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PhD in Epidemiology

Description.

The doctoral program in Epidemiology is intended to produce future academicians, highly qualified as independent investigators and teachers, and well-trained practitioners of epidemiology. The program includes coursework in epidemiology and biostatistics, and also requires the development and execution of an independent dissertation research project. The PhD program in Epidemiology includes a series of courses in epidemiologic methods and biostatistics, and electives.

Likely Careers

Academia, Research Institutes and organizations, HMOs; Local, State and National government.

Applicants must have completed prior graduate training to the master's (or research doctoral) degree level in a health-related field by the time of enrollment. (A clinical doctorate alone is inadequate.) Direct postdoctoral entry without required degree is not allowed.

The GRE has been permanently eliminated from admissions for all Department of Epidemiology graduate programs; goal statement demonstrating good understanding or Epidemiology and role of training in career; excellent references that speak to qualifications for training/career in epidemiology; Personal History Statement; Resume/CV; Transcripts. The program is competitive.

Application Deadline:   Dec. 1 for Autumn Quarter admissions

Competencies

Upon satisfactory completion of the PhD in Epidemiology, graduates will be able to:

• Meet the learning objectives for the MS in Epidemiology, General Track;
• Formulate study questions that will advance scientific knowledge about a topic of public health importance;
• Develop a research proposal that presents the study aims, scientific background, public health significance, and the detailed methods for carrying out the epidemiologic study;
• Develop study procedures for the protection of rights of human subjects;
• Apply regression, classical methods of analysis of categorical data, logistic regression, survival analysis and other appropriate statistical approaches to analyze epidemiologic data;
• Make a clear oral presentation on the design and results of an epidemiologic study;
• Write a clear description of the rationale, methods, results, and interpretation of an epidemiologic investigation that would be acceptable for publication in a scientific journal; 
• Demonstrate expertise in a substantive area of disease etiology, disease prevention, or clinical epidemiology; and
• Design and implement data collection, quality control and data management procedures for an epidemiological study.

Current Doctoral Students

Tess Abrahamson-Richards is a citizen of the Spokane Tribe, the United States, and England. She received her BA from Seattle University and MPH here at the UW in Health Services/Maternal and Child Health. Her primary research interests are in the overlapping domains of maternal behavioral health promotion and early childhood service delivery within American Indian communities. Much of her professional experience has been in home visiting service delivery, research, and evaluation. For the past 5 years, Tess has worked on a multi-site study partnering with 17 tribal home visiting programs throughout the nation to better understand what supports successful and effective early childhood program implementation in Native communities.  E-mail: [email protected]

Shoshana Benjamin (she/her) earned her MPH from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, where she focused on the social determinants of health and sexual and reproductive health. In graduate school, Shoshana concentrated her work and research on comprehensive sexuality education, teaching sex education to middle school students, lobbying the New York State legislature to implement legislation around sex education, and writing her master’s thesis on the impacts of college-level sexual health curricula. Since graduation, she has worked with the Social Intervention Group at Columbia’s School of Social Work, implementing evidence-based interventions around substance use, HIV, and violence prevention. She hopes to focus her future research on examining how sexuality education can be used as a tool to prevent relationship and sexual violence, and to use research findings to influence policy in order to ensure more expansive and equitable access to sexuality education. Shoshana is also passionate about designing and implementing targeted interventions to improve the sexual health and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ youth. Email:  [email protected]

Santino (Tino) Camacho is a Queer CHamoru scholar from the island of Guåhan (Guam). He’ll be returning to UW as a triple dawg. In his first year, he is excited to continue the work he has been doing over the summer with Dr. Michael Spencer and the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute to create a model for COVID-19 Economic Recovery for and in collaboration with WA Pacific Islander communities. Tino’s research interests include the development of culturally rooted/adapted health promotion interventions for Queer, Transgender and other Indigenous Pacific Islanders; the use of indigenous methodologies and community-based research methods in the collection and use of QTPI and Indigenous Pacific Islanders’ health data; and the practice of CHamoru and Pasifika ethics and praxis in conducting scientific research of health disparities of Indigenous communities. While accomplishing his Master’s in Public Health at the UW, Tino worked with the Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services to establish Title X sexual and reproductive health services at their Northern Community Health Center. His thesis work used community-based participatory research principles to ascertain the health concerns and needs of Queer and Transgender Pacific Islanders in the greater Puget Sound Area.   E-mail:  [email protected]

Hanna Cho  earned a Bachelor of Law from Duksung Women’s University and a Master of Social Work from Yonsei University in South Korea. Her interest in international comparative social policy led her to receive her second master’s degree, a Master of Arts in Social Policy, at the University of York in the United Kingdom. She worked as a researcher for two years at the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA), where she mainly participated in projects evaluating means-tested transfer programs for low-income families. Her current research interests include social policies and programs that can improve intergenerational socioeconomic mobility, young adults’ economic independence, and comparative research on welfare state models. Email: [email protected]

