This collection showcases publications authored by UMass Medical School researchers who specialize in women’s health.
Publications from 2004
Deletion of the nucleotide excision repair gene Ercc1 reduces immunoglobulin class switching and alters mutations near switch recombination junctions, Carol E. Schrader, Joycelyn Vardo, Erin K. Linehan, Michael Z. Twarog, Laura J. Niedernhofer, Jan H. J. Hoeijmakers, and Janet Stavnezer
Accuracy of home pregnancy tests at the time of missed periods, Machelle M. Seibel
Evolution of isotype switching, Janet Stavnezer and Chris T. Amemiya
Women's decision making about the use of hormonal and nonprescription remedies for the menopausal transition, Rosemary T. Theroux
Effects of standardized patient encounter on graduate nurse practitioner student learning and performance of genital examinations, Rosemary T. Theroux and Carole Pearce
Joint clinical clerkships for osteopathic and allopathic medical students: New England's experience, Henry Tulgan, William J. DeMarco, Michele P. Pugnaire, and Boyd R. Buser
Depression and cardiovascular sequelae in postmenopausal women. The Women's Health Initiative (WHI), Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, Sally A. Shumaker, Judith K. Ockene, Greg A. Talavera, Philip Greenland, Barbara B. Cochrane, John Robbins, Aaron K. Aragaki, and Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob
Dietary adherence in the Women's Health Initiative Dietary Modification Trial, Women's Health Initiative Study Group
A survey of the complications of vaginal prolapse surgery performed by members of the Society Of Gynecologic Surgeons, Stephen B. Young, Ernest I. Kohorn, Susan Braz-Martin, and Stephen P. Baker
Extended Colpoperineorrhaphy for Severe Prolapse in Elderly or At Risk Acoital Women, Stephen B. Young, Tiffany A. Moore Simas, Monica M. McKinnon, Michael P. Aronson, Abraham N. Morse, and Allison E. Howard
Publications from 2003
Quality assessment tools: incremental advance or paradigm shift, Jeroan J. Allison
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis for a couple with recurrent pregnancy loss and triploidy, Shalom Bar-Ami, Machelle M. Seibel, Kenneth E. Pierce, and Moshe Zilberstein
Obtaining patient permission for student participation in obstetric-gynecologic outpatient visits: a randomized controlled trial, Robert E. Berry Jr., Katherine K. O'Dell, Bruce A. Meyer, and Urip Purwono
Employment and caregiving: exploration of African American caregivers, Karen Bullock, Sybil L. Crawford, and Sharon L Tennstedt
Neuropathic uterine pain after hysterectomy. A case report, Norma F. Chavez, Susan L. Zweizig, and Elizabeth A. Stewart
F-actin and myosin II binding domains in supervillin, Yu Chen, Norio Takizawa, Jessica Lynn Crowley, Sang W. Oh, Cheryl Lynn Gatto, Taketoshi Kambara, Osamu Sato, Xiang-Dong Li, Mitsuo Ikebe, and Elizabeth J. Luna
Barriers to preventive interventions for coronary heart disease, David E. Chiriboga, Judith K. Ockene, and Ira S. Ockene
Utilization of services by chronically ill people in managed care and indemnity plans: implications for quality, Stephen M Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, J Michael Oakes, Sybil L. Crawford, David Blumenthal, and Daniel P Valentine
Role of the cytoplasmic domain of the Newcastle disease virus fusion protein in association with lipid rafts, V. Dolganiuc, Lori McGinnes, Elizabeth J. Luna, and Trudy G. Morrison
Pulmonary function as a predictor of lung cancer mortality in continuing cigarette smokers and in quitters, Lynn E. Eberly, Judith K. Ockene, Roger Sherwin, Lingfeng Yang, and Lewis H. Kuller
Sexual health innovations in undergraduate medical education, Emily Ferrara, Michele P. Pugnaire, Julie A. Jonassen, Katherine K. O'Dell, Marjorie Clay, David S. Hatem, and Michele M. Carlin
