Publications

BAC staff members have co-authored hundreds of peer-reviewed publications. A partial list of recent publications is provided below. 

McCarthy AM, Ehsan S, Appel S, Welch M, He W, Bahl M, Chen J, Lehman CD, Armstrong K. Risk factors for an advanced breast cancer diagnosis within 2 years of a negative mammogram. Cancer. 2021 Sep 15;127(18):3334-3342. doi: 10.1002/cncr.33661. Epub 2021 Jun 1. PMID: 34061353.

Lee D, Appel S, Nunes L. CT findings and outcomes of acute cholecystitis: is additional ultrasound necessary? Abdom Radiol (NY). 2021 Nov;46(11):5434-5442. doi: 10.1007/s00261-021-03160-2. Epub 2021 Jul 7. PMID: 34235552.

Prasad A, Shin M, Carey RM, Chorath K, Parhar H, Appel S, Moreira A, Rajasekaran K. Propensity score matching in otolaryngologic literature: A systematic review and critical appraisal. PLoS One. 2020 Dec 31;15(12):e0244423. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0244423. Erratum in: PLoS One. 2021 Apr 27;16(4):e0250949. PMID: 33382777; PMCID: PMC7774981.

Park BJ, Perkons NR, Profka E, Johnson O, Morley C, Appel S, Nadolski GJ, Hunt SJ, Gade TP. Three-Dimensional Augmented Reality Visualization Informs Locoregional Therapy in a Translational Model of Hepatocellular Carcinoma. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2020 Oct;31(10):1612-1618.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.jvir.2020.01.028. Epub 2020 Aug 18. PMID: 32826152; PMCID: PMC7541417.

Starr LT, Ulrich CM, Junker P, Appel SM, O'Connor NR, Meghani SH. Goals-of-Care Consultation Associated With Increased Hospice Enrollment Among Propensity-Matched Cohorts of Seriously Ill African American and White Patients. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2020 Oct;60(4):801-810. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2020.05.020. Epub 2020 May 23. PMID: 32454185; PMCID: PMC7508853.  

Taylor JH, Appel S, Eli M, Alexander-Bloch A, Maayan L, Gur RE, Bloch MH. Time to Clinical Response in the Treatment of Early Onset Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders Study. J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol. 2021 Feb;31(1):46-52. doi: 10.1089/cap.2020.0030. Epub 2020 Jul 1. PMID: 32633541; PMCID: PMC7891207.  

 

Stephens-Shields AJ, Snyder PJ, Ellenberg SS, Taylor L, Bhasin S. Relation of Testosterone, Dihydrotestosterone, and Estradiol with Changes in Outcomes Measures in the Testosterone Trials. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2022 Apr 19;107(5):1257-1269. doi: 10.1210/clinem/dgac028. PMID: 35041751; PMCID: PMC9016457.  

Shao K, Zullo SW, Fix W, Taylor L, Zhang J, Miller CJ, Etzkorn JR, Shin TM, Giordano CN, Higgins WH, Sobanko JF. Measuring Stakeholder Assessments of Postsurgical Facial Scars: A Retrospective Cohort Inter-rater Analysis of Patients, Physicians, and Medical Student Observers. Dermatol Surg. 2022 Apr 1;48(4):418-422. doi: 10.1097/DSS.0000000000003405. PMID: 35165219.  

Johnson J, Hayden T, Taylor LA. Evaluation of the LIGHT Curriculum: An African American Church-Based Curriculum for Training Lay Health Workers to Support Advance Care Planning, End-of-Life Decision Making, and Care. J Palliat Med. 2022 Mar;25(3):413-420. doi: 10.1089/jpm.2021.0235. Epub 2021 Sep 9. PMID: 34515525; PMCID: PMC8968829.

Goldschmied JR, Sengupta A, Sharma A, Taylor L, Morales KH, Thase ME, Thase ME, Weljie A, Kayser MS. Treatment of Insomnia with Zaleplon in HIV+ Significantly Improves Sleep and Depression. Psychopharmacol Bull. 2021 Jun 1;51(3):50-64. PMID: 34421144; PMCID: PMC8374930.  

