December 2024 Publications, Presentations, Awards, and Other News

Publications

Veronica Barcelona and Maxim Topaz were among the authors of “Applying Natural Language Processing to Understand Symptoms Among Older Adults Home Healthcare Patients with Urinary Incontinence,” published in Journal of Nursing Scholarship.

Melissa Beauchemin, PhD’19 was among the authors of “Symptom Screening Linked to Care Pathways for Pediatric Patients with Cancer: A Randomized Clinical Trial,” published in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

Ruth Masterson Creber was among the authors of “An Evolutionary Concept Analysis of Depression in Black Mothers,” published in Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, and “Should We Routinely Measure Patient Quality of Life After Acute Coronary Syndrome?” published in European Heart Journal: Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes.

Fabiana Dos Santos was among the authors of “Creating Perinatal Nursing Care Plans Using ChatGPT: A Pathway to Improve Nursing Care Plans and Reduce Documentation Burden,” published in Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing.

Safa Elkefi, Corina Lelutiu-Weinberger, Jean-Marie Bruzzese, and Phoenix Matthews were the authors of “Disparities in Exposure to Pro-Tobacco and Anti-Tobacco Advertisements in the United States,” published in Substance Use and Misuse.

Maureen George was among the authors of “Assessment of Home-Based Monitoring in Adults with Chronic Lung Disease: An Official American Thoracic Society Research Statement,” published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine,” and “Pediatric Asthma Impairment and Risk Questionnaire: Rationale and Development of a Composite Control Tool,” published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology.

Ji Won Lee was among the authors of “Higher Patient Activation Is Associated with Lower Odds of Functional Limitation in Older Adults with Chronic Diseases,” published in Geriatric Nursing.

Jianfang Liu and Jean-Marie Bruzzese were among the authors of “Asthma Knowledge: Self-Efficacy, and Self-Management Among Rural Adolescents with Poorly Controlled Asthma,” published in Journal of School Nursing.

Student David López Veneros was among the authors of “Leveraging Implementation Science at the Early-Stage Development of a Novel Telehealth-Delivered Fear of Exercise Program to Understand Intervention Feasibility and Implementation Potential: Feasibility Behavioral Intervention Study,” published in JMIR Formative Research.

Jacquelyn Taylor was among the authors of “Caregiving and Hypertension in Younger Black Women: The Jackson Heart Study,” published in Hypertension.

Student Zidu Xu and Maxim Topaz were among the authors of “Developing a Clinical Decision Support Framework for Integrating Predictive Models into Routine Nursing Practices in Home Health Care for Patients with Heart Failure,” published in Journal of Nursing Scholarship.

Tingting Zhao and Elizabeth Corwin were among the authors of "Association between Mitochondrial DNA Copy Number and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes among Black and white Preterm Infants up to Two Years of Age," published in Interdisciplinary Nursing Research.

Presentations

Melissa Beauchemin, PhD’19 presented “Implementing Systematic Financial and Health-Related Social Needs Screening Across Outpatient Oncology Clinics Where Adolescents and Young Adults Receive Care” at Grand Rounds in the Division of Oncology at Children’s National Hospital on December 5, 2024.

Natalie C. Benda moderated “’Lost in Translation’: Informatics Challenges and Opportunities for Supporting Communication with Patients in Their Preferred Language,” spoke at “Let’s Get Specific! Granular Objectives and Outcomes for Information Visualization,” and presented “Perspectives on Evolving Data-Sharing Practices in Research: Participants Voice Concerns Around Increased Data Sharing with External Entities” and “From Myanmar to Mizoram: Navigating Healthcare Challenges for Displaced Communities” at the American Medical Informatics Association 2024 Annual Symposium, held November 13, 2024, in San Francisco.

Ruth Masterson Creber presented “Leveraging Digital Innovations to Overcome Healthcare Challenges for Older Adults” at the Weill Cornell Program for the Care and Study of the Aging Heart, Division of Cardiology, Division of General Internal Medicine, and Division of Geriatrics, Weill Cornell Medicine, on October 11, 2024, in New York; “Building Partnerships: How RECHARGE is Engaging Patients and Stakeholders” at the 36th Annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics Conference on October 29, 2024, in Washington, D.C.; and “Optimizing Heart Failure Management Through a Multidisciplinary Approach: Addressing Frailty in the Patient with Heart Failure” at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions on November 17, 2024, in Chicago.

Fabiana Dos Santos presented “Evaluating the Impact of CHAMPS: A mHealth and Community Health Worker Intervention on Self-Management Among People with HIV” and “The Impact of the mLab App Intervention on HIV Knowledge Among Young Cisgender Men and Transgender Women” at the American Medical Informatics Association 2024 Annual Symposium, held November 9-13, 2024, in San Francisco.

Kathleen Mullen presented “Developing Generative Artificial Intelligence Literacy Through a Nursing Graduate Quality Improvement Capstone Project” at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing conference, “Transform 2024: Transforming Academic Nursing, Leading with Creativity and Courage,” held December 5-7, 2024, in New Orleans.

Meghan Reading Turchioe, PhD’18 presented “Factors to Promote Usage of Wearable Technology Among Black and Latino Adults at Risk for Atrial Fibrillation” and “Leveraging ChatGPT as Programming Support for PhD-Level Nursing Students: Results from a Mixed-Methods Experimental Study” at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2024 Annual Symposium, held November 9-13, 2024, in San Francisco. She presented “Empowering Nurses with AI: Bridging the Gap Between Technology and Patient Care,” an invited Ignite talk, at the AMIA Consumer Health Informatics Working Group workshop, “Current State and Future of Community and Patient-Driven Health Artificial Intelligence: A Collaborative Workshop.” She was a panelist on “Innovation in Nursing Practice and Informatics” at the 14th Annual NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Nursing Research, Evidence Based Practice, and Innovation Symposium: Translating Nursing Science into Innovation, Practice, and Policy, held virtually, on November 6, 2024. She also presented “Identifying the implementation Potential for Mobile Integrated Health Interventions for Patients with Heart Failure” and “Identifying Atrial Fibrillation Symptom Clusters and Examining Associations with Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events Following Catheter Ablation” at the American Heart Association Annual Scientific Sessions on November 17, 2024, in Chicago.

Awards

Tonda L. Hughes received the 2024 Distinguished Investigator Award from the National Institutes of Health Sexual and Gender Minority Research Investigator Awards Program on December 5, 2024.

Uduwanage Gayani Perera received the Rural and Environment Research Award from the American Public Health Association (APHA) for a paper presented at the APHA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis on October 28, 2024, titled, “Association of Rurality and Neighborhood Deprivation with Infection-Related Hospitalizations Among the U.S. Home Health Care Population.”

Other News

Ruth Masterson Creber participated in “Implementation Science Unveiled: What It Is and How You Can Use It to Improve Cardiovascular Health,” an American Heart Association Epidemiology & Prevention webinar on October 10, 2024.

Fabiana Dos Santos was a 2024 invited planning committee member on "The Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Health Worker Well-Being” for the National Academy of Medicine Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience, held on December 9, 2024, in San Diego.

Nancy Reame’s work on menopause was featured in a story by Gary Schwitzer on “The Menopause Morass: Media, Marketing, & Misinformation” for Health News Review on Substack on December 4, 2024. She was also a reviewer for the 2025 Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Scholars program for the National Academy of Medicine, and a screener for the Kavli Science Journalism Awards announced at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C.