Content Posted in 2019
2018 DNP Graduate Project Abstracts, UTHealth Cizik School of Nursing
2019 Graduates Project Abstracts by Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth, DNP Program
3D SCINTILLATOR DETECTOR QUENCHING CHARACTERIZATION FOR SCANNING PROTON BEAMS, Fahed Alsanea
8th Annual Postdoctoral Science Symposium, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center PostDoctoral Association
A 12-Year Prospective Study of the Long-term Effects of Early Child Physical Maltreatment on Psychological, Behavioral, and Academic Problems in Adolescence, Jennifer E Lansford, Kenneth A Dodge, Gregory S Pettit, John E Bates, Joseph Crozier, and Julie Kaplow
A BUNDLED PAYMENT PROFILE FOR HEAD & NECK CANCER: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS, RISK ASSESSMENT, AND PRICING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 1 YEAR TREATMENT BUNDLES USING A LARGE NATIONAL CLAIMS DATABASE, ALEXIS BARBOZA GUZMAN
ADDITIONAL HEALTHCARE EXPENDITURES OF DEPRESSION FOR ELDERLY CANCER PATIENTS WITH DEPRESSION, DIAN GU
ADENYLYL CYCLASE TYPE 9: REGULATION AND CARDIAC FUNCTION, Tanya A. Baldwin and Tanya A. Baldwin
Admiration, Dwight C. Andrews
ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, DEPRESSION, AND RESILIENCE IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN ADOLESCENTS, Jamie C. Freeny
Age of Onset of Child Maltreatment Predicts Long-Term Mental Health Outcomes, Julie B Kaplow and Cathy Spatz Widom
A Life Cycle Approach to the Development and Validation of an Ontology of the U.S. Common Rule (45 C.F.R. § 46), Francis Manion
ALTERNATIVE TOBACCO PRODUCTS & DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS AMONG YOUNG ADULTS, David Marsden
A NARRATIVE REVIEW OF FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO SUSTAINABILITY OF COMMUNITY-BASED FALL PREVENTION PROGRAMS, STEPHANIE KOWEEK
An Examination of Student Performance in Pre-Requisite Coursework and Upper Division Nursing Coursework, Jennifer L. Brown and Cheryl M. Smith
An expanded toolkit for gene tagging based on MiMIC and scarless CRISPR tagging in, David Li-Kroeger, Oguz Kanca, Pei-Tseng Lee, Sierra Cowan, Michael T Lee, Manish Jaiswal, Jose Luis Salazar, Yuchun He, Zhongyuan Zuo, and Hugo J Bellen
Annual Report 2017 - 2018, Houston Academy of Medicine - Texas Medical Center Library
A RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF CLAIMS DATA TO DETERMINE SYMPTOMS ASSOCIATED WITH OVARIAN CANCER, DENISE MANON LANGABEER
A ROLE FOR EPAC1 AND EPAC2 IN NOCICEPTOR HYPEREXCITABILITY AND CHRONIC PAIN AFTER SPINAL CORD INJURY, Samantha Berkey
A SECONDARY DATA ANALYSIS FOR THE REFINEMENT OF EMPIRICAL MODELLING FOR THE ESTIMATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH & SAFETY PROGRAM RESOURCING FOR COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES, SETH MICHAEL PARKER
ASSESSING HOSPITALIZATIONS DUE TO ASSAULTS AT DELL SETON MEDICAL CENTER (2015-2018), STEPHANI L. CURRY
ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ON SEDENTARY BEHAVIOR, BRANDY BAKER
ASSESSMENT AND FINDINGS OF THE VULNERABILITY INDEX (VI-SPDAT) SURVEY OF INDIVIDUALS EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS IN TRAVIS COUNTY, TX, Benjamin T. King
ASSESSMENT OF THE COMMON DENTAL NEEDS AND EVALUATION OF RATE OF ATTENDANCE POST EMERGENCY DENTAL MANAGEMENT AMONG THE HOMELESS POPULATION IN HOUSTON, TEXAS, Heera Govindarajan Venguidesvarane