Risk factors for Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus infection among HIV-1-infected pregnant women in the USA, James J. Goedert, Manhattan Charurat, William A. Blattner, Ronald C. Hershow, Jane Pitt, Clemente Diaz, Lynne M. Mofenson, Karen Green, Howard Minkoff, Mary E. Paul, David L. Thomas, Denise Whitby, and Women and Infants Transmission Study
Parents Learn to Find Quality Health Information: Point-of-Care Reference Services in a Pediatric Clinic, Nancy E. Harger and Elaine Russo Martin
Narrowing gender differences in procedure use for acute myocardial infarction: insights from the Worcester heart attack study, Leslie R. Harrold, Julian Esteban, Darleen M. Lessard, Jorge L. Yarzebski, Jerry H. Gurwitz, Joel M. Gore, and Robert J. Goldberg
Effects of estrogen plus progestin on health-related quality of life, Jennifer Hays, Judith K. Ockene, Robert L. Brunner, Jane Morley Kotchen, JoAnn E. Manson, Ruth E. Patterson, Aaron K. Aragaki, Sally A. Shumaker, Robert G. Brzyski, Andrea Z. LaCroix, Iris A. Granek, and Barbara G. Valanis
Polymorphisms and the pocketbook: the cost-effectiveness of cytochrome P450 2C19 genotyping in the eradication of Helicobacter pylori infection associated with duodenal ulcer, David F. Lehmann, Joseph J. Medicis, and Patricia D. Franklin
A randomized trial of telephone counseling to promote screening mammography in two HMOs, Roger S. Luckmann, Judith A. Savageau, Lynn Clemow, Anne M. Stoddard, and Mary E. Costanza
The Leadership Reconsidered symposium: report, Elaine Russo Martin, Helen-Ann Brown, Barbara A. Epstein, Carolyn E. Lipscomb, Ruth A. Riley, and Jean P. Shipman
Recreational physical activity and the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women: the Women's Health Initiative Cohort Study, Anne McTiernan, Charles L. Kooperberg, Emily White, Sara Wilcox, Ralph Coates, Lucile L. Adams-Campbell, Nancy F. Woods, and Judith K. Ockene
The Smu tandem repeat region is critical for Ig isotype switching in the absence of Msh2, Irene M. Min, Carol E. Schrader, Joycelyn Vardo, Thomas M. Luby, Nicole D'Avirro, Janet Stavnezer, and Erik Selsing
Psychosocial rehabilitation service needs of women, Carol T. Mowbray, Joanne Nicholson, and Chyrell D. Bellamy
Achieving the goal of evidence-based psychiatric rehabilitation practices for mothers with mental illnesses, Joanne Nicholson and Alexis D. Henry
Archvillin, a muscle-specific isoform of supervillin, is an early expressed component of the costameric membrane skeleton, Sang W. Oh, Robert K. Pope, Kelly P. Smith, Jessica Lynn Crowley, Thomas Nebl, Jeanne B. Lawrence, and Elizabeth J. Luna
Developing and testing new smoking measures for the Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set, Lori Pbert, Nancy Vuckovic, Judith K. Ockene, Jack F. Hollis, and Karen Riedlinger
The Women's Health Initiative Dietary Modification trial: overview and baseline characteristics of participants, Cheryl Ritenbaugh, Ruth E. Patterson, Rowan T. Chlebowski, Bette J. Caan, Lesley F. Tinker, Barbara V. Howard, and Judith K. Ockene
A phase II study of docetaxel in paclitaxel-resistant ovarian and peritoneal carcinoma: a Gynecologic Oncology Group study, Peter G. Rose, John A. Blessing, Harrison G. Ball III, James Hoffman, David Warshal, Koen DeGeest, and David H. Moore
Mutations occur in the Ig Smu region but rarely in Sgamma regions prior to class switch recombination, Carol E. Schrader, Sean P. Bradley, Joycelyn Vardo, Sofia N. Mochegova, Erin Flanagan, and Janet Stavnezer
Mlh1 can function in antibody class switch recombination independently of Msh2, Carol E. Schrader, Joycelyn Vardo, and Janet Stavnezer
Treating hot flushes without hormone replacement therapy, Machelle M. Seibel
