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 2018
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
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
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
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
Fracture liaison services improve outcomes of patients with osteoporosis-related fractures: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis, Chih-Hsing Wu, Shih-Te Tu, Yin-Fan Chang, Ding-Cheng Chan, Jui-Teng Chien, Chih-Hsueh Lin, Sonal Singh, Manikanta Dasari, Jung-Fu Chen, and Keh-Sung Tsai
Publications from 2017
Staying afloat in a sea of information: Point-of-care resources, Rebecca Andrews, Neil Mehta, Jack Maypole, and Stephen A. Martin
A National CERA Study of the Use of Laborists in Family Medicine Residency Training, Robert A. Baldor, Christine Chang Pecci, Gerardo Moreno, Virginia Van Duyne, and Stacy E. Potts
PRogram In Support of Moms (PRISM): a pilot group randomized controlled trial of two approaches to improving depression among perinatal women, Nancy Byatt, Tiffany A. Moore Simas, Kathleen Biebel, Padma Sankaran, Lori Pbert, Linda Weinreb, Douglas M. Ziedonis, and Jeroan J. Allison
Moving the Advance Care Planning Needle With Community Health Workers, Joanne Calista and Jennifer Tjia
Integrating Measures of Social Determinants of Health Into Health Care Encounters: Opportunities and Challenges, Melissa A. Clark and Deborah Gurewich
Can scribes boost FPs' efficiency and job satisfaction, Stephen T. Earls, Judith A. Savageau, Susan Begley, Barry G. Saver, Kate Sullivan, and Alan Chuman
A systematic review and meta-analysis on herpes zoster and the risk of cardiac and cerebrovascular events, Nathaniel Erskine, Hoang Tran, Len L. Levin, Christine M. Ulbricht, Joyce D. Fingeroth, Catarina I. Kiefe, Robert J. Goldberg, and Sonal Singh
Making addiction treatment work for inmates, Warren J. Ferguson
Prescription contraception use and adherence by women with substance use disorders, Gillian J. Griffith, Tara Kumaraswami, Stavroula A. Chrysanthopoulou, Kristin M. Mattocks, and Robin E. Clark
Massachusetts Medicaid members that smoked in 2008: Characteristics associated with smoking status in 2014, Alexis D. Henry, John Gettens, Judith A. Savageau, Doris Cullen, and Anna Landau
Acculturation, Depression, and Smoking Cessation: a trajectory pattern recognition approach, Sun S. Kim, Hua (Julia) Fang, Kunsook Bernstein, Zhaoyang Zhang, Joseph R. DiFranza, Douglas Ziedonis, and Jeroan J. Allison
Implementation and process evaluation of three interventions to promote screening mammograms delivered for 4 years in a large primary care population, Roger Luckmann, Mary Jo White, Mary E. Costanza, Christine F. Frisard, Caroline Cranos, Susan Sama, and Robert A. Yood
Oral Health and Medicine Integration: Overcoming Historical Artifact to Relieve Suffering, Stephen A. Martin and Lisa Simon
Initiation and Engagement with Methadone Treatment among Pregnant and Postpartum Women, Kristin M. Mattocks, Robin E. Clark, and Linda Weinreb
ICU Admission Source as a Predictor of Mortality for Patients With Sepsis, Christine A. Motzkus, Stavroula A. Chrysanthopoulou, Roger Luckmann, Teresa A. Rincon, Kate L. Lapane, and Craig M. Lilly
Predictors of Cigarette Smoking Initiation in Early, Middle, and Late Adolescence, Jennifer O'Loughlin, Erin K. O'Loughlin, Robert J. Wellman, Marie-Pierre Sylvestre, Erika N. Dugas, Miguel Chagnon, Hartley Dutczak, Johanne Lague, and Jennifer J. McGrath
