As part of the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) Women’s Health Resources Dissemination Outreach Project, this collection showcases publications authored by UMMS researchers who specialize in women’s health. A “gallery” of faculty web pages of women’s health researchers at UMMS is also included. This collection and gallery complement the Women’s Health Outreach Guide and have been created in partnership with the UMMS Women’s Faculty Committee and the UMMS Women’s Leadership Working Group. This project is funded in part by the National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine under Award Number LLC/HHSN3162012000028W, ICF International, Inc.
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Publications from 2012
Executive summary of the Stages of Reproductive Aging Workshop + 10: addressing the unfinished agenda of staging reproductive aging, Sioban D. Harlow, Margery Gass, Janet E. Hall, Roger Lobo, Pauline M. Maki, Robert W. Rebar, Sherry S. Sherman, Patrick M. Sluss, Tobie J. de Villiers, and Sybil L. Crawford
Executive summary of the Stages of Reproductive Aging Workshop + 10: addressing the unfinished agenda of staging reproductive aging, Sioban D. Harlow, Margery Gass, Janet E. Hall, Roger Lobo, Pauline M. Maki, Robert W. Rebar, Sherry S. Sherman, Patrick M. Sluss, Tobie J. de Villiers, and Sybil L. Crawford
Executive summary of the Stages of Reproductive Aging Workshop +10: addressing the unfinished agenda of staging reproductive aging, Sioban D. Harlow, Margery Gass, Janet E. Hall, Roger Lobo, Pauline M. Maki, Robert W. Rebar, Sherry S. Sherman, Patrick M. Sluss, Tobie J. de Villiers, and Sybil L. Crawford
Prevalence of painful musculoskeletal conditions in female and male veterans in 7 years after return from deployment in Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom, Sally Haskell, Yuming Ning, Erin Krebs, Joseph Goulet, Kristin M. Mattocks, Robert Kerns, and Cynthia Brandt
Development of an updated phytoestrogen database for use with the SWAN food frequency questionnaire: intakes and food sources in a community-based, multiethnic cohort study, Mei-Hua Huang, Jean Norris, Weijun han, Torin Block, Ellen B. Gold, Sybil L. Crawford, and Gail A. Greendale
Enhanced humoral and hla-a2-restricted dengue virus-specific t cell responses in humanized blt nsg mice, Smita Jaiswal
Cost-Utility of Routine Endometrial Evaluation Prior to Le Fort Colpocleisis, Padma Kandadai, Michael K. Flynn, Susan Zweizig, and Danielle Patterson
Antidepressant use, depressive symptoms, and incident frailty in women aged 65 and older from the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study, Susan L. Lakey, Andrea Z. LaCroix, Shelly L. Gray, Soo Borson, Carla D. Williams, Darren Calhoun, Joseph S. Goveas, Jordan W. Smoller, Judith K. Ockene, Kamal H. Masaki, Mace Coday, Milagros C. Rosal, and Nancy F. Woods
Androstenediol complements estrogenic bioactivity during the menopausal transition, William L. Lasley, Jiangang Chen, Frank Z. Stanczyk, Samar R. El Khoudary, Nancy A. Gee, Sybil L. Crawford, and Daniel S. McConnell
Using a Multidisciplinary Approach for Pregnant Women With Nicotine Dependence and Co-occurring Disorders, Rebecca Lundquist, Gregory Seward, Nancy Byatt, Makenzie E. Tonelli, and Monika Kolodziej
Smoking cessation, weight gain, and risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus among postmenopausal women, Juhua Luo, Jacques E. Rossouw, Elisa Tong, Gary A. Giovino, Cathy Lee, Chu Chen, Judith K. Ockene, Lihong Qi, and Karen L. Margolis
Manic episode after total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy: case report, Wendy K. Marsh, Alan P. Brown, and Anthony J. Rothschild
