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First-authored paper in Academic Medicine by Mario Davidson

Congratulations to associate professor and associate vice chair of equity, diversity, and inclusion Mario Davidson on the publication of Evaluating the Role of Competency-Based Behavioral Interviewing in Holistic Medical School Admissions, published online ahead of print today in Academic Medicine, the journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. Dr. Davidson and his colleagues investigated the role of behavioral interviews in admission decisions and whether they help "reduce bias related to over-reliance on standardized metrics." 

Publications by faculty and staff, January - February 2024

The following citations from January and February 2024 were compiled via VUMC's CTSA-funded FlightTracker app (bold denotes department members; asterisks denote students, postdocs, or other trainees), totaling more than 70 peer-reviewed publications, plus a few preprints.

In addition to those in the below roundup, there were several papers authored by personnel now affiliated with other departments or institutions, and a few more eluded the pull because of timestamp weirdness.

Congratulations to all the researchers whose work is now being shared with the wider world! 

 

Ridolfi F, Amorim G, Peetluk LS, Haas DW, Staats C, Araujo-Pereira M, Cordeiro-Santos M, Kritski AL, Figueiredo MC, Andrade BB, Rolla VC, Sterling TR, Regional Prospective Observational Research in Tuberculosis (RePORT)-Brazil consortium. Prediction models for adverse drug reactions during tuberculosis treatment in Brazil. J Infect Dis. 2024-01-23. doi:10.1093/infdis/jiae025 PubMed PMID: 38262629

Curkovic NB, Bai K, Ye F, Johnson DB. Incidence of Cutaneous Immune-Related Adverse Events and Outcomes in Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-Containing Regimens: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Cancers (Basel). 2024-01-13; 16(2). PubMed PMID: 38254829 

Beckermann KE, Bestvina CM, El Osta B, Sanborn RE, Borghaei H, Lammers PE, Selvaggi G, Whisenant JG, Heimann-Nichols E, Berry L, Hsu CYShyr Y, Horn L, Wakelee H. A Phase 1/2 Study to Evaluate the Safety and Activity of Nivolumab in Combination With Vorolanib, a Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor, in Patients With Refractory Thoracic Tumors. JTO Clin Res Rep. 2024-01-31; 5(2):100619. doi:10.1016/j.jtocrr.2023.100619 PubMed PMID: 38328473 PMC10847019

Stollings JL, Boncyk CS, Birdrow CI, Chen W, Raman R, Gupta DK, Roden DM, Rivera EL, Maiga AW, Rakhit S, Pandharipande PP, Ely EW, Girard TD, Patel MB. Antipsychotics and the QTc Interval During Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2024-01-02; 7(1):e2352034. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.52034 PubMed PMID: 38252439 

Harhay MO, Blette BS, Kawut SM. Risk scores as a surrogate in pulmonary arterial hypertension: a different lens - Authors' reply. Lancet Respir Med. 2024-02-29; 12(3):e11. doi:10.1016/S2213-2600(24)00002-X PubMed PMID: 38423703 

Spelke M Bridget, Okumu E, Perry NR, Blette BS, Paul R, Schiller CE, Ncheka JM, Kasaro MP, Price JT, Meltzer-Brody S, Stringer JSA, Stringer EM. Acceptability of a Randomized Trial of Anti-depressant Medication or Interpersonal Therapy for Treatment of Perinatal Depression in Women with HIV. AIDS Behav. 2024-02-13. doi:10.1007/s10461-023-04264-0 PubMed PMID: 38353877 

Byrne DWDomenico HJ, Moore RP. Artificial Intelligence for Improved Patient Outcomes-The Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial is the Secret Sauce. Korean J Radiol. 2024-01-10. doi:10.3348/kjr.2023.1016 PubMed PMID: 38238014 

Ratwani AP, Lentz RJ, Chen H, Schwartz E, Roller L, Shojaee S, Shepherd W, Noor Ul Husnain SM, Senitko M, Guo Y, Cumbo-Nacheli G, Raziq FI, Sachdeva A, Holden V, Gharaibeh K, Benn BS, Ferguson JS, Rickman OB, Yarmus L, Maldonado F; Interventional Pulmonary Outcomes Group (IPOG). Spray Cryotherapy for Benign Large Airway Stenosis: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study of Safety and Practice Patterns. J Bronchology Interv Pulmonol. 2024 Jan 1;31(1):63-69. doi:10.1097/LBR.0000000000000930  PubMed PMID: 37246305

Richard K, Sanchez R, Amado B, Lubner R, Niconchuk J, Chen H, Phillips J, Kynes M, Belcher RH. Pediatric Otolaryngology Short-Term Mission Outcomes at a Surgical Mission Hospital in Guatemala. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2024 Jan;170(1):252-259. doi: 10.1002/ohn.432. Epub 2023 Jul 19. doi:10.1002/ohn.432 PubMed PMID: 37466003 

Paez R, Lentz RJ, Salmon C, Siemann JK, Low SW, Casey JD, Chen HChen SC, Avasarala S, Shojaee S, Rickman OB, Lindsell CJ, Gatto CL, Rice TW, Maldonado F, Vanderbilt Learning Healthcare System Platform Investigators. Robotic versus Electromagnetic bronchoscopy for pulmonary LesIon AssessmeNT: the RELIANT pragmatic randomized trial. Trials. 2024-01-19; 25(1):66. doi:10.1186/s13063-023-07863-3PubMed PMID: 38243291 PMC10797863

Chen HC, Wang J, Shyr Y, Liu Q. FindAdapt: A python package for fast and accurate adapter detection in small RNA sequencing. PLoS Comput Biol. 2024-01-22; 20(1):e1011786. PubMed PMID: 38252662 

Kupcha AC, Simmons BA, Law JJ, Liu Y, Chen Q, Shriver EM, Brown EN, Mawn LA. Association of Age-adjusted Charlson Comorbidity Index with Orbital Fungal Disease Outcomes. Ophthalmic Plast Reconstr Surg. 2024-01-16; 38(1):53-58. doi:10.1097/IOP.0000000000001987 PubMed PMID: 34085995

