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Explore our faculties latest publications from 2024 onwards to learn about how we are turning Public Health solutions into action. Submit your next publication here.

Publications 2026

  1. Adhikari B, Neupane B, Rice J, Jha N, Dahal K, Sapkota PM, Shrestha A, Jiang Y, Yu X. Determinants of coexistence of undernutrition and anemia among children aged 6-59 months in Nepal: Evidence from the 2022 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey. PLoS One. 2026 Jan 28;21(1):e0339985. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0339985. PMID: 41604431; PMCID: PMC12851457
  2. Ahuja N, Ahuja NA, Bajaj D, Gulabani M, Navaparia H, Lengerich E, Kedia SK. Dental Visits, Dentist-Patient Communication, and Its Association with Oral Cancer Examination Behavior Among Tobacco/Nicotine Product Users in Western India: A Cross-Sectional Study. Healthcare (Basel). 2026 Mar 19;14(6):771. doi: 10.3390/healthcare14060771. PMID: 41897228; PMCID: PMC13026102.
  3. Ahuja NA, Gulabani M, Mahmood A, Kedia SK. Exposure to General Health Information on Social Media and Belief About the Role of Alternative Tobacco Products in Smoking Cessation Among U.S. Adult Social Media Users. Substance Use and Misuse. 2026 May 28:1-10. doi: 10.1080/10826084.2026.2675982. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42207604.
  4. Alam M, Lee KH, Baillie V, Mahtab S, Rahman A, Chowdhury AI, et al. Post-mortem characterisation of pathogen-specific causes of infection-related deaths in African and south Asian neonates: a prospective, observational, multicentre study. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 2026. Publication
  5. Ali, A. M., Ogbuiyi-Chima, I., Faisal, M., Alwatban, N., Alhabas, M., El-Metwally, A. A., & Joshi, A. (2026). Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Metabolic Syndrome Management and Attitudes Toward Using Digital Health Tools in Two Distinct Populations: Protocol for a Qualitative Descriptive Study. JMIR Res Protoc, 15, e91903. https://doi.org/10.2196/91903
  6. Ali, A. M., Salihu, E. Y., Abdelwahab, S., Shiyanbola, O. O., Vivian, E., & Chewning, B. (2026). Methodological Reflections from Engaging Five Culturally and Linguistically Unique U.S. Muslim Populations. Healthcare, 14(7), 935. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare14070935
  7. Anton-Martin P, Coalter C, DeAvilla K, Ray MA, Kozyak B, Briceno-Medina M, Rayburn M. Clopidogrel Dosing Scheme in Pediatric Cardiac Patients 0–24 Months Old Using P2Y12 Reaction Unit Monitoring. The Journal of Pediatric Pharmacology and Therapeutics. 2026;1(aop).
  8. Bleasdale J, Ray MA, Westmoreland DA. Sociodemographic and alcohol-related correlates of perceived helpfulness of alcohol cancer warning labels and anticipated reductions in alcohol consumption among US adults. Preventive Medicine. 2026 Apr 18:108583
  9. Cheri Kilmurray, Satish K. Kedia, Patrick J. Dillon, Farah Faizah, Coree Entwistle, Anna Langston. Methamphetamine Use for Weight Control: A Qualitative Analysis of Online Narratives. Drug and Alcohol Review. Vol. 45 (5), e70206. doi.org/10.1111/dar.70206
  10. EV Pickering, X Fu, R Melaram, F Jazaei, A Cohen, D Bartelli, C Jia, H Zhang, X Mou, AM Naser. Groundwater chemistry and children’s blood lead levels: A county-wise analysis in the United States. GeoHealth. January 2026. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GH001670
  11. Grov C, D’Angelo AB, Mirzayi C, Dearolf M, Hoeppner E, Guo Y, Richards N, Ehsan R, Nash D, Patel VV, Duncan DT, Ray MA, Bartholomew T, Manuzak JA, Manuel JK, McCollister K, Westmoreland D, and Carrico AW. High Motivation but Low Access to PrEP: Social Determinants Undermine HIV Prevention Among Sexual and Gender Minority People Who Use Methamphetamine. AIDS and Behavior. 2026
  12. Hillyer J, Jefferies JL, Silver MA. Role of finerenone in Duchenne muscular dystrophy in a 45-year-old-man: Outcome and brief review. JACC Case Rep. 2026 Jul 29:109526. doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2026.109526. Online ahead of print. PMID: 42524785
