
This collection showcases journal articles, book chapters, and other publications and presentations written by faculty and researchers of the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
The Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, one of the founding departments at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, is a dynamic, diverse, and broad-based academic and clinical department. Our mission statement both reflects and guides the work of our faculty and staff: Our mission is to provide leadership to achieve the highest standards of patient care, education, and research in family medicine and community health, and we are committed to improving the impact of this work on the health of populations with special emphasis on those most vulnerable. The words that attracted many members of our faculty to family medicine - continuity, coordination, commitment, caring, comprehensiveness, and community - still define our work, and in today's world are more important than ever.
Publications from 2022
The Mental Health and Social Media Use of Young Australians during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Eleanor Bailey, Alexandra Boland, Imogen Bell, Jennifer Nicholas, Louise La Sala, and Jo Robinson
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Elizabeth C. Dykhouse
Sleep Disorders, Elizabeth C. Dykhouse and Ashley Mitton
Season 2, Episode 6: Hiya: Saving Face, Anxiety, and Asian-Americans, Hugh Silk, Qiuwei Yang, Lael Ngangmeni, and Henry Del Rosario
Med Moth: A Storytelling Platform for Improving Wellness in Medical Education, Michelle Silver, Sarah Ohnigian, Hugh Silk, Michael Ennis, and Judith A. Savageau
Publications from 2021
Closing the loop in child TB contact management: completion of TB preventive therapy outcomes in western Kenya, James A. Amisi, E. Jane Carter, Enos Masini, and Daria Szkwarko
Barriers and Facilitators to Implementing Bundled Acupuncture and Yoga Therapy to Treat Chronic Pain in Community Healthcare Settings: A Feasibility Pilot, Belinda J. Anderson, Paul Meissner, Donna M. Mah, Arya Nielsen, Steffany Moonaz, M. Diane McKee, Benjamin Kligler, Mirta Milanes, Hernidia Guerra, and Raymond Teets
Project ECHO and primary care buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder: Implementation and clinical outcomes, James B. Anderson, Stephen A. Martin, Anne Gadomski, Nicole Krupa, Daniel J. Mullin, Amber Cahill, and Paul Jenkins
Season 2, Episode 1: Reflections on a Visit to Holland, Divya Bhatia, Hugh Silk, and Michael P. Hirsh
The Adaptive GameSquad Xbox-Based Physical Activity and Health Coaching Intervention for Youth With Neurodevelopmental and Psychiatric Diagnoses: Pilot Feasibility Study, April B. Bowling, James Slavet, Chelsea Hendrick, Robbie Beyl, Phillip Nauta, Marilyn Augustyn, Mediatrix Mbamalu, Carol Curtin, Linda G. Bandini, Aviva Must, and Amanda E. Staiano
Association of antidiabetic therapies with lower extremity amputation, mortality and healthcare cost from a nationwide retrospective cohort study in Taiwan, Hsien-Yen Chang, Ying-Yi Chou, Wenze Tang, Guann-Ming Chang, Chi-Feng Hsieh, Sonal Singh, and Yu-Chi Tung
Facilitators and barriers to post-discharge pain assessment and triage: a qualitative study of nurses' and patients' perspectives, Jinying Chen, Jessica G. Wijesundara, Angela Patterson, Sarah L. Cutrona, Sandra Aiello, David D. McManus, M. Diane McKee, Bo Wang, and Thomas K. Houston
Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care (IBH-PC) to improve patient-centered outcomes in adults with multiple chronic medical and behavioral health conditions: study protocol for a pragmatic cluster-randomized control trial, Abigail M. Crocker and Daniel J. Mullin
Perspectives of primary care physicians on acceptance and barriers to COVID-19 vaccination, Philip Day, Chance Strenth, Neelima Kale, F. David Schneider, and Elizabeth Mayfield Arnold
Behavioral Health considerations in prenatal and postpartum care, Elizabeth C. Dykhouse
Behavioral Health Management of Chronic Pain, Elizabeth C. Dykhouse
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy part 2: focus on chronic pain and depression, Elizabeth C. Dykhouse
Delivery of bad/difficult news, Elizabeth C. Dykhouse
Introduction to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Physicians, Elizabeth C. Dykhouse
Patient-Centered Care and Structuring the Visit, Elizabeth C. Dykhouse
Massachusetts Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network (MassJCOIN), Elizabeth A. Evans, Thomas J. Stopka, Ekaterina Pivovarova, Sean M. Murphy, Faye S. Taxman, Warren J. Ferguson, Dana Bernson, Claudia Santelices, Kathryn E. McCollister, Randall Hoskinson Jr., Thomas Lincoln, and Peter D. Friedmann
Preferences for COVID-19 vaccination information and location: Associations with vaccine hesitancy, race and ethnicity, Kimberly A. Fisher, Ngoc Nguyen, Sybil L. Crawford, Hassan Fouayzi, Sonal Singh, and Kathleen M. Mazor
Using Health Information Technology to Engage African American Women on Nutrition and Supplement Use During the Preconception Period, Paula Gardiner, Timothy Bickmore, Leanne Yinusa-Nyahkoon, Matthew Reichert, Clevanne Julce, Nireesha Sidduri, Jessica Martin-Howard, Elisabeth Woodhams, Jumana Aryan, Zhe Zhang, Juan Fernandez, Mark Loafman, Jayakanth Srinivasan, Howard Cabral, and Brian W. Jack
The design and methods of the OPTIMUM study: A multisite pragmatic randomized clinical trial of a telehealth group mindfulness program for persons with chronic low back pain, Carol M. Greco, Susan A. Gaylord, Kim Faurot, Janice M. Weinberg, Paula M. Gardiner, Isabel Roth, Jessica L. Barnhill, Holly N. Thomas, Sayali C. Dhamne, Christine Lathren, Jose E. Baez, Suzanne Lawrence, Tuhina Neogi, Karen E. Lasser, Maria Gabriela Castro, Anna Marie White, Sandra Jean Simmons, Cleopatra Ferrao, Dhanesh D. Binda, Nandie Elhadidy, Kelly M. Eason, Kathleen M. McTigue, and Natalia E. Morone
Trauma-Informed Peripartum Care, Rebecca Gwaltney and Elizabeth C. Dykhouse
Further Experience with the Practice Integration Profile: A Measure of Behavioral Health and Primary Care Integration, Juvena R. Hitt, Stephanie A. Brennhofer, Matthew P. Martin, C. R. Macchi, Daniel Mullin, Constance van Eeghen, Benjamin Littenberg, and Rodger S. Kessler
Dietary Habits and Medications to Control Hypertension among Women of Child-bearing Age in the United States from 2001-2016, Lara C. Kovell, Benjamin Maxner, M. Didem Ayturk, Tiffany Moore Simas, Colleen M. Harrington, David D. McManus, Paula Gardiner, Gerard P. Aurigemma, and Stephen P. Juraschek
Incorporating Acupuncture Into American Healthcare: Initiating a Discussion on Implementation Science, the Status of the Field, and Stakeholder Considerations, David W. Miller, Eric J. Roseen, Jennifer A. M. Stone, Paula Gardiner, Juli Olson, Shellie Rosen, Peter Wayne, Robert Davis, and Remy Coeytaux
Patient engagement and presence in a virtual world world diabetes self-management education intervention for minority women, Suzanne Mitchell, Alexa Bragg, Paula Gardiner, Barbara De La Cruz, and Lance Laird