Law JJ, Baker LX, Chen Q, Mawn LA, Barahimi B, Kupcha AC, Alford MA, Sobel RK. Porcine Urinary Bladder Extracellular Matrix for Treatment of Periocular Skin Defects. Ophthalmic Plast Reconstr Surg. 2024-01-16; 37(3S):S6-S10. doi:10.1097/IOP.0000000000001738 PubMed PMID: 32618823

Bullock KK, Shattuck-Brandt R, Scalise C, Luo W, Chen SC, Saleh N, Gonzalez-Ericsson PI, Garcia G, Sanders ME, Ayers GD, Yan C, Richmond A. Endogenous pAKT activity is associated with response to AKT inhibition alone and in combination with immune checkpoint inhibition in murine models of TNBC. Cancer Lett. 2024-02-01:216681. doi:10.1016/j.canlet.2024.216681 PubMed PMID: 38311054 

McCaffrey RL, Cassling K, Davidson M, Kauffmann R, Shelton J, Bailey CE, Terhune K. Comparing Faculty and Trainee Evaluators of First-Year Resident Skills. J Surg Educ. 2024-01-02. doi:10.1016/j.jsurg.2023.10.015PubMed PMID: 38172040 

Barnes JP, Dial H, Owens W, DeClercq J, Choi L, Shah NB, Zuckerman AD, Johnson K. Adherence and discontinuation of prescription cannabidiol for the management of seizure disorders at an integrated care center. Epilepsy Res. 2024-01-12; 200:107300. doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2024.107300PubMed PMID: 38241756 

Di Gravio C*, Schildcrout JSTao R. Efficient designs and analysis of two-phase studies with longitudinal binary data. Biometrics. 2024-01-28; 80(1). doi:10.1093/biomtc/ujad010PubMed PMID: 38364804 PMC10871867

Schaechter JD, Jacobs JW, Booth GS, Dupont WD, Silver JK. Gender Representation on Editorial Boards of JAMA Network Journals. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2024-02-07. doi:10.1089/jwh.2023.0685  PubMed PMID: 38330429

Boncyk C, Rengel K, Stollings J, Marshall M, Feng XShotwell M, Pandharipande PP, Hughes CG. Recurrent delirium episodes within the intensive care unit: Incidence and associated factors. J Crit Care. 2024-01-31; 79:154490. doi:10.1016/j.jcrc.2023.154490 PubMed PMID: 38000230 PMC10842115.

Crockett CJ, Dalal PG, Tjia I, Allen M, Edelstein E, Feng X, French B, Brustowicz RM. A loud call for silence: anaesthesiologists' perceptions of noise in the operating room. Br J Anaesth. 2024 Feb;132(2):444-44. Epub 2023 December 15. doi:10.1016/j.bja.2023.11.035 PubMed PMID: 38101964

Connell J, McCann B, Feng XShotwell MS, Hughes CG, Boncyk CS. The Association of Nonmodifiable Patient Factors on Antipsychotic Medication use in the Intensive Care Unit. J Intensive Care Med. 2024-01-31; 39(2):176-182. doi:10.1177/08850666231198030 PubMed PMID: 37644873  PMC10771026

McIlroy DR, Feng X, Shotwell M, Wallace S, Bellomo R, Garg AX, Leslie K, Peyton P, Story D, Myles PS. Candidate kidney protective strategies for patients undergoing major abdominal surgery: a secondary analysis of the RELIEF trial cohort. Anesthesiology. 2024-02-20. doi:10.1097/ALN.0000000000004957 PubMed PMID: 38381960 

Raphael J, Chae A, Feng X, Shotwell MS, Mazzeffi MA, Bollen BA, Pfeil D, Feduska E, Shah AS, Kertai MD. Red Blood Cell Transfusion and Pulmonary Complications: STS Adult Cardiac Surgery Database Analysis. Ann Thorac Surg. 2024-01-10. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2023.12.012 PubMed PMID: 38216079 

Brintz CE, Polser G, Coronado RA, French B, Faurot KR, Gaylord SA. Are Formal and Informal Home Mindfulness Practice Quantities Associated With Outcomes? Results From a Pilot Study of a Four-Week Mindfulness Intervention for Chronic Pain Management. Glob Adv Integr Med Health. 2024 Feb 29; 13:27536130241236775. doi:10.1177/27536130241236775 PubMed PMID: 38434590 PMC10906052

McIlroy DR, Wettig P, Burton J, Neylan A, French B, Lin E, Hastings S, Waldron BJF, Buckland MR, Myles PS. Poor Agreement Between Preoperative Transthoracic Echocardiography and Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiography for Grading Diastolic Dysfunction. Anesth Analg. 2024-01-01; 138(1):123-133. doi:10.1213/ANE.0000000000006734 PubMed PMID: 38100804 

Milder CM, Howard SC, Ellis ED, Golden AP, Cohen SS, Mumma MT, Leggett RW, French B, Zablotska LB, Boice JD. Third mortality follow-up of the Mallinckrodt uranium processing workers, 1942-2019. Int J Radiat Biol. 2024;100(2):161-175. doi:10.1080/09553002.2023.2267640. Epub 2024 Jan 29. PubMed PMID: 37819879

Maiga AW, Cook M, Nordness MF, Gao Y, Rakhit S, Rivera EL, Harrell FE, Sharp KW, Patel MB. Surrogate Perceptions of Disability after Hospitalization for Traumatic Brain Injury. J Am Coll Surg. 2024-01-12. doi:10.1097/XCS.0000000000000960 PubMed PMID: 38214447 

Rosas-Salazar C, Gebretsadik TDupont WD, Hartert TV. The INSPIRE study: RSV infection during infancy - Authors' reply. Lancet. 2024-02-23; 403(10428):729-730. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(23)02285-7 PubMed PMID: 38401964

Snyder BM, Achten NB, Gebretsadik T, Wu P, Mitchel EF, Escobar G, Bont LJ, Hartert TV. Personalized Infant Risk Prediction for Severe Respiratory Syncytial Virus Lower Respiratory Tract Infection Requiring Intensive Care Unit Admission. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2024-02-29; 11(3):ofae077. doi:10.1093/ofid/ofae077 PubMed PMID: 38481426 Citation in REDCapPMC10932939.

