June 2026 Publications, Presentations, Awards, and Other News
Publications
Melissa Beauchemin, PhD ’19, was among the authors of “Factors Associated with Unplanned Healthcare Encounters in Pediatric Cancer Patients,” published in Supportive Care in Cancer.
Ashley Chastain, Bridget Morse-Karzen, Patricia Stone, and Jingjing Shang were the authors of “Mitigating and Solving Infection Prevention and Control Challenges During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results from Qualitative Interviews with U.S. Home Healthcare Staff,” published in Home Healthcare Now.
Ashley Chastain and Jingjing Shang were among the authors of “Differences in Rural and Urban Home Healthcare Agency Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic,” published in Home Health Care Management and Practice.
Lauren Gerchow was among the authors of “Sex Education for HIV Prevention Among Adolescents and Young Adults (15–24 Years) Across Diverse Settings: An Integrative Review,” published in Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC).
Lauren Gerchow, Rebecca Schnall, PhD ’09, and Jianfang Liu were the authors of “Psychometric Evaluation of the Spanish-Language Version of the Health Information Technology Usability Evaluation Scale (Health ITUES),” published in International Journal of Medical Informatics.
Madison Horton, PhD ’25, and Meghan Reading Turchioe, PhD ’18, were among the authors of “Centering Nursing in AI-Enabled Care: Alliance for Nursing Informatics Offers Perspectives on the Adoption and Use of Artificial Intelligence as Part of Clinical Care,” published in Computers, Informatics, Nursing.
Alexandra Perrin was among the authors of “Delirium in Older Adults Presenting to the Emergency Department: Prevalence, Risk Factors, Management Strategies, and Hospital Utilization Outcomes,” published in Journal of General Internal Medicine.
Sarah Rossetti, PhD ’09, was among the authors of “Caring for the EHR Rather Than the Patient: Nurses’ Perception of Documentation Burden,” published in Computers, Informatics, Nursing.
Rebecca Schnall, PhD ’09, Claudia Michaels, Maeve Brin, and Sergio Ozoria Ramirez were among the authors of “Usability and Satisfaction with the WiseAPP and CleverCap: A Culturally Adapted mHealth Intervention for Spanish-Speaking People Living with HIV in the Dominican Republic and New York City,” published in Studies in Health Technology and Informatics.
Arlene Smaldone, PhD ’03, was among the authors of “Does Continuous Glucose Monitoring Improve Glycemic Control and Quality of Life Among Adults with Type 2 Diabetes in Primary Care Settings? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis,” published in The Science of Diabetes Self-Management and Care.
Patricia Stone was among the authors of “A Novel Method to Apply Race and Ethnicity Observation for Nursing Home Residents Using Multiple Medicare Administrative Datasets,” published in Medical Care.
Maxim Topaz was among the authors of “Leveraging Natural Language Processing for Symptom Identification in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Using Clinical Notes from Electronic Health Records,” published in Cancer Nursing.
Zhihong Zhang, Ismael I. Hulchafo, Maxim Topaz, and Veronica Barcelona were among the authors of “Extracting Signs and Symptoms of Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy from Clinical Notes Using Natural Language Processing,” published in Maternal and Child Health Journal.
Maryam Zolnoori was among the authors of “Recruitment and Participation of Black Home Health Care Patients in Speech-Based Cognitive Research: Mixed Methods Feasibility Study,” published in JMIR Formative.
Presentations
Gregory Alexander presented “HIT Maturity Models and Measures” at Advancing Public Health Research in Eastern Africa Through Data Science Training in Nairobi, Kenya, on May 13, 2026, and “Beyond the Code: Bridging Standards and AI to Open the Personal Gate of Nursing Care” and “The Innovation Gate: Ambient Sensing, AI, and Documentation” at Medical Informatics Europe on May 26, 2026, in Genoa, Italy.
Donna Drucker was a speaker on the panel “Sexual Knowledge, Medical Power: Reframing the History of Sexology” at the American Association for the History of Medicine conference on June 6, 2026, in Buffalo, New York.
Heidi Hahn-Schroeder presented “Enhancing Student Success Through an Academic Support Faculty Model in Accelerated Pre-Licensure Nursing Education” at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s 2026 Access, Connection, Engagement (ACE) Symposium, on June 11, 2026, in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Marlene McHugh presented “Improving Timely and Equitable Palliative Medicine Referrals in the Emergency Department Using the Palliative Care and Rapid Emergency Screening (P-CaRES) Tool” at the NewYork-Presbyterian Quality in Care Symposium on June 11, 2026.
Monica O’Reilly-Jacob participated in a panel discussion, “Identifying Primary Care Nurse Practitioners and Physician Associates: Better Methods to Improve Workforce Policy,” and presented “The Evolving U.S. Health Care Workforce: Updated Forecasts for Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, and Physician Associates Through 2030,” at the AcademyHealth Annual Research
Natalya Pasklinsky presented a plenary speech, “From Practice to Presence: Cultivating Compassionate Communication Through Simulation-Based Education,” at the Semmelweis Medical Linguistics Conference, on June 6, 2026, in Budapest, Hungary.
Other News
Ashley Graham-Perel served as the nursing pinning ceremony keynote speaker for both her alma mater, New York City College of Technology (City Tech), on May 26, 2026, and at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, on May 28, 2026.