Chu, B., Maranga A., Mosojane K., Allen-Taylor L., Ralethanka M., Shifa J., Jereni B, Nkomazzana O., and Williams V.  Sociodemographic features of a cohort of people living with albinism in Botswana. JAAD Int Vol 2, 157-162, March 2021.  

Johnson J, Hayden T, Allen-Taylor L, and Rev.Gilbert A.   Faith Beliefs of African American Church Leaders Are Aligned with the Principles of Palliative and Hospice Care: A Community Based Assessment and Intervention.  American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Medicine® 2021, Vol. 38(4) 346-354.

Johnson J., Hayden T., Allen Taylor L., Gilbert A., Paul M., Mitchell H.  LIGHT: A Church-Based Curriculum for Training African American Lay Health Workers to Support Advance Care Planning and End-of-Life Decision-Making Health Equity Volume4.1, 2020.

Shields, B., Gelfand, B., Allen-Taylor, L., and Rosenbach, M.  Prevalence of Dermatitis HerpetiformisWithin the iCure Celiac Patient-Powered Research Network Patient Characteristics and Dietary Counseling.  JAMA Dermatology Dec 2020 Vol 156, No 12.

Shao, K., Taylor, L., Miller, J., Etzkorn, J., Shin, T., Higgins II, W., Giordano, C., and Sobanko, J.  The Natural Evolution of Facial Surgical Scars: A Retrospective Study of Physician-Assessed Scars Using the Patient and Observer Scar Assessment Scale Over Two Time Points, Facial Plastic Surgery and Aesthetic Medicine, Vol 23, Number 3, 2020.

Johnson, J., Hayden, T., Allen Taylor, L., Gilbert, A.,   Hughes Jones Jr, C.,   Paul, M., Mitchell, H., Curtis B.  Engaging the African American Church to Improve Communication About Palliative Care and Hospice: Lessons from a Multilevel Approach. Journal of Palliative Care 2019, Vol. 34(3) 168-174.

 

Chen C, Hennessy S, Brensinger CM, Bilker WB, Dublin S, Chung SP, Horn JR, Bogar KF, Leonard CE. Antidepressant drug-drug-drug interactions associated with unintentional traumatic injury: Screening for signals in real-world data. Clin Transl Sci. 2022 Nov 22. doi: 10.1111/cts.13452. Online ahead of print. PMID: 36415144.

Bogar K, Brensinger CM, Hennessy S, Flory JH, Bell ML, Shi C, Bilker WB, Leonard CE. Climate Change and Ambient Temperature Extremes: Association with Serious Hypoglycemia, Diabetic Ketoacidosis, and Sudden Cardiac Arrest/Ventricular Arrhythmia in People With Type 2 Diabetes. Diabetes Care. 2022 Nov 1;45(11):e171-e173. doi: 10.2337/dc22-1161. PMID: 36205432.

Miano TA, Wang L, Leonard CE, Brensinger CM, Acton EK, Dawwas GK, Bilker WB, Soprano SE, Nguyen TPP, Woody G, Yu E, Neuman M, Li L, Hennessy S. Identifying Clinically Relevant Drug-Drug Interactions with Methadone and Buprenorphine: A Translational Approach to Signal Detection. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2022 Nov;112(5):1120-1129. doi: 10.1002/cpt.2717. Epub 2022 Aug 20. PMID: 35881659.

Chen C, Hennessy S, Brensinger CM, Dawwas GK, Acton EK, Bilker WB, Chung SP, Dublin S, Horn JR, Miano TA, Pham Nguyen TP, Soprano SE, Leonard CE. Skeletal muscle relaxant drug-drug-drug interactions and unintentional traumatic injury: Screening to detect three-way drug interaction signals. Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2022 Nov;88(11):4773-4783. doi: 10.1111/bcp.15395. Epub 2022 Jun 1. PMID: 35562168.

