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COLUMBIA NURSING STUDENTS HAVE A NEW CLINICAL CHOICE, WITHIN THE NATION’S LARGEST MUNICIPAL HEALTH SYSTEM

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LESSONS LEARNED WHEN A NURSING SCHOOL’S DEAN BECOMES A PATIENT NURSES STEP UP IN THE CIVIC AND POLITICAL ARENAS

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From the Dean

From many angles, Columbia Nursing meets its mission to care for the underserved

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mong the many qualities that make me proud of Columbia Nursing is our commitment to caring for disadvantaged populations. This commitment undergirds our mission, drives our curriculum, and informs the opportunities we offer both students and practicing nurses to engage in health care policymaking and health research and delivery efforts around the world.

Caring for underserved patients requires hands-on learning. Our Master’s Direct Entry (MDE) students acquire this through clinical integration, which they can now complete at one of four New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) facilities—Queens Hospital Center, Harlem Hospital in Manhattan, Woodhull Medical Center in Brooklyn, or Lincoln Medical Center in the South Bronx—all of which treat low-income, disabled, elderly, or otherwise disadvantaged people.

Our new partnership with HHC, the focus of the feature that starts on page 6, allows students to deal directly with the lack of health equity that heightens the risk of both acute and chronic illness among NYC’s most disadvantaged populations. I am thrilled about this partnership because it expands our ability to prepare students to care for the patients who need it most.

I once believed that nothing shaped nurses better than clinical experience—until I became a patient. My recent bout with breast cancer—an experience that I’ve shared in the feature starting on page 12—has given me a new-found understanding of and appreciation for the health care system and patient care.

Undergoing a double mastectomy, followed by chemotherapy, radiation, and breast reconstruction, sensitized me to how vulnerable patients are, particularly those with few resources. It showed me how different my care was from that of patients who lack education, employment, and health insurance, and how overwhelmed one feels in the face of a serious diagnosis. It also drove home the importance of being present for patients, helping them truly understand their condition and treatments, and connecting them with not only essential services, but also others who’ve had the same experience. This is what nursing is all about.

Nursing is also about advocacy, especially eliminating barriers to care and promoting health education and services that improve patient outcomes. It is an essential component of good patient care, which is why we urge nurses and faculty to study health policy and engage with local, state, and national leaders. Such collabora-

Dean Frazier with President Shafik beside a painting of Columbia Nursing’s founder, Anna C. Maxwell.

tions—some examples of which are described in the feature starting on page 16—give nurses the opportunity to help shape health and social policies that ultimately benefit patients.

Patients also benefit from nurses’ global experiences. Columbia Nursing offers many opportunities to gain such experiences, including rotations at one of our 12 global clinical integration sites.

In addition, several faculty and students have participated in the prestigious Fulbright Program, which fosters mutual understanding abroad through the sharing of expertise. Our Fulbright Scholars— most recently Professor Maureen George, PhD, with the University of the West Indies, and Kylie Dougherty, PhD ’23, on a maternal health project in Ethiopia—are the focus of the story on page 4.

And speaking of global connections, we have a new global partner in Columbia University’s 20th president, Minouche Shafik. Previously the head of the London School of Economics, she is a leading expert in international development—a field that at its heart is about improving people’s lives, just as nursing is. I am eager to join forces with her.

LORRAINE FRAZIER, PhD, RN, FAAN Dean, Columbia University School of Nursing Mary O’Neil Mundinger Professor of Nursing Senior Vice President, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

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Lorraine Frazier, PhD, RN, FAAN Dean, Columbia University School of Nursing Mary O’Neil Mundinger Professor of Nursing Senior Vice President, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

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DESIGN AND ART DIRECTION:

Eson Chan ALUMNI NEWS EDITORS:

Janice Rafferty Grady Associate Dean, Development and Alumni Relations Janine Handfus Associate Director, Annual Fund

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS:

Anne Harding Andrea Kott, MPH Kenneth Miller

· Sharing Expertise to Help Solve Global Problems

Sharon Sobel Assistant Director, Alumni Relations

· Combating Nurse Suicide by Leveraging Advances in Technology

BOARD OF ADVISORS:

Laura Ardizzone, DNP ’10 Director of Nurse Anesthesia Services, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York, NY Felesia Bowen, PhD ’10 Professor and Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, AL Brenda Barrowclough Brodie, BS ’65 Durham, NC Paul Coyne, DNP ’16, MBA President and Co-Founder, Inspiren; Senior Vice President and Chief Nurse Executive, Hospital for Special Surgery New York, NY Delphine Mendez de Leon, BS ’78, MBA, MPH Chief Strategy Officer, University Hospital of Brooklyn New York, NY Angela Clarke Duff, BS ’70 Forest Hills, NY Marjorie Harrison Fleming, BS ’69 Chair Seabrook Island, SC Susan Fox, BS ’84, MBA President and CEO, White Plains Hospital White Plains, NY Susan Furlaud, MS ’12 Vero Beach, FL Karen Hein, MD Jacksonville, VT Debra S. Heinrich, EdD ’22 Bedford, NY

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Mary Turner Henderson, BS ’64 San Francisco, CA Richard I. Levin, MD Senior Advisor to the President, Arnold P. Gold Foundation; Emeritus Professor of Medicine, McGill and New York Universities New York, NY Wilhelmina Manzano, MA Group Senior Vice President, Chief Nursing Executive, and Chief Operating Officer for Perioperative Services, NewYork-Presbyterian New York, NY Janet Ready, BS ’81, MBA, MPH COO, Premier Medical Group Poughkeepsie, NY Patricia Riley, BS ’76, MPH Captain (Retired), United States Public Health Service Atlanta, GA

· New Health Informatics and Data Science Center Launches

20 Alumni · A Glimpse of Alumni Events Throughout the Year

22 School News · Government and Private Research Funding · Selected Faculty Publications

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By Kenneth Miller

A new partnership enables Columbia Nursing students to complete their clinical integrations within the country’s largest municipal health system.

Power of 12 The Connectedness

By Andrea Kott, MPH Columbia Nursing’s dean, Lorraine Frazier, shares the lessons learned from her breast cancer journey.

16 Advanced Civics

By Anne Harding

In health policy roles, government posts, and the voting booth, Columbia Nurses are stepping up to advocate for patients, populations, and their profession.

ON THE COVER: Laura Serna, MS ’23, during her clinical integration at Queens Hospital Center earlier this year; photograph by Jörg Meyer.

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Roundup Sharing Expertise to Help Solve Global Problems

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of the central reasons for this ongoing tragedy is poor logistics: Ethiopia lacks reliable supply chains for the distribution of medical supplies. As a result, medical professionals are often unaware of their inventories for coping with emergencies that threaten the lives of pregnant women and their babies.

Together with investigators at Emory University and the Ethiopian Ministry of Health, Dougherty concluded that facilitating clinicians’ access to better inventory data could help mitigate the problem. During her eight months in the country as a Fulbrighter, Dougherty gathered data on hospital readiness for obstetric emergencies. Her goal? To design electronic dashboards to provide hospitals with easily digestible visualizations of inventory data.

“We wanted to provide a quick summary,” says Dougherty, “so health care workers can

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n January of this year, Kylie Dougherty, PhD ’23, moved to Ethiopia for a Fulbright-funded project to improve maternal health care in Amhara, 170 miles north of the country’s capital, Addis Ababa. A few months later, due to civil unrest in the region, Dougherty—one of five recent Fulbright Scholars with Columbia Nursing ties, and the University’s first nursing PhD student to receive the prestigious grant—was no longer able to visit Amhara and had to remain in Addis Ababa to continue her work. “It’s been a wild ride,” says Dougherty, who has a background in global health and managed to keep the project going despite the conflict. “You learn to roll with some of those punches.”

Women in Ethiopia face a 1-in-52 chance of dying from a childbirth-related cause, and the country ranks in the highest quintile worldwide for maternal mortality. One

Kylie Dougherty, PhD ’23, took time for some sightseeing with Professor Suzanne Bakken, PhD, who visited her in Ethiopia.

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take a quick look and see if their facility is ready or not for different obstetric emergencies, such as sepsis, hypertensive emergency, or prolonged labor, based on their supply inventory.”

Even as the conflict continued in Amhara, Dougherty, with the assistance of a local researcher, was able to organize qualitative interviews with health care workers there to assess their needs. She also met with individuals who tried out prototypes of her visualization dashboards. They found them helpful. “I’ve had the opportunity to present research and network and collaborate with other academics and professionals. This has set up future collaborations,” says Dougherty. “It’s been invaluable.”

U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright proposed the program bearing his name in 1946, to advance knowledge, foster mutual understanding, and improve lives around the globe. Since then, hundreds of thousands of Fulbrighters have had the opportunity to travel to help solve world-spanning problems. Now led by the U.S. Department of State, in partnership with over 160 countries, the Fulbright Program offers funding for educational and cultural exchanges to study or pursue innovative research.

The awards are not limited to students. In fact, four Columbia Nursing faculty members have been granted Fulbright awards in recent years. Earlier in 2023, Maureen George, PhD, who directs Columbia Nursing’s PhD program, received an award for a two-part project in conjunction with the University of the West Indies (UWI).

The first half of George’s project, due to begin in 2024, will involve delivering to faculty at UWI a program called Writing to Improve Nursing Science (WINS) that was developed by Elaine Larson, PhD, Columbia Nursing’s Anna C. Maxwell Professor Emerita. The second part of the project will involve research to promote breastfeeding.

The breastfeeding project is modeled on George’s work improving chronic disease self-management outcomes. In the Caribbean, George will train medical professionals in motivational interviewing and shared decision-making techniques. The resulting data will be used to develop a curriculum whose aim is to increase the number of women who make the decision to breastfeed their children.

George’s achievement builds on the successes of recent Columbia Nursing Fulbright alumni. In 2017, Gregory Alexander, PhD, the Helen Young CUPHSONAA Professor of Nursing, received a Fulbright Scholarship to work as a visiting professor at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, for four months. Alexander conducted research into the use of technology to improve care delivery across Australia and New Zealand in what are known there as aged care residential facilities. His research was presented to Australia’s Department of Health and shed light on how aged care issues in Australasia relate to those in the U.S. A year later, in 2018, Ana Kelly, PhD, an associate professor of nursing, received a Fulbright to spend five months in Malawi. At the Kamuzu College of Nursing, in Lilongwe, Kelly helped local nurses implement evidence-based practices.

The sharing of U.S. knowledge and expertise is central to the Fulbright’s goal of fostering mutual understanding.

This is particularly important in advanced practice nursing, “where we are ahead of the rest of the world in many ways,” says Judy Honig, DNP ’05, EdD ’95, the Dorothy M. Rogers Professor and vice dean of academic affairs.

Honig was named a Fulbright Specialist this year, a program that offers U.S. academics the opportunity to take part in short exchanges with host institutions.

In November 2023, she will travel to Saxion University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. There, she will assist with the introduction of that country’s first professional doctorate, currently being ushered in across numerous disciplines, by drawing on her deep experience designing and implementing Columbia Nursing’s Doctor of Nursing Practice Program.

Honig will share with her Dutch contacts the hurdles she and her Columbia Nursing colleagues overcame in setting up the professional doctoral program. Among the challenges, according to Honig, was finding ways to help research-oriented academics shift gears to educating leaders from a practice-based point of view. “It was hard to break away from that research-focused way of thinking,” says Honig. “I think they’re going to be faced with same thing in the Netherlands. It takes a while for the ethos to change.”

Thanks to the Fulbright, Honig’s impact in the Netherlands will be felt beyond nursing, in disciplines including energy and sustainability, education, and tourism. “I’m happy to share what we’ve learned on the global front,” says Honig. “Because, increasingly, we’re all one.”

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Combating Nurse Suicide by Leveraging Advances in Technology

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he number of nurses who die by suicide has reached an alarming level, with some estimates showing a rate 40% higher than in the general population. Columbia Nursing’s Allison Norful, PhD ’17, hopes to help turn around that grim trend. She recently received almost $1 million to conduct a five-year study of environmental factors in work settings that increase the risk of suicidal behavior among nurses. It’s “critical that we better understand which aspects of a nurse’s personal and professional life may pose a higher risk for poor mental health,” she says, citing modifiable factors like workload and shift type that may affect depression or anxiety. The study, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, will involve collecting hair and blood samples, which will be examined for cortisol production and DNA methylation.