Stigma as a Barrier to Participant Recruitment of Minority Populations in Diabetes Research: Development of a Community-Centered Recruitment Approach, Suzanne Mitchell, Alexa Bragg, Ioana Moldovan, Shakiyla Woods, Katherine Melo, Jessica Martin-Howard, and Paula Gardiner
Prevention of psychological trauma among health care providers during the COVID-19 pandemic, Daniel J. Mullin, Sarah Pearson, Ethan Eisdorfer, Jenna Mullarkey, and Elizabeth C. Dykhouse
Online training of behavioral health providers for primary care practice, Daniel J. Mullin, Judith A. Savageau, and Kate Sullivan
Effective Goals-of-Care Conversations: From Skills Training to Bedside, Vandana Nagpal, Mary Philbin, Majid Yazdani, Prashant Veerreddy, David Fish, and Jennifer Reidy
Depression predicts chronic pain interference in racially diverse, income-disadvantaged patients, Benjamin C. Nephew, Angela C. Incollingo Rodriguez, Veronica Melican, Justin J. Polcari, Kathryn E. Nippert, Mikhail Rashkovskii, Lilly-Beth Linnell, Ruofan Hu, Carolina Ruiz, Jean A. King, and Paula Gardiner
Depression predicts chronic pain interference in racially-diverse, low-income patients [preprint], Benjamin C. Nephew, Angela C. Incollingo Rodriguez, Veronica Melican, Justin J. Polcari, Kathryn E. Nippert, Mikhail Rashkovskii, Lilly-Beth Linnell, Ruofan Hu, Carolina Ruiz, Jean A. King, and Paula Gardiner
NExUS-Heart: Novel examinations using smart technologies for heart health-Data sharing from commercial wearable devices and telehealth engagement in participants with or at risk of atrial fibrillation, Sri Nuvvula, Eric Y. Ding, Connor Saleeba, Qiming Shi, Zi-Yue Wang, Alok Kapoor, Jane S. Saczynski, Steven A. Lubitz, Lara C. Kovell, M. Diane McKee, and David D. McManus
Use of Palliative Care Music Therapy in a Hospital Setting during COVID-19, Jennifer Reidy and Mary-Carla MacDonald
Assessing Goals-of-Care Documentation during the COVID-19 Patient Surge in an Academic Safety-Net Medical Center, Jennifer Reidy, Judith A. Savageau, Kate Sullivan, and Vandana Nagpal
A Teaching Kitchen Medical Groups Visit with an eHealth Platform for Hypertension and Cardiac Risk Factors: A Qualitative Feasibility Study, Pallavi Rohela, Barbara C. Olendzki, Lisa J. McGonigal, Ariel Villa, and Paula Gardiner
Feasibility of Implementation Mapping for Integrative Medical Group Visits, Isabel J. Roth, Malik K. Tiedt, Jessica L. Barnhill, Kristopher R. Karvelas, Keturah R. Faurot, Susan Gaylord, Paula Gardiner, Vanessa E. Miller, and Jennifer Leeman
Season 2, Episode 4: An Appreciative Inquiry Narrative, Hugh Silk, Lael Ngangmeni, Kenneth S. Peterson, and Qiuwei Yang
Season 2, Episode 3: People and Places, Hugh Silk, Jesse Sardell, Mina Botros, and Qiuwei Yang
Season 2, Episode 5: Julie, Hugh Silk, Jesse Sardell, Lael Ngangmeni, and Sara Wang
Digital Health Information Disparities in Older Adults: a Mixed Methods Study, Ruth M. Tappen, Mary E. Cooley, Roger Luckmann, and Somi Panday
Using increased trust in medical researchers to increase minority recruitment: The RECRUIT cluster randomized clinical trial, Barbara C. Tilley, Arch G. Mainous 3rd, Rossybelle P. Amorrortu, M. Diane McKee, Daniel W. Smith, Ruosha Li, Stacia M. DeSantis, Sally W. Vernon, Gary Koch, Marvella E. Ford, Vanessa Diaz, and Jennifer Alvidrez