Health System Advance Care Planning Culture Change for High-Risk Patients: The Promise and Challenges of Engaging Providers, Patients, and Families in Systematic Advance Care Planning, Jennifer Reidy, Jennifer Halvorson, Suzana Makowski, Delila Katz, Barbara Weinstein, Christine McCluskey, Alex Doering, Kathryn DeCarli, and Jennifer Tjia
Persuasive Interventions for Controversial Cancer Screening Recommendations: Testing a Novel Approach to Help Patients Make Evidence-Based Decisions, Barry G. Saver, Kathleen M. Mazor, Roger Luckmann, Sarah L. Cutrona, Marcela Hayes, Tatyana Gorodetsky, Nancy Esparza, and Gonzalo Bacigalupe
When Breath Becomes Air [book review], Hugh Silk
RAHI-SATHI Indo-U.S. Collaboration: The Evolution of a Trainee-Led Twinning Model in Global Health Into a Multidisciplinary Collaborative Program, Apurv Soni, Nisha Fahey, Abraham Jaffe, Tiffany A. Moore Simas, Nancy Byatt, Michael Chin, David D. McManus, Michaela Tracey, Jasmine A. Khubchandani, Haley Newman, Allison Earon, Hannah Rosenfield, Anna Handorf, Brittany Novak, John Bostrom, Anindita Deb, Milagros C. Rosal, Patricia A. McQuilkin, Heena Santry, Melissa A. Fischer, and Jeroan J. Allison
Gender differences in risk factors for cigarette smoking initiation in childhood, Marie-Pierre Sylvestre, Robert J. Wellman, Erin K. O'Loughlin, Erika N. Dugas, and Jennifer O'Loughlin
Child contact management in high tuberculosis burden countries: A mixed-methods systematic review, Daria Szkwarko, Yael Hirsch-Moverman, Lienki Du Plessis, Karen Du Preez, Catherine W. Carr, and Anna M. Mandalakas
Risk of Gastrointestinal Bleeding Among Dabigatran Users - A Self Controlled Case Series Analysis, Wenze Tang, Hsien-Yen Chang, Meijia Zhou, and Sonal Singh
Circumstances of fall-related injuries by age and gender among community-dwelling adults in the United States, Lava R. Timsina, Joanna L. Willetts, Melanye J. Brennan, Helen Marucci-Wellman, David A. Lombardi, Theodore K. Courtney, and Santosh K. Verma
Effect of weather on pedestrian trip count and duration: City-scale evaluations using mobile phone application data, Anthony P. Vanky, Santosh K. Verma, Theodore K. Courtney, Paolo Santi, and Carlo Ratti
Publications from 2016
Lessons From a Care Management Pilot Program for People With Acquired Brain Injury, Laney Bruner-Canhoto, Judith A. Savageau, Deborah Croucher, and Kathryn Bradley
PRogram In Support of Moms (PRISM): Development and Beta Testing, Nancy Byatt, Lori Pbert, Safiyah Hosein, Holly A. Swartz, Linda Weinreb, Jeroan J. Allison, and Douglas M. Ziedonis
Accountable Care Organizations: Embracing a New Population Health, Suzanne B. Cashman
Uveitis and Systemic Inflammatory Markers in Convalescent Phase of Ebola Virus Disease, John R. Chancellor, Sriranjani P. Padmanabhan, Thomas C. Greenough, Richard Sacra, Richard T. Ellison III, Lawrence C. Madoff, Rebecca Droms, David Hinkle, George K. Asdourian, Robert W. Finberg, Ute Stroher, Timothy M. Uyeki, and Olga M. Cerón
Levels of physical dependence on tobacco among adolescent smokers in Cyprus, Costas A. Christophi, Despina Pampaka, Martha Paisi, Solonas Ioannou, and Joseph R. DiFranza
Access to New Medications for Hepatitis C for Medicaid Members: A Retrospective Cohort Study, Karen M. Clements, Robin E. Clark, Pavel Lavitas, Parag Kunte, Camilla S. Graham, Elizabeth O'Connell, Kimberly J. Lenz, and Paul Jeffrey
Can tobacco dependence provide insights into other drug addictions, Joseph R. DiFranza
A Call to Action: A Blueprint for Academic Health Sciences in the Era of Mass Incarceration, Warren J. Ferguson, David Cloud, Anne C. Spaulding, Deborah Shelton, Robert L. Trestman, Frederick L. Altice, Carisa Champion-Lippmann, David Thomas, and Faye S. Taxman