Norful is also conducting a one-year study, on an intramural pilot grant, to look at factors like sleep, psychiatric issues, stressful events, and work environment characteristics that increase or decrease the probability of nurses taking their own lives. She will determine if wearable sensors, longitudinal surveys, and sleep interventions are potential protective solutions.

“With advancements in precision medicine and laboratory-based technology, we are, for the first time, able to apply novel methods to capture an individual’s physiologic and epigenetic response to environmental stimuli,” Norful says.

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n June, Columbia Nursing opened its newest research hub, the Center for Community-Engaged Health Informatics and Data Science (CCHIDS), with Suzanne Bakken, PhD, as its executive director.

The new center, whose goals align with the school’s commitment to social justice and health equity, will integrate the work of Columbia Nursing’s world-class health informatics and data science researchers.

“Data is the foundation for nursing practice and the generation of new nursing knowledge through research,” says Bakken, who also holds the endowed Alumni Professorship.

The center’s research portfolio already includes some three dozen research projects, including a national report of nursing home quality measures and information technology and a telemedicine initiative for patients with limited English proficiency. CCHIDS faculty have also developed a suite of informatics and data science resources, such as mobile applications for the prevention and management of HIV/AIDS and heart failure.

The center’s emphasis on community engagement is significant, notes Bakken. “To advance health equity, community engagement is essential across the stages of the research life cycle,” she points out.

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Laura Serna, MS ’23, Belinda Samuda, MS ’23, and Robynn ChengRoberts, MS ’23, at Queens Hospital Center, one of four clinical sites included in Columbia Nursing’s new partnership with NYC Health + Hospitals.

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A new partnership enables Columbia Nursing students to complete their clinical integrations within the country’s largest municipal health system.

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hen Laura Serna, MS ’23, began her clinical integration experience at Queens Hospital Center last April, it felt like a kind of homecoming. Born in Colombia, Serna had immigrated to Astoria, Queens, with her family when she was 10 years old. As they struggled to gain a foothold in their new country, she and her loved ones relied on that facility and others operated by the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (which goes by both HHC and NYC Health + Hospitals) to treat their illnesses and injuries, deliver their babies, and provide preventive care. “We all have medical records there,” Serna says.

HHC is the largest municipal health system in the United States, serving 1.4 million patients—mostly low-income or working-class people on Medicaid or Medicare. About onethird are uninsured, and many are undocumented. A public benefit corporation, HHC operates 11 acute care hospitals, five nursing homes, six diagnostic and treatment centers, and more than 70 primary care centers across New York’s five boroughs. With a largely foreign-born patient population, it provides services in more than 200 languages.

In the spring of 2023, Columbia School of Nursing launched a partnership with HHC, enabling students in the Master’s Direct Entry (MDE) Program to complete their

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This quartet of facilities brings a new dimension to the integration program, an immersive clinical experience that is the capstone of the MDE curriculum. During the experience, students spend six weeks working one-on-one with preceptors (usually RNs) for three or four 12-hour shifts per week. Since its founding in the 1980s, the integration experience has been offered at a growing range of locations, including NewYork-Presbyterian and other private hospitals across the metropolitan area; the New York State

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Psychiatric Institute; Callen-Lorde, a group of clinics serving the city’s LGBTQ+ community; the Bassett Healthcare Network, based in rural Cooperstown, New York; Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; and Columbia Nursing’s 17 affiliated global sites.

With the HHC sites added to the mix, students gained the opportunity to try their clinical wings in an urban public hospital system—one dedicated to providing “the highest quality health care services ... regardless of immigration status or ability to pay,” as its website declares, and to creating “models of care that remove barriers for special populations experiencing a disproportionate burden of illness.”

“NYC Health + Hospital’s mission directly aligns with Columbia Nursing’s focus on global health equity and on addressing the social determinants of health,” says Heidi Hahn-Schroeder, DNP, assistant dean of academic affairs and director of the MDE program. “This partnership also advances a central part of the school’s mission, which is to educate nurses to be leaders who can spearhead changes in health care that benefit patients and their communities.”

A MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL RELATIONSHIP The partnership grew out of a longstanding link between Columbia Nursing and Natalia Cineas, DNP, a senior vice president and chief nurse executive for HHC and an adjunct faculty member at Columbia Nursing since 2015. Cineas took the reins at NYC Health + Hospitals in 2019, around the same time that Dean Lorraine Frazier, PhD, did so at the school.

Shortly afterward, Frazier, Hahn-Schroeder, and Judy Honig, DNP ’05, EdD ’95, the school’s vice dean of academics and dean of students, met with Cineas to discuss ways in which the institutions could work together. “We started by sending a few students for rotations on an individual basis,” Hahn-Schroeder explains. “But after COVID-19 spotlit the barriers to care facing underserved populations, we recognized that expanding the integration program to HHC hospitals would be a great way to provide students with the experience of caring for those populations.”

The students were not the only ones who stood to benefit. “We want the best of the best caring for our patients,” says Cineas. “These are students from a premier school who want to make a difference. They’re committed, compassionate, innovative, and culturally sensitive. We hope some of them will come back and work with us after they graduate.”

Cineas also hopes that undergoing the integration experience at HHC sites will inspire some students to do nursing research aimed at improving care for underserved patients.

And she credits Columbia Nursing’s leadership with sharing her vision.

“Columbia takes a slightly different approach from other schools,” she notes. “The administration spends time and effort making sure that students’ goals are aligned with

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our public health mission to address disadvantaged and vulnerable populations, rather than simply concentrating on the clinical placements. Focusing on the desire to help underserved patients and communities makes it likelier that those students will return to us—or seek out another public health care system with similar values—in the future.”

A CAREER-CHANGING EXPERIENCE Among the inaugural class of students who did their integration at an HHC site, many described the experience as revelatory—and career-changing. That was the case for Robynn Cheng-Roberts, MS ’23, a native of Southern California whose mother had immigrated from Taiwan. “Seeing her struggles with the health care system, as someone for whom English wasn’t her first language and Western medicine wasn’t her preferred form of care, made me want to make the system better and more accessible,” says Cheng-Roberts, who has pursued that quest in various ways for more than a decade.

After college, Cheng-Roberts joined the Peace Corps and was posted to Honduras, where she managed a women’s health initiative. Later, back in California, she did a stint with Planned Parenthood before returning to school to earn a master’s in public health. She went on to work for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the

“ We want the best caring for our patients,” says Cineas. “These are students from a premier school who want to make a difference.

They’re committed, compassionate, innovative, and culturally sensitive.”

Chicago Department of Public Health, and a Manhattanbased global health nonprofit before enrolling at Columbia Nursing—drawn by a desire to do the kind of hands-on nursing she’d observed and admired in her earlier positions.

Cheng-Roberts opted to complete her clinical integration in the Queens Hospital Center emergency department (ED). Her motivation was personal as well as professional: She’d lived in the borough since moving to New York, and she missed the sense of connection with her community that she’d known in Honduras. “There’s a huge difference between supporting the health of people in distant lands and people in your neighborhood,” she explains. “I wanted to feel closer to the folks around me.”

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ing at Queens Hospital was like doing a global integration in my backyard,” she says. “I loved the diversity of both the patients and the staff.” Shadowing her Nigerian-born preceptor on the 11 a.m.-to-11 p.m. shift, Cheng-Roberts helped relieve nurses in almost every section of the ED, including the acute, observation, pediatric, and pediatric psych units.

“They were incredibly welcoming. Everyone was willing to teach me something and show me something.”

She also encountered the full array of health challenges faced by the local patient population. “It was the good, the bad, and the ugly,” Cheng-Roberts recalls. At times, the ED grew overcrowded and chaotic—in part, because it also provides nonemergency care for people who can’t afford any other option. She was glad to be able to use her Spanish-language skills to comfort crying children as she inserted IV lines or to explain procedures to their worried parents. But when patients experiencing substance withdrawal lashed out at staff and had to be subdued by hospital police, all she could do was watch in dismay. “I knew about the opioid crisis,” she says, “but to see people coming in agitated or violent, and needing much more support than an ED can offer, was a difficult thing.”

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health care disparities. And it heightened her awareness of the skills she will need to pursue those goals. Although she went into the MDE program expecting to go on directly to complete her DNP, she decided instead to work as an RN for a year after completing her master’s. “My time at this hospital made me realize there’s a lot to learn,” she says.

LESSONS FOR THE FUTURE Even at the same facility, however, different students can emerge with different lessons—drawn from their own personal history, temperament, and inclinations.

Take Belinda Samuda, MS ’23. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Harlem, Samuda had built a career as a publicinterest and labor attorney for New York City before discovering her true calling. What changed her trajectory was taking a few years off to care for her mother, who was suffering from vascular dementia. “I started to think, ‘I would like to emulate the good nurses I’ve met on my caretaking journey,’” she recalls. “Maybe I have a spiritual gift for it.” After her mother’s death, she earned her nursing school prerequisites at a community college, while becoming the assistant director of a multi-million–dollar day habilitation program for disabled adults. Then, searching for more effective ways to leverage her passions for caregiving, lead-

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By the time she started her clinical integration at the Queens ED, Samuda had resolved to specialize in psychiatric nursing.

“During my Psych rotation, I’d discovered that I loved listening to patients’ stories,” she explains. Nonetheless, she’d always wondered what happened behind the scenes in an ED and was eager to experience nursing within that setting.

Samuda enjoyed learning the lexicon, protocols, and shortcuts of this high-pressure branch of the profession.

“In the emergency room, it’s all about timing,” she says.

“You’ve got to know what you need. You’ve got to know where things are and get them pretty quick.” She was thrilled to watch seasoned nurses put into practice the abstractions she’d learned in the classroom, such as the importance of checking and stabilizing a patient’s airway, breathing, and circulation the moment they arrive. “There’s nothing more distressing than seeing a person coming in on a stretcher who can’t breathe. It’s like, ‘Okay, I get it now!’”

She was also struck by how comfortable she felt with the culture of the ED. Like Samuda, most of the staff as well as the patients were people of color (the reverse of the ratio at the private hospitals where she’d done clinical rotations).

Working the night shift, she was energized by the constant bustle and clamor. “I’m an inner-city person,” she says with a laugh. “I like gritty. I like loud.” As a former prosecutor, she even found a certain familiarity in seeing patients under custody. “It could have been jarring to others because it’s a lot to take in. But for me, it was ‘This is home.’”

In short, Samuda found her HHC integration to be “a wonderful, wonderful experience.” It didn’t change her plan to move directly into her DNP studies after completing her MSN, but she’s rethinking her next step after that.

Before committing to the world of mental health, she says, she may spend a couple of years amassing more medical experience—which could include time working in an ED. Eventually, she expects to end up in an administrative leadership position, where she’ll bring all of her learning and professional experience to bear. “That’s just who I am,” she says.

GIVING BACK For Laura Serna, choosing the Queens ED for her clinical integration was a no-brainer. It wasn’t just that she’d grown up in the borough, still lived there, and had been treated at local HHC hospitals since childhood; she also felt a duty to help community members who were struggling as she and her family once had. “Both of my parents were committed to public service,” says Serna, the daughter of a nurse and a worker-safety instructor. “So, naturally, I was inclined to that as well.”

That impulse had led her to Columbia Nursing in the first place, and it drove her during her integration, too.

“My biggest challenge was learning how not to be in the way,” says Serna, who worked the 7 a.m.-to-7 p.m. shift in the acute section of the ED. “Fortunately, my preceptor was a real badass. She’d been a nurse for about 15 years, and it was amazing to watch her work. She was so efficient—she would have the patient undressed, blood drawn, on a monitor, IV line installed, in under 10 minutes. She gave me pointers on how to prioritize, how to think.”

While these lessons were invaluable, the high points for Serna were the moments when she could comfort patients who felt vulnerable due to their position in society—people for whom even a minor medical emergency could threaten their ability to support themselves and their dependents.

One day, she found herself translating for a Spanishspeaking man who’d arrived by ambulance after injuring his back on a construction site. “He was afraid he was going to lose his job,” Serna says, “which is very common when you’re undocumented and you take time off for medical reasons. I was able to not only to give him the care he needed, but to calm him down emotionally. I told him, ‘It’s not your fault, you’re not a bad person. You just need to get better.’”