Romer D, Winneg KM, Jamieson PE, Brensinger C, Jamieson KH. Misinformation about vaccine safety and uptake of COVID-19 vaccines among adults and 5-11-year-olds in the United States. Vaccine. 2022 Oct 26;40(45):6463-6470. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.09.046. Epub 2022 Sep 22. PMID: 36192273.

Chen C, Hennessy S, Brensinger CM, Acton EK, Bilker WB, Chung SP, Dawwas GK, Horn JR, Miano TA, Pham Nguyen TP, Leonard CE. Population-based screening to detect benzodiazepine drug-drug-drug interaction signals associated with unintentional traumatic injury. Sci Rep. 2022 Sep 16;12(1):15569. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-19551-4. PMID: 36114250.

Leonard CE, Brensinger CM, Bilker WB, Soprano SE, Dhopeshwarkar N, Hecht TEH, Kasner SE, Nutescu EA, Holbrook A, Carr M, Ashcroft DM, Chen C, Hennessy S. Thromboembolic Events in Users of Warfarin Treated with Different Skeletal Muscle Relaxants. Medicina (Kaunas). 2022 Aug 29;58(9):1171. doi: 10.3390/medicina58091171. PMID: 36143848.

Parikh RB, Emanuel EJ, Brensinger CM, Boyle CW, Price-Haywood EG, Burton JH, Heltz SB, Navathe AS. Evaluation of Spending Differences Between Beneficiaries in Medicare Advantage and the Medicare Shared Savings Program. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Aug 1;5(8):e2228529. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.28529. PMID: 35997977.

Pham Nguyen TP, Soprano SE, Hennessy S, Brensinger CM, Bilker WB, Miano TA, Acton EK, Horn JR, Chung SP, Dublin S, Oslin DW, Wiebe DJ, Leonard CE. Population-based signals of benzodiazepine drug interactions associated with unintentional traumatic injury. J Psychiatry Res. 2022 Jul;151:299-303. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2022.04.033. Epub 2022 May 1. PMID: 35526445.

Hicks-Courant K, Kanter GP, Schapira MM, Brensinger CM, Liu Q, Ko EM. Intensity of end-of-life care for gynecologic cancer patients by primary oncologist specialty. Int J Gynecol Cancer. 2022 Jun 6;32(6):695-703. doi: 10.1136/ijgc-2021-003285. PMID: 35379689.

 

Joshua P. Metlay, MD, PhD, Sean Hennessy, PharmD, PhD, A. Russell Localio, JD, PhD, Xiaoyan Han, MS, Wei Yang, MS, Abigail Cohen, PhD, Charles E. Leonard, PharmD, Kevin Haynes, PharmD, Stephen E. Kimmel, MD, MSCE, Harold I. Feldman, MD, MSCE,   Brian L.Strom, MD, MPH. Patient reported receipt of medication instructions for warfarin is associated with reduced risk of serious bleeding events(JGIM).

Robert Gross; Scarlett L Bellamy; Jennifer Chapman; Xiaoyan Han; Jacqueline O'Duor; Brian L Strom; Peter S Houts; Steven C Palmer; James C Coyne. The Effects of a Problem Solving-based Intervention on Depressive Symptoms and HIV Medication Adherence Are Independe.2013.

Jennifer H. Han, MD, MSCE;Joel Maslow, MD, PhD; Xiaoyan Han, MS; Sharon X. Xie, PhD;Pam Tolomeo, MPH; Evelyn Santana, MS; Ebbing Lautenbach, MD, MPH, MSCE.   Risk Factors for the Development of Gastrointestinal Colonization with Fluoroquinolone-Resistant Escherichia coli in Residents of Long-Term Care Facilities. Journal of Infectious Diseases. Aug 2013.