Adam Davis earned a BA in Mathematics and Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin and an MSW with a clinical focus at the University of Kentucky. Prior to pursuing a career in social work, Adam worked in a variety of settings including agriculture, insurance, and cooperative housing. During his MSW, Adam became passionate about research and was able to assist with secondary analysis of mixed-methods data on professionals who worked with victims of sex trafficking of minors in Kentucky. He has since been practicing clinical social work in a state psychiatric hospital that primarily serves involuntary patients with severe mental illness. Adam’s clinical pursuits have been largely focused on working with individuals with cluster b personality disorders and traits. Adam has worked in clinical and leadership roles in the hospital and is currently working to improve continuity of care between the hospital and community mental health agencies across 50 counties. This experience in working with individuals facing significant marginalization as well as the ethical challenges inherent in working within a social welfare system with many gaps motivated the desire to pursue an academic career. Adam’s research interests primarily involve strengthening the philosophical basis of the social work profession. More specifically, he is interested in exploring empirical methods to improve ethical practice as well as identifying ways to improve service delivery for individuals with personality disorders and traits.  Email:   [email protected]

Allison Engstrom (she/her) received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with a minor in Human Development and Family Studies from the University of Houston and a Master of Social Work from the University of Washington. Prior to the Social Welfare PhD program, Allison served as a research coordinator in the Personality Across Development (PAD) lab at the University of Houston, as a research assistant at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) Harris County Psychiatric Center (HCPC), and as a research coordinator and social work interventionist in the Trauma Survivors Outcomes and Support (TSOS) lab at Harborview Medical Center. Allison’s research interests include improving behavioral health outcomes, prevention science, addressing health disparities, and implementation science. Email: [email protected]

Taurmini Fentress  earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oregon. While completing this degree, Taurmini worked in the anthropology department on projects relating to food insecurity, poverty, culture, policy, and food choice in district elementary and middle schools. This research was dedicated to deepening the understanding of the relationships between food choice, food education, and school district policy and the impact this has on the health and wellbeing of children. After leaving the University of Oregon, she continued this work with a comparison study in Oviedo, Spain. Taurmini then came to the University of Washington where she completed her MSW and MPA while also working towards a graduate level certificate in Global Public Health specializing in women, adolescents, and children. She has been employed at the West Coast Poverty Center for the last three years where she has had the opportunity to continue working to bridge the gaps between research, policy, and practice. Taurmini’s long-term research interests are in stress and its effects on the body and mind across generations; she hopes to use stress as a through line linking individual experiences to culture and societal structures while exploring how interventions can be made at the population level. She is committed to transdisciplinary, multi-level, and impact-oriented work. E-mail:  [email protected]

Matthew Frank  is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation from Shiprock, New Mexico. Matthew has his MSW and MPH from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. His research interests are on racial and ethnic health disparities and the role of social determinants of health, particularly how socioeconomic position and social context affect health and health disparities in Native Americans. E-mail: [email protected]

Geraldine Germain  received her MSW from Washington University in St. Louis in 2017 and will receive a master’s in economics from the University of Missouri–St. Louis this spring. She has nearly 10 years of experience in practice and policy work in non-profit workforce development and social policy research settings. Her project work has included developing and evaluating workplace-based financial stability and asset-building interventions, qualitative/community-based research in socially and economically disinvested communities, and quantitative studies evaluating a range of topics including incarceration, mortgage lending policy, labor supply, and wealth accumulation. In a Ph.D. program, Geraldine is broadly interested in researching the influence of social welfare policies and practices on the economic well-being of marginalized populations and evaluating effective solutions to promote full social and economic inclusion. E-mail: [email protected]

Kilohana Haitsuka  Welina! ʻO Kilohana koʻu inoa. Ua noho au i Anahola ma Kauaʻi a Manokalanipō. He wahine Hawaiʻi au. He moʻopuna au. He kaikamahine au. He kaikuahine au. ʻO kēia nā mea waiwai i kuʻu puʻuwai. Kilohana Haitsuka is the proud product of Kānaka Maoli from Anahola, Kauaʻi and Japanese settlers from Kāneʻohe, Oʻahu. She loves her community, and their needs and voices will always be at the forefront of her work. Her research is culturally guided and grounded in Indigenous research methodologies that advocate for community participation and respectful engagement. She recently completed her work at Hā Kūpuna, the National Resource Center for Native Hawaiian Elders. She is also happy to be continuing her work with the wonderful team from Mauli Ola Mālamalama at Papa Ola Lōkahi.  E-mail: [email protected]