Samuda enjoyed learning the lexicon, protocols, and shortcuts of the ED. “In the emergency room, it’s all about timing,” she says. “You’ve got to know what you need. You’ve got to know where things are.”

She gave the man a list of immigrant aid organizations and told him to keep in touch. “I felt for him. It brought back memories of how my parents worked so hard, and how they were always afraid when we first moved here.”

Serna had long dreamed of becoming an emergencyroom nurse, and her clinical integration strongly reinforced that ambition. But she’d also been drawn to the idea of becoming a family nurse practitioner (FNP), and she felt torn by the idea of choosing one career path over another.

“I’d heard people say that family practitioners don’t work in hospitals,” she says. “I was on the fence.”

So she asked some nurses and doctors at the Queens ED and learned she’d heard wrong. “They told me I could be an FNP and work in the ED,” says Serna. “They said I could do whatever I wanted.”

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Columbia Nursing’s dean, Lorraine Frazier, shares the lessons learned from her breast cancer journey.

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orraine Frazier, PhD, has always been driven to help others.

She has dedicated her career to doing this while wearing lots of hats: as a clinician, an educator, a scientist, and a nursing leader. These days, however, the dean of Columbia Nursing is wearing an additional hat: that of breast cancer patient and survivor.

The new role, although jarring at first, has proven richly instructive, says Frazier. It has shown her how resilient she is. And having seen how critical the presence and support of loved ones and of a strong health care team were for her own recovery, she now appreciates how important those factors are for all women with breast cancer. “I cannot tell you how important support is when you’re going through something like this,” she says. Moreover, and despite years as a clinical nurse, it has been her experience as a breast cancer patient—and as a mentor to other patients walking a path similar to hers—that has taught her to hear and understand people in a deeper, more compassionate way, just as so many people heard and understood her. “I have never been more aware of the goodness and connectedness in people.

Now I want to be part of that caring community.”

Frazier is a private woman, but there is one thing that most people know about her, and that is that she abhors drama. It is no wonder, then, that when she describes her bout with breast cancer, it is in the most positive light—as a journey that has enriched her personally and professionally. “Before cancer, I lived life like I was on a conveyer belt, rushing from one thing to the next. Now I enjoy every moment,” she says. “Today, I’m someone who understands there’s no reason to rush, there’s no prize at the end of life. The prize is the journey. The journey is everything.”

By sharing the story of her journey, Frazier hopes to support other women with breast cancer, encourage them to partner with their

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Dean Lorraine Frazier and her husband, David, walked five miles a day during her cancer treatment.

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Connectedness health care team, and enlighten nurses and other providers about the importance of being present for patients. “Patients’ needs are not just medical,” she says. “They need information, they need to connect with others, and they need to feel heard and understood. They need to be treated as human beings.”

On an academic and clinical level, Frazier always knew this. But it was receiving her diagnosis in May 2022 and undergoing four months of treatment that drove these lessons home. “Initially it feels like someone pulls the rug out from under you,” she explains. “From one day to the next you don’t know what to expect. You have to have biopsies and oncotype scores. You don’t know who you are,” she says.

Frazier had felt the rug pulled out from under her many times before, as it happens, including in 1982, when her daughter, Molly, was born with profound developmental and intellectual disabilities, and again in January 2022, six months before her cancer diagnosis, when Molly died at age 39. “I used to think about Molly like being at the bottom of the ocean and thinking, ‘It can’t get deeper than this.’”

But it did, at least for a while.

“I’d felt a thickness in my breast that turned out to be something,” she explains, with a note of lingering surprise, as every one of her annual mammograms had been clear. “I had the type of cancer that

Dean Frazier with her oncologist, Dawn Hershman, MD.

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didn’t show up in mammography,” she says. “Ultrasound is what diagnosed it, and when it did, I thought, ‘Okay, let’s just deal with this.’”

The good news, besides the cancer’s early detection, was its treatability. “One thing I knew was that I wanted to decrease my risk to be in the best position to live,” Frazier explains. “I wanted aggressive treatment, whatever that meant.” It meant a double mastectomy, chemotherapy, and radiation. “I thought, ‘I can do this.’”

Yet when someone caringly covered her with a blanket, she balked. “I was always the one who put the blanket on somebody. When someone put a blanket on me, I said, ‘Wait a minute, don’t do that to me, that’s not who I am,’” she recounts. “You see yourself as capable and independent until you’re not. I have never been that vulnerable in my life.”

Daily exercise helped. Throughout her treatment, Frazier walked five miles a day with her husband, David. She lost 35 pounds. He lost 30.

Improving her diet helped, too. “I’ve never been healthier,” she says.

The greatest help came from talking with other women who had gone through a similar experience. One such woman was the owner of a bra shop who revealed her own double mastectomy during Frazier’s fitting for a new bra, following her mastectomy. “It was the first time that someone related to me in a way that I was thirsty for,” she exclaims.

Frazier also reached out to women she knew who were breast cancer survivors, like Dianne Morrison-Beedy, PhD. “I became her mentee and I needed it!” Frazier says. Morrison-Beedy, a professor at the Ohio State School of Nursing, checked in frequently by phone and text and helped keep Frazier’s spirits lifted.

“I would encourage breast cancer patients to reach out to survivors for help and encouragement,” Frazier says. “It may result in a few phone calls, or they may find someone like Dianne who becomes a ‘weekly encourager.’”

Frazier also found great comfort in talking with a dear friend, Amy, with whom she’d lost touch. When she reached out to share the news of her illness, Amy revealed that she, too, had had breast cancer. “Every woman with breast cancer needs to connect with others who’ve been through the journey,” Frazier says.

In addition to becoming an important part of Frazier’s support system, Amy taught her how to support other women with breast cancer.

One way that Frazier does this today is by sending patients the same sort of gift that Amy gave her: a teapot, a small cup, and some green tea. “I call them ‘Amy packages,’” she says. “Every time I sit down and make my tea, I feel Amy’s love and support, and I hope these women feel mine,” she says. She is also mentoring women and making herself available to speak to those who reach out to her. “We are a sisterhood of people who are so important to each other,” she says.

Women with breast cancer also need to feel connected to—and partnered with—their health care team, including the nurses caring for them, Frazier emphasizes. Conveying such connectedness can be as simple as gently touching a patient’s arm as they’re talking, or offering them a cup of coffee, or setting up a time at their convenience to discuss questions, fears, or concerns. “That connection is golden to a patient,” Frazier says. “Being present, listening, and caring is nursing.”

She goes to mention another significant aspect of such connectedness. “It is so important for patients to find a nurse they can relate to on a personal level, which is why we need more men and people of color in the field,” Frazier says.

Importantly, she also emphasizes patients’ need for education.

“I’m not naive when it comes to health care, and there was a lot of information for me to take in,” she says. “Emerging nurses may want to work with all the technological bells and whistles, but they must understand patients’ need for information. We always have to be aware of how vulnerable patients are.”

Confronting her own vulnerability heightened Frazier’s awareness of how different her care would have been if she were not a highly educated clinician and nursing school dean. “What if I didn’t know what I know? What if I was a widow without my husband, David, at my side? What if I was 30 years old? Or 20?” she says. “I got wonderful support from my job, and I was able to work the whole time. But what about people who don’t have that and who need health care?”

As it happens, questions like these already informed much of Columbia Nursing’s approach to education, research, and care, situated as it is in the hub of Washington Heights, which has a sizable underserved community. “We are always aware of people who don’t have resources,” Frazier says. “That’s why we train our nurses so they can work in areas that don’t have health care providers.”

Need caption Dean Frazier in Ireland.

This training emphasizes a comprehensive, holistic approach to health, which entails speaking with patients about barriers they may face in their lives—including a lack of income, employment, health insurance, transportation, healthy food, and childcare—all of which can impede their ability to stay well and access health care. “There’s always going to be something, whether it’s cancer, heart disease, hypertension, or diabetes,” Frazier notes. “If you’re a mother with kids and you work and have breast cancer, how do you put healthy food on the table? Our nurses are key to connecting people to the services they need. I am constantly thinking of how we can improve that.”

Frazier chose a career in nursing to help people attain the health and health care they need, and to educate nurses to do the same. She has done that. Now, one year into her journey as a breast cancer survivor, she is helping fellow patients by listening to and empathizing with their stories, in the particular ways she knows they need—and that she still needs, too. Indeed, her connection to other survivors is helping is helping her continue to heal.

“Every woman’s fear is breast cancer. That’s why I’m going public with this story,” she says. “I want to urge all women to screen early and follow up,” she says. “And I want everybody to see that they can get through this, work, and have their life. I came out of this stronger, more grateful, and healthier, and I want to be openly available to people so they can see that. I want to be that example.”  Fall-Winter 2023 Columbia Nursing 15

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In health policy roles, government posts, and the voting booth, Columbia Nurses are stepping up to advocate for patients, populations, and their profession.

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s the United States braces for what promises to be another intense election season, the potential for nurses to advocate for patients and populations as policymakers, politicians, and voters is being highlighted as never before.

Globally, nurses have been hailed as health care heroes for their bravery and commitment to their patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. This respect is long-standing: Americans have rated nursing the most ethical profession in an annual Gallup Poll for over two decades running. But at the same time, nurses, health, and health care are at the heart of some of the most contentious issues facing voters today, including abortion access, gun violence, the opioid crisis, and gender-affirming health care (now banned or restricted, or soon to be, in 22 U.S. states). A recent NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll of likely voters in the 2024 presidential election found that health care ranked third among their top concerns.

It’s no surprise that many people today are looking to the policymaking and political spheres as places where such thorny healthrelated issues can and should be discussed and sorted out. At the same time, nurses are increasingly seen as the kind of bridge-building leaders the U.S. needs in the current polarized environment.

At a recent webinar on nurses, politics, and policy hosted by Columbia Nursing’s Center on Health Policy, former Maine state legislator (and nurse) Darlene Curley, EdD, said: “Nurses make excellent legislators. We can assess data quickly, set priorities, collaborate, and solve problems.” Yet Curley’s research shows that representation of nurses in state legislatures has declined over the past two decades. There are currently only two nurses in the U.S. House of Representatives and none in the U.S. Senate.

“Nurses build consensus every day. . . . We really need nurses at every level of government,” agreed Curley’s fellow panelist, and fellow nurse, Delaware Lieutenant Governor Bethany Hall-Long, PhD.

Using health as a compass Based on their sheer numbers—there are 4.2 million nurses in the U.S.—the profession represents a significant slice of the country’s voting-age citizens.

“We don’t usually vote as a group, but if we did and we had health as our compass, then we could really make a difference,” notes Elizabeth

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Cohn, PhD ’09, vice president for health equity research at Northwell Health’s Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. Politically, she notes, nurses are fairly evenly split, with one-third identifying as Republican, one-third as Independent, and one-third as Democratic.

In 2018, Cohn launched Nurses Who Vote, a nonprofit that promotes civic engagement among nurses. At the time, she was a distinguished professor at the City University of New York, teaching health policy to doctoral nursing students, who themselves were working on the front lines of the medical care system. “We were talking about the impact of Medicaid expansion, vaccine rates, policies and practices,” Cohn says. “I started to realize that we advocate for our patients, we advocate for our communities, and we needed to advocate for policies and those we elect.”

Cohn and her students observed that many health issues—climate change or vaccine safety, for example—have become political footballs.

“It occurred to really all of us that electing people with a health-oriented lens would probably result in a more open engagement process.”

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Linking civic engagement and health Nurses Who Vote also connected with Vot-ER, yet another nonpartisan nonprofit that promotes civic participation—by encouraging clinicians to help their patients register to vote. Cohn wears a badge, developed by Vot-ER, that allows people to check their voter registration status, and to register to vote, just by scanning a QR code.

“On one side, you can register people to vote, and on the other side, you can read about how voting affects community health,” Cohn explains. Across the U.S., she notes, about 700 hospitals and health systems are working with Vot-ER to make civic engagement part of the health care conversation.

There’s solid evidence that civic engagement is healthy for individuals and communities, Cohn adds. Nurses Who Vote, Vot-ER, and other partners successfully lobbied the Department of Health and Human Services to recognize this connection by adding civic participation and voting as a health-related behavior in its Healthy People 2030 guidelines.

