January 2025 Publications, Presentations, Awards, and Other News
Publications
Gregory Alexander and Maxim Topaz were among the authors of “Understanding Daily Care Experience Preferences Across the Lifespan of Older Adults: Application of Natural Language Processing,” published in Western Journal of Nursing Research.
Veronica Barcelona was the author of “National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Recommendations for Transformative Change in Women’s Health Research at the National Institutes of Health,” published in Nursing Research.
Melissa Beauchemin, PhD ’19, was among the authors of “Transcreating BMT4me: A Protocol for Adapting a Mobile Health Medication Adherence App for Spanish-Speaking Caregivers in Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant,” published in Digital Health.
Christina DeForge, Andrew Dick, and Patricia Stone were among the authors of “Sociodemographic Disparities in the Use of Hospice by U.S. Nursing Home Residents: A Systematic Review,” published in American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
Safa Elkefi and Phoenix Matthews were the authors of “Factors Impacting Breast Cancer Survivors’ Performance of Annual Follow-up Mammograms: A Nationally Representative Study,” published in Patient Education and Counseling.
Student Madison Horton, student Justinna Dixon, Rachel Paikoff, and Lusine Poghosyan were among the authors of “Advanced Practice Nurses in Primary Care and Their Impact on Health Service Utilisation, Costs, and Access Globally: A Scoping Review,” published in Journal of Clinical Nursing.
Tonda Hughes, Jianfang Liu, and Rebecca Schnall, PhD ’09, were among the authors of “Updating an HIV Knowledge Questionnaire with Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Through Expert Opinions in the United States Using Delphi Methodology: A Qualitative Study,” published in Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (JANAC).
Kasey Jackman, PhD ’17, and Walter Bockting were among the authors of “Prevalence and Correlates of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Among Transgender People: Results from a U.S. Probability Sample,” published in Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity.
Jung Kang, Ashley Chastain, Jingjing Shang, and Patricia Stone were among the authors of “Urban and Rural Disparities in COVID-19 Outcomes in the United States: A Systematic Review,” published in Medical Care Research and Review (MCRR).
Monica O’Reilly-Jacob was among the authors of “The Quality of Home-Based Primary Care Delivered by Nurse Practitioners: A National Medicare Claims Analysis,” published in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
Lusine Poghosyan, Jianfang Liu, Kathleen Flandrick, Marcia Robinson, DNP ’10, Maureen George, and Monica O’Reilly-Jacob were among the authors of “Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Emergency Department Use Among Older Adults with Asthma and Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Work Environments,” published in Nursing Research.
Rebecca Schnall, PhD ’09, was among the authors of “Different Classes of HIV-Preventive Behavioral Intention Among Youths Vulnerable to HIV Acquisition,” published in AIDS and Behavior.
Rebecca Schnall, PhD ’09, Tonda Hughes, and Jianfang Liu were among the authors of “Protocol: The American Women: Assessing Risk Epidemiologically (AWARE) Cohort Study,” published in BMC Public Health.
Maxim Topaz was among the authors of “Artificial Intelligence in Nursing: Catalyzing Change Across Clinical, Educational, and Administrative Domains,” published in Journal of Nursing Scholarship.
Maxim Topaz, Sarah Collins Rossetti, PhD ’09, and Zhihong Zhang were among the authors of “Building a Time-Series Model to Predict Hospitalization Risks in Home Health Care: Insights into Development, Accuracy, and Fairness,” published in Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.
Kiera Yamada was among the authors of “The Evolution of a Quality Improvement Curriculum in a Family Nurse Practitioner Residency Program,” published in Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.
Presentations
Veronica Barcelona presented “Secondary Qualitative Analysis of Stigmatizing and Non-Stigmatizing Language Used in Hospital Birth Settings” at a Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing special issue webinar, held virtually on January 28, 2025.
Amanda Hessels presented “Low Resource, High Impact: Just-In-Time Training Toolkit in Response to a Public Health Crisis” at the AcademyHealth 17th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health, held December 8-11, 2024, in Arlington, Virginia.
Tonda Hughes presented “From the Margins to Mainstream—Building a Research Career on Sexual Minority Women’s Health” at Deakin University on November 8, 2024, in Melbourne, Australia.
Lisa Iannacci-Manasia, MS ’89, presented “Achieving Population Health Competencies Through a Health and Social Policy Course” at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing 2025 Doctoral Education Conference, held January 16-18, 2025, in Coronado, California.
Maryam Zolnoori presented “Beyond Electronic Health Record Data: Leveraging Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to Uncover Cognitive Insights from Patient-Nurse Verbal Communications” at a Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Journal Club webinar on January 9, 2025.
Awards
Billy Caceres was named a fellow of the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association on January 3, 2025. He will be inducted at the association’s annual symposium on April 10, 2025. He was also recognized as Junior Faculty Mentor of the Year by Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
Other News
Gregory Alexander participated in a Post-Acute Long-Term Care Medical Association PALTtalk podcast on January 16, 2025.
Veronica Barcelona was appointed to a two-year term on the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research Awards Committee.
Tonda Hughes is a partner investigator on two new research collaborations: “From Oppression to Hope: Reducing Heavy Drinking Among Midlife Women,” funded by the Australia Research Council Discovery Project, and “Reducing Alcohol Consumption Through the Sober Curious Movement,” supported by a grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia.
Maryam Zolnoori is a finalist in the National Institute on Aging’s PREPARE: Pioneering Research for Early Prediction of Alzheimer's and Related Dementias EUREKA Challenge, and will participate in Phase 3 of the competition.