Estrogen plus progestin and the incidence of dementia and mild cognitive impairment in postmenopausal women: the Women's Health Initiative Memory Study: a randomized controlled trial, Sally A. Shumaker, Claudine Legault, Stephen R. Rapp, Leon J. Thal, Robert B. Wallace, Judith K. Ockene, Susan L. Hendrix, Beverly N. Jones, Annlouise R. Assaf, Rebecca D. Jackson, Jane Morley Kotchen, Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, and Jean Wactawski-Wende
Evidence-Based Resources for Public Health Project, E. Hatheway Simpson, Elaine Russo Martin, Sharon Telleen, and Roger S. Luckmann
American Cancer Society guidelines for breast cancer screening: update 2003, Robert A. Smith, Debbie Saslow, Kimberly Andrews Sawyer, Wylie Burke, Mary E. Costanza, W. Phil Evans 3rd, Roger S. Foster Jr., Edward Hendrick, Harmon J. Eyre, and Steven Sener
Association of lipoprotein(a), insulin resistance, and reproductive hormones in a multiethnic cohort of pre- and perimenopausal women (The SWAN Study), MaryFran Sowers, Sybil L. Crawford, Jane A Cauley, and Evan Stein
Chronic disease medication use in managed care and indemnity insurance plans, Randall S. Stafford, Stephen M. Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, Sybil L. Crawford, and David Blumenthal
Identifying evidence-based best practices in Maternal and Child Health, Sharon L. Telleen, E. Hatheway Simpson, and Elaine Russo Martin
Women's decision making about the use of hormonal and nonhormonal remedies for the menopausal transition, Rosemary T. Theroux and Kristin Taylor
Self-management of type 2 diabetes: a survey of low-income urban Puerto Ricans, Dorothea S. von Goeler, Milagros C. Rosal, Judith K. Ockene, Jeffrey Scavron, and Fernando De Torrijos
Effect of communications training on medical student performance, Michael J. Yedidia, Colleen C. Gillespie, Elizabeth Kachur, Mark D. Schwartz, Judith K. Ockene, Amy E. Chepaitis, Clint W. Snyder, Aaron Lazare, and Mack Lipkin Jr.
Publications from 2002
Urinary tract injury in pelvic surgery, Michael P. Aronson and Teresa M. Bose
Menopause, Nancy E. Avis, Sybil L. Crawford, and Catherine B. Johannes
High-dose versus standard chemotherapy in metastatic breast cancer: comparison of Cancer and Leukemia Group B trials with data from the Autologous Blood and Marrow Transplant Registry, Donald A. Berry, Gloria Broadwater, John P. Klein, Karen Antman, Joseph Aisner, Jacob Bitran, Mary E. Costanza, Cesar O. Freytes, Edward Stadtmauer, Robert Peter Gale, I. Craig Henderson, Hillard M. Lazarus, Philip L. McCarthy Jr., Larry Norton, Howard Parnes, Andrew Pecora, Michael C. Perry, Philip Rowlings, Gary Spitzer, and Mary M. Horowitz
Treating nicotine dependence during pregnancy and postpartum: understanding clinician knowledge and performance, Debra Bonollo, Jane G. Zapka, Anne M. Stoddard, Yunsheng Ma, Lori Pbert, and Judith K. Ockene
A New View of Women’s Sexual Problems—A Family Physician’s Response, Lucy M. Candib
Commentary on "Menopause and Gynaecological Disorders", Sybil L. Crawford and Catherine B. Johannes
Assessment of digit preference in self-reported year at menopause: choice of an appropriate reference distribution, Sybil L. Crawford, Catherine B. Johannes, and Rebecca K Stellato
Measuring the loss of autonomy over nicotine use in adolescents: the DANDY (Development and Assessment of Nicotine Dependence in Youths) study, Joseph R. DiFranza, Judith A. Savageau, Kenneth E. Fletcher, Judith K. Ockene, Nancy A. Rigotti, Ann D. McNeill, Mardia A. Coleman, and Constance Wood
Development of symptoms of tobacco dependence in youths: 30 month follow up data from the DANDY study, Joseph R. DiFranza, Judith A. Savageau, Nancy A. Rigotti, Kenneth E. Fletcher, Judith K. Ockene, Ann D. McNeill, Mardia A. Coleman, and Constance Wood
The ubiquitously expressed DNA-binding protein late SV40 factor binds Ig switch regions and represses class switching to IgA, Elise E. Drouin, Carol E. Schrader, Janet Stavnezer, and Ulla Hansen
Culture, language, and the doctor-patient relationship, Warren J. Ferguson and Lucy M. Candib