When anyone questions whether the health care setting is an appropriate place to register people to vote, Cohn points out that most

“ We need to have more nurse practitioners and nurses representing constituents across the country,” Associate Dean of Clinical Affairs Stephen Ferrara said. people register to vote at their local department of motor vehicles— which is certainly no more appropriate than a clinic or medical office, especially given the connection between civic engagement and health.

“Where should people register to vote?” Cohn asks. “Well, wherever they are. And if that’s where they are, then that’s where we should register them. So we want to just make the voting and registering to vote available where people are and where we can speak to them about it, since it is a factor in improving their health and the health of their communities.”

Fighting for full practice authority Columbia Nursing’s associate dean of clinical affairs, Stephen Ferrara, DNP, says the movement to promote civic engagement among nurses—up to and including running for office—is gathering steam. “I believe that’s a good thing. I think we need to have more nurse practitioners [NPs] and nurses representing constituents across the country.”

Ferrara has worked diligently through the political system to advocate for what many see as the top objective for NPs: full practice authority.

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As executive director of the Nurse Practitioner Association of New York State (NPANY), Ferrara helped push through the 2014 Nurse Practitioner Modernization Act, which allows NPs with more than 3,600 hours of clinical experience to work at their full scope of practice, without statutory collaboration. Previously, New York’s NPs needed a written practice agreement with a physician to practice, regardless of their clinical experience. New York is now one of 27 states, along with the District of Columbia, that grants full practice authority to NPs. The multiple benefits of full practice authority for NPs, their patients, and the health care system include streamlining care, reducing costs, and helping to address racial disparities in health and health care by improving access to clinicians, particularly in underserved rural and urban areas.

Recently elected president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), the nation’s largest professional organization for NPs, Ferrara aims during his two-year term to clear the way to full practice authority for NPs nationwide by addressing state laws and federal regulations that restrict or reduce their scope of practice.

“The goal is to reduce barriers and eliminate the barriers for the remaining states,” Ferrara explains. For example, he notes, current Medicare regulations allow only physicians to prescribe diabetic shoes for patients with diabetes—not NPs. “People are at risk of losing a toe or their entire foot with a bad infection. This is a really simple intervention that needs to be implemented. It’s just archaic to have nurse practitioners not be allowed to do that.”

The ICAN (Improving Care and Access to Nurses) Act, introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2022 and in the U.S. Senate this year, would lift some restrictions on the types of care that NPs can provide, including prescribing diabetic shoes. Ferrara is a firm proponent of the ICAN Act. “We encourage patients to contact their legislators to eliminate these barriers that prevent them from receiving the care that they need,” he says.

There are more opportunities than ever, he notes, for nurses to get involved in politics, to help shape policy, and to advocate for patients, including reaching out to their elected representatives to support legislation and campaigning for candidates. “You may only have an hour,” he says, but “there’s phone banking you can do for candidates, there’s text banking that you can do as well.”

Busy nurses can rely on AANP, NPANY, and other advocacy and professional groups to identify their local representatives and candidates and their positions on important issues, Ferrara points out.

Nurses Who Vote also provides such information.

Health policy and advocacy Ferrara brings his health policy students to Albany to visit New York’s state legislature every year. Some also attend the AANP’s Health Policy Conference, held every January in Washington, D.C. During the conference, students and NPs can pick up tips and pointers on lobbying Congress, followed by the chance to put these skills into action during Capitol Hill Day. Terilyn Ma, MS, a DNP student in Columbia Nursing’s AdultGerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program, attended the conference this year. “It was amazing meeting fellow nurse practitioners from all around the U.S. who were all fighting for the same

DNP student Terilyn Ma

cause, which is to improve patient access to care and advocate for full practice authority for all nurse practitioners,” recalls Ma, a board-certified adult-gerontology acute care NP who served as Student Council Executive Board University Senator for 2021-2023 and is the lateral representative of her DNP group for 2022-2024.

Ma plans to continue to advocate for full practice authority for NPs when she returns to the nursing workforce. While she couldn’t attend Capitol Hill Day in 2023, she plans to go in 2024. “There is so much more to do in order to improve our health care system, and advocating for nurse practitioners to have full practice authority is something I hope I can help achieve by getting involved.”

Serving community in government Nurses and NPs can also support their communities by joining local, county, and state health boards, notes Maryelena Vargas, PhD ’08, who has served on the Englewood, N.J., Board of Health for many years and previously worked as a public health nurse for Englewood’s Health Department, starting in 1991.

Vargas’s colleagues on the Board of Health elected her the board’s president this year. While this has brought new responsibilities to her already full days, Vargas says working for her community energizes her. She is also a professor of nursing at the Henry P. Becton School of Nursing and Allied Health at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, N.J., and a board-certified family nurse practitioner with the North Hudson Community Action Corporation, which operates several federally qualified health centers in northern New Jersey.

Maryelena Vargas, PhD ’08

“Being involved in policy-making is very rewarding to me, especially since I have always felt a responsibility to represent members of the Latino community, who may not have had the opportunities I had to influence public health decisions,” Vargas says, noting that despite representing 27% of Englewood’s population, Latinos remain unrepresented among the city’s elected officials.

Vargas and her fellow Board of Health members collaborate with colleagues in Englewood’s Health Department to direct the administrative division and program divisions in Environmental Health, Health Education, Public Health Nursing, and Vital Statistics and Licensing. The Health Department inspects restaurants, pools, and other facilities to ensure proper sanitation; investigates public health nuisance complaints; issues birth, death, and marriage/civil union certificates and licenses; and provides retail food and pet licenses.

The Englewood Board of Health and Health Department have also made a real difference in population health, Vargas notes, by educating restaurants and food preparers on food allergies and by holding health fairs that offer HIV testing, hepatitis C testing, COVID shots, flu shots, and hypertension screening.

“Many nurses live in communities like mine,” Vargas says. “If they decide to become involved in local, county, and/or state boards, they can make a big difference in health and social policy. It’s easy; nurses have the skills, the knowledge, the compassion, the common sense. With a collaborative approach, they can partner with legislators and leaders in their communities to promote health and social justice for all.”  Fall-Winter 2023 Columbia Nursing 19

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1: Members of the Class of 1968 Linda Johnston Habif, Sally Thomson Popoli, Susan Codington Stepp, and Patrica DeAngelis Fife celebrating their 55th at Alumni Reunion.

2: Zafar Anwar MS’18 toured the Helene Fuld Health Trust Simulation Center at Alumni Reunion.

3: Members of the Class of 1978 Gina Romeo, Maire Clements, Myra Furman Cacace, and Roxanne Guiness celebrated their 45th at Alumni Reunion.

4: Denise Pollard PhD’06 and Rhonda Brockington MS’03 at Alumni Reunion.

5: Students Tka Edwards MS’20, Nia Josiah, Katrina Quinn, Jaspreet Wadhwa MS’20, and Katherine South presented “A Day in the Life of a Columbia Nursing Student” at Alumni Reunion.

The panel was moderated by Mobolaji Odewole MS’21.

6: Dean Lorraine Frazier presented Judy Honig DNP’05 with the Anna Caroline Maxwell Award at Alumni Reunion. This award is conferred upon an alumnus/a whose achievements and record of service exemplify the ideals and traditions of the school and its founder.

7: Columbia Nursing students enjoying the New Student Orientation Trivia Night.

8: Alumni Association Board president Kevin Browne MS’92 is joined by Marty Romney MS’81, a past Alumni Association Board president.

9: Jaime Betancourt DNP’20, Daniel Billings DNP’18, and Mallory Woods DNP’19 joined Fatima Humayun at the New Student Orientation Trivia Night.

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10: Dean Lorraine Frazier joined Melissa Beauchemin PhD’19, Donald Boyd PhD’17, Kevin Browne MS’92, Janejira Chaiyasit DNP’17, Latisha Hanson DNP’15, and Tener Veenema BS’80 as panelists at Alumni Reunion to discuss “Nurses: Why We Do What We Do!” 11: Columbia Nursing students enjoying the New Student Orientation Trivia Night.

12: Members of the Class of 1973 celebrated their 50th at Alumni Reunion.

13: Students celebrating their poster presentations at Alumni Reunion.

14: Alumni Rhonda Brockington MS’03, Latisha Hanson DNP’15, Olga Brown Vanderpool BS’70, and Denise Pollard PhD’06 joined current students at Alumni Reunion.

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15: Maureen Murphy-Ruocco MS’80, Dean Lorraine Frazier, Arlene Smaldone PhD’03, Mary Moran MS’08, Olivia Velez PhD’11, Kyungmi Woo PhD’18, Kenrick Cato PhD’14, and Ann-Margaret Navarra PhD’11 at the Alumni Awards ceremony.

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Research and Training July 1, 2022–June 30, 2023

Principal Investigator: Gregory Alexander, PhD Project Title: A National Report of Nursing Home Quality Measures and Information Technology R01HS022497 Program Funding Source: AHRQ Total Budget: $742,785 Project Dates: 3/1/2020–7/31/2023 Principal Investigator: Gregory Alexander, PhD Project Title: Reducing Avoidable Nursing Home-to-Hospital Transfers of Residents with ADRD: An Analysis of Interdisciplinary Team Communication Using Text Messages R01AG078281 Program Funding Source: NIH-NIA (University of Missouri Subcontract) Total Budget: $128,874 Project Dates: 8/15/2022–05/31/2025 Principal Investigator: Gregory Alexander, PhD Project Title: Impact of Nursing Home Leadership Care Environments and Health Information Technology on Outcomes of Residents with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) R01AG080517 (Multiple PI: Lusine Poghosyan) Program Funding Source: NIH-NIA Total Budget: $3,945,306 Project Dates: 2/15/2023–11/30/2027 Principal Investigator: Adriana Arcia, PhD Project Title: Validity of Functional Assessment Staging by Caregivers AARGD-20-684358 Program Funding Source: Alzheimer’s Association Total Budget: $149,938 Project Dates: 8/1/2020–8/1/2023 Principal Investigator: Suzanne Bakken, PhD Project Title: Reaching Communities Through the Design of Information Visualizations (ReDIVis) Toolbox to Address COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Uptake P30NR016587-05S2 Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $897,514 Project Dates: 8/10/2021–7/31/2023

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Principal Investigator: Veronica Barcelona, PhD Project Title: Epigenomic Pathways from Racism to Preterm Birth R01HD110429 Program Funding Source: NIH-NICHD Total Budget: $2,147,786 Project Dates: 3/14/2023–02/29/2028

munity Oncology Research Program UG1CA189960 Program Funding Source: NIH-NCI (through the cancer center) Total Budget: $33,332 Project Dates: 8/1/2021–7/31/2022

Principal Investigator: Veronica Barcelona, PhD Project Title: Using Machine Learning to Measure Racial/Ethnic Bias in Obstetric Settings UCD A20-2994-S021 Program Funding Source: Betty Irene Moore Fellowship Program for Nurse Leaders and Innovators (University of California Davis) Total Budget: $500,000 Project Dates: 7/1/2022–6/30/2025

Principal Investigator: Natalie Benda, PhD Project Title: Maternal Outcome Monitoring and Support (MOMS)–An mHealth Symptom Selfmonitoring and Decision Support System to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Postpartum Outcomes R00MD015781 Program Funding Source: NIH-NIMHD Total Budget: $732,428 Project Dates: 2/1/2023–1/31/2026

Principal Investigator: Melissa Beauchemin, PhD Project Title: Symptom Screening Linked to Care Pathways for Children with Cancer: A Cluster Randomized Trial R01CA251112 Program Funding Source: NIH-NCI (Hospital for Sick Children Subcontract) Total Budget: $34,053 Project Dates: 8/1/2020–04/30/2025

Principal Investigator: Natalie Benda, PhD Project Title: Telemedicine for Patients with Limited English Proficiency: A MixedMethods Approach to Identifying and Addressing Disparities R03HS029047 Program Funding Source: AHRQ Total Budget: $69,138 Project Dates: 2/1/2023–12/31/2023

Principal Investigator: Melissa Beauchemin, PhD Project Title: Children’s Oncology Group NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) Research UG1CA189955 Program Funding Source: NIH-NCI (Public Health Institute Subcontract) Total Budget: $16,012 Project Dates: 8/1/2021–07/31/2022

Principal Investigator: Lauren Bochicchio, PhD Project Title: Understanding the Individual and Combined Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Minority Stress on Hazardous Drinking Among Sexual Minority Women: Is Emotion Dysregulation a Key Factor? F32AA029957 Program Funding Source: NIH-NIAAA Total Budget: $218,118 Project Dates: 8/1/2022–7/31/2026

