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 2021
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
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
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
Digital Health Information Disparities in Older Adults: a Mixed Methods Study, Ruth M. Tappen, Mary E. Cooley, Roger Luckmann, and Somi Panday
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
Effectiveness of integrative medicine group visits in chronic pain and depressive symptoms: A randomized controlled trial, Paula Gardiner, Man Luo, Salvatore D'Amico, Katherine Gergen-Barnett, Laura F. White, Robert Saper, Suzanne Mitchell, and Jane M. Liebschutz
The Effective Medicaid Pharmacy Program: A White Paper for Medicaid Directors and State Agency Personnel, Bonnie C. Greenwood and Elena Nicolella
Documentation of human rights abuses among Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, Rohini J. Haar, Karen Wang, Homer Venters, Satu Salonen, Rupa Patel, Tamaryn Nelson, Ranit Mishori, and Parveen K. Parmar
A Comprehensive Review of Pegvaliase, an Enzyme Substitution Therapy for the Treatment of Phenylketonuria, Tasmina Hydery and Valerie Azzopardi Coppenrath
Addressing a Gap in Healthcare Access for Transition-Age Youth with Autism: A Pilot Educational Intervention for Family Nurse Practitioner Students, Dorothea Iannuzzi, Patricia Rissmiller, Susan M. Duty, Susan Feeney, Maura Sullivan, and Carol Curtin
Blood Lead Levels of Children Using Traditional Indian Medicine and Cosmetics: A Feasibility Study, Julia Keosaian, Thuppil Venkatesh, Salvatore D'Amico, Paula Gardiner, and Robert Saper
A 4-year randomized trial comparing three outreach interventions to promote screening mammograms, Roger Luckmann, Mary E. Costanza, Mary Jo White, Christine F. Frisard, Milagros C. Rosal, Susan Sama, Michelle R. Landry, and Robert Yood
Essential Skills for Family Medicine Residents Practicing Integrated Behavioral Health: A Delphi Study, Matt Martin, Leslie Allison, Elizabeth Banks, David Bauman, Jennifer Harsh, Amber L. Hewitt, Linda Myerholtz, Max Zubatsky, and Larry Mauksch
Natural Health Product-Drug Interaction Causality Assessment in Pediatric Adverse Event Reports Associated with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Medication, Hajra Mazhar, Brian C. Foster, Candace Necyk, Paula M. Gardiner, Cory S. Harris, and Philippe Robaey
The PRogram In Support of Moms (PRISM): study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial of two active interventions addressing perinatal depression in obstetric settings, Tiffany A. Moore Simas, Linda Brenckle, Padma Sankaran, Grace A. Masters, Sharina D. Person, Linda Weinreb, Jean Y. Ko, Cheryl L. Robbins, Jeroan J. Allison, and Nancy Byatt
Pre-clinical medical student reflections on implicit bias: Implications for learning and teaching, Christine Motzkus, Racquel J. Wells, Xingyue Wang, Sonia N. Chimienti, Deborah L. Plummer, Janice Sabin, Jeroan J. Allison, and Suzanne B. Cashman
Measuring the integration of primary care and behavioral health services, Daniel J. Mullin, J. Lee Hargraves, Andrea Auxier, Stephanie A Brennhofer, Juvena R Hitt, Rodger S. Kessler, Benjamin Littenberg, C. R. Macchi, Matthew Martin, Gail Rose, Felicia Trembath, and Constance van Eeghen
Characteristics and Components of Medical Group Visits for Chronic Health Conditions: A Systematic Scoping Review, Manasi Parikh, Iniya Rajendran, Salvatore D'Amico, Man Luo, and Paula Gardiner
Making Sense of Family Medicine Resident Wellness Curricula: A Delphi Study of Content Experts, Lauren Penwell-Waines, Christine Runyan, Irina Kolobova, Aaron Grace, Julie Brennan, Katherine Buck, Valerie Ross, and Jill Schneiderhan
Accessibility and IoT / Smart and Connected Communities, John Rochford
Why does the adverse effect of inappropriate MRI for LBP vary by geographic location? An exploratory analysis, Mujahed Shraim, Manuel Cifuentes, Joanna L. Willetts, Helen R. Marucci-Wellman, and Glenn Pransky
Does physical activity differ between youth with and without intellectual disabilities, Heidi I. Stanish, Carol Curtin, Aviva Must, Sarah Phillips, Melissa C. T. Maslin, and Linda G. Bandini
Abnormally Low Hemoglobin A1c as Harbinger of Hemoglobinopathy, Joshua St. Louis and Anthony Valdini
Online Sharing of Documents: the Mobile Office, Rebecca Sulyma, Sanjay Ram, and Steven C. Hatch
Integrative Group Medical Visits: A National Scoping Survey of Safety-Net Clinics, Ariana Thompson-Lastad, Paula Gardiner, and Maria T. Chao