Carroll AR, Johnson JA, Stassun JC, Greevy RA, Mixon AS, Williams DJ. Health Literacy-Informed Communication to Reduce Discharge Medication Errors in Hospitalized Children: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2024-01-02; 7(1):e2350969. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.50969 PubMed PMID: 38227315

Duncan MS, Diaz-Zabala H, Jaworski J, Tindle HA, Greevy RA, Lipworth L, Hung RJ, Freiberg MS, Aldrich MC. INTERACTION BETWEEN CONTINUOUS PACK-YEARS SMOKED AND POLYGENIC RISK SCORE ON LUNG CANCER RISK: PROSPECTIVE RESULTS FROM THE FRAMINGHAM HEART STUDY. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2024-01-16. doi:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-23-0571 PubMed PMID: 38227004 

Shah SC, Camargo MC, Lamm M, Bustamante R, Roumie CL, Wilson O, Halvorson AE, Greevy R, Liu L, Gupta S, Demb J. Impact of Helicobacter pylori Infection and Treatment on Colorectal Cancer in a Large, Nationwide Cohort. J Clin Oncol. 2024-02-29:JCO2300703. doi:10.1200/JCO.23.00703 PubMed PMID: 38427927 

Roumie CL, Greevy RA, Griffin MR. Insulin vs sulfonylureas for second-line diabetes treatment. JAMA. 2024-01-16; 312(16):1694. doi:10.1001/jama.2014.11126 PubMed PMID: 25335156 PMC10294114

Roumie CL, Greevy RA, Griffin MR. Insulin vs sulfonylureas for second-line diabetes treatment--reply. JAMA. 2024-01-16; 312(16):1693-4. doi:10.1001/jama.2014.11120 PubMed PMID: 25335155 

Collins GS, Dhiman P, Ma J, Schlussel MM, Archer L, Van Calster B, Harrell FE, Martin GP, Moons KGM, van Smeden M, Sperrin M, Bullock GS, Riley RD. Evaluation of clinical prediction models (part 1): from development to external validation. BMJ. 2024-01-07; 384:e074819. doi:10.1136/bmj-2023-074819.  PubMed PMID: 38191193 PMC10772854.

Foley MJ, Rajkumar CA, Ahmed-Jushuf F, Simader F, Pathimagaraj RH, Nijjer S, Sen S, Petraco R, Clesham G, Johnson T, Harrell FE, Kellman P, Francis D, Shun-Shin M, Howard J, Cole GD, Al-Lamee R. A double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial of the coronary sinus Reducer in refractory angina: design and rationale of the ORBITA-COSMIC trial. EuroIntervention. 2024-02-04; 20(3):e216-e223. doi:10.4244/EIJ-D-23-00567 PubMed PMID: 38214677 PMC10836388.

Monahan K, Gould E, Rice T, Wright P, Vasilevskis E, Harrell F, Drago M, Mitchell S. Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Medical Grand Rounds Attendance: Comparison of In-Person and Remote Conferences. JMIR Med Educ. 2024-01-03; 10:e43705. doi:10.2196/43705 PubMed PMID: 38029287 

Marcovitz D, Dear ML, Donald R, Edwards DA, Kast KA, Le TDV, Shah MV, Ferrell J, Gatto C, Hennessy C, Buie R, Rice TW, Sullivan W, White KD, Van Winkle G, Wolf R, Lindsell CJ, Vanderbilt Learning Healthcare System Platform Investigators. Effect of a Co-Located Bridging Recovery Initiative on Hospital Length of Stay Among Patients With Opioid Use Disorder: The BRIDGE Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2024-02-04; 7(2):e2356430. PubMed PMID: 38411964 

Hsu CY, Chang CJ*, Liu Q, Shyr Y. scKWARN: Kernel-weighted-average robust normalization for single-cell RNA-seq data. Bioinformatics. 2024-01-17. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btae008 PubMed PMID: 38237908 

Al Hussein Al Awamlh B, Wallis CJD, Penson DF, Huang LCZhao Z, Conwill R, Talwar R, Morgans AK, Goodman M, Hamilton AS, Wu XC, Paddock LE, Stroup A, O'Neil BB, Koyama T, Hoffman KE, Barocas DA. Functional Outcomes After Localized Prostate Cancer Treatment. JAMA. 2024-01-23; 331(4):302-317. PubMed PMID: 38261043 

Alzatari R, Huang LC, Poulose BK. The impact of opioid versus non-opioid analgesics on postoperative pain level, quality of life, and outcomes in ventral hernia repair. Hernia. 2024-01-30. doi:10.1007/s10029-024-02968-3 PubMed PMID: 38296871 

Haskins IN, Huang LC, Phillips S, Poulose B, Perez AJ. Does a "hernia center" label provide better 30-day outcomes following elective ventral hernia repair?: An analysis of the ACHQC database. Am J Surg. 2024-01-31; 228:230-236. doi:10.1016/j.amjsurg.2023.10.025 PubMed PMID: 37951836

Lima DL, Nogueira R, Dominguez Profeta R, Huang LC, Cavazzola LT, Malcher F, Sreeramoju P. Current trends and outcomes for unilateral groin hernia repairs in the United States using the Abdominal Core Health Quality Collaborative database: A multicenter propensity score matching analysis of 30-day and 1-year outcomes. Surgery. 2024-01-12. doi:10.1016/j.surg.2023.11.033 PubMed PMID: 38218685 

Renshaw SM, Paredes AZ, Alzatari R, Huang LCPhillips S, Poulose BK, Collins CE. Determining the Association Between Insurance Type and Myofascial Release in Large Ventral Hernias. J Surg Res. 2024-02-29; 295:289-295. doi:10.1016/j.jss.2023.10.024 PubMed PMID: 38056355 