Principal Investigator: Melissa Beauchemin, PhD Project Title: Spanish Validation of the Personal Financial Well-Being Scale U01CA180886 Program Funding Source: NIH-NCI (Public Health Institute Subcontract) Total Budget: $18,000 Project Dates: 3/1/2022–2/28/2023

Principal Investigator: Walter Bockting, PhD Project Title: Gender Affirmation, Quality of Life, and Access to Care: A Mixed-Method Longitudinal Investigation R01NR019315 Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR (Visiting Nurse Service of New York Subcontract) Total Budget: $1,271,390 Project Dates: 7/1/2021–4/30/2026

Principal Investigator: Melissa Beauchemin, PhD Project Title: Underserved Site NCI Com-

Principal Investigator: Jean-Marie Bruzzese, PhD Project Title: Translating an Evidence-Based

Urban Asthma Program for Rural Adolescents: Testing Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness and Understanding Factors Associated with Implementation R01HL136753 Program Funding Source: NIH-NHLBI Total Budget: $3,620,591 Project Dates: 7/5/2017–6/30/2024 Principal Investigator: Jean-Marie Bruzzese, PhD Project Title: Development and Pilot Testing of Sleeping Healthy/Living Healthy: A Comprehensive Sleep Intervention for Adolescents in Urban SBHCs R21MD013991 (Multiple PI: Samantha Garbers [Contact]) Program Funding Source: NIH-NIMHD Total Budget: $459,766 Project Dates: 8/3/2020–2/28/2023

Total Budget: $3,467,404 Project Dates: 04/16/2023-11/30/2027 Principal Investigator: Kylie Dougherty, BSN Project Title: Leveraging Informatics to Enhance the Obstetrics Emergency Supply Chain in Amhara, Ethiopia F31NR020569 Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $76,483 Project Dates: 9/1/2022–8/31/2024 Principal Investigator: Leah Estrada, BSN Project Title: Health Policy Research Scholars Cohort Four 2020 RWF77840 Program Funding Source: RWJF Total Budget: $124,000 Project Dates: 9/1/2020–10/31/2022

Principal Investigator: Jean-Marie Bruzzese, PhD Project Title: The Efficacy of CAMP Air, a Web-based Asthma Intervention, Among Urban Adolescents with Uncontrolled Asthma R33HL151958 Program Funding Source: NIH-NHLBI Total Budget: $3,165,885 Project Dates: 8/10/2022–6/30/2026

Principal Investigator: Leah Estrada, BSN Project Title: Racial/Ethnic Differences in Palliative Care Services and Potentially Avoidable Hospitalizations at End-of-Life in Nursing Homes Nationwide F31NR019519-01A1 Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $56,048 Project Dates: 7/1/2021–10/31/2022

Principal Investigator: Billy Caceres, PhD Project Title: Examining Associations of Sexual Identity, Life Experiences, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Sisters K01HL146965 Program Funding Source: NIH-NHLBI Total Budget: $854,887 Project Dates: 7/1/2019–06/30/2024

Principal Investigator: Stephen Ferrara, DNP Project Title: HRSA Advanced Nursing Education Nurse Practitioner Residency (ANE-NPR) Program BASSETTCU19-0741 Program Funding Source: HRSA (Bassett Subcontract) Total Budget: $353,672 Project Dates: 7/1/2019–6/30/2023

Principal Investigator: Kenrick Cato, PhD Project Title: Homecare-CONCERN: Building Risk Models for Preventable Hospitalizations and Emergency Department Visits in Homecare R01HS027742 Program Funding Source: AHRQ (Visiting Nurse Service Subcontract) Total Budget: $70,056 Project Dates: 9/30/2020–7/31/2023

Principal Investigator: Stephen Ferrara, DNP Project Title: Advanced Nursing Education Nurse Practitioner Residency Integration Program (ANE-NPRIP) CHCNTWKCU20-1905 Program Funding Source: HRSA (Community Healthcare Network Subcontract) Total Budget: $327,808 Project Dates: 9/1/2020–8/31/2023

Principal Investigator: Elizabeth Corwin, PhD Project Title: The Impact of a Culturally Based Live Music Intervention on the Metabolites and Metabolic Pathways Associated with Chronic Stress and the Risk of Preterm Birth in Black Women R01MD016899 Program Funding Source: NIH-NIMHD

Principal Investigator: Lorraine Frazier, PhD Project Title: Jonas Nursing and Veterans Healthcare at Columbia University JCHCU16-0569 Program Funding Source: Jewish Communal Fund/Jonas Nursing and Veterans Healthcare Total Budget: $5,135,473 Project Dates: 12/28/2017–12/31/2022

Principal Investigator: Lorraine Frazier, PhD Project Title: Ladies Christian Union (LCU) Fund for Women’s Education LCUCU22-1579 Program Funding Source: Ladies Christian Union (LCU) Total Budget: $100,000 Project Dates: 7/1/2022–6/30/2023 Principal Investigator: Lorraine Frazier, PhD Project Title: Dr. Scholl Foundation Scholarship Fund SCH0LLCU21-0680 Program Funding Source: Dr. Scholl Foundation Total Budget: $10,000 Project Dates: 10/7/2021–10/6/2022 Principal Investigator: Lorraine Frazier, PhD Project Title: Dr. Scholl Foundation Scholarship Fund SCH0LLCU22-0977 Program Funding Source: Dr. Scholl Foundation Total Budget: $15,000 Project Dates: 12/1/2022–11/30/2023 Principal Investigator: Maureen George, PhD Project Title: BREATHE: An Efficacy-Implementation Trial of a Brief Shared DecisionMaking Intervention Among Black Adults with Uncontrolled Asthma in Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) R01NR019275 Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $2,447,470 Project Dates: 5/6/2020–2/28/2026 Principal Investigator: Maureen George, PhD Project Title: Contextualizing Asthma SelfManagement with Measures of Indoor Air Quality for Black Adults with Uncontrolled Asthma R01NR019275-02S1 Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $120,709 Project Dates: 8/23/2022–2/28/2023 Principal Investigator: Maureen George, PhD Project Title: The Development and Pilot Testing of a Caregiver-Child Shared Decision-Making Intervention to Improve Asthma in Urban Youth R21NR01966801A1 (Multiple PI: Jean-Marie Bruzzese) Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $415,738 Project Dates: 7/28/2021–6/30/2024 Principal Investigator: Amanda Hessels, PhD Project Title: Simulation to Improve Fall-Winter 2023 Columbia Nursing 23

Government and Private Funding for Research and Training Infection Prevention and Patient Safety: The SIPPS Trial R18HS026418 Program Funding Source: AHRQ Total Budget: $1,860,798 Project Dates: 3/1/2019–2/29/2024

Related Dementias Clinical Trials with Natural Language Processing R36HS028752 Program Funding Source: AHRQ Total Budget: $20,767 Project Dates: 1/1/2022 -08/31/2022

Principal Investigator: Judy Honig, EdD Project Title: Nurse Faculty Loan Program Program Funding Source: HRSA Total Budget: $100,234 Project Dates: 7/1/2022–6/30/2023

Principal Investigator: Haomiao Jia, PhD Project Title: Mental Health Burden on the U.S. Population, Including Workers in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic 20IPA2014150-M01 Program Funding Source: DHHS-CDCNIOSH-SSTRB Total Budget: $100,000 Project Dates: 9/1/2020-8/31/2023

Principal Investigator: Tonda Hughes, PhD Project Title: Impact of Supportive Policies on Minority Stress, Drinking, and Health Among Women R01AA013328 Program Funding Source: NIH-NIAAA (University of Illinois at Chicago Subcontract) Total Budget: $958,320 Project Dates: 2/1/2017–7/31/2022 Principal Investigator: Tonda Hughes, PhD Project Title: Impact of Supportive Policies on Minority Stress, Drinking, and Health Among Women R01AA013328-14S1 Program Funding Source: NIH-NIAAA (University of Illinois at Chicago Supplement Subcontract) Total Budget: $41,521 Project Dates: 8/1/2021–7/31/2022 Principal Investigator: Tonda Hughes, PhD Project Title: Stress, Hazardous Drinking, and Intimate Partner Aggression in a Diverse Sample of Women and Their Partners R01AA027252 Program Funding Source: NIH-NIAAA Total Budget: $2,750,690 Project Dates: 9/10/2019–6/30/2024 Principal Investigator: Tonda Hughes, PhD Project Title: A Unified Protocol to Address Sexual Minority Women’s Minority Stress, Mental Health, and Hazardous Drinking R01AA029088 Program Funding Source: NIH-NIAAA (Yale University Subcontract) Total Budget: $426,556 Project Dates: 9/12/2022–8/31/2027 Principal Investigator: Betina Idnay, BSN Project Title: Improving Eligibility Prescreening for Alzheimer’s Disease and

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Principal Investigator: Jung “Chole” Kang, BSN Project Title: Health Disparities in Timely Goals of Care Discussions and Hospitalizations Due to Infections in Nursing Home Residents F31NR020566 Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $90,941 Project Dates: 9/1/2022–7/31/2024 Principal Investigator: Laura Kelly, PhD Project Title: BHWET Interprofessional Collaborative Practice Model MC1HP42105-01 Program Funding Source: HRSA Total Budget: $1,919,907 Project Dates: 7/1/2021–6/30/2025 Principal Investigator: Corina LelutiuWeinberger, PhD Project Title: Ending the HIV Epidemic with Equity: An All-Facility Intervention to Reduce Structural Racism and Discrimination and Its Impact on Patient and Healthcare Staff Wellbeing R01NR020583 Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $3,786,473 Project Dates: 7/1/2022–4/30/2027 Principal Investigator: Corina LelutiuWeinberger, PhD Project Title: Preparing for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Implementation in Central-Eastern European Countries with Low Access to Biomedical Prevention R33TW011752 Program Funding Source: Fogarty International Center Total Budget: $981,844 Project Dates: 9/9/2020–6/30/2025

Principal Investigator: Corina LelutiuWeinberger, PhD Project Title: Building Mobile HIV Prevention and Mental Health Support in Low-Resource Settings R01MH116829 Program Funding Source: NIH-NIMH Total Budget: $3,880,940 Project Dates: 9/5/2018–6/30/2024 Principal Investigator: Sarah Leonard, BSN Project Title: Weight Discrimination and Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors Among Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents and their Peers F31NR020733 Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $95,388 Project Dates: 4/1/2023-3/31/2025 Principal Investigator: Maribeth Massie, PhD Project Title: Nurse Anesthetist Traineeships A22HP33098 Program Funding Source: HRSA Total Budget: $183,297 Project Dates: 7/1/2020–6/30/2023 Principal Investigator: Ruth Masterson Creber, PhD Project Title: Improve the Meaning of Patient-Reported Outcomes to Evaluate Effectiveness for Cardiac Care (IMPROVE-Cardiac Care) R01HL161458 Program Funding Source: NIH-NHLBI Total Budget: $2,570,249 Project Dates: 7/23/2022–6/30/2026 Principal Investigator: Ruth Masterson Creber, PhD Project Title: Randomized Comparison of the Clinical Outcome of Single Versus Multiple Arterial Grafts: Cognition (ROMA:Cog) R01NS123639 Program Funding Source: NIH-NINDS Total Budget: $3,185,835 Project Dates: 7/1/2022–6/30/2026 Principal Investigator: Ruth Masterson Creber, PhD Project Title: Randomized Comparison of the Clinical Outcome of Single Versus Multiple Arterial Grafts: Cognition (ROMA:Cog) R01NS123639-02S1 Program Funding Source: NIH-NINDS