Parental concern regarding obesity in children with autism spectrum disorder in the United States: National Survey of Children's Health 2016, David J. Tybor, Misha Eliasziw, Tanja V. E. Kral, Mary Segal, Nancy E. Sherwood, Linmarie Sikich, Heidi I. Stanish, Linda G. Bandini, Carol Curtin, and Aviva Must
Care Transformation Collaborative of Rhode Island: Building a Strong Foundation for Comprehensive, High-Quality Affordable Care, Pano Yeracaris, Susanne Campbell, Mardia Coleman, Linda Cabral, and Debra Hurwitz
Burnout among behavioral health providers in integrated care settings, Max Zubatsky, Christine Runyan, Samantha Gulotta, Jeanna R. Knight, and J. Douglas Pettinelli
Publications from 2018
A cross-sectional review of the prevalence of integrative medicine in pediatric pain clinics across the United States, Kristen Bodner, Salvatore D'Amico, Man Luo, Elizabeth Sommers, Laura Goldstein, Caitlin Neri, and Paula Gardiner
Can Mindfulness Address Maladaptive Eating Behaviors? Why Traditional Diet Plans Fail and How New Mechanistic Insights May Lead to Novel Interventions, Judson A. Brewer, Andrea Ruf, Ariel Beccia, Gloria I. Essien, Leonard M. Finn, Remko van Lutterveld, and Ashley E. Mason
Physician Well-being: Recommended Curriculum Guidelines for Family Medicine Residents, S. R. Brown and Christine N. Runyan
Access to Pharmacotherapy Amongst Women with Bipolar Disorder during Pregnancy: a Preliminary Study, Nancy Byatt, Lucille Cox, Tiffany A. Moore Simas, Kathleen Biebel, Padma Sankaran, Holly A. Swartz, and Linda Weinreb
How obstetric settings can help address gaps in psychiatric care for pregnant and postpartum women with bipolar disorder, Nancy Byatt, Lucille Cox, Tiffany A. Moore Simas, Nisha Kini, Kathleen Biebel, Padma Sankaran, Holly A. Swartz, and Linda Weinreb
Sensory Sensitivity and Food Selectivity in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Liem T. Chistol, Linda G. Bandini, Aviva Must, Sarah Phillips, Sharon A. Cermak, and Carol Curtin
Justice involvement has a profound link to social determinants of health, Warren J. Ferguson
Withholding methadone from inmates is wrong, Warren J. Ferguson
Supporting Family Physician Maternity Care Providers, Jessica Taylor Goldstein, Scott G. Hartman, Matthew R. Meunier, Bethany Panchal, Christine Chang Pecci, Nancy M. Zink, and Sara G. Shields
Determining the scope of attacks on health in four governorates of Syria in 2016: Results of a field surveillance program, Rohini J. Haar, Casey B. Risko, Sonal Singh, Diana Rayes, Ahmad Albaik, Mohammed Alnajar, Mazen Kewara, Emily Clouse, Elise Baker, and Leonard S. Rubenstein
The impact of deliberate reflection with WISE-MD modules on surgical clerkship students' critical thinking: a prospective, randomized controlled pilot study, Janet Fraser Hale, Jill M. Terrien, Mark E. Quirk, Kate Sullivan, and Mitchell A. Cahan
Screening mammography among nursing home residents in the United States: Current guidelines and practice, Deborah Mack, Mara M. Epstein, Catherine E. Dube, Robin E. Clark, and Kate L. Lapane
Under one roof: identification, evaluation, and treatment of chronic hepatitis C in addiction care, Stephen A. Martin, Jordon Bosse, Amanda Wilson, Phyllis Losikoff, and Lisa Chiodo
Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Learners in Emergency Medicine, Lisa M. Meeks, Alina Engelman, Alicia Booth, and Michael Argenyi
A Systematic Review of Integrated Care Interventions Addressing Perinatal Depression Care in Ambulatory Obstetric Care Settings, Tiffany A. Moore Simas, Michael Flynn, Aimee R. Kroll-Desrosiers, Stephanie M. Carvalho, Len L. Levin, Kathleen Biebel, and Nancy Byatt
Design and rationale of the medical students learning weight management counseling skills (MSWeight) group randomized controlled trial, Judith K. Ockene, Karen M. Ashe, Linda C. Churchill, Sybil L. Crawford, Denise G. Jolicoeur, Barbara C. Olendzki, Maria Theresa Basco, Jyothi A. Pendharkar, and Lori Pbert
Correlates of specialty substance use treatment among adults with opioid use disorders, Eric Romo, Christine M. Ulbricht, Robin E. Clark, and Kate L. Lapane
The Sibling Support Demonstration Project: A Pilot Study Assessing Feasibility, Preliminary Effectiveness, and Participant Satisfaction, Emily Rubin, Louis Ostrowsky, Elizabeth Janopaul-Naylor, Priya Sehgal, Shireen Cama, Emilie Tanski, and Carol Curtin
Assessing social determinants of health in primary care: Liability or opportunity, Christine Runyan
Dissolving the dichotomy in health and healthcare, Christine Runyan
Integrated primary care could play a starring role in the Amazon-JP Morgan-Buffet health care enterprise, Christine Runyan
Ethical Challenges Unique to the Primary Care Behavioral Health (PCBH) Model, Christine Runyan, Stephanie Carter-Henry, and Stacy Ogbeide