Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy Staff Publications
The Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy researches and influences policy on today’s most pressing ethical issues.
The center focuses on conducting cutting-edge multidisciplinary research on perennial and emerging ethical issues arising in clinical practice and in biomedical research in a changing healthcare environment. Our research informs our teaching, clinical practice and contributions to the development of health and science policy at the local, national and international levels.
Our staff is dedicated to creating a shared, sustainable, intellectual environment in which all stakeholders can critically reflect on and respond to ethical challenges in healthcare and biomedical research.
Submissions from 2024
Churning the Tides of Care: When Nurse Turnover Makes Waves in Patient Access to Primary Care, Kelley Arredondo, Ashley M Hughes, Houston F Lester, et al.
Circulating Immune Signatures Across Clinical Stages of Chronic Pancreatitis: A Pilot Study, Rasmus Hagn-Meincke, Phil A Hart, Dana K Andersen, et al.
Circulating Immune Signatures in Chronic Pancreatitis With and Without Preceding Acute Pancreatitis: A Pilot Study, Rasmus Hagn-Meincke, Dhiraj Yadav, Dana K Andersen, et al.
Clinical Characteristics of Probands With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder From Simplex and Multiplex Families, Monicke O Lima, Leonardo C Saraiva, Vanessa R Ramos, et al.
Combined Bioinformatic and Splicing Analysis of Likely Benign Intronic and Synonymous Variants Reveals Evidence for Pathogenicity, Owen R Hirschi, Stephanie A Felker, Surya P Rednam, et al.
Common Epilepsy Variants From the General Population Are Not Associated With Epilepsy Among Individuals With Tuberous Sclerosis Complex, Melissa A Richard, Philip J Lupo, Erik A Ehli, et al.
Comparing the Diagnostic Yield of Germline Exome Versus Panel Sequencing in the Diverse Population of the Texas KidsCanSeq Pediatric Cancer Study, Lauren R Desrosiers-Battu, Tao Wang, Jacquelyn Reuther, et al.
Comparing Visualization Performance of Liquid Embolic Agents Using a Novel Injectable Phantom, J Ryan Mason, Cristina Dodge, Adam Beardsley, et al.
Comparison of Four Protocols for In Vitro Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells into Trophoblast Lineages by BMP4 and Dual Inhibition of Activin/Nodal and FGF2 Signaling, Zahra Anvar, Imen Chakchouk, Momal Sharif, et al.
Congenital Tooth Agenesis and Risk of Early-Onset Cancer, Saga Elise Eiset, Jeremy Schraw, Gitte Vrelits Sørensen, et al.
Contextual Factors Influencing the Association Between the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid Expansion and Veteran VA-Medicaid Dual Enrollment, Patrick N O'Mahen, Chase S Eck, Cheng Rebecca Jiang, et al.
Data Stewardship in Ftld Research: Investigator and Research Participant Views, Jalayne J Arias, Ana M Tyler, Laura M Beskow, et al.
Deep-Learning-Based Image Super-resolution of an End-Expandable Optical Fiber Probe for Application in Esophageal Cancer Diagnostics, Xiaohui Zhang, Mimi Tan, Mansour Nabil, et al.
Delays in Hepatitis A Vaccination in People With HIV in Houston, Texas Between 2010 and 2018, Emily T Ciocca, Kristen A Staggers, Jennifer Carey, et al.
Design and Evaluation of ScanCap: A Low-Cost, Reusable Tethered Capsule Endoscope with Blue-Green Illumination Imaging for Unsedated Screening and Early Detection of Barrett's Esophagus, Cheima Hicheri, Ahad M Azimuddin, Alex Kortum, et al.
Determinants of Referral Network Size for Screening Colonoscopies in the Veterans Health Administration After the Implementation of the MISSION Act, Chase S Eck, Vivian Ho, Cheng Jiang, et al.
Developing an Ethics and Policy Framework for Psychedelic Clinical Care: A Consensus Statement, Amy L McGuire, I Glenn Cohen, Dominic Sisti, et al.
Developing the OpenFlexure Microscope Towards Medical Use: Technical and Social Challenges of Developing Globally Accessible Hardware for Healthcare, Joe Knapper, Freya Whiteford, Daniel Rosen, et al.
Development of a Multi-Level/Multi-Modal Intervention for Health Care Transition Preparation, Beth H Garland, Mary Majumder, Constance M Wiemann, et al.
Development of a Multi-Level/Multi-Modal Intervention for Health Care Transition Preparation, Beth H Garland, Mary Majumder, Constance M Wiemann, et al.
Differences in Prediagnostic Serum Metabolomic and Lipidomic Profiles Between Cirrhosis Patients with and without Incident Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Hannah Powell, Cristian Coarfa, Elisa Ruiz-Echartea, et al.
Direct Implantation of Patient Brain Tumor Cells into Matching Locations in Mouse Brains for Patient-Derived Orthotopic Xenograft Model Development, Lin Qi, Patricia Baxter, Mari Kogiso, et al.
Disruption of Neural Periodicity Predicts Clinical Response After Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Nicole R Provenza, Sandesh Reddy, Anthony K Allam, et al.
Effective Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder After Failed Anterior Capsulotomy: Illustrative Cases, Anthony K Allam, Nisha Giridharan, Mohammed Hasen, et al.
Environmental Detection of Parasites in the Marginalized Paiute Reservations Compared to a Nearby Area, Shannon McKim, Kristen Kopystynsky, Nathaniel Wolf, et al.