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Publications, Presentations, and Other News September 2019

Publications

  • Patricia Stone, PhD, Jingjing Shang, PhD, Elaine Larson, PhD; and Jianfang Liu, PhD, were among the authors of “Association of Registered Nurse and Nursing Support Staffing with Inpatient Hospital Mortality,” published in BMJ Quality & Safety.

  • Maxim Topaz, PhD, was among the authors of “Identifying Patients at Highest-Risk: The Best Timing to Apply a Readmission Predictive Model,” published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.

Presentations

  • Kellie Bryant, DNP, presented “One Academic Center’s Battle Against the Opioid Crisis,” at the Twelfth National Doctors of Nursing Practice Conference, in Washington, D.C. She also served on the “Opioid Crisis — The City Wide Impact” panel at Harlem Week’s Health Summit, held at Columbia University and presented as part of New York City Economic Development Day, in New York, N.Y. 
  • Ariana Komaroff ’04, DNP, presented “A Clinical Practice Guideline Utilizing Breastfeeding to Mitigate Pain During Routine Infant Vaccination,” at the Twelfth National Doctors of Nursing Practice Conference, in Washington, D.C.
  • Patricia Stone, PhD, presented “Improving Care in Nursing Homes: A Mixed-Methods Interdisciplinary Study,” at the Sigma Theta Tau Conference, in Alberta, Canada.

Awards and Honors

  • Billy Caceres, PhD, received a five-year grant, funded at $850,000, from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, to be Principal Investigator for a study titled, “Examining Associations of Sexual Identity, Life Experiences, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Sisters.” The study aims to use a sibling design to examine the association of sexual identity with cardiovascular disease risk in women and whether this association is influenced by adverse life experiences. Tonda Hughes, PhD, will serve as the primary mentor.
  • Billy Caceres, PhD, Tawandra Rowell-Cunsolo, PhD; and Kyungmi Woo ’18, PhD, received 2019–2020 Columbia University School of Nursing Intramural Pilot Grants. Caceres received his grant for a study titled, “Stress, Coping, and Blood Pressure Reactivity in Sexual Minority Women”; Rowell-Cunsolo received hers for a study titled, “Exploring Barriers to Substance Use Screening Among Formerly Incarcerated Individuals in New York City”; and Woo’s grant is for a study titled, “Exploring Prevalence of Wound Infections and Related Patient Characteristics in Homecare Using Natural Language Processing.”
  • Dean Lorraine Frazier, PhD, was named one of Crain’s 2019 “Notable Women in Health Care,” among 100 women to be honored. Wilhemina Manzano, MA, was also honored, as was Mary O’Neil Mundinger, DrPH, and Susan Fox ’84.  
  • Lusine Poghosyan, PhD, received a two-year supplement, funded at $394,000, for a study underway titled, “Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Chronic Disease Outcomes and Nurse Practitioner Practice,” currently funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. The supplement recognizes, as a national priority, the need to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in hospitalization and emergency department use among patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and AD-related dementias.
  • Rebecca Schnall ’09, PhD, received the K24 Mid-Career Development Award in Patient-Oriented Research from the National Institute of Nursing Research. The award, funded at $570,000, will enable Schnall to build on her current portfolio of successful HIV research and broaden the scope of her research by incorporating biomarkers into her existing studies.
  • Patricia Stone, PhD, was inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame for her contributions to nursing research. She was also selected as a recipient of the 2019 Ada Sue Hinshaw Award from the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research, which recognizes her role as a prominent senior scientist.

Briefs and Other News

  • Paul Coyne ’13 ’15 ’16, DNP, was promoted to Assistant Vice President, Clinical Practice & Chief Nursing Informatics Officer at the Hospital for Special Surgery. Coyne was also named for “30 People Under 40 Changing Healthcare” by Business Insider. Coyne has published a book with other national nurse leaders called “The Nurse’s Guide to Innovation: Accelerating the Journey.”

 

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