College of Nursing
Dean Lori Escallier was invited to speak at the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education in May on writing self-study documents. The webinar was attended by more than 300 Nursing schools nationwide.
Barbara Messina participated as a panelist in several IPE events at Downstate (Climate Inclusive Clinical Research (03-2022; ), School of Health Professions (A complex orthopedic case study (03-2022), Collaborative IPE event with LIU/Brooklyn (Spiritual Care), assisted to develop and participated as a panelist Panelist Book Café’ – Association of Standardized Patient Educators
Annie Rohan published a paper in The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing titled Data-Driven Nurse Staffing in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
College of Nursing faculty presented two compelling projects at the 2022 National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) Conference in Minneapolis in April. Dr. Annie Rohan and Dr. Nataliya Shaforost discussed their novel, scalable model for DNP education. Dr Beth Steinfeld, Dr. Jeanine O’Hagan-Murphy, and Dr. Annie Rohan presented their work on virtual simulation to enhance anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology competencies in advanced practice nursing students.
School of Health Professions
Dr. Susan Rachel Condon delivered three presentations to an international MW conference, the NYS Perinatal Association Annual Conference, and the Annual Meeting of the American College of Nurse Midwives on “Pregnancy, Lactation, and Osteoporosis”.
Dr. Joanne Katz, in collaboration with COM’s Dr. Samuel Marquez delivered a presentation on “A Community of Medical Educators Coming Together to Lend an ‘Anatomical’ Hand: Showing the Value of an In-Person Anatomy Lab Based Curriculum” for the Experimental Biology Section of the American Association for Anatomy.
Drs. David Kaufman and Aimee Afable of the Schools of Health Professions and Public Health respectively were recently awarded an NIH R21 grant to use a community-based participatory research approach to refine a digital health solution prototype to manage hypertension and prevent stroke recurrence among Central Brooklyn stroke survivors and conduct a pilot efficacy trial. Co-investigators on the grant include Dr. Steven Levine, Department of Neurology, and Drs. Mohammad Faysal and Adie Jumbo of the Medical Informatics Program.
Drs. David Kaufman, Mohammad Faysel, and Adie Jumbo published four journal articles and two book chapters.
Professors Rivka Hellman and Iryna Struk published a journal article on “Let’s Measure the Liver Better: A Pilot Study Assessing Interrater Reliability when Measuring Liver Volume with Sonography” in the Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography, May/June 2022 edition.
Dean Lewis published four articles with co-authors in a special issue of the Journal of Rehabilitation, January/February/March 2022.
Professors Rivka Hellman and Iryna Struk published a journal article on “Let’s Measure the Liver Better: A Pilot Study Assessing Interrater Reliability when Measuring Liver Volume with Sonography” in the Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography, May/June 2022 edition.
Dean Lewis published four articles with co-authors in a special issue of the Journal of Rehabilitation, January/February/March 2022.
School of Public Health
Dr. Tracey Wilson has been invited to serve as a member, HIV/AIDS Intra- and Inter-personal Determinants and Behavioral Interventions Study Section (HIBI), Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health, 7/01/2022 - 6/30/2026.
Congratulations to Dr. Viola Browne, a School of Public Health DrPH alumna for her publication in Health Expectations. The study was based on her dissertation which was an in-depth qualitative exploration into the barriers to physical activity among Brooklyn teens with obesity. The narratives in her study highlight local norms that are novel to the field of childhood obesity including the idea that female teens do not conform to mainstream norms of thin female body images. Her co-authors include Drs. Denise Bruno and Aimee Afable of the School of Public Health and Dr. Sarita Dhuper, Department of Pediatrics and Director of Live Light Live Right. To read more, full article is here: http://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13528
Drs. David Kaufman and Aimee Afable of the Schools of Health Professions and Public Health respectively were recently awarded an NIH R21 grant to use a community-based participatory research approach to refine a digital health solution prototype to manage hypertension and prevent stroke recurrence among Central Brooklyn stroke survivors and conduct a pilot efficacy trial. Co-investigators on the grant include Dr. Steven Levine, Department of Neurology, and Drs. Mohammad Faysal and Adie Jumbo of the Medical Informatics Program.
Drs. Carla Boutin-Foster, Marlene Camacho-Rivera, and Marcus Lambert were awarded an NIH R25 from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities to establish the Downstate Clinical Research Scholars Training (CREST) Program. The 2.5 million, 5-year award will support the development of clinician-scientists who can conduct transformative health disparities research.
Dr. Lori Hoepner co-authored Obesity II: Establishing Causal Links Between Chemical Exposures and Obesity as part of a three-part review series on obesity has been published in the special issue Biochemical Pharmacology: Impact of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals on Health and Disease. The series is a collaboration of senior established experts in the field of environmental health sciences/endocrine disrupting chemicals and was led by Healthy Environment and Endocrine Disruptor Strategies.
Dr. Janet Rosenbaum authored the script of an animation for popular dissemination of her paper, Educational and Criminal Justice Outcomes 12 Years After School Suspension, which is the 2nd most-cited paper in its journal; the animation was created and produced by Lydia Fu ’21, and the Spencer Foundation funded the research and the animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQwU2ADACGA
Dr. Elizabeth Helzner chaired the 2nd Annual Conference on Plant-Based Health and Nutrition co-sponsored by the School of Public Health on May 6th, attended by 160 people. This was the first in-person/online hybrid conference to be held at Downstate since the beginning of the pandemic. Recordings of the sessions can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES7w2Hm1RPg
Dr. Michael Szarek published an analysis of the association between peripheral artery disease with polyvascular disease in the Examining Use of Ticagrelor in Peripheral Artery Disease (EUCLID) trial in the Journal of the American Heart Association. Patients with symptomatic PAD had nearly double the number of total events than first events over a median of 2.7 years of follow-up.
Dr. Marcus Lambert coauthored a paper, "Moving diversity, equity, and inclusion from opinion to evidence" in Cell Reports Medicine. The paper offers suggestions for applying rigorous scientific methodology to DEI and ways to promote diversity in scientific journals.
Dr. Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis, PhD coauthored a study in the Proceedings of the Royal Society–Biological Sciences titled “Cellular and immunological mechanisms influence host-adapted phenotypes in a vector-borne microparasite.” This NSF-funded work explored the evolution of host-pathogen interactions in Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease agent in North America. To understand the role of intraspecific pathogen variation in host competence and assess the plausibility of specific ecological mechanisms as drivers of pathogen diversification, the group experimentally evaluated the interaction between two reservoir vertebrate hosts and three genotypically distinct pathogen strains. Findings will guide future investigations to inform eco-evolutionary models of host adaptation for microparasites.