Total Budget: $62,510 Project Dates: 7/1/2022–06/30/2023 Principal Investigator: Ruth Masterson Creber, PhD Project Title: Randomized Comparison of the Clinical Outcome of Single Versus Multiple Arterial Grafts: Quality of Life (ROMA:QOL) R01HL152021 Program Funding Source: NIH-NHLBI (Weill Medical College of Cornell University Subcontract) Total Budget: $363,119 Project Dates: 7/1/2022–3/31/2025 Principal Investigator: Ruth Masterson Creber, PhD Project Title: Using Mobile Integrated Health and Telehealth to Support Transitions of Care Among Heart Failure Patients IHS-2019C2-17373-IC Program Funding Source: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Total Budget: $2,900,722 Project Dates: 7/1/2022–7/31/2026 Principal Investigator: Phoenix Matthews, PhD Project Title: Mi QUIT CARE (Mile Square QUIT Community-Access-ReferralExpansion) UG3HL151302 Program Funding Source: NIH-NHLBI (University of Illinois at Chicago Subcontract) Total Budget: $65,657 Project Dates: 9/1/2022–8/31/2023 Principal Investigator: Phoenix Matthews, PhD Project Title: 3/3: The Chicago Cancer HealthEquity Collaborative (ChicagoCHEC) U54CA202997 Program Funding Source: NIH-NCI (University of Illinois at Chicago Subcontract) Total Budget: $16,593 Project Dates: 9/1/2022–8/31/2023 Principal Investigator: Phoenix Matthews, PhD Project Title: Reducing Racial Disparities in Lung Cancer Outcomes by Decoding Neighborhood Contextual Environment R01MD014839 Program Funding Source: NIH-NIMHD (University of Illinois at Chicago Subcontract) Total Budget: $55,310 Project Dates: 10/01/2022–1/31/2023

Principal Investigator: Phoenix Matthews, PhD Project Title: A Randomized Control Trial to Improve Metabolic Outcomes in African American Pregnant Women R01MD015724 Program Funding Source: NIH-NIMHD (University of Illinois at Chicago Subcontract) Total Budget: $80,546 Project Dates: 8/16/2022–4/30/2023

Principal Investigator: Lusine Poghosyan, PhD Project Title: Care for Persons with Dementia in Nurse Practitioner Practices and Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities R01AG069143 Program Funding Source: NIH-NIA Total Budget: $3,616,936 Project Dates: 9/15/2020-5/31/2025

Principal Investigator: Phoenix Matthews, PhD Project Title: Center for SOcial CApital (SOCA): Promoting Multigenerational Health U54CA280808 (Multiple PI: Rulla Tamimi [contact], Erica Phillips, Mary Beth Terry) Program Funding Source: NIH-NCI (Weill Medical College of Cornell University Subcontract) Total Budget: $492,912 Project Dates: 5/31/2023–4/30/2028

Principal Investigator: Lusine Poghosyan, PhD Project Dates: Advancement of Research on Nurse Practitioners (ARNP): Setting a Research Agenda R13HS027726 Program Funding Source: AHRQ Total Budget: $49,836 Project Dates: 9/30/2020-9/29/2022

Principal Investigator: Amy McMenamin, BSN Project Title: The Impact of Nurse Practitioner Work Environment and Community Characteristics on Acute Care Utilization by Older Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions R36HS029435 Program Funding Source: AHRQ Total Budget: $42,316 Project Dates: 6/1/2023–5/31/2024 Principal Investigator: Shazia Mitha, MSN Project Title: Breast Cancer and Cardiotoxicity Program Funding Source: American Cancer Society Total Budget: $30,000 Project Dates: 9/1/2020-8/31/2022

Principal Investigator: Lusine Poghosyan, PhD Project Title: Home Based Primary Care for Persons Living with Dementia: Nurse Practitioner Teams and Outcomes R21AG077384 (Multiple PI: Zainab Osakwe) Program Funding Source: NIH-NIA Total Budget: $474,360 Project Dates: 8/1/2022–7/31/2024 Principal Investigator: Lusine Poghosyan, PhD Project Title: Effects of Integration of Advanced Practice Providers into Surgical Group Practice R01HS028975 Program Funding Source: AHRQ (University of Michigan Subcontract) Total Budget: $51,910 Project Dates: 3/1/2023–12/31/2027

Principal Investigator: Allison Norful, PhD Project Title: Physiologic Stress and Epigenetic Mechanisms That Precipitate Risk for Suicidal Behavior in Nurses K08MH130652 Program Funding Source: NIH-NIMHD Total Budget: $960,458 Project Dates: 6/15/2023–5/31/2028

Principal Investigator: Lusine Poghosyan, PhD Project Title: Enhancing Nurse Practitioner Primary Care Delivery to Address Social Determinants of Health and Reduce Health Disparities: A Mixed-Methods National Study R01NR021007 Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $3,124,761 Project Dates: 4/7/2023–1/31/2027

Principal Investigator: Lusine Poghosyan, PhD Project Title: Social Networks in Medical Homes and Impact on Patient Care and Outcomes R01HS025937 Program Funding Source: AHRQ Total Budget: $2,123,805 Project Dates: 2/1/2019–1/31/2024

Principal Investigator: Rebecca Schnall, PhD Project Title: Dissemination of the WiseApp for Improving Health Outcomes Across Settings R18HS028523 Program Funding Source: AHRQ Total Budget: $1,932,705 Project Dates: 9/30/2021–8/31/2026 Fall-Winter 2023 Columbia Nursing 25

Government and Private Funding for Research and Training Principal Investigator: Rebecca Schnall, PhD Project Title: The WiseApp Trial for Improving Health Outcomes in People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH) R01HS025071 Program Funding Source: AHRQ Total Budget: $1,989,445 Project Dates: 9/30/2016–9/29/2022

Principal Investigator: Rebecca Schnall, PhD Project Title: Mentoring and Research in Self-Management for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention K24NR018621 Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $384,132 Project Dates: 4/17/2019–08/15/2022

Principal Investigator: Rebecca Schnall, PhD Project Title: mChoice: Improving PrEP Uptake and Adherence Among Minority MSM Through Tailored Provider Training and Adherence Assistance in Two High-Priority Settings U01PS005229 Program Funding Source: CDC Total Budget: $2,079,148 Project Dates: 9/1/2021–8/31/2026

Principal Investigator: Rebecca Schnall, PhD Project Title: Reducing Health Disparities Through Informatics (RHeaDI) T32NR007969 Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $2,964,314 Project Dates: 7/1/2022–6/30/2027

Principal Investigator: Rebecca Schnall, PhD Project Title: Development and Pilot Testing of a Just-in-Time Mobile Smoking Cessation Intervention for Persons Living with HIV R21CA265961 Program Funding Source: NIH-NCI Total Budget: $438,936 Project Dates: 9/1/2021–8/31/2024 Principal Investigator: Rebecca Schnall, PhD Project Title: Development and Testing of MyPEEPS Mobile for Young Transgender Men R34MH128163 Program Funding Source: NIH-NIMH Total Budget: $733,466 Project Dates: 1/1/2022–11/30/2024 Principal Investigator: Rebecca Schnall, PhD Project Title: CHAMPS: A Randomized Trial of a Community Health Worker Intervention for Persons Living with HIV in Two High-Priority Settings R01NR019758 Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $2,877,282 Project Dates: 9/25/2020–6/30/2024 Principal Investigator: Rebecca Schnall, PhD Project Title: mLab App for Improving Uptake of Rapid HIV Self-Testing and Linking Youth to Care R01MH118151 Program Funding Source: NIH-NIMHD Total Budget: $4,090,639 Project Dates: 8/3/2018–5/31/2024

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Principal Investigator: Rebecca Schnall, PhD Project Title: Examining Social Ecological and Network Factors to Assess Epidemiological Risk in a Large National Cohort of Cisgender Women R01AI172469 Program Funding Source: NIH-NIAID Total Budget: $15,149,718 Project Dates: 8/18/2022–7/31/2027 Principal Investigator: Rebecca Schnall, PhD Project Title: MyPEEPS Mobile LITE: Limited Interaction Efficacy Trial of MyPEEPS Mobile to Reduce HIV Incidence and Better Understand the Epidemiology of HIV Among YMSM UG3AI169658 Program Funding Source: NIH-NIAID Total Budget: $3,600,000 Project Dates: 9/1/2022-6/30/2024 Principal Investigator: Jingjing Shang, PhD Project Title: Infection Prevention in Home Health Care (InHOME) R01NR016865 (Multiple PI: Patricia Stone) Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $3,378,520 Project Dates: 4/18/2022–1/31/2026 Principal Investigator: Jingjing Shang, PhD Project Title: Disparities in Infection in Home Health and Patients/Caregivers’ Perceptions (Dis-Infection in HHC) R01HS028637 Program Funding Source: AHRQ Total Budget: $2,443,775 Project Dates: 9/3/2021–8/31/2026 Principal Investigator: Jingjing Shang, PhD Project Title: Impact of COVID-19 on

Care Transitions and Post-Acute Care of Vulnerable Populations (ACROSS-CARE) R01AG074492 (Multiple PI: Patricia Stone) Program Funding Source: NIH-NIA Total Budget: $3,334,303 Project Dates: 9/1/2021–4/30/2025 Principal Investigator: Jingjing Shang, PhD Project Title: Improving Ethical Care for Patients Who Are Incapacitated with No Evident Advance Directives or Surrogates (INEADS) R21NR019319 Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Subcontract) Total Budget: $74,965 Project Dates: 8/28/2020-7/31/2022 Principal Investigator: Jingjing Shang, PhD Project Title: Effectiveness of Strategies to Improve Outcomes After Hospitalization for Acute Myocardial Infarction in Older Adults R01HL160822 Program Funding Source: NIH-NHLBI (Yale University Subcontract) Total Budget: $115,512 Project Dates: 3/01/2022–2/28/2025 Principal Investigator: Yashika Sharma, MSN Project Title: Examining the Associations of Family-Related Factors with Hypertension in Sexual Minority Women AHA899585 Program Funding Source: American Heart Association Total Budget: $64,072 Project Dates: 1/1/2022–12/31/2023 Principal Investigator: Arlene Smaldone, PhD Project Title: Jonas Scholars 2021-2023 JCNVH CU21-0326 Program Funding Source: Jonas Nursing and Veterans Healthcare Total Budget: $90,000 Project Dates: 8/1/2021–7/31/2023 Principal Investigator: Katherine South, BSN Project Title: Healthcare Transition in CF: Expectations of Adolescent/Parent Dyads CFFS0UTH21H0 Program Funding Source: Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Total Budget: $3,000 Project Dates: 12/1/2021–11/30/2022

Principal Investigator: Katherine South, BSN Project Title: Expectations and Outcomes of Healthcare Transition in Adolescents and Young Adults with Cystic Fibrosis F31NR020141 Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $92,072 Project Dates: 9/21/2021–9/15/2023 Principal Investigator: Patricia Stone, PhD Project Title: Comparative and CostEffectiveness Research Training for Nurse Scientists T32NR014205 Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $1,503,740 Project Dates: 7/1/2017–6/30/2023 Principal Investigator: Patricia Stone, PhD Project Title: Center for Improving Palliative Care for Vulnerable Adults with MCC (CIPC) P20NR018072 (Multiple PI: Jingjing Shang) Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $2,039,992 Project Dates: 8/8/2018–5/31/2024 Principal Investigator: Patricia Stone, PhD Project Title: Promoting Health Equity and Eliminating Health Disparities in Nursing Home Quality Measures RA838-01 Program Funding Source: RWJF (New York University Subcontract) Total Budget: $20,889 Project Dates: 9/1/2020-8/31/2022 Principal Investigator: Jacquelyn Taylor, PhD Project Title: Research Education in Cardiovascular Conditions (RECV) NYUF1416-01S (R25HL145323) Program Funding Source: NIH-NHLBI (New York University Subcontract) Total Budget: $12,500 Project Dates: 4/17/2020–3/31/2025 Principal Investigator: Jacquelyn Taylor, PhD Project Title: Actions to Decrease Disparities in Risk and Engage in Shared Support for Blood Pressure Control (ADDRESS-BP) in Blacks NYU 20-A1-00-1003342 UG3HL151310-01A1 Program Funding Source: NIH-NHLBI (New York University Subcontract) Total Budget: $61,464 Project Dates: 9/10/2020-8/31/2023