Andrea Apter, Knashawn Morales, Xiaoyan Han, Luzmercy Perez, Jingru Huang, Grace Ndicu, Anna Localio, Alyssa Nardi, Heather Klusaritz, Marisa Rogers, Alexis Phillips, Zuleyha Cidav, J. Sanford Schwartz;A Patient Advocate to facilitate access and improve communication, care, and outcomes in adults with moderate or severe asthma: Rationale, design, and methods of a randomized controlled trial; Journal: Contemporary Clinical Trials; Ref: CCT_2016_202_R1 Torgersen J, Bellamy SL, Ratshaa B, Han X, Mosepele M, Zuppa AF, Vujkovic M, Steenhoff AP, Bisson GP, Gross R.

 

Adewale B, Heintz JR, Pastore CF, Rossi HL, Hung LY, Rahman N, Bethony J, Diemert D, Babatunde JA, Herbert DB. Parasitic helminth infections in humans modulate Trefoil Factor levels in a manner dependent on the species of parasite and age of the host. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 2021 Oct 18;15(10) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009550.

Smith AJ, Alvarez R, Heintz J, Haggerty A, Ko EM. Disparities in biomarker testing in ovarian cancer: a real-world analysis. American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. 2023 Jan 1;228(1):98-100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajog.2022.08.043.

Smith AJ, Alvarez R, Heintz J, Simpkins F, Ko EM. Disparities in clinical trial participation in ovarian cancer. American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. 2022 June 2. DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2022.40.16_suppl.e18597.

Ko EM, Alvarez R, Heintz J, Simpkins F, Smith AJ. Disparities in endometrial cancer clinical trial participation. 2022 June 2. 10.1200/JCO.2022.40.16_suppl.e18514.

Hoskins K, Linn KA, Ahmedani BK, Boggs JM, Johnson C, Heintz J, Marcus SC, Kaminer I, Zabel C, Wright L, Quintana LM. Equitable implementation of SAFE Firearm: a multi-method pilot study. Preventive medicine. 2022 Dec 1;165:107281 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2022.107281.

Kim KN, Heintz J, Yegya-Raman N, Cohen R, Kegelman T, Cengel K, Marmarelis M, Sun L, Langer C, Aggarwal C, Singh A. Toxicities and Deaths from Intercurrent Disease Following Contemporary Postoperative Radiotherapy in Resected Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer. Clinical Lung Cancer. 2022 Dec 25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cllc.2022.12.008.

Andriani L, Smith AJ, Alvarez R, Heintz J, Ko EM. Variation in telemedicine usage in gynecologic cancer: Are we widening or narrowing disparities? 2022 June 2. 10.1200/JCO.2022.40.16_suppl.1593.

Caniglia E, Zash R, Fennell C, Diseko M, Mayondi G, Heintz J, Mmalane M, Makhema J, Lockman S, Mumford S, Murray E, Hernández-Díaz S, Shapiro R. Emulating target trials to avoid immortal time bias– an application to antibiotic initiation and preterm delivery. Epidemiology, Publish Ahead of Print. https://doi.org/10.1097/ede.0000000000001601.

 

 

Schreiber JE, Cole JCM, Houtrow AJ, Kallan MJ, Thom EA, Howell LJ, Adzick NS, “Maternal depressive risk in prenatal versus postnatal surgical closure of myelomeningocele: associations with parenting stress and child outcomes”, Fetal Diagn Ther, 48(6): 479-484, 2021.

Soni S, Moldenhauer JS, Kallan MJ, Rintoul N, Adzick NS, Hedrick HL, Khalek N, “Influence of gestational age and mode of delivery on neonatal outcomes in prenatally diagnosed isolated congenital diaphragmatic hernia”, Fetal Diagn Ther, 48(5): 372-380, 2021.

Vahdatpour CA, Pichler A, Palevsky HI, Kallan MJ, Patel NB, Kinniry PA, “Interstitial lung disease associated acute respiratory failure requiring invasive mechanical ventilation: a retrospective analysis”, Open Respir Med J, 14: 67-77, 2020.