Brittany Jones (she/her) is a white cisgender LCSW who received her MSW in 2008. She has spent the intervening time working primarily with older adults as a nonprofit clinician and research assistant at Georgia State University. Her research interests build on these experiences. Brittany wants to focus on developing interventions that target the social isolation and loneliness of older adults at the intersection of oppressions, particularly those with dementias or physical disabilities. She would also like to study models of housing and long-term care for this population.  E-mail:  [email protected]

Seratha Largieis of the Towering House (Kinyaa’áanii) clan and born for the Near the Water (Tó’áhani) clan. Her maternal grandfather is of the Mud clan (Hashtł’ishnii), and her paternal grandfather is of the Water’s Edge (Tábąąhá) clan. She is a federally enrolled member of the Navajo Nation and comes from the Diné people. She is from the community of Naschitti, New Mexico, and east of the community is a place known as Tse’ya ti, the English translation “the Rock that Stands Up,” where the last name Bitsoí (the grandchildren of) originates from and is also where her Kin’yaa’aanii elders have built their fire from eons before. She received her BA in Psychology from Fort Lewis College and MSW from the University of Denver Four Corners Program. She has a strong background across the human lifespan: working with young people of various ages from toddlers to adolescents to young adults, elders, and families in diverse settings. She has found excitement and fulfillment in learning to integrate Federal, State, and Tribal policies in culturally responsive ways within tribally controlled early childhood programs. Her research interests are to continue to analyze the federal and state funding system biases impacting the early childhood tribal programs providing direct child care to indigenous communities. Email: [email protected]

Joanna La Torre  (she/they) is a cis gender / queer multi-ethnic Filipinx scholar activist from occupied Ohlone territory in California’s Bay Area. She is excited to join Indigenous research and communities at the University of Washington (UW). Mx. La Torre’s research focuses on the movements of decolonizing Filipinx’s, disproportionate mental / health burdens of queers and people of color, and community-driven healing initiatives. Joanna’s clinical practice centers on work with children and families, particularly teens and young adults, and she has worked within child welfare, carceral, and medical settings. In her most recent role at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland, Joanna has enjoyed supporting youth that are transgender, commercially sexually exploited, as well as those chronically impacted by racist policies.  E-mail:  [email protected]

Juliann Li Verdugo  (she/her) is a proud Chinese American scholar from San Diego, California. She received a Bachelor of Science in clinical psychology from the University of California at San Diego (2017) and a Master of Social Work from the University of Michigan (2019). Juliann has led and contributed to various research projects focused on topics including severe mental illness, psychosis, Asian mental health, and culturally tailored interventions. After graduating with her MSW, Juliann served as the project coordinator for a NIH-funded grant conducting community-based participatory research on schizophrenia spectrum disorders, suicide prevention, and community mental health. Juliann is also a licensed clinical social worker and worked for over 3 years as a clinician in Michigan, practicing therapy in both Mandarin and Spanish. In pursuing a PhD in social welfare, Juliann is passionate about enhancing mental health outcomes particularly among Asian diaspora and Latino/a/e populations. She hopes to develop a research program enhancing equity and increasing access to, and quality of, mental healthcare services among marginalized communities, especially to support families impacted by severe mental illness. For fun, Juliann loves traveling, walking in nature, playing video games such as The Legend of Zelda, and spending time with her husky Strider Zuko. Email: [email protected]

Hung-Peng Lin is an M.O.E Fellow of Taiwan who received his MSW from National Taiwan University (NTU) in 2012. He is a seasoned clinical social worker and freelance forensic interviewer with more than seven years of post-MSW experience working with children, older adults as well as families, who have a history of trauma. Upon completing his graduate studies, he immersed himself in the field of child protection. He has since worked as a child protective services worker for three years and moved on to a position in program manager in charge of relational permanency program for aging-out youth and parent education program. As a CPS investigator, he proposed a Life Trajectory Mapping Model that would help us find missing children. He also strived to introduce and to localize a family engagement model, Family Group Conferencing (FGC) of New Zealand, in tackling out-of-home placement and many other critical decisions facing Taiwanese CPS workers. This practice model changed the landscape of decision-making as well as out-of-home care in Taiwan. Other than his practice experience, he was engaged in several impactful research projects, one of which is to address the problematic sexualized behavior and unregistered mounting foster care-to-prison pipeline among foster care youth in residential care. His wealth of experience in child welfare informs his research interest. Specifically, his research interest evolves around adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and development outcomes, disclosure of child maltreatment, early trauma and adolescent sexual health, institutional child sexual abuse, prevention/implementation science, intervention research, and program evaluation. His ultimate goal is to advocate prevention of child maltreatment, as well as accessible and trauma-informed interventions impacting families at-risk.  Email:  [email protected]