  13. Karabayir I, Gilbert O, Celik T, Krishnan A, Chinthala L, Pandey A, Soliman E, Jefferies JL, Kitzman D, Herrington D, Davis RL, Akbilgic O. ECG-based artificial intelligence for classifying left ventricular dysfunction and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. J Am Heart Assoc. 2026 Jul 28:e041948. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.124.041948. Online ahead of print. PMID: 42517500
  14. Liao W, Tye S, Goss J, Fehnel C, Ray MA, Osarogiagbon RU. Lung cancer diagnosis rates in early detection programs in the Mississippi Delta. JAMA Network Open. 2026 Apr 13;9(4):e263171
  15. Lubiani, G. G., Toney, B. A., & Okunade, A. A. (2026). Revealing risk preferences through AI prompting effort. Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 19(4), 269.
  16. Lutey M, Siraj T, Bantom Iii WR, Hamid Saleh EB, Taylor ML, Shah S, Slavney WF, Fults EC, Tran JHP, Vo HT, Wilson R, Martinez AJ, Zou S, Yu J, Jiang Y, Zhang H, Wang Y, Hoang TB, Huang X (2026). Integrin-Defined Plasma Extracellular Vesicles for Early Breast Cancer Detection and Bone Metastasis Association. ACS Appl Nano Mater.  ACS Appl Nano Mater, 9(34):16214-16231. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.6c01827
  17. Mahmood A, Ahuja NA, Entwistle C, Kedia S, Sievers C and Chang CF (2026). Telehealth services utilization among middle-aged and older informal caregivers: evidence from national-level data in the United States. Front. Public Health 14:1859507. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1859507
  18. Mahmood, A., Ahuja, N.A., Kedia, S.K., Entwistle, C. (2026). Patient-centered communication and psychological well-being among patients with chronic medical conditions. Journal of Communication in Healthcare: Strategies, Media and Engagement in Global Health. doi.org/10.1080/17538068.2026.2640308
  19. Ollinger MC, Cisarik PM, Ray MA. Using data from both eyes of participants: evaluating the power and Type-I error rates of common approaches to ocular data analysis via a simulation study. Optometry and Vision Science. 2026;e70027. doi: 10.1002/ovs2.70027
  20. Osmani, R., Lubiani, G.G., Okunade, A.A. (2026). Hospital Efficiency and Productivity: Bias-Corrected Evidence from Control-Function Estimation. International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, (forthcoming)
  21. Pickering EV, Fu X, Melaram R, Jazaei F, Cohen A, Bartelli D, Jia C, Zhang H, Mou X, Naser AM. Groundwater chemistry and children's blood lead levels: A county-wise analysis in the United States. GeoHealth. 2026;10:e2025GH001670. Publication
  22. Pimenta, K., Edwards, J., Ray, M., Naser, A. M., Price, C., Idassi, O., Strong, K., Were, W., Piel, F. B., & Hankins, J. S. (2026). Contemporary global burden of sickle cell anaemia under-5 and under-20: A systematic review and meta-analysis. British Journal of Haematology. Publication
  23. S Carra, H Zhang, RJ Kurukulaaratchy, SH Arshad. Natural History of Airway Hyperresponsiveness and Its Association With Asthma Traits. Allergy. 2026:121-129. https://doi.org/10.1111/all.70006
  24. S Sultana, H Zhang, Y Jiang, L Xie, M Ray. Impact of influential data on screening epigenome-wide data. BMC Bioinformatics. 27, 87 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-026-06369-4
  25. Snyder, M. E., Hettinger-Riddell, K. N., Qudah, B., Hillman, L. A., Newlon, J. L., Adeoye-Olatunde, O. A., Chewning, B., Ali, A., Jaynes, H., Nichols, M. A., Schommer, J. C., Musick, B., Perkins, S. M., Kreling, D. H., & Curran, G. M. Electronic collection of medication adherence patient-reported outcomes data in community pharmacies: Pilot implementation outcomes. Journal of the American Pharmacists Association. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.japh.2026.103504
  26. Sultana S, Zhang H, Jiang Y, Abrar MHF, Arshad H, Xie L, Ray MA. Impact of influential data on screening epigenome-wide data. BMC Bioinformatics. 2026 Jan
  27. Sultana S, Zhang H, Jiang Y, Abrar MNF, Arshad H, Xie L, Ray M. Impact of influential data on screening epigenome-wide data. BMC Bioinformatics. 2026 Mar 6;27(1):87. doi: 10.1186/s12859-026-06369-4. PMID: 41792594; PMCID: PMC13078077.