Progression of female reproductive stages associated with bipolar illness exacerbation, Wendy K. Marsh, Terence A. Ketter, Sybil L. Crawford, Julia V. Johnson, Aimee R. Kroll-Desrosiers, and Anthony J. Rothschild
Bipolar Disorder Through Pregnancy and Postpartum, Wendy K. Marsh and Adele Viguera
Women at war: understanding how women veterans cope with combat and military sexual trauma, Kristin M. Mattocks, Sally Haskell, Erin Krebs, Amy C. Justice, Elizabeth M. Yano, and Cynthia A. Brandt
Understanding Reproductive Healthcare and Outcomes Among Women Veterans: A Review of Recent Research and Future Opportunities, Kristin M. Mattocks and Laurie Zephyrin
Determinants of Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Incidence of Diabetes in Postmenopausal Women in the U.S.: The Women's Health Initiative 1993-2009, Yunsheng Ma, James R. Hebert, JoAnn E. Manson, Raji Balasubramanian, Simin Liu, Michael J. Lamonte, Chloe E. Bird, Judith K. Ockene, Yongxia Qiao, Barbara C. Olendzki, Kristin L. Schneider, Milagros C. Rosal, Deidre M. Sepavich, Jean Wactawski-Wende, Marcia L. Stefanick, Lawrence S. Phillips, Ira S. Ockene, Robert C. Kaplan, Gloria E. Sarto, Lorena Garcia, and Barbara V. Howard
Angiogenic biomarkers for prediction of maternal and neonatal complications in suspected preeclampsia., Andreea G. Moore, Heather Young, Jennifer M. Keller, Linda R. Ojo, Jing Yan, Tiffany A. Moore Simas, and Sharon E. Maynard
Pemphigoid (Herpes) Gestationis, Tiffany A. Moore Simas
Mid-gestation Angiogenic Biomarker Levels are Increased in Women at High Risk for Preeclampsia, Tiffany A. Moore Simas, Sybil L. Crawford, Susie Bathgate, Jing Yang, Laura Robidoux, Melissa J. Moore, and Sharon E. Maynard
Recognizing and Awarding the Accomplishments of Women Faculty at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Tiffany A. Moore Simas, Rebecca S. Lundquist, and Elaine Russo Martin
Leadership Development for Enhancement of Recruitment and Retention—The University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) Leadership Speaker Series, Tiffany A. Moore Simas and Judith K. Ockene
Prepregnancy weight, gestational weight gain, and risk of growth affected neonates, Tiffany A. Moore Simas, Molly E. Waring, Xun Liao, Anne Garrison, Gina M. T. Sullivan, Allison E. Howard, and Janet R. Hardy
Pessary care: follow up and management of complications, Katharine K. O'Dell and Shanna Atnip
Managing a pessary business, Katharine K. O'Dell, Leslie Saltzstein Wooldridge, and Shanna Atnip
Understanding Health Utilities in Women with Urinary Incontinence, Danielle Patterson, Michael Flynn, Courtney Stachowski, and Abraham Morse
Health Care for the Homeless: An Aging Demographic 2006 to 2010, Jennifer Aborn Russo and Carole C. Upshur
TLR9 provokes inflammation in response to fetal DNA: mechanism for fetal loss in preterm birth and preeclampsia, Andrea Scharfe-Nugent, Sinead C. Corr, Susan B. Carpenter, Louise Keogh, Brendan Doyle, Cara Martin, Katherine A. Fitzgerald, Sean Daly, John J. O'Leary, and Luke A. J. O'Neill
Contraceptive insurance mandates, Ellen R. Shaffer, Mona Sarfaty, and Arlene S. Ash
Improving population health through integration of primary care and public health: providing access to physical activity for community health center patients, Matthew A. Silva, Suzanne B. Cashman, Parag Kunte, and Lucy M. Candib
Cost Utility of Treatment of Stress Urinary Incontinence [poster abstract], Emily Von Bargen and Danielle Patterson
Do Changes in Sex Steroid Hormones Precede or Follow Increases in Body Weight during the Menopause Transition? Results from The Study of Women's Health Across the Nation, Rachel P. Wildman, Ping G. Tepper, Sybil L. Crawford, Joel S. Finkelstein, Kim Sutton-Tyrrell, Rebecca C. Thurston, Nanette Santoro, Barbara Sternfeld, and Gail A. Greendale