Associations between Physical Activity, Health-Related Quality of Life, Regimen Adherence, and Glycemic Control in Jordanian Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes, Yousef Aljawarneh
BAYESIAN BASED SEMIPARAMETRIC MULTIDIMENSIONAL APPROACHES TO ANALYSIS PARKINSON'S DISEASE, Jun Zhang
BAYESIAN ESTIMATION UNDER INFORMATIVE SAMPLING: INVESTIGATING THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN DEPRESSION AND INFLAMMATION, Paula Lopez Gamundi
BAYESIAN INTEGRATIVE ANALYSIS OF OMICS DATA, Youyi Zhang
Behavioral Markers of Coping and Psychiatric Symptoms among Sexually Abused Children., Danielle N Shapiro, Julie B Kaplow, Lisa Amaya-Jackson, and Kenneth A Dodge
BIG TOBACCO. BIG MARIJUANA? LONGITUDINAL TRENDS AND MULTI-DIRECTIONAL TOBACCO AND MARIJUANA USE AMONG YOUTH AND YOUNG ADULTS IN TEXAS, SHANNON ROGERS
CENSORED COUNT DATA ANALYSIS – STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS, Xiao Yu
CHAGAS DISEASE AWARENESS AMONGST TEXAS PHYSICIANS, Gerardo J. Pacheco
Characterizing the Information Needs of Rural Healthcare Practitioners with Language Agnostic Automated Text Analysis, Melissa Resnick
CHARACTERIZING YOUNG ADULT EXPOSURE AND ENGAGEMENT WITH SOCIAL MEDIA TOBACCO AND NICOTINE PRODUCT MARKETING AND MESSAGING, Stephanie L. Clendennen
Chemical mutagens, transposons, and transgenes to interrogate gene function in Drosophila melanogaster., Koen J T Venken and Hugo J Bellen
Child, Parent, and Peer Predictors of Early-Onset Substance Use: A Multisite Longitudinal Study, Julie B Kaplow, Patrick J Curran, and Kenneth A Dodge
Children as Pawns of US Immigration Policy, Sarah Polk M.D., ScM, MHS; Shamelle Richards; Mary Ann Hernando; Margaret Moon M.D.; and Joshua Sharfstein M.D.
Class of 2019, UTHealth Cizik School of Nursing
Clinical and Genetic Characteristics of Liver Disease among Mexican Americans in South Texas, Gordon P Watt
COLLATERAL BENEFITS OF DIABETES SELF-MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATED WITH SELF-ADMINISTERED OUTPATIENT PARENTERAL ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY, Anisha P. Ganguly
Community-Based Participatory Research to Improve Early Detection and Treatment of Hypertension in a Suburban Community in Thailand, Chuncharaporn Sinsiri
COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF COLLEGIATE RECOVERY PROGRAMS, SIERRA CASTEDO DE MARTELL
Data collection curated with an application ontology describes the methods and results upon performing an ex-vivo voltage-clamp assay on outer hair cells of the mammalian cochlea, Brenda Farrell and Jason Bengtson
DEVELOPMENT AND USABILITY TESTING OF QUIT4HEALTH, A SMOKING CESSATION SMARTPHONE APP FOR YOUNG ADULTS, KATARZYNA CZERNIAK
Development of a Short Trauma Screening Tool (STST) to Measure Child Trauma Symptoms: Establishing Content Validity, Laura L. Maguire RN MS PhD, Estelle Hirsh BA, Jeroan J. Allison MS MD, and Heather C. Forkey MD
DEVELOPMENT OF AUTOMATED RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING FOR CERVICAL AND BREAST CANCER FOR RESOURCE-CONSTRAINED CLINICS, Kelly Kisling
DIAGNOSTIC CODING OF PHYSICAL ABUSE AMONG PATIENTS EVALUATED BY A MULTIDISCIPLINARY CHILD PROTECTION TEAM IN A PEDIATRIC LEVEL I TRAUMA CENTER, HOLLY HUGHES GARZA