Including Language Access into Medicaid ACO Design, Rachel Gershon, Lisa Morris, and Warren J. Ferguson
Contraceptive Utilization and Downstream Feto-Maternal Outcomes for Women with Substance Use Disorders: A Dissertation, Gillian J. Griffith
Combining statistics from two national complex surveys to estimate injury rates per hour exposed and variance by activity in the USA, Tin-Chi Lin, Helen R. Marucci-Wellman, Joanna L. Willetts, Melanye J. Brennan, and Santosh K. Verma
Coalicion de Salud Comunitaria (COSACO): using a Healthy Community Partnership framework to integrate short-term global health experiences into broader community development, Lawrence C. Loh, Olga Valdman, and Matthew M. Dacso
Relationship between early symptoms of alcohol craving and binge drinking 2.5 years later, M. Morgenstern, Joseph R. DiFranza, Robert J. Wellman, James D. Sargent, and Reiner Hanewinkel
Evaluation of online and in-person motivational interviewing training for healthcare providers, Daniel J. Mullin, Barry G. Saver, Judith A. Savageau, Lisa Forsberg, and Lars Forsberg
Whither the e-cigarette, Jennifer O'Loughlin, Robert J. Wellman, and Louise Potvin
Awake whole-brain functional connectivity alterations in the adolescent spontaneously hypertensive rat feature visual streams and striatal networks, Guillaume L. Poirier, Wei Huang, K. Tam, Joseph R. DiFranza, and Jean A. King
Preparing Future Leaders: An Integrated Quality Improvement Residency Curriculum, Stacy E. Potts, Sara G. Shields, and Carole C. Upshur
Impact of a family medicine resident wellness curriculum: a feasibility study, Christine Runyan, Judith A. Savageau, Stacy E. Potts, and Linda F. Weinreb
Recruitment and Retention of Community Health Center Primary Care Physicians post MA Health Care Reform: 2008 vs. 2013 Physician Surveys, Judith A. Savageau, Linda J. Cragin, Warren J. Ferguson, Laura A. Sefton, and Joan Pernice
Behavioral Health Screening among Massachusetts Children Receiving Medicaid, Judith A. Savageau, David Keller, Georgianna Willis, Kathleen Muhr, Gideon Aweh, Jack Simons, and Emily Sherwood
Listening for Grace, Hugh Silk
High Burden of Unrecognized Atrial Fibrillation in Rural India: An Innovative Community-Based Cross-Sectional Screening Program, Apurv Soni, Allison Earon, Anna Handorf, Nisha Fahey, Kandarp Talati, John Bostrom, Ki Chon, Craig Napolitano, Michael S. Chin, John Stephen Sullivan, Shyamsundar Raithatha, Robert J. Goldberg, Somashekhar Nimbalkar, Jeroan J. Allison, Sunil Thanvi, and David D. McManus
The impact of deliberate reflection with WISE-MDTM modules on critical thinking of nurse practitioner students: A prospective, randomized controlled pilot study, Jill M. Terrien, Janet Fraser Hale, Mitchell A. Cahan, Mark E. Quirk, Kate M. Sullivan, and Joanne Lewis
Evaluating One Strategy for Including Reflection in Medical Education and Practice, Meghan Veno, Hugh Silk, Judith A. Savageau, and Kate M. Sullivan
Predictors of the Onset of Cigarette Smoking: A Systematic Review of Longitudinal Population-Based Studies in Youth, Robert J. Wellman, Erika N. Dugas, Hartley Dutczak, Erin K. O'Loughlin, Geetanjali D. Datta, Beatrice Lauzon, and Jennifer O'Loughlin
E-cigarettes: addressing gaps in knowledge, Robert J. Wellman and Jennifer O'Loughlin
Relationships Between Current and Past Binge Drinking and Systolic Blood Pressure in Young Adults, Robert J. Wellman, John A. Vaughn, Marie-Pierre Sylvestre, Erin K. O'Loughlin, Erika N. Dugas, and Jennifer O'Loughlin