COmmuNity-engaged SimULation Training for Blood Pressure Control (CONSULT-BP): A study protocol, Jennifer Tjia, Michele P. Pugnaire, Olga Valdman, Maria M. Garcia, Majid Yazdani, Janet Fraser Hale, Jill M. Terrien, Ethan Eisdorfer, German Chiriboga, Lynley Rappaport, Geraldine Puerto, Elizabeth C. Dykhouse, Stacy E. Potts, Andriana M. Foiles Sifuentes, Sylvia Stanhope, Jeroan J. Allison, and Vennesa Duodo
Being Brave, Andrea L. Wendling, Valerie Gilchrist, Christy J. W. Ledford, Jennifer Lochner, Julie P. Phillips, Sara G. Shields, and Kirsten Winnie
Season 2, Episode 2: Check Engine Light, Qiuwei Yang, Jesse Sardell, Heather Finlay-Morreale, and Hugh Silk
Season 2: Welcome to Season 2!, Qiuwei Yang, Hugh Silk, Divya Bhatia, Jesse Sardell, and Lael Ngangmeni
Publications from 2020
A Physician's Guide for Workers' Return to Work during COVID-19 Pandemic, Marcos C. Baptista, Wayne N. Burton, Brent Pawlecki, and Glenn Pransky
Brief Self-Compassion Training Alters Neural Responses to Evoked Pain for Chronic Low Back Pain: A Pilot Study, Michael P. Berry, Jacqueline Lutz, Zev Schuman-Olivier, Christopher Germer, Susan Pollak, Robert R. Edwards, Paula Gardiner, Gaelle Desbordes, and Vitaly Napadow
Episode 2: Friendly, not Familiar, Divya Bhatia, Hugh Silk, Rose Schutzberg, and Qiuwei Yang
Episode 1: Budgeting, Divya Bhatia, Qiuwei Yang, and Hugh Silk
Episode 6: Asylum Body Work, Divya Bhatia, Qiuwei Yang, Hugh Silk, and Lucy M. Candib
Episode 5: Penal Code, Divya Bhatia, Qiuwei Yang, Hugh Silk, and Lisa S. Gussak
Episode 3: When I Did What I Swore I Would Never Do, Divya Bhatia, Qiuwei Yang, Hugh Silk, and David S. Hatem
Episode 4: Dear Anonymous Donor, Divya Bhatia, Qiuwei Yang, Hugh Silk, and Xinmiao Bridget Yang
Access and Continuity: A Multidisciplinary Education Workshop to Teach Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Principles, Lauren Block, Christopher Petersen, Daniel J. Coletti, Pratiksha Yalakkishettar, and Nancy LaVine
PPE Portraits - a Way to Humanize Personal Protective Equipment, Cati Brown-Johnson, Stacie Vilendrer, Mary Beth Heffernan, Shira Winter, Thanh Khong, Jennifer Reidy, and Steven M. Asch
Asylum Body Work, Lucy M. Candib
Does Home Remedy Use Contribute to Medication Nonadherence Among Blacks with Hypertension, Yendelela L. Cuffee, Milagros C. Rosal, J. Lee Hargraves, Becky A. Briesacher, Suzanne Akuley, Noof Altwatban, Sandral Hullett, and Jeroan J. Allison
Weight Management in Primary Care for Children With Autism: Expert Recommendations, Carol Curtin, Susan L. Hyman, Diane D. Boas, Sandra Hassink, Sarabeth Broder-Fingert, Lauren T. Ptomey, Meredith Dreyer Gillette, Richard K. Fleming, Aviva Must, and Linda G. Bandini
Introduction to Behavioral Health, Elizabeth C. Dykhouse
Management of Stress and Physician Wellness, Elizabeth C. Dykhouse
Motivational Interviewing (Part 2), Elizabeth C. Dykhouse
Motivational Interviewing (part 3) and Physician Wellness, Elizabeth C. Dykhouse
Patient-Centered Care and Motivational Interviewing, Elizabeth C. Dykhouse
Identifying monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance in electronic health data, Mara M. Epstein, Cassandra Saphirak, Yanhua Zhou, Candace LeBlanc, Alan G. Rosmarin, Arlene S. Ash, Sonal Singh, Kimberly A. Fisher, Brenda M. Birmann, and Jerry H. Gurwitz
Impact of Selective Eating on Social Domains Among Transition-Age Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Qualitative Study, Sara C. Folta, Carol Curtin, Aviva Must, Annie Pehrson, Katelyn Ryan, and Linda G. Bandini