Evaluation of a cancer prevention and detection curriculum for medical students, Alan C. Geller, Marianne N. Prout, Donald R. Miller, Benjamin Siegel, Ting Sun, Judith K. Ockene, and Howard K. Koh
Blood lead level and dental caries in school-age children, Allison Gemmel, Mary Tavares, Susan Alperin, Jennifer Soncini, David Daniel, Julie Dunn, Sybil L. Crawford, Norman Braveman, Thomas W. Clarkson, Sonja McKinlay, and David C. Bellinger
Diagnosis and management of clostridium perfringens sepsis and uterine gas gangrene, Thomas F. Halpin and Jane A. Molinari
Influences on older women's adherence to a low-fat diet in the Women's Health Initiative, Margaret H. Kearney, Milagros C. Rosal, Judith K. Ockene, and Linda C. Churchill
The relationship of circulating dehydroepiandrosterone, testosterone, and estradiol to stages of the menopausal transition and ethnicity, William L. Lasley, Nanette Santoro, John F Randolf, Ellen B. Gold, Sybil L. Crawford, Gerson Weiss, Daniel S McConnell, and Mary Fran Sowers
Preventive healthcare use, smoking, and alcohol use among Rhode Island women experiencing intimate partner violence, Stephenie C. Lemon, Wendy Verhoek-Oftedahl, and Edward F. Donnelly
Point-of-Care Reference Service in a Pediatric Clinic, Elaine Russo Martin, Nancy E. Harger, Christopher Stille M.D., and Barbara Winrich
Improving Information Access for Public Health Professionals, Elaine Russo Martin and Sharon Telleen
Atherosclerotic risk factor reduction in peripheral arterial diseasea: results of a national physician survey, Mary McGrae McDermott, Elizabeth A. Hahn, Philip Greenland, David Cella, Judith K. Ockene, Donna Brogan, William H. Pearce, Alan T. Hirsch, Kendra Hanley, Linda Odom, Shaheen Khan, Michael H. Criqui, Martin S. Lipsky, and Stacie Hudgens
Does hysterectomy without adnexectomy in patients with prior tubal interruption increase the risk of subsequent hydrosalpinx, Abraham N. Morse, Robert A. Hammer, Andrew J. Walter, Stephen P. Baker, and Paul M. Magtibay
Proteomic analysis of a detergent-resistant membrane skeleton from neutrophil plasma membranes, Thomas Nebl, Kersi N. Pestonjamasp, John D. Leszyk, Jessica Lynn Crowley, Sang W. Oh, and Elizabeth J. Luna
Multicenter trial of fluoxetine as an adjunct to behavioral smoking cessation treatment, Raymond Niaura, Bonnie Spring, Belinda Borrelli, Donald Hedeker, Michael G. Goldstein, Nancy J. Keuthen, Judy DePue, Jean L. Kristeller, Judith K. Ockene, Allan Prochazka, John A. Chiles, and David B. Abrams
Primary care-based smoking interventions, Judith K. Ockene
Spontaneous cessation of smoking and alcohol use among low-income pregnant women, Judith K. Ockene, Yunsheng Ma, Jane G. Zapka, Lori Pbert, Karin V. Goins, and Anne M. Stoddard
Preparing medical students to teach, Susan J. Pasquale and Michele P. Pugnaire
Risks and benefits of estrogen plus progestin in healthy postmenopausal women: principal results From the Women's Health Initiative randomized controlled trial, Jacques E. Rossouw, Garnet L. Anderson, Ross L. Prentice, Andrea Z. LaCroix, Charles L. Kooperberg, Marcia L. Stefanick, Rebecca D. Jackson, Shirley A. A. Beresford, Barbara V. Howard, Karen C. Johnson, Jane Morley Kotchen, and Judith K. Ockene
Assessing menstrual cycles with urinary hormone assays, N. Santoro, Sybil L. Crawford, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Ellen B. Gold, Gail A. Greendale, Stan Korenman, William L. Lasley, D. McConnell, P. McGaffigan, R. Midgely, M. Schocken, M. Sowers, and G. Weiss
Role for mismatch repair proteins Msh2, Mlh1, and Pms2 in immunoglobulin class switching shown by sequence analysis of recombination junctions, Carol E. Schrader, Joycelyn Vardo, and Janet Stavnezer
Does activation-induced deaminase initiate antibody diversification by DNA deamination, Janet Stavnezer and Sean P. Bradley