Eberly LA, Kallan MJ, Julien HM, Haynes N, Khatana SAM, Nathan AS, Snider C, Chokshi NP, Eneanya ND, Takvorian SU, Anastos-Wallen R, Chaiyachati K, Ambrose M, O’Quinn R, Seigerman M, Goldberg LR, Leri D, Choi K, Gitelman Y, Kolansky DM, Cappola TP, Ferrari

VA, Hanson CW, Deleener ME, Adusumalli S, “Patient characteristics associated with telemedicine access for primary specialty ambulatory care during the COVID-19 pandemic”, JAMA New Open, 3(12): e2031640, 2020.

Torgersen J, Kallan MJ, Carbonari DM, Park LS, Mehta RL, D’Addeo K, Tate JP, Lim JK, Goetz MB, Rodriguez-Barradas MC, Bräu N, Brown ST, Taddei TH, Justice AC, Lo Re V 3rd, “Brief report: accuracy of FIB-4 for cirrhosis in people living with HIV and hepatocellular carcinoma”, J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr, 85(5): 530-534, 2020.

Rintoul NE, Keller RL, Walsh WF, Burrows PK, Thom EA, Kallan MJ, Howell LJ, Adzick NS; MOMS Investigators, “The management of myelomeningocele study: short-term neonatal outcomes”, Fetal Design Ther, 47(12): 865-872, 2020.

Ifrach J, Basu R, Joshi DS, Flanders TM, Ozturk AK, Malhotra NR, Pessoa R, Kallan MJ, Maloney E, Welch WC, Ali ZS, “Efficacy of an enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) pathway in elderly patients undergoing spine and peripheral nerve surgery”, Clin Neurol Neurosurg, 197: 106115, 2020.

Flanders TM, Ifrach J, Sinha S, Ozturk AK, Malhotra NR, Pessoa R, Kallan MJ, Fleisher LA, Ashburn MA, Maloney E, Welch WC, Ali ZS, “Reduction of postoperative opioid use after elective spine and peripheral nerve surgery using an enhanced recovery after surgery program”, Pain Med, 21(12): 3283-3291, 2020.

Bryer EJ, Kallan MJ, Chiu TS, Scheuba KM, Henry DH, “A retrospective analysis of venous thromboembolism trends in chemotherapy-induced anemia: Red blood cell transfusion versus erythrocyte stimulating agent administration”, EJHaem, 1(1): 35-43, 2020.

Torgersen J, Kallan MJ, Carbonari DM, Park LS, Mehta RL, D’Addeo K, Tate JP, Lim JK, Goetz MB, Rodriguez-Barradas MC, Gilbert CL, Bräu N, Brown ST, Roy JA, Taddei TH, Justice AC, Lo Re V, “HIV RNA, CD4+ percentage, and risk of hepatocellular carcinoma by cirrhosis status”, J Natl Cancer Inst, 112(7): 747-755, 2020.

 

Byrnes YM, Civantos AM, Go BC, McWilliams TL, Rajasekaran K. Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on medical student career perceptions: a national survey study. Med Educ Online. 2020 Dec;25(1):1798088. doi: 10.1080/10872981.2020.1798088. PMID: 32706306; PMCID: PMC7482653.

Erika J. Yoo, Jessica F. Most, Nora L. Lee, Tara McWilliams, Lauren A. Plante, Edward S. Schulman, Improving Asthma Symptoms Among Inner-City Women During Pregnancy: A Prospective Cohort Intervention, The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, Volume 9, Issue 10,2021,Pages 3672-3678,ISSN 2213-2198, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaip.2021.05.007.

Abena Maranga, Fritzlaine C. Roche, Maryam Alausa, Tara McWilliams, David J. Margolis, Gabriella Fabbrocini, Carlo Natale Lauro, Rosanna Cataldo, Susan C. Taylor, Quality of life in patients with central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia: a preliminary study, British Journal of Dermatology, Volume 187, Issue 5, 1 November 2022, Pages 802–804, https://doi.org/10.1111/bjd.21710.