Dissociation Predicts Later Attention Problems in Sexually Abused Children., Julie B Kaplow, Erin Hall, Karestan C Koenen, Kenneth A Dodge, and Lisa Amaya-Jackson
DNP Graduation 2018, UTHealth Cizik School of Nursing
DOES SPACE MATTER? AN INVESTIGATION OF THE SPATIAL VARIATION IN GESTATIONAL WEIGHT GAIN ASSOCIATIONS WITH COUNTRY OF BIRTH AMONG HISPANIC WOMEN AND ACCESS TO CARE IN TEXAS, Christopher R. Webb
DSM-V Diagnostic Criteria for Bereavement-Related Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Developmental Considerations, Julie B Kaplow, Christopher M Layne, Robert S Pynoos, Judith A Cohen, and Alicia Lieberman
DYNAMIC PREDICTION OF SURVIVAL DATA USING SINGLE OR MULTIPLE LONGITUDINAL MARKERS, XUEHAN REN
EFFECTS OF EXTREME PRECIPITATION ON GASTROINTESITNAL RELATED HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS IN TEXAS, Sharmila Giri
EPIDEMIOLOGY OF TUBERCULOSIS IN INTERNATIONALLY DISPLACED CHILDREN RESETTLING IN HARRIS COUNTY, GABRIELLA S. LAMB
ESTIMATING THE USUAL INTAKE FROM FRUITS AND VEGETABLES CONSUMED BY CHILDREN AT BASELINE IN TX SPROUTS, TARYN ALKIS
EVALUATING RELIGIOSITY ACROSS THE LIFESPAN AND FATALISTIC BELIEFS AMONG PATIENTS OF A CHRONIC CARE MANAGEMENT INTERVENTION PROGRAM WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES, CINDY LYNN SALAZAR
EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF HEAL PREGNANCY INTERVENTION ON BREASTFEEDING INITIATION AND DURATION, DOLLY NOEL RINEHART
EXPOSURE TO AMBIENT AIR POLLUTION AND FETAL DEATH IN HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS, Amal Rammah
FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO LOWER CANCER SCREENING UTILIZATION IN A SUB-SAMPLE OF UNITED WAY 2-1-1 CALLERS, Jason M. Rhoton
Factors Influencing Attendance, Postpartum Follow-up, and Contraceptive Usage among Teenage CenteringPregnancy® Participants, Latia Hickerson
Factors Influencing Physical Activity among Immigrants from South India: A Qualitative Descriptive Study, Jaya Abraham
FAILED INITIAL TUMOR NECROSIS INHIBITOR (TNFI) THERAPY – WHAT NEXT FOR RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS PATIENTS?, ALIZA MATUSEVICH
FAILED INITIAL TUMOR NECROSIS INHIBITOR (TNFI) THERAPY – WHAT NEXT FOR RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS PATIENTS?, ALIZA MATUSEVICH
GEOSPATIAL ANALYSIS OF PEDIATRIC TUBERCULOSIS IN BOHOL, PHILIPPINES: DISEASE CLUSTERS AND ACCESS TO CARE, LAUREN M. LEINING
HEME PEROXIDASE HPX-2 PROTECTS CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS FROM PATHOGENS, Yi Liu
Household food insecurity positively associated with increased hospital charges for infants, Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba, Patrick H. Casey, Diana Cutts, Timothy C. Heeren, Sharon Coleman, Allison R. Bovell-Ammon, Deborah A. Frank, and John T. Cook
HOW PARTICIPATORY ARE WE? A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW COMPARING WOMEN’S PARTICIPATION IN PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH, COMMUNITY BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH AND PARTICIPATORY LEARNING IN ACTION, MAGDALENE HAKALA-HARTMAN
IDENTIFYING RISK FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE RISK IN LESBIANS, Sofia S. Velazquez
Identifying the Determinants of Exposure to Cooking-Related Airborne Pollutants, Employee Comfort and Respiratory Symptoms in Mobile Food Units: A Cross-Sectional Study, Maximea Erasmea Vigilant