Principal Investigator: Jacquelyn Taylor, PhD Project Title: The Impact of a RaceBased Stress Reduction Intervention on Well-Being, Inflammation, and DNA Methylation in Older African American Women at Risk for Cardiometabolic Disease (Multiple PI: Karen Saban [contact]) R01AG081251 Program Funding Source: NIH-NIA (Loyola University of Chicago Subcontract) Total Budget: $1,408,790 Project Dates: 4/1/2023–1/31/2028 Principal Investigator: Maxim Topaz, PhD Project Title: Improving Patient Prioritization During Hospital-Homecare Transition: A Mixed-Methods Study of a Clinical Decision Support Tool R01NR018831 Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $2,019,591 Project Dates: 9/25/2019–4/30/2024 Principal Investigator: Maxim Topaz, PhD Project Title: Using Automated Speech Processing to Improve Identification of Risk for Hospitalizations and Emergency Department Visits in Home Healthcare R01AG081928 Program Funding Source: NIH-NIA Total Budget: $2,521,403 Project Dates: 6/15/2023–2/28/2027 Principal Investigator: Meghan Turchioe, PhD Project Title: Data-Driven Shared DecisionMaking to Reduce Symptom Burden in Atrial Fibrillation R00NR019124 Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $732,338 Project Dates: 8/1/2022–7/31/2025 Principal Investigator: Meghan Turchioe, PhD Project Title: Risk Modeling and Shared Decision Making for Postpartum Depression R41MH124581 Program Funding Source: NIH-NIMH (Iris OB Health Inc. Subcontract) Total Budget: $9,174 Project Dates: 7/1/2022–6/30/2024 Principal Investigator: Meghan Turchioe, PhD Project Title: Bioethical Considerations for Building, Evaluating, and Implementing

Artificial Intelligence in Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders R41MH124581-02S1 Program Funding Source: NIH-NIMH (Iris OB Health Inc. Subcontract) Total Budget: $77,282 Project Dates: 7/1/2022–6/30/2024 Principal Investigator: Cindy Veldhuis, PhD Project Title: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Understanding Stress and Hazardous Drinking Among Same-Sex Female Couples K99AA028049 Program Funding Source: NIH-NIAAA Total Budget: $315,569 Project Dates: 9/5/2020-8/31/2022 Principal Investigator: Yihong Zhao, PhD Project Title: Use of Advanced Analytics to Understand Brain-Behavior Screen Media Activity Relationship in ABCD Data RF1MH128614 Program Funding Source: NIH-NIMH (Yale University Subcontract) Total Budget: $577,824 Project Dates: 9/10/2021–9/9/2024 Principal Investigator: Yihong Zhao, PhD Project Title: Cortical Subcortical Reorganization and Risk Behaviors of Early Alcohol Use Initiation R01AA029611 Program Funding Source: NIH-NIAAA (Yale University Subcontract) Total Budget: $859,991 Project Dates: 9/25/2021–7/31/2026 Principal Investigator: Sarah Zollweg, BSN Project Title: The Influence of Multilevel Minority Stress on Hazardous Drinking Among Sexual Minority Women F31AA029847-01 Program Funding Source: NIH-NIAAA Total Budget: $84,509 Project Dates: 9/7/2021–6/5/2023 Principal Investigator: Maryam Zolnoori, PhD Project Title: Development of a Screening Algorithm for Timely Identification of Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Early Dementia in Home Healthcare K99AG076808 Program Funding Source: NIH-NIA Total Budget: $230,278 Project Dates: 12/15/2022–11/30/2024 Fall-Winter 2023 Columbia Nursing 27

Selected Faculty

Publications

G E T T Y IM A G E S

Our faculty’s research continues to create new knowledge that advances health care. Listed are selected articles published by leading peer-reviewed journals.

Gregory Alexander was among the authors of

“What Is the Level of Information Technology Maturity in Ontario’s Long-Term Care Homes? A Cross-Sectional Survey Study Protocol,” published in BMJ Open.

Support (ACCESS) Proof of Concept: A PeerLed, Mobile Health (mHealth) Cognitive Behavioral Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) Adherence Intervention for HIV-Infected (HIV+) Adolescents and Young Adults (AYA),” published in AIDS and Behavior.

Suzanne Bakken was among the authors of

“Feasibility and Acceptability of the Adherence Connection Counseling, Education, and

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Veronica Barcelona, Billy Caceres, and Jacquelyn Taylor were among the authors

of “Associations Between Paternal Co-Residence and Child Health Among African American Children,” published in Western Journal of Nursing Research.

Veronica Barcelona, student Danielle Scharp, Kenrick Cato, PhD ’14, and Maxim Topaz

were among the authors of “A Qualitative Analysis of Stigmatizing Language in Birth Admission Clinical Notes,” published in Nursing Inquiry.

Melissa Beauchemin, PhD ’19, was among the authors of “Clinical Practice Guidelines Recommendation Summaries for Pediatric

Oncology Health Care Professionals: A Qualitative Study,” published in PLOS ONE; “Guideline for the Management of Fever and Neutropenia in Pediatric Patients with Cancer and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Recipients: 2023 Update,” published in Journal of Clinical Oncology; and “Symptom Management Care Pathway Adaptation Process and Specific Adaptation Decisions,” published in BMC Cancer.

Student Joseph Belloir, Kasey Jackman, PhD ’17, and Walter Bockting were among the authors of “General Self-Sufficiency as a Mediator of the Association Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Psychological Distress in Gender-Minority Individuals,” published in Journal of Nursing Scholarship.

Natalie Benda was among the authors of

“Improving Cancer Care Communication: Identifying Sociodemographic Differences in Patient Portal Secure Messages Not Authored by the Patient,” published in Applied Clinical Informatics; “Prediction of Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction Changes in Heart Failure Patients Using Machine Learning and Electronic Health Records: A Multi-Site Study,” published in Scientific Reports; and “The Telemedicine Experience in Primary Care Practices in the United States: Insights from Practice Leaders,” published in Annals of Family Medicine.

Natalie Benda and Ruth Masterson Creber were

among the authors of “Limited English Proficiency in Older Adults Referred to the Cardiovascular Team,” published in American Journal of Medicine.

Bobbie Berkowitz was among the authors

of “A Decade of Faculty Development for Health Professions Educators: Lessons Learned from the Macy Faculty Scholars Program,” published in BMC Medical Education.

Abuse: A Systematic Literature Review,” published in Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy.

Lauren Bochiccio, Lauren Porsch, student Sarah Zollweg, Phoenix Matthews, and Tonda Hughes were the authors of “Health

Outcomes of Sexual Minority Women Who Have Experienced Adverse Childhood Experiences: A Scoping Review,” published in Trauma, Violence, and Abuse.

Walter Bockting and Maureen George were

among the authors of “Childbearing at the Margins: A Systematic Metasynthesis of Sexual and Gender Diverse Childbearing Experiences,” published in Birth.

Laura Britton and Maureen George were among

the authors of “‘We Tend to Prioritise Others and Forget Ourselves’: How Women’s Caregiving Responsibilities Can Facilitate or Impede Diabetes Self-Management,” published in Diabetic Medicine.

Jean-Marie Bruzzese was among the

authors of “Anxiety, Depression, and Global Distress Among African American Emerging Adults with Uncontrolled Asthma,” published in Journal of Asthma; “Demand-Avoid-Withdraw Processes in Adolescent Dating Aggression,” published in Aggressive Behavior; and “Does Observed Conflict Recovery Play a Role in Adolescent Dating Aggression?” published in Journal of Research on Adolescence.

Billy Caceres was among the authors of

“Sexual Minority Status Disparities in Life’s Essential 8 and Life’s Simple 7 Cardiovascular Health Scores: A French Nationwide Population-Based Study,” published in Journal of the American Heart Association.

Billy Caceres, student Yashika Sharma, MS ’20, and Danny Doan were among the authors of

Lauren Bochicchio and Tonda Hughes were

“Differences in Ideal Cardiovascular Health Between Sexual Minority and Heterosexual Adults,” published in JAMA Cardiology.

among the authors of “Mental Health and Substance Use Among Sexual Minority Women Who Report Childhood Sexual

Kenrick Cato, PhD ’14, Sarah Collins Rossetti, PhD ’09, student Mollie Hobensack, and

Maxim Topaz were among the authors of

“The Identification of Clusters of Risk Factors and Their Association with Hospitalizations or Emergency Department Visits in Home Health Care,” published in Journal of Advanced Nursing.

Ashley Chastain, Uduwanage G. Perera, Patricia Stone, and Jingjing Shang were among the

authors of “Health Information Technology Adoption at U.S. Home Health Care Agencies: Results from a Multi-Methods Study,” published in Home Health Care Management & Practice.

Leon Chen was co-author of “The State

of Acute Care Postgraduate Training: Faculty Observations,” published in Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.

Elizabeth Corwin was among the authors of “Corrigendum: Joint Effects of Individual Socioeconomic Status and Residential Neighborhood Context on Vaginal Microbiome Composition,” published in Frontiers in Public Health.

Ruth Masterson Creber was among the authors of “Development of a Low-Cost Smartphone Do-It-Yourself Training Tool for Teaching How to Use an Automated External Defibrillator,” published in Journal of Medical Systems; “Learn How to Save the Life of a Victim of Out-ofHospital Cardiac Arrest by Playing a Serious Smartphone Game,” published in Resuscitation; and “Randomized Comparison of the Outcome of Single Versus Multiple Arterial Grafts Trial (ROMA): Women—A Trial Dedicated to Women to Improve Coronary Bypass Outcomes,” published in Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.

Student Christine DeForge and Maureen George were among the authors of “Family Experiences and Health Outcomes Following a Loved One’s Hospital Discharge or Death After Cardiac Arrest: A Scoping Review,” published in Resuscitation Plus.

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Selected Faculty Publications Andrew Dick was among the authors of

“An Exploratory Analysis of Differential Prescribing of High-Risk Opioids by Insurance Type Among Patients Seen by the Same Clinician,” published in Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Kayla Diggs, Jianfang Liu, and Jean-Marie Bruzzese were among the authors of

“Adolescent Views on Asthma Severity and Management During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” published in Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, and Pulmonology.

Student Pierce DiMauro, MS ’21, was among the authors of “Affirmative Palliative Care for Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Individuals,” published in American Journal of Nursing.

Student Kylie Dougherty was among the authors of “Comparison of Obstetric Emergency Clinical Readiness: A CrossSectional Analysis of Hospitals in Amhara, Ethiopia,” published in PLOS ONE. Student Kylie Dougherty, Yihong Zhao, and Elizabeth Corwin were among the authors of “Association Between Sexual Activity During Pregnancy, Pre- and Early-Term Birth, and Vaginal Cytokine Inflammation: A Prospective Study of Black Women,” published in Healthcare.

Veronica Barcelona, Andrew Dick, and Patricia Stone were among the authors of “Potentially

Avoidable Hospitalizations at End of Life Among Historically Marginalized Residents in Nursing Homes Nationwide,” published in Journal of Pain and Symptom Management.

Stephen Ferrara and Lusine Poghosyan

were among the authors of “The Impact of the New York Nurse Practitioner Modernization Act on the Employment of Nurse Practitioners in Primary Care,” published in Inquiry.

Asthma, and Immunology; “RWJF Future of Nursing Scholars Experience and Recommendations: Focus Group Results at Final Convening,” published in Nursing Outlook; and “Spine Surgery Patients’ Perceptions of Postoperative Pulmonary Complications,” published in Clinical Nursing Research.

Ashley Graham-Perel was the author of

“Code-Switch Fatigue,” published in American Journal of Nursing.

Amanda Hessels was among the authors of “APIC Megasurvey 2020: Methodology and Overview of Results,” published in American Journal of Infection Control; “From Dusk to Dawn: A Healthy Work Environment for Nurses Working Night Shift,” published in Nursing Management; and “Nurse Engagement in Antibiotic Stewardship Programs: A Scoping Review of the Literature,” published in Journal for Healthcare Quality.

Amanda Hessels, Cara Johnson, and Elaine Larson were among the authors of “Impact

of Patient Safety Climate on Infection Prevention Practices and Healthcare Worker and Patient Outcomes,” published in American Journal of Infection Control.

Student Mollie Hobensack and Sarah Collins Rossetti, PhD ’09, were among the authors of “Understanding the Perceived Role of Electronic Health Records and Workflow Fragmentation on Clinician Documentation Burden in Emergency Departments,” published in Journal of the American Informatics Association.

Student Mollie Hobensack, Maryam Zolnoori, and Maxim Topaz were among the authors of “Capturing Concerns About Patient Deterioration in Narrative Documentation in Home Healthcare,” published in AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings.

