March 2025 Publications, Presentations, and Other News
Publications
Suzanne Bakken was among the authors of “Trajectories of mHealth-Tracked Mental Health and Their Predictors in Female Chronic Pelvic Pain Disorders,” published in medRxiv.
Melissa Beauchemin, PhD ’19, was among the authors of “Use of Food Restrictions to Prevent Infections in Paediatric Patients with Cancer and Haematopoietic Cell Transplantation Recipients: A Systematic Review and Clinical Practice Guideline,” published in eClinical Medicine.
Natalie Benda was among the authors of “How Difference Tasks Are Affected by Probability Format, Part 1: A Making Numbers Meaningful Systematic Review”; “How Point (Single-Probability) Tasks Are Affected by Probability Format, Part 1: A Making Numbers Meaningful Systematic Review”; “How Point (Single-Probability) Tasks Are Affected by Probability Format, Part 2: A Making Numbers Meaningful Systematic Review”; “How Synthesis Tasks Are Affected by Probability Format: A Making Numbers Meaningful Systematic Review”; “How Time-Trend Tasks Are Affected by Probability Format: A Making Numbers Meaningful Systematic Review”; and “Scope, Methods, and Overview Findings for Making Numbers Meaningful Evidence Review of Communicating Probabilities in Health: A Systematic Review,” all published in Medical Decision Making Policy and Practice.
Jean-Marie Bruzzese was a co-author of “Editorial: Asthma and Mental Health: Novel Insights to the Experience, Etiology, Longitudinal Course, and Management of Mental Health in Asthma and Allergy,” published in Frontiers in Allergy.
Fabiana Cristina Dos Santos and Rebecca Schnall, PhD ’09, were among the authors of “Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Mobile Health Intervention on Enhancing HIV Knowledge in Sexual and Gender Minority Men,” published in Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.
Tonda Hughes was among the authors of “Randomised Controlled Trial of LGBTQ-Affirmative Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy for Sexual Minority Women’s Minority Stress, Mental Health, and Hazardous Drinking: Project EQulP Protocol,” published in BMJ Open.
Tonda Hughes and Lauren Bochicchio were among the authors of “Using a Sober Curious Framework to Explore Barriers and Facilitators to Helping Sexual Minority Women Reduce Alcohol-Related Harms: Protocol for a Descriptive Study,” published in JMIR Research Protocols.
Student David Lopez Veneros and Billy Caceres were among the authors of “Influence of Experiences of Discrimination and Anticipated Discrimination on Cardiovascular Health Outcomes,” published in Current Cardiology Reports.
Phoenix Matthews was among the authors of “Feasibility of Remote Intensive Monitoring: A Novel Approach to Reduce Black Postpartum Maternal Cardiovascular Complications,” published in Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health.
Rebecca Schnall, PhD ’09, and Jianfang Liu were among the authors of “Feasibility and Acceptability of the Sense2Quit App for Improving Smoking Cessation in PWH,” published in AIDS and Behavior.
Jingjing Shang, Uduwanage Gayani E Perera, Jianfang Liu, and Ashley Chastain were among the authors of “Disparities in Infection Risk Among Home Health Care Patients: A Study Using Area Deprivation Index,” published in Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (JAMDA).
Jingjing Shang, Patricia Stone, and Maxim Topaz were among the authors of “The Paradox of Choice in Palliative Care Decision-Making in Managed Long-Term Care: A Qualitative Study,” published in Home Health Care Management and Practice.
Presentations
Melissa Beauchemin, PhD ’19, presented “Evaluating Systematic Financial Screening Implementation in Outpatient Oncology Clinics” at the New Jersey Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Research Center of Excellence (NJ PHORCE) Pediatric Seminar Series held at the Rutgers Cancer Institute on March 19, 2025, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and “Equity and Outcomes in AYAs Lymphoma” at the Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Lymphomas Scientific Workshop and Consortium meeting on March 21, 2025, in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Natalie Benda was among the presenters at the session titled “Decoding the Mind: From the Brain to Mental Health” at the Columbia AI Summit, held on March 4, 2025, in New York.
Nancy Reame presented “The State of Surrogacy in New York: Possible Perils and Pitfalls of This New Prototype for Surrogate Parenting in the US” at the 2025 Carol Carfang Nursing and Healthcare Ethics Conference sponsored by the School of Nursing of Duquesne University, held in Clearwater, Florida, on February 28, 2025.
Other News
Alicia Bacchus participated in the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons Young Docs Program Black History Month presentation on February 27, 2025. She was one of three Black health care professionals from Columbia University Irving Medical Center to provide their perspectives at the event, designed to introduce high school students to careers in health care. Bacchus spoke about the nursing profession, her educational preparation, her roles and responsibilities as an advanced practice nurse, and why she chose nursing.