Sarah Porter  (she/her) identifies as a cisgender female and multi-ethnic first-generation American from Madison, Wisconsin. During her program, Sarah aims to expand her methods training in order to build her capacity in translational research and advocacy-driven program development. Ms. Porter is excited to join UW’s Forefront Center of Excellence focusing on innovative suicide prevention program implementation, with a focus on marginalized college populations. Sarah’s primary research passions include suicide prevention, implementation science, and amplifying effective collaborative practices between frontline mental health providers and national resources. She recently left Washington, DC where she worked for two years as a Federal contractor supporting Executive Orders focusing on national suicide prevention efforts for Veterans and the communities where they live and thrive. Before that, Sarah worked in academia and national nonprofit mental health organizations.  E-mail:  [email protected]

Isaac Andrew Sanders received their BA from the University of Tulsa and their MSW from the University of Kansas. Sanders grew up as a military brat with firm familial roots in Kansas & Oklahoma. An afro-indigenous two spirit non-binary person, belonging to the Muskogee tribe, Sanders work is influenced by their lived experience and devotion to equity. Sanders is interested in youth homelessness, its disproportional impact on LGBTQ+ and BIPOC young people, and ways to bring the homelessness response system into the 21st century. Sanders has worked, primarily, in the youth homelessness field. Sanders has lead multiple counties in Washington to functionally reduce their active youth homeless population. A expert in positive youth development strategy, Sanders has worked with youth and young adults to impact governmental and local change through empowering young adults to advocate for change while demanding providers listen. Sanders has also co-authored two published articles, one being academic poems, focusing on the experiences of rural trans/ gender non-conforming youth.  Email: [email protected]

Hannah Scheuer received her MSW from Portland State University in 2018. Her research interests include preventive behavioral intervention research targeting risky behavior in youth and the development of scalable pragmatic intervention models to promote adolescent health in diverse populations. While pursuing her MSW, Hannah worked for the Translational Research for Adolescent Change Lab providing intervention sessions for youth engaging in heavy alcohol use. After completing her MSW, Hannah worked as the social worker in the Trauma Survivors Outcomes and Support research program. In this role she delivered evidenced based behavioral therapy and recruited/trained peer interventionists with the goal of reducing emergency department readmissions, PTSD and depression symptoms, and high risk behavior associated with recurrent injury in traumatic injury survivors.

Natalie Turner (she/her) is a white, cisgender Licensed Master of Social Work from Poughkeepsie, NY. She moved to Albany, NY in 2013 to pursue her education in Social Work. She received her BSW in 2017 and MSW in 2018 from the University at Albany, School of Social Welfare. Her research interests include health disparities and service use disparities among older adults. She has worked the last few years at a specialty outpatient neurology clinic for people diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or other dementias and their family members/caregivers, providing individual services and also developing and implementing health provider education and training. She has additional experience with program evaluation for a New York State veterans peer support program and serving as an adjunct professor at Maria College.  E-mail: [email protected]

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UW Health Services PhD students are required to write a dissertation that significantly advances the state of knowledge in their chosen field. As part of their dissertation, students also must submit articles to peer reviewed journals and get published.

We are delighted to share an archive of some publications in academic journals from students throughout the years.

Student Involved Publications

Below are select publications involving UW Health Services PhD stundets organized by year of the publication.

Coming soon!

Practical Assessment of Alcohol Use Disorder in Routine Primary Care: Performance of an Alcohol Symptom Checklist Hallgren KA, Matson TE, Oliver M, Witkiewitz K, Bobb JF, Lee AK, Caldeiro RM, Kivlahan D, Bradley KA. J Gen Intern Med (August 2021) PMID: 34398395

Worksite tobacco control – a qualitative study on perspectives from employers and employees at small worksites Kava CM, Ruiz RA, Harris JR, Hannon PA. BMC Public Health (May 2022) PMID: 35524298

Comparison of Medical Cannabis Use Reported on a Confidential Survey vs Documented in the Electronic Health Record Among Primary Care Patients Lapham GT, Matson TE, Carrell DS, Bobb JF, Luce C, Oliver MM, Ghitza UE, Hsu C, Browne KC, Binswanger IA, Campbell CI, Saxon AJ, Vandrey R, Schauer GL, Pacula RL, Horberg MA, Bailey SR, McClure EA, Bradley KA. JAMA Netw Open (May 2022) PMID: 35604691

Suicide Risk Screening in Pediatric Outpatient Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Clinics Rybczynski S, Ryan TC, Wilcox HC, Van Eck K, Cwik M, Vasa RA, Findling RL, Slifer K, Kleiner D, Lipkin PH. J Dev Behav Pediatr (May 2022) PMID: 34657090