Patients' attitudes and perceptions of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators: potential barriers to appropriate primary prophylaxis, Jennifer Yuhas, Kristin M. Mattocks, Laura Gravelin, Michael Remetz, John Foley, Richard Fazio, and Rachel Lampert
Publications from 2011
Intimate partner violence against deaf female college students, Melissa L. Anderson and Irene W. Leigh
Intimate partner violence against deaf women: A review, Melissa L. Anderson, Irene W. Leigh, and Vincent J. Samar
Medication Exposure in Pregnancy Risk Evaluation Program, Susan E. Andrade, Robert L. Davis, T. Craig Cheetham, William O. Cooper, De-Kun Li, Thushi Amini, Sarah J. Beaton, Sascha Dublin, Tarek A. Hammad, Pamala A. Pawloski, Marsha A. Raebel, David H. Smith, Judy A. Staffa, Sengwee Toh, Inna Dashevsky, Katherine Haffenreffer, Kimberly Lane, Richard Platt, and Pamela E. Scott
Validation of algorithms to ascertain clinical conditions and medical procedures used during pregnancy, Susan E. Andrade, Tiffany A. Moore Simas, Denise M. Boudreau, Marsha A. Raebel, Sengwee Toh, Beth Syat, Inna Dashevsky, and Richard Platt
Inhibiting food reward: delay discounting, food reward sensitivity, and palatable food intake in overweight and obese women, Bradley M. Appelhans, Kathleen Woolf, Sherry L. Pagoto, Kristin L. Schneider, Matthew C. Whited, and Rebecca Liebman
Up-regulation of microRNA-155 in macrophages contributes to increased tumor necrosis factor {alpha} (TNF{alpha}) production via increased mRNA half-life in alcoholic liver disease, Shashi Bala, Miguel Marcos, Karen Kodys, Timea Csak, Donna Catalano, Pranoti Mandrekar, and Gyongyi Szabo
Vitamin D intake from foods and supplements and depressive symptoms in a diverse Population of Older Women., Elizabeth Bertone-Johnson, Sally I. Powers, Leslie Spangler, Robert L. Brunner, Yvonne L. Michael, Joseph C. Larson, Amy E. Millen, Maria N. Bueche, Elena Salmoirago Blotcher, Simin Liu, Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, Judith K. Ockene, Ira S. Ockene, and JoAnn E. Manson
Host genetic risk factors for West Nile virus infection and disease progression, Abigail W. Bigham, Kati J. Buckingham, Sofia Husain, Mary J. Edmond, Kathryn M. Bofferding, Heidi Gildersleeve, Ann Rutherford, Natalia M. Astakhova, Andrey A. Perelygin, Michael P. Busch, Kristy O. Murray, James J. Sejvar, Sharone Green, John Kriesel, Margo A. Brinton, and Michael Bamshad
Improving Prenatal Education in a Health Center: A Pilot Study, Marcy Keddy Boucher, Hugh Silk, Judith A. Savageau, Katharine C. Barnard, and Mary Flynn
Relationships between multiple sclerosis and depression, Nancy Byatt, Anthony J. Rothschild, Peter Riskind, Carolina Ionete, and Anne T. Hunt
Mindfulness training for coping with hot flashes: results of a randomized trial, James Carmody, Sybil L. Crawford, Elena Salmoirago Blotcher, Katherine Leung, Linda C. Churchill, and NIcholas Olendzki
Pelvic inflammatory disease, Thomas L. Cherpes, Peter A. Rice, and Richard L. Sweet
Teaching Research Data Management: An Undergraduate/Graduate Curriculum, Paul Colombo, Mary E. Piorun, Donna Kafel, Tracey Leger-Hornby, Siamak Najafi, and Elaine Martin
Helping men make an informed decision about prostate cancer screening: A pilot study of telephone counseling, Mary E. Costanza, Roger S. Luckmann, Milagros C. Rosal, Mary Jo White, Nancy R. LaPelle, Melissa Partin, Caroline Cranos, Katherine Leung, and Christine M. Foley
