August 2026 Publications, Presentations, Awards, and Other News
Publications
So Hyeon Bang, Soojeong Han, Meghan Reading Turchioe, PhD ’18, Melani Ellison, Stacey Dai, and Ruth Masterson Creber were among the authors of “Developing and Evaluating Human-Led and Large Language Model-Assisted Hybrid Deductive-Inductive Workflows for Qualitative Analysis,” published in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Ashley Chastain, Uduwanage Gayeni E. Perera, Suning Zhao, and Patricia Stone were among the authors of “Staffing Audit Outcomes Among California Skilled Nursing Facilities, Prior To and After COVID-19–Related Staffing Waivers,” published in Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.
Leon Chen was among the authors of “Contrast-Induced Sialadenitis Mimicking Iodinated Contrast Allergy in a Patient with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia: A Case Report,” published in Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.
Ruth Masterson Creber was among the authors of “Major Adverse Cognitive Events (MACE-Cog): A New ’MACE’ Framework for Cognitive Outcomes in Cardiovascular Diseases and Stroke,” published in Nursing Clinics.
Khadra Dualeh was among the authors of “Development and Acceptability of Gist-Based Decision Aids for Prostate and Breast Cancer Screening: A Two-Phase Qualitative Interview Study in an Online Setting,” published in BMC Open.
Maureen George, Rhea Kuhurana, Jean-Marie Bruzzese, Aisha Naseem, and Natalie Benda were among the authors of “Assessing the Feasibility of Indoor Air Quality Monitoring in Low-Income Housing Among Black Adults with Uncontrolled Asthma in New York City,” published in BMC Public Health.
Claudia Michaels, Jianfang Liu, Jean Jimenez, Maeve Brin, and Rebecca Schnall, PhD ’09, were among the authors of “Exploring the Impacts of Housing Instability on Intimate Partner Violence, Adverse Health, and Risk Behaviours Among Women,” published in Journal of Advanced Nursing.
Ronica Mukerjee was among the authors of “Cultural Safety for Transgender, Nonbinary, and Gender-Expansive Patients,” published in Nursing Clinics.
Allison Norful, PhD ’17, was among the authors of “The Role of Full Practice Authority for Nurse Practitioners on Advancing Early Cancer Detection,” published in American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Monica O’Reilly-Jacob was among the authors of “The Scope of Care Coordination for Older Adults Whose Dominant Provider Is a Nurse Practitioner Versus a Primary Care Physician,” published in Medical Care.
Lusine Poghosyan, Monica O’Reilly-Jacob, Madeline Pollifrone, Sarah Giordano, Madison Horton, PhD ’25, Vaneh Hovsepian, PhD ’24, and Helen Dinh were among the authors of “Nurses as Frontline Responders for Displaced Populations,” published in International Journal for Nursing Studies. The article is an editorial from the School of Nursing’s Center for Healthcare Delivery Research international symposia, “Advancing the Nursing Workforce in Armenia and Greece as Advocates for Care for the Displaced Populations.” This work is part of a larger collaboration between the Columbia University School of Nursing and the Department of Nursing at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Reynaldo Rivera was among the authors of “Recruitment Agency-Mediated Onboarding, Acculturation, and Contract Completion Among Internationally Educated Nurses in the United States: A Questionnaire Survey,” published in International Journal of Nursing Studies Advances.
Zhihong Zhang, Pallavi Gupta, and Maxim Topaz were among the authors of “Integrating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Generative AI Applications for Healthcare Education: A Scoping Review,” published in International Journal of Medical Informatics.
Presentations
Gregory Alexander presented “Advancing Health Information Technology Maturity in Nursing Homes for Value-Based Care” at the Health, Innovation, Community conference, held August 3-4, 2026, in Sydney, Australia, and as part of a panel titled “Using AI to Support Title and Abstract Screening in Scoping Reviews” at the International Academy of Nursing Editors (IANE) 2026 Virtual Conference held August 6-8, 2026.
Donna Drucker presented “The American Abortion Clinic as a Site of State Authority, 1973–2022” at a workshop titled "Gender, Authority, and Trust" at the University of Heidelberg's Center for American Studies in Heidelberg, Germany, on July 11, 2026.
Beatriz Makhoulian presented “Advancing Competency-Based Clinical Education Through an Innovative Preceptorship Framework” at Sigma’s 37th International Nursing Research Congress on July 16, 2026, in Toronto.
Meghan Reading Turchioe, PhD ’18, presented “Automated Extraction of Subjective Cognitive Decline from Clinical Notes in Atrial Fibrillation Patients Using Large Language Models” at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference on July 14, 2026, in London.
Awards
Maureen George received the Research Award from the Association of Asthma Educators in honor of her contributions to research in the field of asthma on July 16, 2026.