October 2025 Publications, Presentations, and Other News

Publications

Gregory Alexander was among the authors of “Market and Organizational Characteristics Associated with Nursing Home Health Information Technology Maturity,” published in Journal of Gerontological Nursing. 

Natalie Benda was among the authors of “Prevalence and Trajectories of Perinatal Anxiety and Depression in a Large Urban Medical Center,” published in JAMA Network Open. 

Jean-Marie Bruzzese, Jianfang Liu, and Yihong Zhao were among the authors of “Preliminary Outcomes of Healthy Sleep Practices and Mind-Body Integrative Health Intervention Among Urban Youth: Feasibility, Acceptability, and Initial Impact,” published in Sleep Health. 

Billy Caceres was among the authors of “Sexual Minority Populations and Disparities in Cardiovascular Healthcare,” published in European Heart Journal.  

Ruth Masterson Creber, Meghan Reading Turchioe, PhD ’18, and Yihong Zhao were among the authors of “Mobile Integrated Health vs a Transitions of Care Coordinator for Patients Discharged After Heart Failure: The Mighty-Heart Randomized Clinical Trial,” published in JAMA Internal Medicine. 

Susan Doyle-Lindrud was the author of “Management of Neutropenic Fever in Persons with Cancer,” published in Nursing Clinics of North America. 

Pallavi Gupta, Zhihong Zhang, and Maxim Topaz were among the authors of “Rapid Review: Growing Usage of Multimodal Large Language Models in Healthcare,” published in Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 

Kasey Jackman, PhD '17, was among the authors of “Exploring Nurses’ Understanding of Sternal Wound Infections,” published in Clinical Care Nursing Quarterly. 

Clare Cardo McKegney was among the authors of “Respiratory Syncytial Virus  in Focus: Emerging Research, Trends, and Clinical Implications,” published in Nursing Clinics of North America. 

Student Simon Paul Navarro was the author of “Becoming a Catalyst for Transformation in Health Care,” published in Academic Medicine: Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, and among the authors of “Exploring the Impact of Organizational Belonging on Nurse Practitioners Workforce Well-Being and Team Outcomes,” published in Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. 

U Gayani E Perera, Ashley Chastain, Andrew Dick, Patricia Stone, and Jingjing Shang were among the authors of “Transforming Care: The Impact of COVID-19 on Telehealth Adoption in U.S. Home Health Care Agencies,” published in Telemedicine Journal and e-Health. 

Lusine Poghosyan was among the authors of “Examining Team Creativity in Primary Care,” published in Health Care Management Review. 

Rebecca Schnall, PhD '09, was among the authors of “Forming Genuine Bonds: HIV Research Retention Strategies for Cisgender Women Vulnerable to HIV Acquisition,” published in AIDS Patient Care and STDs. 

Rebecca Schnall, PhD '09, and Joseph Belloir were among the authors of “Pro-Inflammatory Biomarkers Associated with Depression Severity Among Adults with HIV in New York City,” published in Journal of Psychiatric Research. 

Arlene Smaldone, PhD ’03, was among the authors of “HABIT Efficacy Trial Intervention Improves Elements of General and Disease-Specific Quality of Life in Youth with Sickle Cell Disease,” published in Pediatric Blood and Cancer. 

Jacquelyn Taylor was among the authors of “Association of 24-Hour Ambulatory Blood Pressure During Pregnancy in Adolescents and Young Adults with Measures of Fetal Autonomic Nervous System Development,” published in Developmental Psychobiology. 

Maxim Topaz was the author of “Invisible Scribes: Can Nurses Trust Ambient AI for Clinical Documentation?” published in Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, and among the authors of “Adverse Social Determinants of Health and Urinary Incontinence Among Older Adult Women in Home Health Care,” published in Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 

Maxim Topaz and Zhihong Zhang were among the authors of “Beyond Human Ears: Navigating the Uncharted Risks of AI Scribes in Clinical Practice,” published in NPJ Digital Medicine. 

Zidu Xu, Veronica Barcelona, and Maxim Topaz were among the authors of “Characterizing Symptom Clusters for Older Adults with Urinary Incontinence in Home Healthcare,” published in Geriatric Nursing. 

Zhihong Zhang, Pallavi Gupta, Stephanie Potts-Thompson, Laura Prescott, Morgan Morrison, Jacquelyn Taylor, and Maxim Topaz were among the authors of “Identifying and Reducing Stigmatizing Language in Home Health Care with a Natural Language Processing-Based System (ENGAGE): Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study,” published in JMIR Research Protocols. 

Zhihong Zhang, Stephanie Potts-Thompson, and Maxim Topaz were among the authors of “Beyond Keywords: A Qualitative Study of Context-Dependent Stigmatizing Language in Clinical Documentation from a Large, Multi-Payer Home Healthcare Agency,” published in Home Health Care Management and Practice. 

Yihong Zhao was among the authors of “Biceps Femoris Long Head Fascicle Length Not Associated with Hamstring Injury Risk in NCAA Football Athletes,” published in Clinical Journal of Sport. 

Presentations 

Christian Cansino presented “The Development and Implementation of AI-Based Educational Applications in Nurse Anesthesia Simulation” at the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology Annual Congress on August 12, 2025, in Nashville. 

Jane Chaiyasit, DNP ’17, presented “Providing Same Day Primary Care Appointments to Columbia Employees Through Rapid Access Program at the ColumbiaDoctors Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Group” at the 2025 Quality in Care Symposium at the New York Academy of Medicine on June 5, 2025. 

Jeanne Churchill presented “The Art of Nursing Through Reflective Narratives,” at the Gold Humanism Summit: The Person in Front of You, on September 18, 2025, in Baltimore. 

Allison A. Norful, PhD ’17, was a featured speaker at “Shifting the Future: Policy and Research Updates on Suicide in the Nursing Profession” at the American Academy of Nursing Policy Debrief, a national webinar, on September 10, 2025. 

Monica O’Reilly-Jacob presented at “Evaluations and Research: How to Engage, What Do We Know Now, and Where Should We Go in the Future” at the National Consortium for Advanced Practice Providers 8th Annual Meeting, “Navigating the Future: 20 Years of Sustaining Excellence in APP Postgraduate Training,” on July 15, 2025, in Denver. 

Meghan Reading Turchioe, PhD ’18, presented “Harnessing Informatics to Enhance Quality of Life in Atrial Fibrillation” at the Early-Stage Investigator Spotlight at the National Institute of Nursing Research 40th Anniversary Scientific Symposium, “Advancing Nursing Science to Improve Health for All: NINR’s Impact,” on September 17, 2025, in Washington, D.C. 

Awards 

PhD student David Lopez Veneros received a Blue Ribbon Award for excellence in poster submissions at the 2025 Association for Clinical and Translational Science Annual Meeting.  

Other News 

Pallavi Gupta and Maxim Topaz received Amazon Web Services (AWS) credits worth $77,531 from the AWS AI For Good program on September 29, 2025. 
 
An opinion piece by Allison A. Norful, PhD ’17, “A Hidden Crisis: Nurse Suicide in America,” was published in Becker’s Hospital Review on September 25, 2025. 

As part of the National Menopause Foundation’s Perimenopause Awareness Month, Nancy Reame was a podcast co-presenter on the heyperry.com website discussing “The Continuum of PMS to Perimenopause” on September 29, 2025. She was also featured in the women’s health audio podcast “Overlooked.”  

Postdoctoral research scientist Tingting Zhao received the NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00) from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities on September 24, 2025.