  28. Tony Lugemwa, Kedia, S.K., Coree Entwistle, Ayesha Mukhopadhyay, Shafi U. Bhuiyan, Kenneth D. Ward, Shreya Sirohi (2026). Prevalence and determinants of waterpipe tobacco use in South Africa: A Systematic Review. Pan African Medical Journal.
  29. Umberger, R. A., Abrar, M. N. F., Jiang, Y., Mary, A., Goldsmith, J. V., Hutchison, A., & Womeodu, R. (under review). The association of ICD-10-CM Z coded social determinants of health on 90-day readmissions within a national cohort of sepsis survivors. Submitted to Research in Nursing & Health 2/5/26.

2025 Publications

  1. Warden DE, Zhang H, Jiang Y, Arshad HS, Karmaus W. The role of wheezing subtypes in the development of early childhood asthma. Respir Res. 2025 Feb 28;26(1):79. doi: 10.1186/s12931-025-03153-5. PMID: 40022143; PMCID: PMC11871585.
  2. A Mukhopadhyay, MH Mondol, M Rahman, ..., H Zhang, AMN Titu. The direct and urinary electrolyte-mediated effects of ambient temperature on population blood pressure: A causal mediation analysis. Environment International. 2025 Jan 1;195:109208.
  3. A Neumann, …, H Zhang, …, C Cecil. Epigenetic timing effects on child developmental outcomes: A longitudinal meta-regression of findings from the Pregnancy And Childhood Epigenetics Consortium. Genome Medicine. 2025 Apr 14;17(1):39.
  4. Ahuja, N. A., Ahuja, N. A., Midya, V., Bajaj, D., Gulabani, M., Kedia, S. K., Navaparia, H., Lengerich, E. (2025). Applying the information–motivation–behavioral model to explore the factors affecting oral cancer screening behavior among tobacco users in western India. International Journal of Health Promotion and Education, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/14635240.2025.2584281
  5. Ahuja, N.A., Mahmood, A., Kedia, S.K., Gulabani, M., Ahuja, N.A. (2025). Factors Influencing US Adolescents’ Exposure and Engagement with E-Cigarette-Related Content on Social Media. Int J Ment Health Addiction. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-025-01547-6
  6. Ali, A. M., Shiyanbola, O. O., Salihu, E., Abdelwahab, S., Bailey, J. E., & Chewning, B. (2025). Dietary Behaviors and Psychosocial Factors of People Managing Diabetes During Fasting: A Qualitative Study from Five US Muslim Communities. Diabetology, 6(10), 104. https://doi.org/10.3390/diabetology6100104
  7. Ataga KI, Ogu UO, Elsherif L, Patillo KL, Wichlan D, McCune P, Scott LC, Gulledge W, Woodland WH, Nelson M, Desai PC, Ray MA, Derebail V. Novel biomarkers associated with persistent albuminuria and progression of chronic kidney disease in sickle cell anemia. Blood Red Cells & Iron. 2025 Dec 1;1(3):100023
  8. Batbaatar N, Smith A, Jia C, AM Naser, X Mou, G Vidal, & A Starlard-Davenport. Association of environmental factors with breast cancer incidence among African American women in Memphis, Tennessee. International Journal of Environmental Health Research 2025;35(6):1661-73. Publication
  9. Batbaatar, N., Fu, X., Bartelli, D., Naser, A. M. & Jia, C. 2025. Exposures to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons among adults and children: Contributions from multiple pathways and sources. Environmental Research, 274, 121325. PubMed
  10. C Jia, H Zhang, N Batbaatar, AM Naser, Y Li, I Kavouras. Clean Air Benefits and Climate Penalty: A Health Impact Analysis of Mortality Trends in the Mid-South Region, USA. Climate. 2025;12(3), 45. https://doi.org/10.3390/cli13030045