An Analysis of Implicit Bias in Medical Education, Racquel J. Wells, Christine Motzkus, Suzanne B. Cashman, Jeroan J. Allison, Michael Buckner, Sonia Chimienti, and Deborah L. Plummer
Screening for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Prenatal Care: Prevalence and Characteristics in a Low-Income Population, Melodie Wenz-Gross, Linda Weinreb, and Carole C. Upshur
Using Best-Worst Scaling to Understand Patient Priorities: A Case Example of Papanicolaou Tests for Homeless Women, Eve Wittenberg, Monica Bharel, John F.P. Bridges, Zachary Ward, and Linda Weinreb
Publications from 2015
Impact of school staff health on work productivity in secondary schools in Massachusetts, Heather J. Alker, Monica L. Wang, Lori Pbert, Nancy Thorsen, and Stephenie C. Lemon
Adherence to Buprenorphine Treatment Guidelines in a Medicaid Program, Jeffrey D. Baxter, Robin E. Clark, Mihail D. Samnaliev, Gideon Aweh, and Elizabeth O'Connell
Formative Clinical Geriatrics Experiences for First- and Second-Year Medical Students: An Elusive Goal, Gary Blanchard, Erika Oleson, Mark Fitzgerald, and Jerry H. Gurwitz
Enhancing Participation in Depression Care in Outpatient Perinatal Care Settings: A Systematic Review, Nancy Byatt, Len L. Levin, Douglas M. Ziedonis, Tiffany A. Moore Simas, and Jeroan J. Allison
Changes in smoking-related symptoms during enforced abstinence of incarceration, Jennifer G. Clarke, Stephen A. Martin, Rosemarie A. Martin, L. A.R. Stein, Jacob J. van den Berg, Donna R. Parker, Arthur R. McGovern, Mary B. Roberts, and Beth C. Bock
Risk Factors for Relapse and Higher Costs Among Medicaid Members with Opioid Dependence or Abuse: Opioid Agonists, Comorbidities, and Treatment History, Robin E. Clark, Jeffrey D. Baxter, Gideon Aweh, Elizabeth O'Connell, William H. Fisher, and Bruce A. Barton
Improving patient notification of solid abdominal viscera incidental findings with a standardized protocol, Courtney E. Collins, Nicole Cherng, Theodore P. McDade, Babak Movahedi, Timothy A. Emhoff, Giles F. Whalen, Jennifer LaFemina, and Jon D. Dorfman
A 2015 Update on The Natural History and Diagnosis of Nicotine Addiction, Joseph R. DiFranza
A new way of hearing, Lisa S. Gussak
Academic-Correctional Health Partnerships: Preparing the Correctional Health Workforce for the Changing Landscape-Focus Group Research Results, Janet Hale, Heather-Lyn Haley, Judy L. Jones, Allyson Brennan, and Arthur Brewer
Nicotine and Resting-State Functional Connectivity: Effects of Intermittent Doses, Wei Huang, Kelly Tam, Janaque Fernando, Meghan E. Heffernan, Jean A. King, and Joseph R. DiFranza
Parental smoke exposure and the development of nicotine craving in adolescent novice smokers: the roles of DRD2, DRD4, and OPRM1 genotypes, Marloes Kleinjan, Rutger C.M.E. Engels, and Joseph R. DiFranza
Frequent Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalizations Among Homeless People With Medicaid: Implications for Medicaid Expansion, Wen-Chieh Lin, Monica Bharel, Jianying Zhang, Elizabeth O'Connell, and Robin E. Clark
A Qualitative Study of Vulnerable Patient Views of Type 2 Diabetes Consumer Reports, Daniel R. Longo, Benjamin F. Crabtree, Maria B. Pellerano, Jenna Howard, Barry G. Saver, Edward L. Hannan, Justin Lee, Michael T. Lundberg, and Roy Sabo
Vision Stations: Addressing Corrective Vision Needs With Low-cost Technologies, Stephen A. Martin and Elizabeth A. Frutiger
Overdiagnosis and overtreatment over time, Stephen A. Martin, Scott H. Podolsky, and Jeremy A. Greene
Comment on Inzucchi et al. Management of Hyperglycemia in Type 2 Diabetes, 2015: A Patient-Centered Approach. Update to a Position Statement of the American Diabetes Association and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes. Diabetes Care 2015;38:140-149, James P. McCormack, Stephen A. Martin, and David H. Newman