Stein EJ, Neill C, Nair S, Terry JG, Carr JJ, Fearon WF, Elmariah S, Kim JB, Kapadia S, Kumbhani DJ, Gillam L, Whisenant B, Quader N, Zajarias A, Welt FG, Bavry AA, Coylewright M, Piana R, Mallugari RR, Vatterott A, Jackson N, Huang S, Lindman BR. Associations of Sarcopenia and Body Composition Measures With Mortality After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement. Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2024-01-18; :e013298. doi:10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.123.013298 PubMed PMID: 38235547 

Marincola Smith P, Martinez A, Irlmeier R, Solorzano CC, Magge D, Ye F, Goldenring JR. Factors Impacting Academic Productivity and Satisfaction of Surgeon-scientists: A Nationwide Survey. Ann Surg. 2024-02-28. PubMed PMID: 38437474 

Mart MF, Semler MW, Jenkins CA, Wang G, Casey JD, Ely EW, Jackson JC, Kiehl AL, Bryant PT, Pugh SK, Wang L, DeMasi S, Rice TW, Bernard GR, Freundlich RE, Self WH, Han JH. Oxygen-Saturation Targets and Cognitive and Functional Outcomes in Mechanically Ventilated Adults. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2024-01-29. PubMed PMID: 38285550 

Andrews HW, Lin GT, Lindsey JL, Ji X, Chen Q, Chomsky AS. Resident operative time as an independent predictor of early post-operative cataract surgery outcomes and supervising attending surgeon impact: a retrospective case series. BMC Ophthalmol. 2024-01-10; 24(1):18. doi:10.1186/s12886-023-03278-5 PubMed PMID: 38200502 PMC10777645

Kang H. On operational definitions of mortality. Kidney Res Clin Pract. 2024-02-18. doi:10.23876/j.krcp.23.228 PubMed PMID: 38389149 

Bermudez C, Kerley CI, Ramadass K, Farber-Eger EH, Lin YC*, Kang H, Taylor WD, Wells QS, Landman BA. Volumetric brain MRI signatures of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction in the setting of dementia. Magn Reson Imaging. 2024-02-28. doi:10.1016/j.mri.2024.02.016 PubMed PMID: 38430976 

Nemani S, Chaker S, Ismail H, Yao J, Chang M, Kang H, Desai M, Weikert D, Bhandari PL, Drolet B, Sandvall B, Hill JB, Thayer W. Polyethylene Glycol-Mediated Axonal Fusion Promotes Early Sensory Recovery After Digital Nerve Injury: A Randomized Clinical Trial. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2024-02-06. doi:10.1097/PRS.0000000000011334PubMed PMID: 38335500 

Deng R, Cui C, Remedios LW, Bao S, Womick RM, Chiron S, Li J, Roland JT, Lau KS, Liu Q, Wilson KT, Wang Y, Coburn LA, Landman BA, Huo Y. Cross-scale multi-instance learning for pathological image diagnosis. Med Image Anal. 2024-02-26; 94:103124. doi:10.1016/j.media.2024.103124PubMed PMID: 38428271 

Kishtagari A, Khan MAW, Li Y, Vlasschaert C, Marneni N, Silver AJ, von Beck K, Spaulding T, Stockton S, Snider C, Sochacki A, Dorand D, Mack TM, Ferrell PB, Xu Y, Bejan CA, Savona MR, Bick AG. Driver mutation zygosity is a critical factor in predicting clonal hematopoiesis transformation risk. Blood Cancer J. 2024-01-15; 14(1):6. doi:10.1038/s41408-023-00974-9PubMed PMID: 38225345 PMC10789770.

Gogniat MA, Khan OA, Bown CW, Liu D, Pechman KR, Taylor Davis L, Gifford KA, Landman BA, Hohman TJ, Jefferson AL. Perivascular space burden interacts with APOE-?4 status on cognition in older adults. Neurobiol Aging. 2024-01-22; 136:1-8. doi:10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2024.01.002PubMed PMID: 38280312 

Torregrossa LJ, Liu J, Armstrong K, Heckers S, Sheffield JM. Interplay between childhood trauma, bodily self-disturbances, and clinical phenomena in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: A network analysis. Schizophr Res. 2024-02-21; 266:107-115. doi:10.1016/j.schres.2024.02.034PubMed PMID: 38394867 

Jin R, Forbes CM, Miller NL, Lafin J, Strand DW, Case T, Cates JM, Liu Q, Ramirez-Solano M, Mohler JL, Matusik RJ. Transcriptomic analysis of benign prostatic hyperplasia identifies critical pathways in prostatic overgrowth and 5-alpha reductase inhibitor resistance. Prostate. 2024-01-03. PubMed PMID: 38168866

Doyle PW, Workman CS, Grice JV, McGonigle TWHuang S, Borgmann AJ, Baker JC, Duncan DP, Taylor JE, Brown DB. Predictive Dosimetry and Outcomes of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treated by Y90 Resin Microsphere Radioembolization: A Retrospective Analysis Using 99mTC-MAA SPECT/CT and Planning Software. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2024-01-19. doi:10.1016/j.jvir.2023.11.026 PubMed PMID: 38246416 

McKernan LC, McGonigle TVandekar SN, Crofford LJ, Williams DA, Clauw DJ, Bruehl S, Corbett BA, Dmochowski RR, Walsh EG, Kelly AG, Sutherland SL, Connors EL, Ryden A, Reynolds WS. A randomized-controlled pilot trial of telemedicine-delivered cognitive-behavioral therapy tailored for interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome. Pain. 2024-02-26. doi:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003188 PubMed PMID: 38422486 

Smith JR, Baldwin I, Termini KA, McGonigle TVandekar S, Luccarelli J. Use of ECT for Children With and Without Catatonia: A Single-Site Retrospective Analysis. J ECT. 2024-01-25. doi:10.1097/YCT.0000000000000993 PubMed PMID: 38265759 

Davis CS, McNeer E, Patrick SW. Laws Forbidding Pregnancy Discrimination in Substance Use Disorder Treatment Are Not Associated With Treatment Access. J Addict Med. 2024-01-16; 16(3):364-367. doi:10.1097/ADM.0000000000000897 PubMed PMID: 34282081 PMC8761200

Corey KB, Moore R, Zuckerman AD, Littlejohn M, Cahill KN. Persistent use of dupilumab in adults with asthma or chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2024 Mar;132(3):390-391. doi: 10.1016/j.anai.2023.11.008. Epub 2023 Nov 20. PMID: 37981023; PMCID: PMC10922294.