  11. Duque MP, Paul KK, Sultana R, Dos Santos GR, O'Driscoll M, Naser AM, Rahman M, Alam MS, Al-Amin HM, Rahman MZ. National burden of and optimal vaccine policy for Japanese encephalitis virus in Bangladesh: a seroprevalence and modelling study. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 2025. Full text
  12. Fan K, Jiang Y, Ma S, Wang W, Wu C. Robust sparse Bayesian regression for longitudinal gene-environment interactions. J R Stat Soc Ser C Appl Stat. 2025 Apr 8;74(5):1372-1394. doi: 10.1093/jrsssc/qlaf027. PMID: 41245172; PMCID: PMC12617437.
  13. Grov C, D’Angelo AB, Mirzayi C, Dearolf M, Hoeppner E, Guo Y, Richards N, Ehsan R, Kulkarni S, Nash D, Patel VV. The American Transformative HIV Study: Protocol for a US National Cohort of Sexual and Gender Minority Individuals With HIV. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 2025 May 22;11:e66921
  14. H Zhang*, Xin Jin*, SH Arshad, Kurukulaaratchy. Baseline epigenetics as a biomarker of mepolizumab response in severe asthma. Clinical and Experimental Allergy. December 2025. https://doi.org/10.1111/cea.70195
  15. H Zhang, J Duan*, L Han*, … Arshad, S. H. DNA methylation at birth and IgE trajectories from birth to adolescence, different patterns between White and Asian. Epigenomics, 2025, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/17501911.2025.2453412
  16. Hays, C. E., Naser, A. M., Throckmorton, T. W., & Brolin, T. J. (2025). Reverse and Total Shoulder Arthroplasty Among Medicare Patients in the Ambulatory Surgery Center: A Matched Cohort Study and Retrospective Review on 90-Day Complications. Seminars in Arthroplasty: JSES. Publication
  17. Heitzer AM, Ray MA, Wiese A, Dudley J, Harris KM, King AA, Hankins JS, Cooper WO, Smeltzer MP, Davis R. Statewide Academic Performance of High School Students With Sickle Cell Disease. Pediatric Blood & Cancer. 2025 Oct;72(10):e31947. doi: 10.1002/pbc.31947
  18. Insurance for Military Families: Should You Always Choose USAA?, WalletHub (May, 2025)
  19. Isehunwa O.O., Kedia S.K., Schmidt M., Entwistle C., Carlton E.L., Dillon P.J. (2025). A qualitative study on barriers and facilitators to effective collaboration between local health departments and hospitals. Community Health Equity Research and Policy: 2752535X251348526. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/2752535X251348526
  20. Jia, C., Zhang, H., Batbaatar, N., Naser, A. M., Li, Y., & Kavouras, I. (2025). Clean Air Benefits and Climate Penalty: A Health Impact Analysis of Mortality Trends in the Mid-South Region, USA. Climate, 13(3), 45. Publication
  21. JO Adefisoye*, H Arshad, H Zhang*, A Composite Likelihood Approach to Gaussian Network Differentiation with Application to Epigenetics. Journal of Applied Statistics. 2025 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/02664763.2025.2596185
  22. Joshi, A., Jha, N., Taylor, M., Saulsberry-Scarboro, N., Orians, C., Parish, S., Johnson, K. H., Ward, L., Entwistle, C., Kedia, S.K., & Russomanno, D. (2025). The public health CARES initiative: A framework for public health education in high schools using the SMAART model. Frontiers in Public Health, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1563971
  23. K. Pimenta, E Madondo, …, H Zhang. Association between weight-adjusted waist index and cardiovascular disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Frontiers in Endocrinology. 2025 Sep 26;16:1644035.