Optimizing PrEP Continuance: A Secondary Analysis Examining Perceived Autonomy Support and Care Coordination Quality among Black MSM in HPTN 073 Ramos SR, Beauchamp G, Wheeler DP, Wilton L, Whitfield DL, Boyd DT, Hightow-Weidman L, Fields SD, Nelson LE, On Behalf Of The Hptn Team. Int J Environ Res Public Health (April 2022) PMID: 35457367

Beyond #StopAAPIHate: Expanding the Definition of Violence Against Asian Americans Fan CA. Am J Public Health (April 2022) PMID: 35319942

High-Deductible Health Plans Paired With Health Savings Accounts Increased Medication Cost Burden Among Individuals With Bipolar Disorder Lu CY, Zhang F, Wallace J, LeCates RF, Busch AB, Madden J, Callahan M, Foxworth P, Soumerai SB, Ross-Degnan D, Wharam JF. J Clin Psychiatry (March 2022) PMID: 35275453

Lived experiences of people with or at risk for aortic dissection: A qualitative assessment Lee JR, Segal C, Howitt J, Case M, Cotter N, Soderlund T, Trotter D, Lawrence SO, Shalhub S; Aortic Dissection Collaborative. Semin Vasc Surg (March 2022) PMID: 35501045

A mixed method approach to understanding the impact of COVID-19 on patients with or at risk for aortic dissection Lee JR, Segal C, Howitt J, Lawrence SO, Grima J, Eagle K, Woo K, Byers P, Klein-Rogers E, Milewicz D, Mussa F, Soderlund T, Cotter N, Case M, Trotter D, Shalhub S; Aortic Dissection Collaborative. Semin Vasc Surg (March 2022) PMID: 35501037

Practical assessment of DSM-5 alcohol use disorder criteria in routine care: High test-retest reliability of an Alcohol Symptom Checklist Hallgren KA, Matson TE, Oliver M, Caldeiro RM, Kivlahan DR, Bradley KA. Alcohol Clin Exp Res (March 2022) PMID: 35275415

Design of digital walking programs that engage prostate cancer survivors: Needs and preferences from focus groups Sangameswaran S, Segal C, Rosenberg DE, Casanova-Perez R, Cronkite D, Gore JL, Hartzler AL. AMIA Annu Symp Proc (Feb 2022) PMID: 35309011

Financial Instability and Delays in Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Care Due to COVID-19 Kavanaugh ML, Pleasure ZH, Pliskin E, Zolna M, MacFarlane K. J Womens Health (April 2022) PMID: 35180352

A Brief Text-Messaging Intervention for Suicidal Youths After Emergency Department Discharge Ryan TC, Chambers S, Gravey M, Jay SY, Wilcox HC, Cwik M. Psychiatr Serv (Feburary 2022) PMID: 35172597

Ineligibility for and Refusal to Participate in Randomized Controlled Trials That Have Studied Impact on Suicide-Related Outcomes in the United States: A Meta-Analysis Susukida R, Amin-Esmaeili M, Ryan TC, Kharrazi H, Wilson RF, Musci RJ, Zhang A, Wissow L, Robinson KA, Wilcox HC. J Clin Psychiatry (February 2022) PMID: 35172049

Influence of stigma, sociodemographic and clinical characteristics on mental health-related service use and associated costs among young people in the United Kingdom. Ribeiro WS, Romeo R, King D, Owens S, Gronholm PC, Fisher HL, Laurens KR, Evans-Lacko S. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry (January 2022) PMID: 35088184

Implementation of Client-Centered Care Coordination for HIV Prevention with Black Men Who Have Sex with Men: Activities, Personnel Costs, and Outcomes-HPTN 073 Whitfield DL, Nelson LE, Komárek A, Turner D, Ni Z, Boyd DT, Taggart T, Ramos SR, Wilton L, Beauchamp GG, Hightow-Weidman L, Shoptaw SJ, Magnus M, Mayer KH, Fields SD, Wheeler DP; H. I. V. Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) 073 Study Team. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities (January 2022) PMID: 3499755

Program Adaptations to Provide Harm Reduction Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study of Syringe Services Programs in the U.S. Frost MC, Sweek EW, Austin EJ, Corcorran MA, Juarez AM, Frank ND, Prohaska SM, LaKosky PA, Asher AK, Broz D, Jarlais DCD, Williams EC, Glick SN. AIDS Behav (January 2022) PMID: 34110506

Barriers and facilitators to changing drinking and receiving alcohol-related care: Interviews with Veterans Health Administration primary care patients who indicated interest but did not enroll in an alcohol care management intervention trial Frost MC, Matson TE, Richards JE, Lee AK, Achtmeyer CE, Bradley KA, Williams EC. Subst Abus (2022) PMID: 35657656