Sartori LF, Nian H, Zhu Y, Johnson J, Stassun J, Ampofo K, Arnold DH, Antoon JW, Pavia AT, Grijalva CG, Williams DJ. Removal of Race and White Blood Cell Count in an Updated Pediatric Pneumonia Severity Model. Hosp Pediatr. 2024-02-08. doi:10.1542/hpeds.2023-007571 PubMed PMID: 38332721 

Warren JA, Lucas C, Beffa LR, Petro CC, Prabhu AS, Krpata DM, Rosen MJ, Orenstein SB, Nikolian VC, Pauli EM, Horne CM, LaBelle M, Phillips S, Poulose BK, Carbonell AM. Reducing the incidence of surgical site infection after ventral hernia repair: Outcomes from the RINSE randomized control trial. Am J Surg. 2024-01-04. doi:10.1016/j.amjsurg.2024.01.004 PubMed PMID: 38199871 

Moore G, Lutenbacher M, Waynick-Rogers P, Wilbeck J, Raman R, Schorn MN. Bridging Didactic Learning and the Complexity of Practice Through Clinical Immersion: Evaluating the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Trainee Experience. J Forensic Nurs. 2024-01-16; 18(1):46-53. doi:10.1097/JFN.0000000000000363 PubMed PMID: 35045044 

Morris MH, Barton M, Zane M, Hutson SP, Raman R, Heidel RE. A Nurse-Navigated, Postpartum Support Text Messaging Intervention: Satisfaction Among Primiparous Women. J Perinat Neonatal Nurs. 2024-01-16; 35(4):330-339. doi:10.1097/JPN.0000000000000596 PubMed PMID: 34726650 PMC8567297

Jones VT, Graves-Deal R, Cao Z, Bogatcheva G, Ramirez MA, Harmych SJ, Higginbotham JN, Sharma V, Damalanka VC, Wahoski CC, Joshi N, Irudayam MJ, Roland JT, Ayers GD, Liu Q, Coffey RJ, Janetka JW, Singh B. Inhibition of autocrine HGF maturation overcomes cetuximab resistance in colorectal cancer. Cell Mol Life Sci. 2024-01-12; 81(1):28. doi:10.1007/s00018-023-05071-5 PubMed PMID: 38212428 PMC10784391

Choi B, Liu GY, Sheng Q, Amancherla K, Perry A, Huang X, San Jose Estepar R, Ash SY, Guan W, Jacobs DR, Martinez FJ, Rosas IO, Bowler RP, Kropski JA, Banovich NE, Khan SS, San Jose Estepar R, Shah R, Thyagarajan B, Kalhan R, Washko GR. Proteomic Biomarkers of Quantitative Interstitial Abnormalities in COPDGene and CARDIA Lung Study. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2024-01-29. PubMed PMID: 38285918 

Trochez RJ, Barrett JB, Shi Y, Schildcrout JS, Rick C, Nair D, Welch SA, Kumar AA, Bell SP, Kripalani S. Vulnerability to functional decline is associated with noncardiovascular cause of 90-day readmission in hospitalized patients with heart failure. J Hosp Med. 2024-02-23. doi:10.1002/jhm.13316 PubMed PMID: 38402406 

Carr SG, Clifton JC, Freundlich RE, Fowler LC, Sherwood ER, McEvoy MD, Robertson A, Dunworth BA, McCarthy KY, Shotwell MS, Kertai MD. Improving Neuromuscular Monitoring Through Education-Based Interventions and Studying Its Association With Adverse Postoperative Outcomes: A Retrospective Observational Study. Anesth Analg. 2024-02-29; 138(3):517-529. doi:10.1213/ANE.0000000000006722 PubMed PMID: 38364243 PMC10878712.

Rankin DA, Stewart LS, Slaughter JC, Deppen S, Katz SE, Stahl AL, Stopczynski T, Yanis A, McHenry R, Guevara Pulido C, Herazo Romero Y, Chappell JD, Halasa NB, Khankari NK, Halasa/Chappell Research Investigators. Principal Component Patterns of Pediatric Respiratory Viral Testing Across Health Care Settings. Hosp Pediatr. 2024-01-16. doi:10.1542/hpeds.2023-007389 PubMed PMID: 38225919 

Amarin JZ, Dulek DE, Simmons J, Hayek H, Chappell JD, Nochowicz CH, Kitko CL, Schuster JE, Munoz FM, Bocchini CE, Moulton EA, Coffin SE, Freedman JL, Ardura MI, Wattier RL, Maron G, Grimley M, Paulsen G, Danziger-Isakov L, Carpenter PA, Englund JA, Halasa NB, Spieker AJ, Kalams SA. Immunophenotypic predictors of influenza vaccine immunogenicity in pediatric hematopoietic cell transplant recipients. Blood Adv. 2024-02-21. doi:10.1182/bloodadvances.2023012118 PubMed PMID: 38386973 

Toepfer AP, Amarin JZ, Spieker AJ, Stewart LS, Staat MA, Schlaudecker EP, Weinberg GA, Szilagyi PG, Englund JA, Klein EJ, Michaels MG, Williams JV, Selvarangan R, Harrison CJ, Lively JY, Piedra PA, Avadhanula V, Rha B, Chappell J, McMorrow M, Moline H, Halasa NB. Seasonality, clinical characteristics, and outcomes of respiratory syncytial virus disease by subtype among children less than five years old, New Vaccine Surveillance Network, United States, 2016-2020. Clin Infect Dis. 2024-02-14. doi:10.1093/cid/ciae085 PubMed PMID: 38366649 