IL-1α BLOCKADE REDUCES IMMUNE SUPPRESSION IN THE EARLY TUMOR MICRO-ENVIRONMENT, Brenda Melendez
IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY ON IMPROVING HIV AND TUBERCULOSIS HEALTH OUTCOMES AMONG AFRICAN COUNTRIES, Sunny Ibeneme
Impact of Terminology Mapping on Population Health Cohorts IMPaCt, Barbara A. Berkovich
IMPACTS OF COLD WEATHER ON HEALTH IN TEXAS, Tsun-Hsuan Chen
Implementation of a Critical Incident Stress Management Program for Nurse Anesthetists., Peter C. Slivinski and Joanne V. Hickey
Improving dbNSFP, Mingyao Lu
Improving Nurse Anesthetist Intraoperative Handoff Process by Developing and Implementing an Evidence-Based, Facility-Specific Cognitive Aid, Jason Silva and Myron Arnaud
Improving Syntactic Parsing of Clinical Text Using Domain Knowledge, Min Jiang
Incidence of And Risk Factors for Acute Stress Disorder in Children with Injuries, Glenn N Saxe, Alisa Miller, David Bartholomew, Erin Hall, Carlos Lopez, Julie Kaplow, Karestan C Koenen, Michelle Bosquet, Lisa Allee, Ingrid Erikson, and Steve Moulton
INSIGHTS INTO THE REACTIVATION, REGULATION AND ESSENTIALITY OF OXIDATIVE PROTEIN FOLDING PATHWAYS IN ACTINOBACTERIA, Belkys Sanchez
Integrating Behavioral Trigger Messages into a mHealth System Design for Chronic Disease Management, Scott Sittig
INTEGRATIVE BIOINFORMATICS APPROACHES TO ELUCIDATING PROSTATE CANCER CELL HETEROGENEITY, PLASTICITY, AND TREATMENT RESPONSE, Hsueh-Ping Chao
Introducing Foster Care: Challenges and Opportunities to Reducing Health Disparities, Anu Partap
INVESTIGATION OF HANTAVIRUS AND LEPTOSPIRA AS POSSIBLE CONTRIBUTING FACTORS OF THE UNEXPLAINED KIDNEY DISEASE EPIDEMIC IN NICARAGUA, Nicole J. Delgado
Investigation of Novel Virulence Mechanisms in Candida albicans, Elisa Marie Tafoya Vesely
MATERNAL USE OF HOT TUB/JACUZZI OR SAUNA AND STRUCTURAL BIRTH DEFECTS, Syeda Uruba
MULTIMODALITY SOMATOSTATIN ANALOG FOR FLUORESCENCE-GUIDED SURGERY IN CANCER, Servando Hernandez Vargas
New Morbidities 2.0, Angelo P. Giardino and Robert Sanborn
OBSERVED COOKING BEHAVIORS OF FAMILIES WITH AND WITHOUT CHILDHOOD CANCER SURVIVORS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF A HEALTHY COOKING ASSESSMENT TOOL, Margaret Pleta Raber
Pathways to PTSD, Part II: Sexually Abused Children., Julie B Kaplow, Kenneth A Dodge, Lisa Amaya-Jackson, and Glenn N Saxe
Peripheral Intravenous Infiltrates: Engaging Staff to Increase Reporting, Emily Weber, Kimberly Castrillon, and Joyce Ramsey-Coleman
Pin II, UTHealth Cizik School of Nursing
PLATISCITY OF C. ELEGANS GERMLINE STEM CELLS UNDER NUTRITIONAL AND METABOLIC STRESS, Kenneth Trimmer
PosterSession, UTHealth Cizik School of Nursing
Post-traumatic Stress Symptoms in Parents of Children With Acute Burns, Erin Hall, Glenn Saxe, Frederick Stoddard, Julie Kaplow, Karestan Koenen, Neharika Chawla, Carlos Lopez, Lynda King, and Daniel King
PREDICTORS OF NON-ADHERENCE TO PRIMARY CARE FOLLOW-UP AFTER DIAGNOSIS OF ASYMPTOMATIC HYPERTENSION IN THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT, STEPHANIE CORNELL
PREDICTORS OF ON-TREATMENT MORTALITY OF PATIENTS UNDERGOING PALLIATIVE RADIATION THERAPY: IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF END-OF-LIFE CANCER CARE, Matthew Stephen Ning
PREDICTORS OF ON-TREATMENT MORTALITY OF PATIENTS UNDERGOING PALLIATIVE RADIATION THERAPY: IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF END-OFLIFE CANCER CARE, MATTHEW STEPHEN NING