Design and methods for a randomized clinical trial comparing three outreach efforts to improve screening mammography adherence, Mary E. Costanza, Roger S. Luckmann, Mary Jo White, Milagros C. Rosal, Caroline Cranos, George W. Reed, Robin E. Clark, Susan Sama, and Robert A. Yood
Assessment of health sciences and science and technology librarian e-science educational needs to develop an e-science web portal for librarians, Andrew Creamer, Myrna E. Morales, Javier Crespo, Donna Kafel, and Elaine Russo Martin
Data Curation and Management Competencies of New England Region Health Sciences and Science and Technology Librarians, Andrew Creamer, Myrna E. Morales, Javier Crespo, Donna Kafel, and Elaine Russo Martin
Deficiency in myeloid differentiation factor-2 and Toll-like receptor 4 expression attenuates non-alcoholic steatohepatitis and fibrosis in mice, Timea Csak, Arumugam Velayudham, Istvan Hritz, Jan Petrasek, Ivan Levin, Dora Lippai, Donna Catalano, Pranoti Mandrekar, Angela Dolganiuc, Evelyn A. Kurt-Jones, and Gyongyi Szabo
Attitudes of women in their forties toward the 2009 USPSTF mammogram guidelines: a randomized trial on the effects of media exposure, AuTumn S. Davidson, Xun Liao, and B. Dale Magee
Exclusion of older adults and women from recent trials of acute coronary syndromes, Katherine S. Dodd, Jane S. Saczynski, Yanfang Zhao, Robert J. Goldberg, and Jerry H. Gurwitz
Determinants of inapparent and symptomatic dengue infection in a prospective study of primary school children in Kamphaeng Phet, Thailand, Timothy P. Endy, Kathryn B. Anderson, Ananda Nisalak, In-Kyu Yoon, Sharone Green, Alan L. Rothman, Stephen J. Thomas, Richard G. Jarman, Daniel H. Libraty, and Robert V. Gibbons
Prenatal tobacco exposure: Developmental outcomes in the neonatal period, Kimberly Andrews Espy, Hua Fang, Craig Johnson, Christian Stopp, Sandra A. Wiebe, and Jennifer Respass
A new look at quantifying tobacco exposure during pregnancy using fuzzy clustering, Hua Fang, Craig Johnson, Christian Stopp, and Kimberly Andrews Espy
Randomized Trial of a Warfarin Communication Protocol for Nursing Homes: an SBAR-based Approach., Terry S. Field, Jennifer Tjia, Kathleen M. Mazor, Jennifer L. Donovan, Abir O. Kanaan, Leslie R. Harrold, George W. Reed, Peter Doherty, Ann Spenard, and Jerry H. Gurwitz
Table II: Baseline Values of Primary and Secondary Outcomes for Placebo and Botox Groups, Michael K. Flynn
Cross-reactivity and expansion of dengue-specific T cells during acute primary and secondary infections in humans, Heather L. Friberg-Robertson, Hema Sundara Bashyam, Tomoko Toyosaki-Maeda, James A. Potts, Thomas C. Greenough, Siripen Kalayanarooj, Robert V. Gibbons, Ananda Nisalak, Anon Srikiatkhachorn, Sharone Green, Henry A. F. Stephens, Alan L. Rothman, and Anuja Mathew
Long term recall of memory CD8 T cells in mice to first and third generation smallpox vaccines, Sharone Green, Francis A. Ennis, and Anuja Mathew
Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 2 is necessary for normal B cell development and recovery of lymphoid progenitors after chemotherapeutic challenge, Jeroen E. J. Guikema, Rachel M. Gerstein, Erin K. Linehan, Erin K. Cloherty, Eric Evan-Browning, Daisuke Tsuchimoto, Yusaku Nakabeppu, and Carol E. Schrader
The burden of illness in the first year home: do male and female VA users differ in health conditions and healthcare utilization, Sally Haskell, Kristin M. Mattocks, Joseph Goulet, Erin Krebs, Melissa Skanderson, Douglas Leslie, Amy C. Justice, Elizabeth M. Yano, and Cynthia A. Brandt
Intracellular cytokine production by dengue virus-specific T cells correlates with subclinical secondary infection, Steven Hatch, Timothy P. Endy, Stephen J. Thomas, Anuja Mathew, James A. Potts, Pamela P. Pazoles, Daniel H. Libraty, Robert V. Gibbons, and Alan L. Rothman