Effectiveness of telephone counseling for mammography: results from five randomized trials, Anne M. Stoddard, Sarah A. Fox, Mary E. Costanza, Dorothy S. Lane, M. Robyn Andersen, Nicole Urban, Isaac Lipkus, and Barbara K. Rimer
Immunoglobulin genes: generating diversity with AID and UNG, Ursula Storb and Janet Stavnezer
Villin-type headpiece domains show a wide range of F-actin-binding affinities, D. Vardar, A. H. Chishti, B. S. Frank, Elizabeth J. Luna, A. A. Noegel, Sang W. Oh, M. Schleicher, and C. J. McKnight
Pap smear testing among homeless and very low-income housed mothers, Linda F. Weinreb, Robert J. Goldberg, and Darleen M. Lessard
Cancer of the kidney, Susan L. Zweizig
Publications from 2001
Is there a menopausal syndrome? Menopausal status and symptoms across racial/ethnic groups, Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, Sybil L. Crawford, J Bromberger, P Ganz, V Cain, and M Kagawa-Singer
Phase I trial of escalating doses of paclitaxel combined with fixed doses of cisplatin and doxorubicin in advanced endometrial cancer and other gynecologic malignancies: a Gynecologic Oncology Group study, Gini F. Fleming, Jeffrey M. Fowler, Stephen E. Waggoner, Larry J. Copeland, Benjamin E. Greer, Ira Horowitz, Gregory Sutton, Russell J. Schilder, Paula M. Fracasso, Harrison G. Ball III, and William P. McGuire III
Factors associated with age at natural menopause in a multiethnic sample of midlife women, Ellen B. Gold, J Bromberger, Sybil L. Crawford, S Samuels, Gail A. Greendale, Sioban D. Harlow, and J Skurnick
Change in women's diet and body mass following intensive intervention for early-stage breast cancer, James R. Hebert, Cara B. Ebbeling, Barbara C. Olendzki, Thomas G. Hurley, Yunsheng Ma, Nancy Saal, Judith K. Ockene, and Lynn Clemow
The mu switch region tandem repeats are important, but not required, for antibody class switch recombination, Thomas M. Luby, Carol E. Schrader, Janet Stavnezer, and Erik Selsing
Differential regulation of mouse germline Ig gamma 1 and epsilon promoters by IL-4 and CD40, C. S. Mao and Janet Stavnezer
Body mass index in mid-life women: relative influence of menopause, hormone use, and ethnicity, Karen A. Matthews, B Abrams, Sybil L. Crawford, T Miles, R Neer, L H Powell, and D Wesley
Communication skills in women's health care: helping students clarify values related to challenging topics in ob-gyn, Edward Peskin and Katherine K. O'Dell
Facilitating dietary change: the patient-centered counseling model, Milagros C. Rosal, Cara B. Ebbeling, Ingrid Liff, Judith K. Ockene, Ira S. Ockene, and James R. Hebert
Activation of the mouse Ig germline epsilon promoter by IL-4 is dependent on AP-1 transcription factors, Ching-Hung Shen and Janet Stavnezer
Roles of Ets proteins, NF-kappa B and nocodazole in regulating induction of transcription of mouse germline Ig alpha RNA by transforming growth factor-beta 1, M. J. Shi, S. R. Park, P. H. Kim, and Janet Stavnezer
Promoting adherence and retention to clinical trials in special populations: a women's health initiative workshop, Sara Wilcox, Sally A. Shumaker, Deborah J. Bowen, Michelle J. Naughton, Milagros C. Rosal, Shari E. Ludlam, Elizabeth Dugan, Julie R. Hunt, and Stephanie Stevens
Vaginal paravaginal repair: one-year outcomes, Stephen B. Young, Jennifer J. Daman, and Laura G. Bony
Mersilene mesh sling: short- and long-term clinical and urodynamic outcomes, Stephen B. Young, Allison E. Howard, and Stephen P. Baker
Publications from 2000
Is there an association between menopause status and sexual functioning, Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, Sybil L. Crawford, Catherine B. Johannes, and C Longcope
Women with HIV infection: the three waves of scientific inquiry, Carol A. Bova
Underutilizers of mammography screening today: characteristics of women planning, undecided about, and not planning a mammogram, Lynn Clemow, Mary E. Costanza, W. P. Haddad, Roger Luckmann, Mary Jo White, D. Klaus, and Anne M. Stoddard