July 2024 Publications, Presentations, Awards, and Other News

Publications

Suzanne Bakken was among the authors of “User-Centered Design of a Preference-Driven Patient Activation Tool for Optimizing Depression Treatment in Integrated Primary Care Settings (The Transform DepCare Study),” published in Journal of General Internal Medicine. 

Veronica Barcelona, student Danielle Scharp, and Maxim Topaz were among the authors of “Identifying Stigmatizing Language in Clinical Documentation: A Scoping Review of Emerging Literature,” published in PLoS One. 

Melissa Beauchemin, PhD ’19, was among the authors of “Clinical Trial Recruitment of People Who Speak Languages Other Than English: A Children’s Oncology Group Report,” published in JNCI Cancer Spectrum. 

Laura Britton, MS ’16, and Maureen George were among the authors of “Findings from a Mixed-Methods Journey Map Study of Barriers to Family Planning in Western Kenya,” published in Health Care for Women International. 

Ruth Masterson Creber was among the authors of “Improving Diversity in Cardiac Surgery Clinical Trials with ROMA: Women as an Exemplar,” published in Current Opinion in Cardiology. 

Ruth Masterson Creber and Stephanie Niño de Rivera were among the authors of “Minimal Clinically Important Differences in Patient-Reported Outcomes After Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery in the Arterial Revascularization Trial,” published in European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. 

Student Pierce DiMauro, MS ’21, was the author of “Clinical Recommendations for Improving Palliative Nursing Care for Patients with a Left Ventricular Assist Device,” published in Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing. 

Stephen Ferrara was among the authors of “Nurses in Health Policy: Lessons Learned from One Cohort of the American Academy of Nursing Jonas Policy Scholars Program,” published in Nursing Outlook. 

Student Sarah Harkins and Veronica Barcelona were the authors of “An Evaluation of Conceptual Frameworks to Improve Reproductive Health Outcomes Among Women with Physical Disabilities,” published in Journal of Advanced Nursing. 

Amanda Hessels was a co-author of “Associations Between Negative Patient Safety Climate and Infection Prevention Practices,” published in American Journal of Infection Control. 

Se Hee Min, Rebecca Schnall, PhD ’09, and Maxim Topaz were among the authors of “Relationship Between Hemoglobin and Specific Cognitive Domain Among Older Adults Using Network Analysis,” published in Aging and Mental Health. 

Sarah Rossetti, PhD ’09, Haomiao Jia, and Suzanne Bakken were among the authors of “Multisite Pragmatic Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial of the CONCERN Early Warning System,” published in medRxiv. 

Jihye Kim Scroggins, Maxim Topaz, and Maryam Zolnoori were among the authors of “Does Synthetic Data Augmentation Improve the Performances of Machine Learning Classifiers for Identifying Health Problems in Patient-Nurse Verbal Communications in Home Healthcare Settings?” published in Journal of Nursing Scholarship. 

Patricia Stone, Jingjing Shang, and Andrew Dick were among the authors of “Insurance-Based Disparities in Outcomes and Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Utilization for Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients,” published in Anesthesiology. 

Meghan Reading Turchioe, PhD ’18, and Natalie Benda were among the authors of “Preparing for the Bedside—Optimizing a Postpartum Depression Risk Prediction Model for Clinical Implementation in a Health System,” published in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 

Meghan Reading Turchioe, PhD ’18, and Maxim Topaz were among the authors of “Exploring the Full Potential of the Electronic Health Record: The Application of Natural Language Processing for Clinical Practice,” published in European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing.  

Honors 

Aluem Tark, PhD ’19, was inducted as a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. 

Presentations 

Suzanne Bakken presented “Application of an Epistemic Justice Framework to Public Health Data Science in the African Context” for Advancing Public Health Research in Eastern Africa Through Data Science Training on June 24, 2024, in Mombasa, Kenya. 

Natalie Benda presented “Career Development Awards from the National Institutes of Health” at Career Development Grants in Academia, a virtual panel discussion hosted by the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society on July 11, 2024. 

Leon Chen presented “Oncological Critical Care APP Point-of-Care Ultrasound Training Program” virtually at Duke Advanced Practice Grand Rounds on July 18, 2024. 

Ariana Komaroff, MS ’04, presented “Collaboration and Considerations in Lactation Care for Patient with Bipolar Disorder” at the 37th Annual Postpartum Support International Conference held July 26-28, 2024, in Washington, DC. 

Monica O'Reilly-Jacob presented “Nurse Practitioners in the Medicare Program: Can Evidence Inform Policy” at the American Association of Nurse Practitioners National Conference held June 25-30, 2024, in Nashville, and “Nurse Practitioners’ Degree Type and Timing and the Association With Activities, Autonomy, and Job Outcomes,” “Validating a Method to Identify Primary Care Providers in Medicare Administrative Claims,” and “State Level Practice Regulations on the Quality of Home-Based Primary Care Delivered by Nurse Practitioners” at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, held June 29-July 2, 2024, in Baltimore. 

Meghan Reading Turchioe, PhD ’18, presented “Artificial Intelligence Tools in Patient Care and Research” at the European Society of Cardiology ACNAP Congress held June 14-15, 2024, in Wroclaw, Poland. 

Other News 

Sally W. Aboelela received a Provost Innovative Course Module Design Grant for her proposal, “Using Generative AI to Close Individual Learning Gaps Post-Summative Assessments,” by the Columbia University Provost’s Office, announced on June 14, 2024. 

Natalie Benda was recognized for her top-cited paper for 2023 in Journal of Nursing Scholarship.  

Amanda Hessels was interviewed for Healthcare Purchasing News about sharps safety and how workers across multiple disciplines can share knowledge to help one another stay safe. She discussed her background with the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act of 2001 and the risk of blood-borne pathogens. 

A study by Allison Norful, PhD ’17, “Nursing Perspectives About the Critical Gaps in Public Health Emergency Response During the COVID‐19 Pandemic,” was recognized as a top cited paper for 2023 by the Journal of Nursing Scholarship. She also served as a panelist on “Registered Nurses: The Missing Link in Primary Care Transformation,” a policy debrief panel at the 2024 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting.