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Tamsen Bassford, MD

Associate Professor Clinical

Email: bassford@u.arizona.edu

(520) 626-7864 Admin

(520) 626-2030 FAX

Dr. Bassford was born and raised in Reading, Pennsylvania.  She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania with a degree in Biology and from the University of Southern California with a degree in Medicine.  She completed her Family Practice Residency at the Arizona Health Sciences Center, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.

Dr. Bassford is the Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine.  She is an Associate Professor of Clinical Family Medicine and Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology.  She was previously the Associate Dean for Student Affairs in the College of Medicine and one of the course directors for Social and Behavioral Science.  She is the faculty advisor for the Family Practice Residents' Journal Club.

Dr. Bassford has been active in the area of cancer prevention and women's health for the past ten years, and is currently providing primary care to women at the Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic at UMC.  She is the Principal Investigator for the Arizona site of the Women's Health Initiative, a randomized clinical trial of three preventive interventions in postmenopausal women, a grant awarded by the National Heart, Lung, & Blood Institute (NHLBI).  Dr. Bassford is also the Principal Investigator for a cancer prevention education in medical curriculum grant awarded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI).  She developed the Mensajeras de Salud Project, a lay health education project directed at breast and cervical cancer in Hispanic women, which has operated for ten years in Tucson.  She has served on the Mammography Advisory Panel of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, the FDA Mammography Advisory Committee, and the National Institute of Health (NIH) Consensus Panel on Osteoporosis.

Dr. Bassford lives with her husband, Mark Trommer, their five-year-old daughter, Hannah, their dog, Luna, their cat, Sheba and many wintertime visiting friends and relatives!

Programs Dr. Bassford is involved with:

Predoctoral Program (link)
Residency Program (link)
Family Practice Research