An Innovative Electronic Health Toolkit (Our Whole Lives for Chronic Pain) to Reduce Chronic Pain in Patients With Health Disparities: Open Clinical Trial, Paula Gardiner, Salvatore D'Amico, Man Luo, and Niina Haas
Outcomes After Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy as a Bridging Modality to Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Rashi Garg, Kim Foley, Babak Movahedi, Mark Masciocchi, Jacob R. Bledsoe, Linda Ding, Paul Rava, Thomas J. Fitzgerald, and Shirin Sioshansi
Palliative Care During Public Health Emergencies: Examples from the COVID-19 Pandemic, Kristina Gracey, Stephen A. Martin, and Jennifer Reidy
Association between sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors and lower extremity amputation: A systematic review and meta-analysis, James Heyward, Omar Mansour, Lily Olson, Sonal Singh, and G. Caleb Alexander
A randomized, open-label, pragmatic study to assess reliever-triggered inhaled corticosteroid in African American/Black and Hispanic/Latinx adults with asthma: Design and methods of the PREPARE trial, Elliot Israel and M. Diane McKee
Expanding Point-of-Care Ultrasound Training in a Low- and Middle-Income Country: Experiences From a Collaborative Short-Training Workshop in Kenya, Leanne Jones, Catherine Gathu, Daria Szkwarko, Sam Mucheru, Naushad Amin, James A. Amisi, Kevin Bergman, Mena Ramos, and Neil Jayasekera
Neural activations during self-related processing in patients with chronic pain and effects of a brief self-compassion training - A pilot study, Jacqueline Lutz, Michael P. Berry, Vitaly Napadow, Christopher Germer, Susan Pollak, Paula Gardiner, Robert R. Edwards, Gaelle Desbordes, and Zev Schuman-Olivier
Individual vs. Group Delivery of Acupuncture Therapy for Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain in Urban Primary Care-a Randomized Trial, M. Diane McKee, Arya Nielsen, Belinda Anderson, Elizabeth Chuang, Mariel Connolly, Qi Gao, Eric N. Gil, Claudia Lechuga, Mimi Kim, Huma Naqvi, and Benjamin Kligler
Food Habits, Stressors, and Use of Complementary Medicine Therapies Among Pediatric Patients Who Attend an Integrative Medicine Pediatric Pain Clinic, Vidhita Mehta, Salvatore D'Amico, Man Luo, Kristen Bodner, Laura Goldstein, Caitlin Neri, and Paula Gardiner
Group Acupuncture Therapy With Yoga Therapy for Chronic Neck, Low Back, and Osteoarthritis Pain in Safety Net Setting for an Underserved Population: Design and Rationale for a Feasibility Pilot, Arya Nielsen, Ray Teets, Steffany Moonaz, Belinda J. Anderson, Eve Walter, Mirta Milanes, Donna M. Mah, M. Diane McKee, and Benjamin Kligler
Getting It Off the Ground: Key Factors Associated With Implementation of Wellness Programs, Lauren Penwell-Waines, Peter F. Cronholm, Julie Brennan, Amy Romain, Christine Runyan, Katherine Buck, Lindsay Fazio, Aaron Grace, Mari Ricker, Valerie Ross, Jill Schneiderhan, and Mary Talen
Provider perceptions of a humanizing intervention for healthcare workers - a survey study of PPE Portraits, Jennifer Reidy, Cati Brown-Johnson, Nancy McCool, Shawna Steadman, Mary Beth Heffernan, and Vandana Nagpal
The relationship between a microfinance-based healthcare delivery platform, health insurance coverage, health screenings, and disease management in rural Western Kenya, Molly Rosenberg, James Akiruga Amisi, Daria Szkwarko, Dan N. Tran, Becky Genberg, Maya Luetke, Sina Kianersi, Jane Namae, Jeremiah Laktabai, and Sonak Pastakia
Efficacy and Safety of Hydroxychloroquine and Chloroquine for COVID-19: A systematic review [preprint], Sonal Singh and Thomas J. Moore