  24. Kedia S.K., Schmidt M., Entwistle C., Ahuja N., Mahmood A., Dillon P.J. (2025). Lived Experiences of Medication for Opioid Use Disorder: Clients’ Perspectives on Formulation and Treatment. Substance Use: Research and Treatment. doi:10.1177/29768357251384774
  25. KH Howell, B Thurston, ..., H Zhang. Gender Matters: How Girls and Boys Express Multisystemic Resilience in the Context of Maternal Syndemics. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. 2025 Sep 26:1-5.
  26. Kim H., Mahmood A., Kedia S.K., Ogunsanmi, D.O., Sharma, S., Wyant, D.K. (2025). Impact of Residential Segregation on Healthcare Utilization and Perceived Quality of Care Among Informal Caregivers in the United States. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities: 1887-1899. doi: 10.1007/s40615-024-02018-9. Epub 2024 May 17.
  27. Kim, H., Mahmood, A., Kedia, S.K., Boykins, A. (2025). Social Support and Maternal Healthcare Utilization Among Black Women in Mississippi. J. Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-025-02670-9
  28. Kittipibul V, Novelli A, Yaranov D, Swavely A, Ferreira LF, Molinger J, Jefferies JL, Miller WL, Fudim M. Relationship of red blood cell mass profiles and anemia type to outcomes and cardiopulmonary exercise performance in chronic heart failure. Am Heart J. 2025 Apr 28:S0002-8703(25)00143-7. doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2025.04.027. PMID: 40306395
  29. Leung, R., K. C. Kwok, C. H. Li and H. Leung. (2025). "Development of an AI-enabled Behavioral and Community Health Engagement Device: Applications Across Diverse Populations," IEEE Explore. 2025 8th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data (ICAIBD), Chengdu, China, 2025, pp. 803-808.
  30. Liao W, Ray MA, Patel A, Roma J, Marshall H, Fehnel C, Goss J, Ogbeide O, Mehrotra A, Lammers P, Tonkin K. Barriers to lung cancer screening in a multi-disciplinary thoracic oncology program cohort: effects of an incidental pulmonary nodule program. Journal of Thoracic Oncology. 2025 Jan 30
  31. Mahmood A., Ahuja N.A., Kedia S.K., Bailey J.E. (2025). Patient-Centered Communication and Cancer Information Overload Among Adults without a History of Cancer in the United States. J Health Commun.:1-13. doi:10.1080/10810730.2025.2465491
  32. Mahmood A., Kedia S.K., Ogunsanmi D.O., Kabir U., Entwistle C. (2025). Patient-centered communication and cancer information-seeking experiences among cancer survivors: A population-based study in the United States. Patient Educ Couns.:135:108710. doi:10.1016/j.pec.2025.108710
  33. Mahmood, A., Kim, H., Kedia, S.K., Boykins, A., Goldsmith, J.V. (2025). Caregiving responsibility and psychological distress among community-dwelling cancer survivors in the United States. Supportive Care in Cancer, 33(2). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-024-09133-7
  34. Mahmood, A., Mahmood, A., Kedia, S.K., & Chang, C. F. (2025). Rural-Urban Disparities in Mobile Health Application Ownership and Utilization Among Cancer Survivors. Medical Care, 63(2), 111–116. https://doi.org/10.1097/MLR.0000000000002092