Depressive symptoms and smoking in middle-aged and older women, Carole K. Holahan, Charles J. Holahan, Daniel A. Powers, Rashelle B. Hayes, C. Nathan Marti, and Judith K. Ockene
Social influences on smoking in middle-aged and older women, Charles J. Holahan, Rebecca J. North, Carole K. Holahan, Rashelle B. Hayes, Daniel A. Powers, and Judith K. Ockene
Part-Time Faculty and Their Hidden Value, Julia V. Johnson and Erin E. Tracy
Building an e-Science Portal for Librarians: A Model of Collaboration, Donna Kafel, Myrna E. Morales, Robert Vander Hart, Sally A. Gore, Andrew Creamer, Javier Crespo, and Elaine R. Martin
T-cell responses to dengue virus in humans, Ichiro Kurane, Takaji Matsutani, Ryuji Suzuki, Tomohiko Takasaki, Siripen Kalayanarooj, Sharone Green, Alan L. Rothman, and Francis A. Ennis
VA health care utilization and costs among male and female veterans in the year after service in Afghanistan and Iraq, Douglas L. Leslie, Joseph Goulet, Melissa Skanderson, Kristin M. Mattocks, Sally Haskell, and Cynthia A. Brandt
Metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the vulva mimicking primary varicella-zoster virus infection, Jeffrey D. Mailhot, Patrick O'Donnell, Rujing Han, Susan L. Zweizig, and David E. Geist
Isotretinoin and iPledge: a view of results, Mary E. Maloney and Stephen P. Stone
Epigenetic regulation in alcoholic liver disease, Pranoti Mandrekar
An essential role for monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 in alcoholic liver injury: regulation of proinflammatory cytokines and hepatic steatosis in mice, Pranoti Mandrekar, Aditya Ambade, Arlene Lim, Gyongyi Szabo, and Donna Catalano
Advancing Stage of Female Reproductive Life Associated with Bipolar Illness Exacerbation, Wendy K. Marsh, Terence Ketter, Sybil L. Crawford, Julia V. Johnson, and Anthony J. Rothschild
B-cell responses during primary and secondary dengue virus infections in humans, Anuja Mathew, Kim West, Siripen Kalayanarooj, Robert V. Gibbons, Anon Srikiatkhachorn, Sharone Green, Daniel H. Libraty, Smita Jaiswal, and Alan L. Rothman
Women veterans' reproductive health preferences and experiences: a focus group analysis, Kristin M. Mattocks, Cara Nikolajski, Sally G. Haskell, Cynthia A. Brandt, Jennifer McCall-Hosenfeld, Elizabeth M. Yano, Tan Pham, and Sonya Borrero
Elevated Depressive Symptoms, Antidepressant Use, and Diabetes in a Large Multiethnic National Sample of Postmenopausal Women, Yunsheng Ma, Raji Balasubramanian, Sherry L. Pagoto, Kristin L. Schneider, Annie L. Culver, Barbara C. Olendzki, Lesley Tinker, Simin Liu, Monika M. Safford, Deidre M. Sepavich, Milagros C. Rosal, Judith K. Ockene, Mercedes Carnethon, Martha Zorn, and James R. Hebert
30-year trends in heart failure in patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction, David D. McManus, Marcello Chinali, Jane S. Saczynski, Joel M. Gore, Jorge L. Yarzebski, Frederick A. Spencer, Darleen M. Lessard, and Robert J. Goldberg
PPODS: Pregnancy and Postpartum Observational Dietary Study, Tiffany A. Moore Simas
Clinical Roundup: How Do You Treat Premenstrual Syndrome in Your Practice?, Tiffany A. Moore Simas, Nancy Byatt, and Kristina M. Deligiannidis
Impact of updated Institute of Medicine guidelines on prepregnancy body mass index categorization, gestational weight gain recommendations, and needed counseling, Tiffany A. Moore Simas, Xun Liao, Anne Garrison, Gina M. T. Sullivan, Allison E. Howard, and Janet R. Hardy
BMI, Gestational Weight Gain and Angiogenic Biomarker Profiles for Preeclampsia Risk, Tiffany A. Moore Simas, Sharon E. Maynard, and Xun Liao
