Stephanie Date, BSc, MBBS, MPhil

Assistant Professor of Medical Foundations, Pharmacology and Anatomy
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Contact Information

sdate@rossu.edu

Biography

Dr. Stephanie Date was born and raised in Barbados, where she graduated from the University of The West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill, with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) (Hons) and Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS). She became certified and registered with the Barbados Association of Medical Practitioners in 2015 and practiced in Ophthalmology and General Surgery in both the Barbadian public and private sectors. During this time, she also taught Clinical and Gross Anatomy at UWI Cave Hill before joining RUSM as an Anatomy faculty in 2020.

Dr. Date has completed her MPhil in Pharmacology from UWI Cave Hill and is currently awaiting her VIVA examination for a PhD in Pharmacology. Her research focuses on health disparities among Afro-Caribbean women, specifically investigating the potential anti-neoplastic properties of the common anti-diabetic drug Metformin in a cohort of Barbadian postmenopausal women with endometrial cancer.

Dr. Date serves as the Medical Director of the Barbados Cancer Society and is an active member of the Barbados Breast Screening Program Subcommittee. She serves as the Fellowship Director of The Yale Transdisciplinary Collaborative Center for Health Disparities Research, an organization she has been a part of since 2018, working alongside The Eastern Caribbean Health Outcomes Research Network (ECHORN). Outside of her medical professional arena, Dr. Date has been a dance teacher since the age of 17, and has completed an Intermediate Certificate in American Sign Language.

Education
  • Undergraduate Degree: BSc, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Bridgetown, 2012
  • Medical/Doctoral Degree: MBBS, MPhil, UWI Cave Hill, Bridgetown, 2015
Areas of Expertise

Pharmacoepidemiology, Non-Communicable Diseases

Honors and Awards
  • Barbados National Exhibition
  • The Lionel Stuart Award for Best Performance in the MBBS Surgical examinations
  • The Professor Harley Moseley Award for Best Performance in the Anaesthesia and Intensive Care rotation and MBBS examinations
  • National Humanitarian Award winner (for my efforts on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic in Barbados, including co-founding the at-home mobile vaccine unit that led the vaccination of the differently-abled and shut-in communities of Barbados).
Research Interests
  • NCDs
  • Pharmacoepidemiology
  • Medical education
Publications
  • Date S, Hutton M. The Global Alcohol Priorities: Healthy Caribbean Coalition’s Member Survey. CMJ Vol 85 Supplement 2 (2024)
  • Date S, Best D, Cohall D. Retrospective analysis of endometrial cancer among Afro- Caribbean women in Barbados 2008– 
    2017. Tropical Doctor. 2022;52(4):495-502. doi:10.1177/00494755221123190  
  • McCall T, Date S, Alexis D, Whiteman S, Dick S, Marenco L, Campbell Britton M, Tessier-Sherman B, Brandt C, Wang K. Towards Reducing Health Information Inequities in the Caribbean: The Eastern Caribbean Health Outcomes Research Network Data Sharing Platform Usability Study. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2022 Jun 6;290:834-838. doi: 10.3233/SHTI220196.  
  • Hercules, S. M., Hercules, J. C., Ansari, A., Date, S. A., Skeete, D. H., Smith Connell, S. P., & Daniel, J. M. (2020). High triple‐ negative breast cancer prevalence and aggressive prognostic factors in Barbadian women with breast cancer. Cancer, 126(10), 2217-2224.  
  • Date S Endometrial Cancer in Barbados: A 10-year Retrospective Study - West Indian Medical Journal, June 2019
Affiliations and Memberships
  • AC3
  • BAMP