  35. Mazumder H, Gain EP, Shimul MMH, Farah F, Alam N, Mou X, Mzayek F, Jia C, Smeltzer MP, Zhang H, Chang HH, Davis RL, Fu JS, Kovesdy CP, Hossain MM, Naser AM. Ambient Temperature and Risk of Renal Colic: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Kidney Medicine. 2025:101179. Publication
  36. Miller B, Janota A, Wiltshire J, Harle C, Vest JR. Development of a Health-related Social Need Screener for Adults Soon to be, and Recently Released from Incarceration. Health Justice. 2025;13(55), 1-13. doi: 10.1186/s40352-025-00364-2
  37. Mino-Kenudson M, Berezowska S, Minami Y, Chen S, Ray MA, Rerkpichaisuth V, Hashisako M, Losmanova T, Hayashi T, Shim HS, Righi L. A Grading System for Resected Invasive Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Lung: A Multi-Institutional Study by the IASLC Pathology Committee. Journal of Thoracic Oncology. 2025 Sep 30
  38. Mukhopadhyay A, Smeltzer MP, Dudley J, Badawy SM, Mathias JG, Plaxco AP, Ray MA, Wiese AD, Stevens WI, Gurney JG, Nwosu C, Porter JS, Klesges LM, Hankins JS, Cooper WO. Hydroxyurea utilization among individuals with sickle cell disease in Tennessee: a pooled analysis of claims data. Frontiers in Pharmacology. 2025 Dec 19;16:1693126. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2025.1693126
  39. Neupane A, Petrykey K, Li K, French J, Zhou X, Wang J, Im C, Dixon SB, Ehrhardt MJ, Mulrooney DA, Jefferies JL, Gramatges MM, Chow EJ, Bhatia S, Robison LL, Ness KK, Hudson MM, Burridge PW, Armstrong GT, Yasui Y, Sapkota Y. TTN and BAG3 in cancer-therapy related cardiomyopathy among long-term survivors of childhood cancer. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 Jun 2;8(6):e2515793. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.15793
  40. O’Driscoll M, Hozé N, Lefrancq N, Ribeiro dos Santos G, Hoinard D, Rahman MZ, Paul KK, Naser AM, Alam MS, Hossain ME. Epidemiological and antigenic inferences from serological cross-reactivity among arboviruses. Science Translational Medicine. 2025;17:eads8680. Publication
  41. Okunade, A., Olarewaju, F., Oyemakinde, B., & Lubiani, G. (2025). Determinants of COVID 19 mortality among US law enforcement officers. Journal of Population Research, 42(3), 41.
  42. Petrykey K, Chen Y, Neupane A, French J, Wang H, Xiang H, Dixon SB, Vukadinovich C, Im C, Ehrhardt MJ, Mulrooney DA, Sharafeldin N, Wang X, Howell RM, Jefferies JL, Burridge PW, Oeffinger KC, Gramatges MM, Bhatia S, Robison LL, Ness KK, Hudson MM, Chow EJ, Armstrong GT, Yasui Y. Predicting the 10-year risk of cardiomyopathy in long-term survivors childhood cancer. Ann Oncol. 2025 Jun 4:S0923-7534(25)00768-9. doi: 10.1016/j.annonc.2025.05.539. PMID: 40480553
  43. R Melaram*, H Zhang*, J Adefisoye*, and H Arshad. The Association of Childhood Allergic Diseases with Prenatal Exposure to Pollen Grains Through At-Birth DNA Methylation. Epigenomes. 2025 Mar 11;9(1):9
  44. S Chen, JW Holloway, W Karmaus, H Zhang, SH Arshad, S Ewart. Trends in DNA Methylation over Time Between Parous and Nulliparous Young Women. Epigenomes. 2025, 9(3), 24.