Camiña, N., McWilliams, TL, McKeon, T.P. et al. Identification of spatio-temporal clusters of lung cancer cases in Pennsylvania, USA: 2010–2017. BMC Cancer 22, 555 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-022-09652-8.

Zhu AY, McWilliams TL, McKeon TP, Vachani A, Penning TM and Hwang W-T (2023) Association of multi-criteria derived air toxics hazard score with lung cancer incidence in a major metropolitan area. Front. Public Health. 11:1002597. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1002597.

Aggarwal C, Marmarelis ME, Hwang WT, Scholes DG, McWilliams TL, Singh AP, Sun L, Kosteva J, Costello MR, Cohen RB, Langer CJ, Doucette A, Gabriel PN, Shulman LN, Rendle KA, Thompson JC, Bekelman JE, Carpenter EL. Association Between Availability of Molecular Genotyping Results and Overall Survival in Patients With Advanced Nonsquamous Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer. JCO recis Oncol. 2023 Jul;7:e2300191. doi: 10.1200/PO.23.00191. PMID: 37499192.

 

Selvaraj, Senthil; Hu, Ray; Vidula, Mahesh K; Dugyala, Supritha; Tierney, Ann; Ky, Bonnie; Margulies, Kenneth B; Shah, Svati H; Kelly, Daniel P; Bravo, Paco E; Acute echocardiographic effects of exogenous ketone administration in healthy participants, Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, 2022. doi: 10.2967/jnumed.121.26273.4.

Selvaraj, Senthil; Margulies, Kenneth B; Dugyala, Supritha; Schubert, Erin; Tierney, Ann; Arany, Zoltan; Pryma, Daniel A; Shah, Svati H; Rame, J Eduardo; Kelly, Daniel P; Comparison of Exogenous Ketone Administration Versus Dietary Carbohydrate Restriction on Myocardial Glucose Suppression: A Crossover Clinical Trial, Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2022. doi: 10.1016/j.echo.2021.10.017.

Neuman, Mark D; Feng, Rui; Carson, Jeffrey L; Gaskins, Lakisha J; Dillane, Derek; Sessler, Daniel I; Sieber, Frederick; Magaziner, Jay; Marcantonio, Edward R; Mehta, Samir;      Spinal anesthesia or general anesthesia for hip surgery in older adults New England Journal of Medicine, 2021. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa2113514.

Selvaraj, Senthil; Hu, Ray; Vidula, Mahesh K; Dugyala, Supritha; Tierney, Ann; Margulies, Kenneth B; Ky, Bonnie; Shah, Svati H; Kelly, Daniel P; Bravo, Paco E; Acute Echocardiographic Effects of Exogenous Ketone Administration and Relationship to Myocardial Glucose Uptake on Fdg-pet, Circulation, 2021

NA Haynes, V Saint-Joy, JB Swain, A Ezekwesili, Implementation of a virtual international cardiology curriculum to address the deficit of cardiovascular education in Haiti: a pilot study. British Medical Journal open, 2021.  doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2021-048690.

R Halaby, A Cuker, J Yui, A Matthews, E Ishaaya, E Traxler, C Domenico, ..., Bleeding risk by intensity of anticoagulation in critically ill patients with COVID‐19: a retrospective cohort study, Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis 19 (6), 1533-1545, 2021. doi: 10.1111/jth.15310.

Truong, Cassie T; Jeon, Hyeran H; Sripinun, Puttipong; Tierney, Ann; Boucher, Normand S; Short-term and long-term effects of rapid maxillary expansion on the nasal soft and hard tissue: A cone beam computed tomography study, The Angle Orthodontist, 2021. doi: 10.2319/022320-120.1.

A Bhatla, MM Mayer, S Adusumalli, MC Hyman, E Oh, A Tierney, J Moss.  COVID-19 and cardiac arrhythmias.  Heart rhythm 17 (9), 1439-1444, 2021. doi:10.1016/j.hrthm.2020.06.016. PMCID: PMC7307518; PMID: 32585191.