Clinical documentation of patient-reported medical cannabis use in primary care: Toward scalable extraction using natural language processing methods Carrell DS, Cronkite DJ, Shea M, Oliver M, Luce C, Matson TE, Bobb JF, Hsu C, Binswanger IA, Browne KC, Saxon AJ, McCormack J, Jelstrom E, Ghitza UE, Campbell CI, Bradley KA, Lapham GT. Subst Abus (2022) PMID: 35254218

Receipt of evidence-based alcohol-related care in a national sample of transgender patients with unhealthy alcohol use: Overall and relative to non-transgender patients Williams EC, Chen JA, Frost MC, Rubinsky AD, Edmonds AT, Glass JE, Lehavot K, Matson TE, Wheat CL, Coggeshall S, Blosnich JR. J Subst Abuse Treat (December 2021) PMID: 34274175

Emergency Medical Service Utilization and Response Following COVID-19 Emergency and Stay-at-Home Policies: An Interrupted Time-Series Analysis. O’Connor AW, Hannah HA, Burnor EA, Fukutaki KG, Peterson T, Ballard DW, Ereman RR, Willis MD, Augusto OJ, Wagenaar BH. Cureus (November 2021) PMID: 34956784

Provider Perspectives on Implementing Shared Decision Making for PTSD Treatment in VA Primary Care Chen JA, Matson TE, Lehavot K, Raue PJ, Young JP, Silvestrini MC, Fortney JC, Williams EC. Adm Policy Ment Health (Novemver 2021) PMID: 33625623

Primary language and the electronic health record patient portal: Barriers to use among Spanish-speaking adults with asthma. Localio AM, Klusaritz H, Morales KH, Ruggieri DG, Han X, Apter AJ. J Asthma (October 2021) PMID: 34634975

Response to “Why Gastric Bypass Might Not be a Good Choice for Type-2 Diabetes Treatment” Lewis KH, Arterburn DE, Zhang F, Callaway K, Wallace J, Fernandez A, Ross-Degnan D, Wharam JF. Ann Surg (October 2021) PMID: 35129516

The impact of methamphetamine/amphetamine use on receipt and outcomes of medications for opioid use disorder: a systematic review Frost MC, Lampert H, Tsui JI, Iles-Shih MD, Williams EC. Addict Sci Clin Pract (October 2021) PMID: 34635170

Sexual Risk Profiles Among Black Sexual Minority Men: Implications for Targeted PrEP Messaging Dangerfield DT 2nd, Kuo I, Magnus M, Beauchamp G, Fields SD, Nelson L, Shoptaw S, Wilton L, Wheeler DP. Arch Sex Behav (October 2021) PMID: 34590218

Diabetes Microvascular Disease Diagnosis and Treatment After High-Deductible Health Plan Enrollment Wharam JF, Wallace J, Argetsinger S, Zhang F, Lu CY, Stryjewski TP, Ross-Degnan D, Newhouse JP. Diabetes Care (September 2021) PMID: 34588211

Trends in high deductible health plan enrolment and spending among commercially insured members with and without chronic conditions: a Natural Experiment for Translation in Diabetes (NEXT-D2) Study Garabedian LF, Zhang F, LeCates R, Wallace J, Ross-Degnan D, Wharam JF. BMJ Open (Septemember 2021) PMID: 34518242

Feasibility and acceptability of monitoring personal air pollution exposure with sensors for asthma self-management Xie S, Meeker JR, Perez L, Eriksen W, Localio A, Park H, Jen A, Goldstein M, Temeng AF, Morales SM, Christie C, Greenblatt RE, Barg FK, Apter AJ, Himes BE. Asthma Res Pract (September 2021) PMID: 34482835

Self-reported Practices of Frontline Cannabis Dispensary Workers and the Implications for Clinicians Matson TE, Bradley KA, Lapham GT. JAMA Netw Open (September 2021) PMID: 34524442

Feeding Children and Maintaining Food Service Operations during COVID-19: A Mixed Methods Investigation of Implementation and Financial Challenges Kenney EL, Dunn CG, Mozaffarian RS, Dai J, Wilson K, West J, Shen Y, Fleischhacker S, Bleich SN. Nutrients (August 2021) PMID: 34444851

The role of nonstandard and precarious jobs in the well-being of disabled workers during workforce reintegration Edmonds AT, Sears JM, O’Connor A, Peckham T. Am J Ind Med (August 2021) PMID: 34003515

Communication Training, Adverse Events, and Quality Measures: 2 Retrospective Database Analyses in Washington State Hospitals Slade IR, Beck SJ, Kramer CB, Symons RG, Cusumano M, Flum DR, Gallagher TH, Devine EB. J Patient Saf (August 2021) PMID: 28671907