Prevalence and risk factors for postpartum depression symptoms among women with disabilities, Monika Mitra, Lisa I. Iezzoni, Jianying Zhang, Linda M. Long-Bellil, Suzanne C. Smeltzer, and Bruce A. Barton
A perinatal health framework for women with physical disabilities, Monika Mitra, Linda M. Long-Bellil, Suzanne C. Smeltzer, and Lisa I. Iezzoni
Pregnancy outcomes among women with intellectual and developmental disabilities, Monika Mitra, Susan L. Parish, Karen M. Clements, Xiaohui Cui, and Hafsatou Diop
Challenges in developing primary care physicians' motivational interviewing skills, Daniel Mullin, Lisa Forsberg, Judith A. Savageau, and Barry G. Saver
Cohort Profile: The Nicotine Dependence in Teens (NDIT) Study, Jennifer O'Loughlin, Joseph R. DiFranza, and Robert J. Wellman
Pregnancy Outcomes Among U.S. Women With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Susan L. Parish, Monika Mitra, Esther Son, Alexandra Bonardi, Paul T. Swoboda, and Leah Igdalsky
Achieving the Triple Aim: A Curriculum Framework for Health Professions Education, Mary A. Paterson, Malika Fair, Suzanne B. Cashman, Clyde Evans, and David Garr
Achieving the Triple Aim: A Curriculum Framework for Health Professions Education, Mary A. Paterson, Malika Fair, Suzanne B. Cashman, Clyde Evans, and David Garr
Perspectives in Implementing a Pragmatic Pediatric Primary Care-Based Intervention Trial, Lori Pbert, Susan Druker, Alan J. Flint, Martin H. Young, and Joseph R. DiFranza
State-of-the-Art Office-Based Interventions to Eliminate Youth Tobacco Use: The Past Decade, Lori Pbert, Harold Farber, Kimberly Horn, Harry A. Lando, Myra L. Muramoto, Jennifer O'Loughlin, Susanne E. Tanski, Robert J. Wellman, Jonathan P. Winickoff, and Jonathan D. Klein
Power of Knowledge: Effect of Two Educational Interventions on Readiness for Chlamydia Screening, Rachel Sagor, Jeremy Golding, Margaret M. Giorgio, and Diane R. Blake
The academic and health policy conference on correctional health: evaluation of its academic and scientific impact, Judith A. Savageau, Warren J. Ferguson, and Laura A. Sefton
A piece of my mind. Should C be a passing grade for the USPSTF?, Barry G. Saver
UMass PCORI mammography ages 40-49 decision aid [English], Barry G. Saver, Gonzalo Bacigalupe, Nancy Esparza, Sarah L. Cutrona, Marcela Hayes, Tatyana Gorodetsky, Kathleen M. Mazor, Joanne Calista, and Roger S. Luckmann
UMass PCORI PSA decision aid [English], Barry G. Saver, Gonzalo Bacigalupe, Nancy Esparza, Sarah L. Cutrona, Marcela Hayes, Tatyana Gorodetsky, Kathleen M. Mazor, Joanne Calista, and Roger S. Luckmann
Care that Matters: Quality Measurement and Health Care, Barry G. Saver, Stephen A. Martin, Ronald N. Adler, Lucy M. Candib, Konstantinos E. Deligiannidis, Jeremy Golding, Daniel J. Mullin, Michele Roberts, and Stefan Topolski
Behind bars: the compelling case for academic health centers partnering with correctional facilities, Robert L. Trestman, Warren J. Ferguson, and Jeff Dickert
Preventive behaviors and knowledge of tick-borne illnesses: results of a survey from an endemic area, Sara L. Valente, Daniel Wemple, Sebastian Ramos, Suzanne B. Cashman, and Judith A. Savageau
Confirmatory factor analysis of the Autonomy over Tobacco Scale (AUTOS) in adults, Robert J. Wellman, Joseph R. DiFranza, and Jennifer O'Loughlin
Item Response Theory analysis of the Autonomy over Tobacco Scale (AUTOS), Robert J. Wellman, Maria Orlando. Edelen, and Joseph R. DiFranza