BMI, Gestational Weight Gain and Angiogenic Biomarker Profiles for Preeclampsia Risk, Tiffany A. Moore Simas, Sharon E. Maynard, and Xun Liao
Extended interferon-alpha therapy accelerates telomere length loss in human peripheral blood T lymphocytes, Joel M. O'Bryan, James A. Potts, Herbert L. Bonkovsky, Anuja Mathew, and Alan L. Rothman
Pharmacologic management of asymptomatic bacteriuria and urinary tract infections in women, Katherine K. O'Dell
Effect of Paget's disease on survival in breast cancer: an exploratory study, Sonia Ortiz-Pagan, Gina Cunto-Amesty, Sandeep Narayan, Sybil L. Crawford, Chase Derrick, Anne C. Larkin, Ashraf Khan, Robert M. Quinlan, and Rakhshanda Layeequr Rahman
Presumed and definite bacteremia in extremely low gestational age newborns, Sonal Patel, Olaf Dammann, Camilia R. Martin, Elizabeth N. Allred, Alan Leviton, Francis Bednarek, Ellen Delpapa, Bo Xu, and ELGAN Study Investigators
Determining the Health Utility of Urinary Incontinence in Women, Danielle Patterson, Benjamin Geisler, and Abraham Morse
Interferon regulatory factor 3 and type I interferons are protective in alcoholic liver injury in mice by way of crosstalk of parenchymal and myeloid cells, Jan Petrasek, Angela Dolganiuc, Timea Csak, Bharath D. Nath, Istvan Hritz, Karen Kodys, Donna Catalano, Evelyn A. Kurt-Jones, Pranoti Mandrekar, and Gyongyi Szabo
Identifying Characteristics of Effective Small Group Learning Valued by Medical Students and Facilitators, Diana T. Robillard, Laura M. Spring, Susan J. Pasquale, and Judith A. Savageau
Depression, Postpartum, Karla M. Rodriguez and Nancy Byatt
Improving Delivery of Evidence-Based Prenatal Care in a Family Medicine Clinic, Rachel Rosenberg and Jeremy Golding
Constipation and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease among Postmenopausal Women, Elena Salmoirago Blotcher, Sybil L. Crawford, Elizabeth A. Jackson, Judith K. Ockene, and Ira S. Ockene
Religion and Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors Among Postmenopausal Women: the Women's Health Initiative, Elena Salmoirago Blotcher, George Fitchett, Judith K. Ockene, Eliezer Schnall, Sybil L. Crawford, Iris Granek, JoAnne Manson, Ira S. Ockene, Mary Jo O'Sullivan, Linda Powell, and Stephen Rapp
Psychological and Social Characteristics Associated with Religiosity in Women's Health Initiative Participants., Eliezer Schnall, Solomon Kalkstein, George Fitchett, Elena Salmoirago Blotcher, Judith K. Ockene, Hilary A. Tindle, Julie R. Hunt, Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, and Asha Thomas
A qualitative study of state-level zoonotic disease surveillance in new England, Matthew Scotch, Kristin M. Mattocks, Peter Rabinowitz, and Cynthia Brandt
Barriers and opportunities for early detection of breast cancer in Gaza women, R. Shaheen, P. J. Slanetz, S. Raza, and Max P. Rosen
Education, income, and incident heart failure in post-menopausal women: the Women's Health Initiative Hormone Therapy Trials, Rashmee U. Shah, Marilyn A. Winkleby, Linda Van Horn, Lawrence S. Phillips, Charles B. Eaton, Lisa W. Martin, Milagros C. Rosal, Joann E. Manson, Hongyan Ning, Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, and Liviu Klein
Development of antigen-specific memory CD8+ T cells following live-attenuated chimeric West Nile virus vaccination, Heidi L. Smith, Thomas P. Monath, Pamela P. Pazoles, Alan L. Rothman, Diane M. Casey, Masanori Terajima, Francis A. Ennis, Farshad Guirakhoo, and Sharone Green
Persistence of virus-specific immune responses in the central nervous system of mice after West Nile virus infection, Barbara S. Stewart, Valerie L. Demarest, Susan J. Wong, Sharone Green, and Kristen A. Bernard
