Dr. Hanson is a Group Lead in the Advanced Computing for Health Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and leads the Modeling Outcomes using Surveillance data and Scaleable Artificial Intelligence for Cancer (MOSSAIC) project. MOSSAIC is a partnership with the National Cancer Institute and a sub-project of the Joint Design of Advanced Computing Solutions for Cancer (JDACS4C).

The APIs developed by her team have been deployed in 16 Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End-Results (SEER) population registry and 1 non-SEER registry to auto-code pathology reports. The tools and tasks lay the groundwork for population scale real-time cancer surveillance, clinical trials matching at the patient level, and prediction of cancer outcomes.