Dr. Chris Miaskowksi is Professor, Department of Physiological Nursing, UCSF and Sharon A. Lamb Endowed Chair, Physiological Nursing, UCSF. She is an internationally recognized expert in pain and symptom management research. A portion of her program of research focuses on the identification of phenotypic and genotypic characteristics that place patients at highest risk for the development of the most deleterious symptoms that occur as a result of cancer and its treatment. More recently, her work is focused the use of novel machine learning approaches for the evaluation of symptom clusters.