Bosworth OM, Padilla-Azain MC, Adgent MA, Spieker AJ, Wiese AD, Pham A, Leech AA, Grijalva CG, Osmundson SS. Prescription Opioid Exposure During Pregnancy and Risk of Spontaneous Preterm Delivery. JAMA Netw Open. 2024-02-04; 7(2):e2355990. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.55990 PubMed PMID: 38353951 PMC10867678

Nelson LA, Spieker AJ, LeStourgeon LM, Greevy RA, Molli S, Roddy MK, Mayberry LS. The Goldilocks Dilemma on Balancing User Response and Reflection in mHealth Interventions: Observational Study. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. 2024-01-18; 12:e47632. doi:10.2196/47632 PubMed PMID: 38297891

Starnes LS, Starnes JR, Stopczynski T, Amarin JZ, Charnogursky C, Hayek H, Talj R, Parra DA, Clark DE, Patrick AE, Katz SE, Howard LM, Peetluk L, Rankin D, Spieker AJ, Halasa NB. Clinical prediction model: Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children versus Kawasaki disease. J Hosp Med. 2024-01-28. doi:10.1002/jhm.13290 PubMed PMID: 38282424 

Castellano CA, Sun T*, Ravindranathan D, Hwang C, Balanchivadze N, Singh SRK, Griffiths EA, Puzanov I, Ruiz-Garcia E, Vilar-Compte D, Cardenas-Delgado AI, McKay RR, Nonato TK, Ajmera A, Yu PP, Nadkarni R, O'Connor TE, Berg S, Ma K, Farmakiotis D, Vieira K, Arvanitis P, Saliby RM, Labaki C, El Zarif T, Wise-Draper TM, Zamulko O, Li N, Bodin BE, Accordino MK, Ingham M, Joshi M, Polimera HV, Fecher LA, Friese CR, Yoon JJ, Mavromatis BH, Brown JT, Russell K, Nanchal R, Singh H, Tachiki L, Moria FA, Nagaraj G, Cortez K, Abbasi SH, Wulff-Burchfield EM, Puc M, Weissmann LB, Bhatt PS, Mariano MG, Mishra S, Halabi S, Beeghly A, Warner JL, French B, Bilen MA, COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium. The impact of cancer metastases on COVID-19 outcomes: A COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium registry-based retrospective cohort study. Cancer. 2024-02-19. doi:10.1002/cncr.35247 PubMed PMID: 38376917

Lo Faro V, Bhattacharya A, Zhou W, Zhou D, Wang Y, Lall K, Kanai M, Lopera-Maya E, Straub P, Pawar P, Tao R, Zhong X, Namba S, Global Biobank Meta-analysis Initiative, Sanna S, Nolte IM, Okada Y, Ingold N, MacGregor S, Snieder H, Surakka I, Shortt J, Gignoux C, Rafaels N, Crooks K, Verma A, Verma SS, Guare L, Rader DJ, Willer C, Martin AR, Brantley MA, Gamazon ER, Jansonius NM, Joos K, Cox NJ, Hirbo J. Novel ancestry-specific primary open-angle glaucoma loci and shared biology with vascular mechanisms and cell proliferation. Cell Rep Med. 2024-02-19; 5(2):101430. doi:10.1016/j.xcrm.2024.101430 PubMed PMID: 38382466

Shi J, Wen W, Long J, Xue H, Yang Y, Tao R, Pan W, Shu XO, Cai Q. Genetic correlation and causal associations between circulating C-reactive protein levels and lung cancer risk. Cancer Causes Control. 2024-02-07. doi:10.1007/s10552-024-01855-7 PubMed PMID: 38332239 

Choi J, Wen W, Jia G, Tao R, Long J, Shu XO, Zheng W. Lifestyle factors, genetic susceptibility to obesity and their interactions on coronary artery disease risk: A cohort study in the UK Biobank. Prev Med. 2024-02-02; :107886. doi:10.1016/j.ypmed.2024.107886 PubMed PMID: 38316272 

Sun Q, Rowland BT, Chen J, Mikhaylova AV, Avery C, Peters U, Lundin J, Matise T, Buyske S, Tao R, Mathias RA, Reiner AP, Auer PL, Cox NJ, Kooperberg C, Thornton TA, Raffield LM, Li Y. Improving polygenic risk prediction in admixed populations by explicitly modeling ancestral-differential effects via GAUDI. Nat Commun. 2024-02-02; 15(1):1016. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-45135-z PubMed PMID: 38310129  PMC10838303.

White BR, Adepoju TE, Fisher HB, Shinohara RT, Vandekar S. Spatial nonstationarity of image noise in widefield optical imaging and its effects on cluster-based inference for resting-state functional connectivity. J Neurosci Methods. 2024-02-06; 404:110076. doi:10.1016/j.jneumeth.2024.110076 PubMed PMID: 38331258 

Wagstyl K, Adler S, Seidlitz J, Vandekar S, Mallard TT, Dear R, DeCasien AR, Satterthwaite TD, Liu S, Vertes PE, Shinohara RT, Alexander-Bloch A, Geschwind DH, Raznahan A. Transcriptional cartography integrates multiscale biology of the human cortex. Elife. 2024-02-06; 12. doi:10.7554/eLife.86933 PubMed PMID: 38324465 

McHugo M, Roeske MJ, Vandekar SN, Armstrong K, Avery SN, Heckers S. Smaller anterior hippocampal subfields in the early stage of psychosis. Transl Psychiatry. 2024-01-30; 14(1):69. doi:10.1038/s41398-023-02719-5 PubMed PMID: 38296964 PMC10830481

Zhang X, Kang K*, Yan C, Feng Y, Vandekar S, Yu D, Rosenbloom ST, Samuels J, Srivastava G, Williams B, Albaugh VL, English WJ, Flynn CR, Chen Y. Enhanced Patient Portal Engagement Associated with Improved Weight Loss Outcomes in Post-Bariatric Surgery Patients. medRxiv. 2024-01-20. doi:10.1101/2024.01.20.24301550 PubMed PMID: 38293039 PMC10827275

Jones CA, Wang J, Evans JR, Sisk HR, Womack CB, Liu Q, Tansey WP, Weissmiller AM. Super-Enhancer Dysregulation in Rhabdoid Tumor Cells Is Regulated by the SWI/SNF ATPase BRG1. Cancers (Basel). 2024-02-23; 16(5). doi:10.3390/cancers16050916 PubMed PMID: 38473277 PMC10931202.