Tonda Hughes was among the authors of

Maureen George was among the authors of

“The Asthma Impairment and Risk Questionnaire Enhances the Assessment of Asthma Control,” published in Annals of Allergy,

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“Associations Between Latent Classes of Trauma Exposure and Minority Stressors and Substance Use Among Cisgender Sexual Minority Women,” published in Journal

of Interpersonal Violence; “Associations of Adult Roles and Minority Stressors with Trajectories of Alcohol Dependence Symptoms Throughout Adulthood Among Sexual Minority Women,” published in Psychology of Addictive Behaviors; “Palliative and Endof-Life Care Needs, Experiences, and Preferences of LGBTQ+ Individuals with Serious Illness: A Systematic Mix-Methods Review,” published in Palliative Medicine; “Probable PTSD, PTSD Symptom Severity, and Comorbid PTSD and Hazardous Drinking Among Sexual Minority Women Compared to Heterosexual Women: A Meta-Analysis,” published in Clinical Psychology Review; and “A Systematic Review of U.S. Nursing Faculty’s Knowledge, Awareness, Inclusion, and Perceived Importance of Sexual and Gender Minority-Related Content in Nursing Curricula,” published in Nursing Outlook.

Tonda Hughes, Jianfang Liu, and Jean-Marie Bruzzese were among the authors of

“Interpersonal- and Community-Level Risk Factors for Adolescent Obesity: An Examination of Sexual Identity, School Violence, and School Climate in a Large Sample of Urban Adolescents,” published in Journal of Youth and Adolescence.

Tonda Hughes and Ronica Mukerjee, MS ’08, were among the authors of “Nursing

Pre-Licensure and Graduate Education for LGBTQ Health: A Systematic Review,” published in Nursing Outlook.

Kasey Jackman, PhD ’17, Maureen George, Tonda Hughes, and Walter Bockting were among

the authors of “A Qualitative Study of Alcohol Use Disorder Psychotherapies for Transgender and Nonbinary Individuals: Opportunities for Cultural Adaptation,” published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence.

Student Nia Josiah was among the authors of “Addressing Hypertension Among Haitian Adults with Insufficient Access to Quality Healthcare: A Discursive Review” and “Factors Influencing Intrapartum Health Outcomes Among Black Birthing Persons: A Discursive Paper,” both published in Journal of Advanced Nursing.

Students Nia Josiah and Hakeem Shoola were among the authors of “Addressing Systemic Racism and Intergenerational Transmission of Anxiety Using Bowenian Family Therapy with African American Populations: A Discursive Paper,” published in Journal of Advanced Nursing.

Student Jung Kang and Veronica Barcelona authored “A Comparison of Conceptual Frameworks to Examine Health Inequities in End-of-Life Care,” published in Journal of Advanced Nursing.

Ji Won Lee was among the authors of “The Effect of Preoperative Bisphosphonate Use on Total Hip Arthroplasty Outcomes,” published in Journal of Arthroplasty; “A Protocol for a Wait List Control Trial of an Intervention to Improve Pain and Depressive Symptoms Among Middle-Aged and Older African American Women,” published in Contemporary Clinical Trials; “Robotic-Assisted Technology Does Not Influence Functional Outcomes Among Obese and Morbidly Obese Total Knee Arthroplasty Patients,” published in Journal of Experimental Orthopaedics; and “Symptomatic Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Is Not Associated with a Higher Risk of Periprosthetic Joint Infections and Periprosthetic Joint Infection-Related Revisions After Primary THA,” published in Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research.

Corina Lelutiu-Weinberger was among the

authors of “A Randomized Controlled Trial of an mHealth Intervention for Gay and Bisexual Men’s Mental, Behavioral, and Sexual Health in a High-Stigma, Low-Resource Context: Project Comunică Protocol,” published in Research Square.

Jianfang Liu, Kristine Kulage, and Lusine Poghosyan were among the authors of “Using

Machine-Learning Methods to Predict InHospital Mortality Through the Elixhauser Index: A Medicare Data Analysis,” published in Research in Nursing and Health.

Jianfang Liu and Lusine Poghosyan were

among the authors of “The Association

Between Primary Care Practices’ Structural Capabilities and Hospitalizations Among Persons Living with Dementia,” published in Journal of Applied Gerontology.

Phoenix Matthews was among the authors

of “Associations in Cigarette Smoking and Health Conditions by Race/Ethnicity Among a Diverse Sample of Patients Receiving Treatment in a Federally Qualified Health Care Setting in Chicago,” published in Health Equity; “Barriers to PrEP Uptake Among Black Female Adolescents and Emerging Adults,” published in Preventive Medicine Reports; “Experiences of Sex Workers in Chicago During COVID-19: A Qualitative Study,” published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health; and “Preliminary Testing of a Web-Based Lung Cancer Screening Decision Coaching Tool for Older Chinese American Smokers and Their Providers,” published in Journal of the National Medical Association.

Student Amy McMenamin, student Eleanor Turi, and Lusine Poghosyan were among the authors of “A Systematic Review of Outcomes Related to Nurse PractitionerDelivered Primary Care for Multiple Chronic Conditions,” published in Medical Care Research and Review.

Student Shazia Mitha, MS ’18, Billy Caceres, Elizabeth Corwin, Ruth Masterson Creber, Meghan Reading Turchioe, PhD ’18, and Suzanne Bakken were among the authors of

“Response to Mental Health of Cardiac Procedure Patients Should Be a Priority for All Healthcare Providers,” published in Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing.

Student Shazia Mitha, MS ’18, student Mollie Hobensack, Arlene Smaldone, PhD ’03, and Maxim Topaz were among the authors of “Natural Language Processing of Nursing Notes: An Integrative Review,” published in Computers, Informatics, Nursing.

Stephanie Niño de Rivera, Meghan Reading Turchioe, PhD ’18, Natalie Benda, Annie Myers, and Ruth Masterson Creber were among the

authors of “Returning Study Results to Research Participants: Data Access, Format, and Sharing Preferences,” published in International Journal of Medical Informatics.

Stephanie Niño de Rivera, Meghan Reading Turchioe, PhD ’18, Annie Myers, Natalie Benda, and Ruth Masterson Creber were among the

authors of “Perceptions of Patient-Reported Outcome Data Access and Sharing Among Patients with Heart Failure: Ethical Implications for Research,” published in European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing.

Se Hee Min was among the authors of “Identi-

Allison Norful, PhD ’17, was among the authors

fication of High-Risk Symptom Cluster Burden Group Among Midlife Peri-Menopausal and Post-Menopausal Women with Metabolic Syndrome Using Latent Class Growth Analysis,” published in Women’s Health (London); “Meta-Analysis of Variations in Association Between APOE ε4 and Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias Across Hispanic Regions of Origin,” published in Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease; and “Nonlinear Relationship Between C-Reactive Protein and Depression Among Obese Middle-Aged Adults,” published in Nursing Research; and co-authored “Racial Differences in C-Reactive Protein, Depression Symptoms, and Social Relationships in Older Adults: A Moderated Network Analysis,” published in Biological Research for Nursing.

of “Forum Theater: An Innovative Strategy to Enhance Clinician Communication with Marginalized Trauma Patients,” published in Journal of Trauma Nursing; “The Impact of a Nursing-Led Intervention Bundle with a Bedside Checklist to Reduce Mortality During the Initial COVID-19 Pandemic and Implications for Future Emergencies,” published in Journal of Nursing Administration; and “Work Environment Factors Correlated to Physical and Psychological Health Risk of Nurses Following the First Two Surges of COVID-19,” published in General Hospital Psychiatry.

Uduwanage G. Perera, Andrew Dick, and Patricia Stone were among the authors of

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Selected Faculty Publications “Environmental and Structural Factors Driving Poor Quality of Care: An Examination of Nursing Homes Serving Black Residents,” published in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

Lusine Poghosyan was among the authors

of “The Relationship Between Nurse Burnout, Missed Nursing Care, and Care Quality Following COVID-19 Pandemic,” published in Journal of Clinical Nursing.

A Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial,” published in PLOS ONE.

ment to Improve Health Equity,” published in Journal of Biomedical Informatics.

Student Katherine South, Arlene Smaldone, PhD ’03, student Leanna Wei, and Maureen George

Meghan Reading Turchioe, PhD ’18, and Ruth Masterson Creber were among the authors

were among the authors of “Parent and Adolescent Perceptions of Cystic Fibrosis Management Responsibility: A MixedMethods Study,” published in Pediatric Pulmonology.

of “Mobile Integrated Health Interventions for Older Adults: A Systematic Review,” published in Innovation in Aging.

Patricia Stone was among the authors of Nancy Reame, Jianfang Liu, Sarah Ganzhorn, and Rebecca Schnall, PhD ’09, were among

the authors of “Do Correlates of White Matter Features Differ Between Older Men and Women Living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus,” published in Menopause.

Rebecca Schnall, PhD ’09, was co-author of

“Clinical Research Staff Perceptions on a Natural Language Processing-Driven Tool for Eligibility Prescreening: An Iterative Usability Assessment,” published in International Journal of Medical Informatics, and among the authors of “A Review of Serious Gaming as an Intervention for HIV Prevention,” published in Current HIV/ AIDS Reports, and “A Cross-Sectional Study of Perceived Stress and Racial Discrimination Among a National Sample of Young Men Who Have Sex with Men,” published in Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care.

Student Yashika Sharma, MS ’20, Danny Doan, Tonda Hughes, and Billy Caceres were among the authors of “P190: Social Determinants of Cardiovascular Health in Sexual Minority Adults: A Systematic Review,” published in Circulation.

Student Steffi Shilly was among the authors of “Endobronchial Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor in a 3-Year-Old Child,” published in European Journal of Pediatric Surgery Reports.

Arlene Smaldone, PhD ’03, was among the

authors of “Improving Quality of Life and Self-Care for Patients on Hemodialysis Using Cognitive Behavioral Strategies:

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“Systematic Review of Conceptual and Theoretical Frameworks Used in Palliative Care and End-of-Life Care Research Studies,” published in Palliative Medicine.

Patricia Stone and Andrew Dick were among the

authors of “Changes in Nursing Home Use Following Medicaid-Supported Expanded Access to Home- and Community-Based Services for Older Adults with Dementia,” published in JAMA Network Open.

Jacquelyn Taylor was among the authors of “Latent Class Analysis of Depressive Symptom Phenotypes Among Black/African American Mothers,” published in Nursing Research.

Jacquelyn Taylor, Veronica Barcelona, Alexandria Jones-Patten, and Laura Prescott were

among the authors of “A Roadmap for Social Determinants of Health and Biological Nursing Research in the NINR 2022– 2026 Strategic Plan: Optimizing Health and Advancing Health Equity Using Anti-Racist Framing,” published in Nursing Outlook.

Meghan Reading Turchioe, PhD ’18, was among

the authors of “Experiences of Care Delays and Telehealth Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Socioeconomically Diverse Cardiovascular Patients and Clinicians in an Urban Hospital,” published in AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings; “‘Replace Uncertainty with Information’: Shared Decision-making and Decision Quality Surrounding Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation,” published in European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing; and “Who Needs What (Features) When? Personalizing Engagement with Data-Driven Self-Manage-

Meghan Reading Turchioe, PhD ’18, Annie Myers, and Ruth Masterson Creber were

among the authors of “A RE-AIM Evaluation of a Visualization-Based Electronic Patient-Reported Outcome System,” published in Applied Clinical Informatics.

Student Eleanor Turi, student Amy McMenamin, and Lusine Poghosyan were among the authors of “The Effectiveness of Nurse Practitioner Care for Patients with Mental Health Conditions in Primary Care Settings: A Systematic Review,” published in Nursing Outlook, and “Primary Care Provider Confidence in Addressing Opioid Use Disorder: A Concept Analysis,” published in Research in Nursing & Health.

Yihong Zhao was among the authors of “Youth Screen Media Activity Patterns and Associations with Behavioral Developmental Measures and Resting-State Brain Functional Connectivity,” published in Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Maryam Zolnoori was among the authors of “Predicting Patient Satisfaction with Medications for Treating Opioid Use Disorder: Case Study Applying Natural Language Processing to Reviews of Methadone and Buprenorphine/Naloxone on Health-Related Social Media,” published in JMIR Infodemiology.

Maryam Zolnoori, student Danielle Scharp, and Maxim Topaz were among the authors of “Is

Auto-Generated Transcript of Patient-Nurse Communication Ready to Use for Identifying the Risk of Hospitalizations or Emergency Department Visits in Home Health Care? A Natural Language Processing Pilot Study,” published in AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings.

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