Group Medical Visits and Clinician Wellbeing, Ariana Thompson-Lastad and Paula Gardiner
Developmental-Behavioral Pediatricians' Diagnosis and Coding of Overweight and Obesity in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Morgan Walls, Carol Curtin, Sarah Phillips, Misha Eliasziw, Carissa Jackel, Aviva Must, Linda G. Bandini, and Sarabeth Broder-Fingert
Goodbye Season 1, and Thank You!, Qiuwei Yang, Divya Bhatia, and Hugh Silk
Publications from 2019
Transformation Support Provided Remotely to a National Cohort of Optometry Practices, Ronald N. Adler, Warren J. Ferguson, Hussein Antar, Michael Steinkrauss, Brian Bjoern, Valerie Konar, Jay Flanagan, and David F. Polakoff
Food selectivity in a diverse sample of young children with and without intellectual disabilities, Linda G. Bandini, Carol Curtin, Misha Eliasziw, Sarah Phillips, Laura Jay, Melissa C. T. Maslin, and Aviva Must
Risk of disordered eating at the intersection of gender and racial/ethnic identity among U.S. high school students, Ariel Beccia, Jonggyu Baek, William M. Jesdale, S. Bryn Austin, Sarah N. Forrester, Carol Curtin, and Kate L. Lapane
Corrections for Academic Medicine: The Importance of Using Person-First Language for Individuals Who Have Experienced Incarceration, Precious S. Bedell, Marvin So, Diane S Morse, Stuart A. Kinner, Warren J. Ferguson, and Anne C. Spaulding
Feasibility and Acceptability of Mindfulness-Based Group Visits for Smoking Cessation in Low-Socioeconomic Status and Minority Smokers with Cancer, Marjory Charlot, Salvatore D'Amico, Man Luo, Ahmed Gemei, Hasmeena Kathuria, and Paula Gardiner
Health Disparities in Access to Nonpharmacologic Therapies in an Urban Community, Teresa Cheng, Salvatore D'Amico, Man Luo, Anna Sophia Lestoquoy, Leanne Yinusa-Nyahkoon, Lance D. Laird, and Paula Gardiner
Infants Exposed To Homelessness: Health, Health Care Use, And Health Spending From Birth To Age Six, Robin E. Clark, Linda Weinreb, Julie M. Flahive, and Robert W. Seifert
Homelessness Contributes To Pregnancy Complications, Robin E. Clark, Linda Weinreb, Julie Flahive, and Robert W. Seifert
Nurses' attitudes and emotions toward caring for adults with intellectual disabilities: Results of a cross-sectional, correlational-predictive research study, Melissa L. Desroches, Kristen A. Sethares, Carol Curtin, and Joohyun Chung
Screening and Intervention for Suicide Prevention: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of the ED-SAFE Interventions, Laura J. Dunlap, Stephen Orme, Gary A. Zarkin, Sarah A. Arias, Ivan W. Miller, Carlos A. Camargo Jr, Ashley F. Sullivan, Michael H. Allen, Amy B. Goldstein, Anne P. Manton, Robin E. Clark, and Edwin D. Boudreaux
Restaurant List: Wuss-taah, Paris of the Millennium (2019-2020), Michael Ennis
Advancing the implementation and sustainment of medication assisted treatment for opioid use disorders in prisons and jails, Warren J. Ferguson, Joan Johnston, Jennifer G. Clarke, Peter J. Koutoujian, Kathleen Maurer, Colleen Gallagher, Julie White, Dyana Nickl, and Faye S. Taxman
Improving Access, Integration, and Sustainability: A Reflective Overview of the Special Issue on Innovation in Group-Delivered Services, Paula Gardiner, Maria Chao, and Marena Burnett
Lessons Learned and Strategies for Recruitment of Diverse, Low-income Patients into an Integrative Medical Group Visit Clinical Trial, Paula Gardiner, Anna Sophia Lestoquoy, N. Lily Negash, Man Luo, Katherine Gergen-Barnett, Robert Saper, Brian Penti, Laura F. White, and Jane M. Liebschutz