Hiremath G, Wang Y, Correa H, Sheng Q, Rajagopala SV. Salivary immunoinflammatory proteins identify children with eosinophilic esophagitis. Allergy. 2024-01-29. doi:10.1111/all.16040 PubMed PMID: 38284246 

Hsi RS, Zhang S*, Triozzi JL, Hung AM, Xu Y, Bejan CA. Evaluation of genetic associations with clinical phenotypes of kidney stone disease. medRxiv. 2024-01-21. PubMed PMID: 38343797 PMC10854345

Shroder M, Ford MM, Ye F, Zhao Z, Khan A, McChesney S, Hopkins MB, Hawkins AT. Development of a Predictive Nomogram for Circumferential Resection Margin in Rectal Cancer Surgery. J Surg Res. 2024-02-07; 296:532-540. doi:10.1016/j.jss.2023.12.047 PubMed PMID: 38335901 

Davogustto G, Zhao S, Li Y, Farber-Eger E, Lowery BD, Shaffer LL, Mosley JD, Shoemaker MB, Xu Y, Roden DM, Wells QS. Unbiased characterization of atrial fibrillation phenotypic architecture provides insight to genetic liability and clinically relevant outcomes. medRxiv. 2024-02-13. doi:10.1101/2024.02.13.24302788 PubMed PMID: 38405916 PMC10888988

Lindley KJ, Perry A, Jacobs M, Petty L, Amancherla K, Zhao S, Barker C, Davila-Roman VG, Khan SS, Osmundson SS, Tanriverdi K, Freedman JE, Below J, Shah RV, Laurent LC. Differences in Cardiometabolic Proteins in Pregnancy Prioritize Relevant Targets of Preeclampsia. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2024-02-21. doi:10.1161/ATVBAHA.124.320737 PubMed PMID: 38385288 

Shah R, Zhong J, Massier L, Tanriverdi K, Hwang SJ, Haessler J, Nayor M, Zhao S, Perry AS, Wilkins JT, Shadyab AH, Manson JE, Martin L, Levy D, Kooperberg C, Freedman JE, Ryden M, Murthy VL. Targeted Proteomics Reveals Functional Targets for Early Diabetes Susceptibility in Young Adults. Circ Genom Precis Med. 2024-02-06:e004192. doi:10.1161/CIRCGEN.123.004192 PubMed PMID: 38323454 

Wang CC, Gupta A, Stone M, Milovancev M, Townsend K, Zhao S, Greeno A. A Protocol Driven Approach to Reduce Lengths of Stay for Pediatric Blunt Liver and Spleen Injury Patients. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2024-01-26. doi:10.1097/TA.0000000000004259 PubMed PMID: 38277472 

DeCuir J, Payne AB, Self WH, Rowley EAK, Dascomb K, DeSilva MB, Irving SA, Grannis SJ, Ong TC, Klein NP, Weber ZA, Reese SE, Ball SW, Barron MA, Naleway AL, Dixon BE, Essien I, Bride D, Natarajan K, Fireman B, Shah AB, Okwuazi E, Wiegand R, Zhu Y, Lauring AS, Martin ET, Gaglani M, Peltan ID, Brown SM, Ginde AA, Mohr NM, Gibbs KW, Hager DN, Prekker M, Mohamed A, Srinivasan V, Steingrub JS, Khan A, Busse LW, Duggal A, Wilson JG, Chang SY, Mallow C, Kwon JH, Exline MC, Columbus C, Vaughn IA, Safdar B, Mosier JM, Harris ES, Casey JD, Chappell JD, Grijalva CG, Swan SAJohnson C, Lewis NM, Ellington S, Adams K, Tenforde MW, Paden CR, Dawood FS, Fleming-Dutra KE, Surie D, Link-Gelles R, CDC COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Collaborators. Interim Effectiveness of Updated 2023-2024 (Monovalent XBB.1.5) COVID-19 Vaccines Against COVID-19-Associated Emergency Department and Urgent Care Encounters and Hospitalization Among Immunocompetent Adults Aged ?18 Years - VISION and IVY Networks, September 2023-January 2024. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2024-02-28; 73(8):180-188. doi:10.15585/mmwr.mm7308a5 PubMed PMID: 38421945 PMC10907041

Frutos AM, Price AM, Harker E, Reeves EL, Ahmad HM, Murugan V, Martin ET, House S, Saade EA, Zimmerman RK, Gaglani M, Wernli KJ, Walter EB, Michaels MG, Staat MA, Weinberg GA, Selvarangan R, Boom JA, Klein EJ, Halasa NB, Ginde AA, Gibbs KW, Zhu Y, Self WH, Tartof SY, Klein NP, Dascomb K, DeSilva MB, Weber ZA, Yang DH, Ball SW, Surie D, DeCuir J, Dawood FS, Moline HL, Toepfer AP, Clopper BR, Link-Gelles R, Payne AB, Chung JR, Flannery B, Lewis NM, Olson SM, Adams K, Tenforde MW, Garg S, Grohskopf LA, Reed C, Ellington S, CDC Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness Collaborators. Interim Estimates of 2023-24 Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness - United States. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2024-02-28; 73(8):168-174. doi:10.15585/mmwr.mm7308a3 PubMed PMID: 38421935 PMC10907036.