Controller Medication Use and Exacerbations for Children and Adults With Asthma in High-Deductible Health Plans Galbraith AA, Ross-Degnan D, Zhang F, Wu AC, Sinaiko A, Peltz A, Xu X, Wallace J, Wharam JF. JAMA Pediatr (August 2021) PMID: 33970186

Facilitating communication for critically ill patients and their family members: Study protocol for two randomized trials implemented in the U.S. and France Curtis JR, Kentish-Barnes N, Brumback LC, Nielsen EL, Pollak KI, Treece PD, Hudson L, Garzio G, Im J, Weiner BJ, Khandelwal N, Resche-Rigon M, Azoulay E, Engelberg RA. Contemp Clin Trials (August 2021) PMID: 34091062

Impact of High-Deductible Health Plans on Medication Use Among Individuals With Bipolar Disorder Lu CY, Busch AB, Zhang F, Madden JM, Callahan MX, LeCates RF, Wallace J, Foxworth P, Soumerai SB, Ross-Degnan D, Wharam JF. Psychiatr Serv (August 2021) PMID: 33971720

“What Will Happen If I Say Yes?” Perspectives on a Standardized Firearm Access Question Among Adults With Depressive Symptoms Richards JE, Hohl SD, Segal CD, Grossman DC, Lee AK, Whiteside U, Luce C, Ludman EJ, Simon G, Penfold RB, Williams EC. Psychiatr Serv (August 2021) PMID: 33940947

Disparities in Documented Drug Use Disorders Between Transgender and Cisgender U.S. Veterans Health Administration Patients Frost MC, Blosnich JR, Lehavot K, Chen JA, Rubinsky AD, Glass JE, Williams EC. J Addict Med (July-August 2021) PMID: 33252409

Comparability of estimates and trends in adolescent sexual and contraceptive behaviors from two national surveys: National Survey of Family Growth and the Youth Risk Behavior Survey Lindberg LD, Scott RH, Desai S, Pleasure ZH. PLoS One (July 2021) PMID: 34329323

Approaches for Implementing App-Based Digital Treatments for Drug Use Disorders Into Primary Care: A Qualitative, User-Centered Design Study of Patient Perspectives Glass JE, Matson TE, Lim C, Hartzler AL, Kimbel K, Lee AK, Beatty T, Parrish R, Caldeiro RM, Garza McWethy A, Curran GM, Bradley KA. J Med Internet Res (July 2021) PMID: 34255666

Association of Controller Use and Exacerbations for High-Deductible Plan Enrollees with and without Family Members with Asthma Galbraith AA, Ross-Degnan D, Zhang F, Wu AC, Sinaiko A, LeCates RF, Wallace J, Peltz A, Wharam JF. Ann Am Thorac Soc (July 2021) PMID: 33529568

Development of an Asthma Home-Visit Training Program for Community Health Workers and Their Supervisors in Washington State Elkugia N, Crocker ME, Stout JW, Bolt K, Weiner BJ, Kramer CB. Front Public Health (June 2021) PMID: 34249841

Acute Care Utilization and Costs Up to 4 Years After Index Sleeve Gastrectomy or Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass: A National Claims-Based Study Callaway K, Argetsinger S, Wharam JF, Zhang F, Arterburn DE, Fernandez A, Ross-Degnan D, Wallace J, Lewis KH. Ann Surg (June 2021) PMID: 34102668

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Comparative Effectiveness of Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy Versus Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass for Diabetes Treatment: A Claims-based Cohort Study Lewis KH, Arterburn DE, Zhang F, Callaway K, Wallace J, Fernandez A, Ross-Degnan D, Wharam JF. Ann Surg (May 2021) PMID: 31205064

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Lowering the Age Limit in Suicide Risk Screening: Clinical Differences and Screening Form Predictive Ability Cwik M, Jay S, Ryan TC, DeVylder J, Edwards S, Wilson ME, Virden J, Goldstein M, Wilcox HC. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry (May 2021) PMID: 33667604

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Associations Among Military Sexual Trauma, Opioid Use Disorder, and Gender Beckman KL, Williams EC, Hebert PL, Frost MC, Rubinsky AD, Hawkins EJ, Littman AJ, Lehavot K. Am J Prev Med (March 2022) PMID: 34742619

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Alcohol Use and Antiretroviral Adherence Among Patients Living with HIV: Is Change in Alcohol Use Associated with Change in Adherence? Williams EC, McGinnis KA, Rubinsky AD, Matson TE, Bobb JF, Lapham GT, Edelman EJ, Satre DD, Catz SL, Richards JE, Bryant KJ, Marshall BDL, Kraemer KL, Crystal S, Gordon AJ, Skanderson M, Fiellin DA, Justice AC, Bradley KA. AIDS Behav (January 2021) PMID: 32617778