Prevalence of Steroid-Induced Hyperglycemia in Patients with Mantle Cell Lymphoma Receiving High Dose Steroids, Veronica Brady
PRIMARY CARE SHORTAGE AND PHYSICIAN MIGRATION IN TEXAS: ANALYSIS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS, ADELE SEMAAN
PROTECTIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE? INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GENTRIFICATION AND CHILDHOOD HEALTH OUTCOMES, MIKE HENSON GARCIA
Psychiatric Symptoms in Bereaved Versus Non-bereaved Youth and Young Adults: A Longitudinal Epidemiological Study., Julie B Kaplow, Jessica Saunders, Adrian Angold, and E Jane Costello
Putting Families First: How the Opioid Epidemic is Affecting Children and Families, and the Child Welfare Policy Options to Address It, American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Foster Care, Adoption, and Kinship Care; Douglas Waite; Mary V. Greiner; and Zach Laris
QUANTIFYING THE IMPACT OF LABORATORY AND CARE SYSTEMS ON RELINKAGE TO HIV CARE IN A SOUTHERN, URBAN ENVIRONMENT, Kellie L. Watkins
QUANTITATIVE IMAGING FOR PRECISION MEDICINE IN HEAD AND NECK CANCER PATIENTS, Rachel Ger
Recent Trends in Central Adiposity in the Fels Longitudinal Study, Brandon Gonzalez
REDESIGNING CARE: EVALUATION OF A POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION SCREENING AND TREATMENT PROGRAM IN OBSTETRIC CLINICS IN HOUSTON, TEXAS, HALEY D. JACKSON
RELATING RSV GENETIC DIVERSITY TO GLOBAL TRANSMISSION DYNAMICS, Rebecca J. Fisk
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NURSING SAFETY CULTURE AND PATIENT PERCEPTION OF SAFETY IN INPATIENT UNITS OF AN ACADEMIC SPECIALTY HOSPITAL, Miguel Angel Lozano Garcia
Relationships of Moral Distress among Interprofessional ICU Teams, Heather Vincent
ROLE OF DISINFECTANTS IN THE ERADICATION AND PROPAGATION OF CLOSTRIDIODES DIFFICILE INFECTION, TASNUVA RASHID
SEQUENTIAL MONITORING OF ADAPTIVE RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIALS WITH SAMPLE SIZE RE-ESTIMATION, Jun Yu
SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC DETERMINANTS OF MENTAL HEALTH OUTCOMES AMONG UNHEALTHY WEIGHT YOUTH IN THE UNITED STATES, CHENCHITA MALOLAN
SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF EXPOSURE TO SOIL HEAVY METALS, ORAL BIOACCESSIBILITY AND RISK ASSESSMENT IN HOUSTON, TEXAS, TSAI SHU CHU
STOCHASTIC SEARCH VARIABLE SELECTION APPLIED TO A BAYESIAN HIERARCHICAL GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL FOR DYADS, ADRIANA LOPEZ ORDONEZ
Sustainability in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Initiatives, Angelo P. Giardino and Eileen R. Giardino
Targeting PH domain proteins for cancer therapy, Zhi Tan
Team Nelson 2.0: Our Foster-to-Adopt Journey, Melinda and Jack Nelson
TESTING PATTERNS FOR SYPHILIS AND OTHER SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS IN PREGNANT WOMEN PRESENTING TO EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS, IFEOLUWA SHOYOMBO
THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SLEEP DURATION AND DEMENTIA: A META-ANALYSIS, SHERRI HONG
THE ASSOCIATION OF CELL PHONES WITH ADOLESCENTS' ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE, SLEEP, TIME SPENT WITH FRIENDS, AND CYBERBULLYING EXPOSURE, JOHANNA E. PEYTON
The Biology of Hope, Fernando Stein M.D.
THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF RESPIRATORY VIRUSES IN HOSPITALIZED CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS DURING THE 2015-2016 RESPIRATORY SEASON, Leila Christina Sahni
The Long-Term Consequences of Early Childhood Trauma: A Case Study and Discussion., Julie B Kaplow, Glenn N Saxe, Frank W Putnam, Robert S Pynoos, and Alicia F Lieberman
The Long View: Has Anything Really Improved for Children and Families Involved with Child Welfare over 3 Decades?, Moira Szilagyi
THE MENTAL HEALTH OF SEXUAL AND GENDER MINORITY ADOLESCENTS LIVING IN TEXAS, SYLVIA MARIE LAWLER
The ripple effects of US immigration policy on refugee children: A Canadian perspective, Shazeen Suleman M.D., MPH; Ripudaman Minhas M.D., MPH; and Tony Barozzino M.D.
TRENDS IN ADVANCED HIV DISEASE AND LONG-TERM OUTCOMES OF HIVINFECTED CHILDREN TREATED WITH ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY IN EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA: 2003-2017, PETER JAMES ELYANU
Uncertainty in Illness and Health Literacy in Pancreatic Cancer Patients, Rae Reynolds
Understanding Health Risks for Adolescents in Protective Custody, Sarah J. Beal, Katie Nause, Imani Crosby, and Mary V. Greiner
UNDERSTANDING LOCAL PRODUCE SOURCING BY RESTAURATEURS IN HOUSTON, TEXAS, ROBIN JUMP
Understanding Patient Safety Reports via Multi-label Text Classification and Semantic Representation, Chen Liang
Understanding the Experience of Interprofessional Team Members after Participating in Comprehensive Obstetric Hemorrhage Training, Frances Kelly
Use of Best Practice Alerts to Improve Adherence to Evidence-Based Screening in Pediatric Diabetes Care, Daniel DeSalvo, Sara K. Bartz, Blair Mockler, and Rona Y. Sonabend
Using the Literature to Identify Confounders, Scott Malec
VALIDATION OF A TYPE 2 DIABETES RISK STRATIFICATION TOOL IN A LOW INCOME HISPANIC POPULATION, Dara Grieger
VALIDATION OF THE CONFLICT IN ADOLESCENT DATING RELATIONSHIPS INVENTORY (CADRI) IN YOUNG ADOLESCENTS: AN ANALYSIS OF CONSTRUCT VALIDITY AND MEASUREMENT INVARIANCE, Stephanie J. Stroever
We Don't Know What We Don't Know: Post Adoption Support of Families Caring for Traumatized Children, Patricia Lantis
What You Need to Know about Bar-Code Medication Administration, Marie E. McBee DNP, MSN; Martha Kuhlmann DNP, MSN, RN, FNP, PMHCNS-BC, APRN; and Pam Patterson DNP, MSN, NE-BC
WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP: A QUALITATIVE REVIEW OF CHALLENGES, EXPERIENCES, AND STRATEGIES IN ADDRESSING GENDER BIAS, BRYNN HARRIS
Your Patient and My Client: Perspectives from Legal Work With Unaccompanied Children, Wendy Wylegala, Esq.