  45. Schmidt M., Kedia S.K., Dillon P.J., Isehunwa O.O., Arshad H., Howell K. (2025). Perspectives on perpetrators’ substance use among Black and Hispanic women survivors of intimate partner violence. Journal of Interpersonal Violence: 8862605251349817. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605251349817
  46. Shafqat S, Adhikari B, Yu X, Mou X, Levy MC, Zhang H, Naser AM. Fluoride Exposure Among US Children Aged≤19 Years: Findings from NHANES 2013–2016. Water. 2025;17:3561. Publication
  47. Siddiq, B. S., Rambo, A., Sheffer, B., Ejiofor, V., Naser, A. M., McGee, T., Warner Jr, W. C., & Kelly, D. M. (2025). Rate of Unexpected Findings in Adolescent Lumbar Magnetic Resonance Imaging Ordered by Orthopaedic Surgeons. Journal of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America, 11, 100183. Publication
  48. Smeltzer MP, Liao W, Goss J, Qureshi T, Johnson S, Harris A, Dortch K, Fehnel C, Ely S, Ray MA, Osarogiagbon RU. Reducing Smoking Requirements for Lung Screening to Address Health Disparities in a Community Cohort. JAMA Network Open. 2025 Jun 2;8(6):e2517149
  49. Ukaoma, S. C., Kedia, S. K., Regmi, S., Entwistle, C., Lee, G., & Dillon, P. J. (2025). Barriers and facilitators to medications for Opioid Use prescribing in primary care in the United States: A scoping review. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 0(0), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2025.2456255
  50. Umberger, R.A, Womeodu, R., Abrar, M. N. F., Mary, A., Hutchison, A., & Jiang, Y. (2025). The impact of baseline economic disparity on all-cause 90-day readmissions within a national cohort of sepsis survivors. Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing 44(6), 320-327. DOI: 10.1097/DCC.0000000000000724
  51. Westmoreland D*, Ray MA*, Sultana S, Mirzayi C, D’Angelo A, Stief M, Bleasdale J, Robertson M, Hoover D, Hirshfeld S, Patel V, Pantalone D, Carrico A, Golub S, Nash D, Grov C. Implementing a large-scale technology-mediated cohort to study HIV incidence and PrEP uptake among vulnerable cisgender men, transgender men and transgender women in the U.S., the Together 5,000 cohort. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2025;kwaf250. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwaf250. *co-first authors
  52. Westmoreland DA, Sultana S, Ray MA, Bleasdale J, Argenio K, Krueger EA, Grov C. Dismantling Stereotypes About Being Top, Versatile, or Bottom: Sexual Minority Men’s Anal Sex Position Identity as It Relates to Attraction, Sexual Behavior, and Anthropomorphic Characteristics. The Journal of Sex Research. 2025 Apr 23:1-1
  53. Yu, X., Gain, E. P., Ajoku, M. J., & Kedia, S. K. (2025). Bidirectional Associations Between Alcohol Drinking and Depressive Symptoms Among US Adults Aged 50 to 75: The US Health and Retirement Study. Healthcare, 13(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare13010053
  54. Yuen, N., Tang, F., Li, C.H., Leung, R. & Kwok, K (forthcoming 2025). Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) 4.0: A model to solve the current pain points for commercial electric and electronic laboratories. International Journal of Engineering Business Management (accepted).
  55. Zhang H, Duan J, Han L, Alam N, Ray MA, Yang F, Jiang Y, Ewart S, Holloway JW, Karmaus W, Wang SL. DNA methylation at birth and IgE trajectories from birth to adolescence, different patterns between White and Asian. Epigenomics. 2025 Mar 4;17(4):213-22
  56. Zook N, Kochanski J, Govardhan SV, Nigro J, Ray MA, Anton-Martin P. Transthoracic intracardiac line use and complications in the paediatric single ventricle population. Cardiology in the Young. 2025 May;35(5):958-63

2024 Publications

  1. Ahuja, N. A., Kedia, S. K., Regmi, S., & Dillon, P. J. (2024). Disparities in E-Cigarette Harm and Addiction Perceptions Among Adolescents in the United States: A Systematic Review of the Literature. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 11(2), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-023-01553-1
  2. Ahuja, N., Kedia, S.K., Ward, K. D., Jiang, Y., & Dillon, P. J. (2024). Predictors of Adolescents’ Transition Through the Stages of Change for Quitting E-Cigarettes: Findings from the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study. American Journal of Health Promotion: AJHP, 8901171231222077. https://doi.org/10.1177/08901171231222077
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