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Brief Report: Associations Between Self-Reported Substance Use Behaviors and PrEP Acceptance and Adherence Among Black MSM in the HPTN 073 Study Okafor CN, Hucks-Ortiz C, Hightow-Weidman LB, Magnus M, Emel L, Beauchamp G, Kuo I, Hendrix C, Mayer KH, Shoptaw SJ. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (September 2020) PMID: 32452970

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Reducing Sitting Time in Obese Older Adults: The I-STAND Randomized Controlled Trial Rosenberg DE, Anderson ML, Renz A, Matson TE, Lee AK, Greenwood-Hickman MA, Arterburn DE, Gardiner PA, Kerr J, McClure JB. J Aging Phys Act (June 2020) PMID: 32498040

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Priority Populations Toolkits: Enhancing researcher readiness to work with priority populations Rak K, Matthews AK, Peña G, Choure W, Ruiz RA, Morales S, Castillo A, Soo J, Anderson EE. J Clin Transl Sci (December 2019) PMID: 32257408

A field study to estimate inhalation rates for use in a particle inhalation rate exposure metric Corlin L, Woodin M, Amaravadi H, Henderson N, Brugge D, Durant JL, Gute DM. Sci Total Environ (December 2019) PMID: 32156413

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Effect of a Care Management Intervention on 12-Month Drinking Outcomes Among Patients With and Without DSM-IV Alcohol Dependence at Baseline Williams EC, Bobb JF, Lee AK, Ludman EJ, Richards JE, Hawkins EJ, Merrill JO, Saxon AJ, Lapham GT, Matson TE, Chavez LJ, Caldeiro R, Greenberg DM, Kivlahan DR, Bradley KA. J Gen Intern Med (December 2019) PMID: 31432438

Risk of Operative and Nonoperative Interventions Up to 4 Years After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass vs Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy in a Nationwide US Commercial Insurance Claims Database Lewis KH, Arterburn DE, Callaway K, Zhang F, Argetsinger S, Wallace J, Fernandez A, Ross-Degnan D, Wharam JF. JAMA Netw Open (December 2019) PMID: 31851344

Access, Quality, And Financial Performance Of Rural Hospitals Following Health System Affiliation O’Hanlon CE, Kranz AM, DeYoreo M, Mahmud A, Damberg CL, Timbie J. Health Affairs (December 2019) PMID: 31794306

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Ambrosio L. Enhancing Access to Quality Online Training to Strengthen Public Health Preparedness and Response Wood SJ, Rogers MH, Frost MC, Revere D, Rose BA, D J Public Health Manag Pract (2019 November-December) PMID: 31589183

Evaluation of a Randomized Clinical Trial Comparing the Effectiveness of a Culturally Targeted and Nontargeted Smoking Cessation Intervention for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Smokers Matthews AK, Steffen AD, Kuhns LM, Ruiz RA, Ross NA, Burke LA, Li CC, King AC. Nicotine Tob Res (October 2019) PMID: 30169797

Incidence and Correlates of Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Black Men Who Have Sex With Men Participating in the HIV Prevention Trials Network 073 Preexposure Prophylaxis Study Hightow-Weidman LB, Magnus M, Beauchamp G, Hurt CB, Shoptaw S, Emel L, Piwowar-Manning E, Mayer KH, Nelson LE, Wilton L, Watkins P, Whitfield D, Fields SD, Wheeler D. Clin Infect Dis (October 2019) PMID: 30615169

Assessment of Selective and Universal Screening for Suicide Risk in a Pediatric Emergency Department DeVylder JE, Ryan TC, Cwik M, Wilson ME, Jay S, Nestadt PS, Goldstein M, Wilcox HC. JAMA Netw Open (October 2019) PMID: 31651971

Changes in Self-Reported Health and Psychosocial Outcomes in Older Adults Enrolled in Sedentary Behavior Intervention Study Matson TE, Anderson ML, Renz AD, Greenwood-Hickman MA, McClure JB, Rosenberg DE. Am J Health Promot (September 2019) PMID: 30957508

Federally Qualified Health Center Strategies for Integrating Care with Hospitals and Their Association with Measures of Communication Timbie JW, Kranz AM, Mahmud A, Setodji CM, Damberg CL. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf (September 2019) PMID: 31422904

HIV Disease Severity Is Sensitive to Temporal Changes in Alcohol Use: A National Study of VA Patients With HIV Williams EC, McGinnis KA, Tate JP, Matson TE, Rubinsky AD, Bobb JF, Lapham GT, Edelman EJ, Catz SL, Satre DD, Bryant KJ, Marshall BDL, Kraemer KL, Bensley KM, Richards JE, Skanderson M, Justice AC, Fiellin DA, Bradley KA. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (August 2019) PMID: 30973541

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