Raglow Z, Surie D, Chappell JD, Zhu Y, Martin ET, Kwon JH, Frosch AE, Mohamed A, Gilbert J, Bendall EE, Bahr A, Halasa N, Talbot HK, Grijalva CG, Baughman A, Womack KN, Johnson C, Swan SA, Koumans E, McMorrow ML, Harcourt JL, Atherton LJ, Burroughs A, Thornburg NJ, Self WH, Lauring AS, Investigating Respiratory Viruses in the Acutely Ill (IVY) Network. SARS-CoV-2 shedding and evolution in patients who were immunocompromised during the omicron period: a multicentre, prospective analysis. Lancet Microbe. 2024-01-23. PubMed PMID: 38286131

MeSH word cloud

Frequency of MeSH in this set of publications. Cloud generated by Flight Tracker for Scholars.

3.7.24: added papers by Bill Dupont, Ben French, Tebeb Gebretsadik, Rob Greevy, Frank Harrell, and Tianyi Sun

3.13.24: added paper by Ryan Moore

3.27.24: added more papers co-authored by Xiaoke Feng, Tebeb Gebretsadik, Frank Harrell, Li-Ching Huang, Qi Liu, Sharon Phillips, Matt Shotwell and Jing Wang, plus Karl Moons and Pingsheng Wu 

FlightTracker word cloud reflecting frequency of National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) in this set of publications. See the end of this post for a closer look at the headings.

Biometrics paper of the year

Congratulations to professor Bryan Shepherd and principal biostatistician Aihua Bian on winning the 2023 Biometrics Best Paper Award, for "Multiwave validation sampling for error-prone electronic health records." The article was co-authored by Vanderbilt colleagues Shannon Pugh (Emergency Medicine), Stephany Duda (Biomedical Informatics), and William J. Heerman (Pediatrics), along with Kyunghee Han (University of Illinois at Chicago), Tong Chen (University of Auckland), Thomas Lumley (University of Auckland), and Pamela A. Shaw (Kaiser Permanente). The team used EHR data to "estimate the association between maternal weight gain during pregnancy and the risks of her child developing obesity or asthma." As the first known implementation of a multiwave sampling design, the study yielded several lessons learned and offers an R package (optimall) to address some of the data-handling chores:

First, adaptive sampling designs provide an important chance to recover from a poorly chosen first sampling wave. Second, we learned that it takes quite a bit of time between receiving validation data from one wave to design the next wave. Upon receiving validation data we needed to perform data quality checks, deidentify data, rerun FPCA analyses, refit regression models to estimate influence functions, recompute Neyman allocation, and then meet as a team to discuss whether and how to divide strata. Keeping track of interim data sets also became tedious. To alleviate some of these challenges we have developed an R package, optimall, which performs Neyman allocation, allows easy splitting of strata, and keeps track of various data sets in an efficient manner. This package also implements integer-valued Neyman allocation (Wright, 2017), which provides exact optimality for a fixed sample size (ie, avoids rounding issues) and was employed in later waves of our validation sampling.

The research was supported in part by PCORI award R-1609-36207 and NIH grants R01AI131771 and UL1TR002243. 

This paper's team members are also the authors (with Vanderbilt Pediatrics and Nursing postdoc Nadia Sneed) of "Associations between gestational weight gain, gestational diabetes, and childhood obesity incidence," which appeared in the print issue of Maternal and Child Health Journal this month (following its initial e-publication in November). Drs. Shepherd, Shaw, and Duda are also known for their work on validating EHR data for HIV/AIDS research, which was recently recognized with a MERIT Award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Figure 2 in the award-winning paper: schematic of multiwave sampling strategy

Schematic of multiwave sampling strategy for data validation in the childhood obesity study and the childhood asthma substudy. The numbers do not sum to 996 because of overlap of 38 records sampled for both the obesity and asthma studies. Figure 2 in Shepherd et al., "Multiwave validation sampling for error-prone electronic health records," © 2022 The International Biometric Society. https://doi.org/10.1111/biom.13713

Department Awards

Last month's all-department meeting included an award ceremony, during which vice chair of research Jonathan Schildcrout and graduate program director Robert Greevy presented the following honors:

The Linda Stewart Applied Analysis Report Award recognizes an exceptional applied analysis report written by a staff biostatistician in our department. The 2020 award was presented to Josh DeClercq for "Healthcare Costs and Utilization Project."

The IT Innovation Award recognizes exceptional work from a member or members of our IT team and potentially the team they work with. It celebrates the creative and crucial contribution that IT members make to department operations, and to the research program within the department, across the medical center, and more broadly. The 2020 award was presented to Cole Beck, Leena Choi, Elizabeth McNeer, Nathan James, Hannah Weeks, and Michael Williams, for the dose-building EHR (electronic health record) R package they authored.

The Patrick G. Arbogast Collaborative Publication Award recognizes an exceptional collaborative publication from a biostatistician or team of biostatisticians in our department. The 2020 award was presented to William D. Dupont and Dale Plummer for "8q24 Genetic Variation and Comprehensive Haplotypes Altering Familial Risk of Prostate Cancer," which was published in Nature Communications.

The Methods Publication Award recognizes an exceptional methodological publication from a biostatistician or team of biostatisticians in our department. The 2020 award was presented to Ran Tao for "Optimal Designs of Two-Phase Studies," which was published in Journal of the American Statistical Association.

The Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award, recognizing excellence in teaching and a dedication to peer education, was presented to Yan Yan.

The W. S. Gosset Award for Exceptional Research, recognizing exemplary work that will advance the field and impact of biostatistics, was presented to Yuqi Tian.

The Commodore Award in Biostatistics was presented to Coleman Harris in recognition of his altruistic dedication to enriching the department and graduate program.

The Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, recognizing excellence in dedicated mentoring, with an altruistic commitment to student learning beyond the classroom, was presented to Simon Vandekar.

The Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching was presented to Andrew Spieker in recognition of his altruistic commitment to student classroom learning.

 

There were many outstanding nominees, and we thank the judges: Dan Ayers, Svetlana Eden, Shawn Garbett, Robert Greevy, Frank Harrell, Bob Johnson, Orun Onur, Dale Plummer, Jonathan Schildcrout, and Matt Shotwell.

 

 

We will be sharing news of more awards in a few days. Stay tuned . . .

 

Yan Yan, Distinguished Teaching Assistant