Clin Oncol 2003; 21:1373-1378.
  • Dann N.J., Mertens W.C. Taking a “leap of faith”: acceptance and value of a cancer program-sponsored spiritual event. Cancer Nurs 2004; 27:134-141.
  • Mertens, W.C. Hilbert V., Makari-Judson, G.  Contralateral breast cancer: factors associated with stage and size at presentation. Breast J 2004; 10:304-312.
  • Mertens, W.C., Hoople N.E., Rodrigues C., Lindenauer P.K., Benjamin E.M. Associations of date of admission to cancer patient survival on a large regional hospice: Utility of a statistical process control analysis. Am J Hospice Palliat Med 2004; 275-284.
  • Nugent, F.W., Mertens, W.C., Graziano S., Levitan N., Collea, R., Gajra A., Marshall J., McCann, J. Docetaxel and cyclooxygenase-2 inhibition with celecoxib for advanced non-small cell lung cancer progressing after platinum-based chemotherapy: a multicenter phase II trial. Lung Cancer 2005; 48: 267-273.
  • Dann, N.J., Higby, D.J., Mertens, W.C. Can a cancer program-sponsored spiritual event meet with acceptance from patients and other attendees? Integr Cancer Ther 2005 4:230-235.