Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Department of Medical Social Sciences

Recent Publications

  1. Cooper KM, Brownell SE, Schussler EE, Downing VR, Gin LE, McDonald KK, Nesse RM, Busch CA, England BJ, Grigler L  et al.  Meeting report: an interdisciplinary approach to addressing anxiety in undergraduate active learning biology courses.  Adv Physiol Educ  2025 Jun 01;49(2):405-415. doi:10.1152/advan.00147.2024
  2. Armache M, Larson A, Stemme R, Walsh-Bailey C, Scott K, Pearman T, Stepan KO, Mierzwa ML, Mady LJ, Gharzai LA  Novel Survivorship Paradigms in Head/Neck Cancer.  Semin Radiat Oncol  2025 Apr;35(2):285-300. doi:10.1016/j.semradonc.2025.02.003
  3. Curtis A, Luchetti M, Prendergast C, Ahern E, Creaven AM, Kirwan EM, Graham EK, O'Súilleabháin PS  Adverse childhood experiences and loneliness: A systematic review and meta-analysis.  Soc Sci Med  2025 Apr;370:117860. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.117860
  4. Ardalan K, Marques MC, Cella D, Curran ML, Gray EL, Lee J, Fahey KJ, Wolfe ML, Pachman LM, Chang RW  Psychometric properties of patient-reported outcomes measurement information system (PROMIS) fixed short forms in Juvenile Myositis.  Semin Arthritis Rheum  2025 Apr;71:152649. doi:10.1016/j.semarthrit.2025.152649
  5. Blackwell CK, Mansolf M, Rose T, Pila S, Cella D, Cohen A, Leve LD, McGrath M, Neiderhiser JM, Urquhart A  et al.  Adolescent Social Media Use and Mental Health in the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes Study.  J Adolesc Health  2025 Apr;76(4):647-656. doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2024.12.003
  6. Jenkins WD, Beach LB, Schneider J, Friedman SR, Pho MT, Walters S, Ezell J, Young AM, Hennessy C, Miller WC  et al.  Sexual identity, sexual behavior, and drug use behaviors among people who use drugs in the rural U.S.  J Subst Use Addict Treat  2025 Apr;171:209629. doi:10.1016/j.josat.2025.209629
  7. Kelly NR, Kosty D, Bodovski Y, Blackwell CK, Ganiban JM, Neiderhiser JM, Dabelea D, Gilbert-Diamond D, Aschner JL, Bastain TM  et al.  Children's executive functioning and health behaviors across pediatric life stages and ecological contexts.  J Behav Med  2025 Apr;48(2):230-250. doi:10.1007/s10865-024-00543-w
  8. Jamison JM, Brady M, Fang A, Bùi TN, Wolk CB, Davis M, Beidas RS, Young JF, Mautone JA, Jager-Hyman S  et al.  A Qualitative Examination of Clinician Anxiety about Suicide Prevention and Its Impact on Clinical Practice.  Community Ment Health J  2025 Apr;61(3):568-575. doi:10.1007/s10597-024-01364-6
  9. Nobel YR, Boike JR, Mazumder NR, Thornburg B, Hoffman R, Kolli KP, Fallon M, Lai JC, Morelli G, Spengler EK  et al.  Predictors of long-term clinical outcomes after TIPS: An ALTA group study.  Hepatology  2025 Apr 01;81(4):1244-1255. doi:10.1097/HEP.0000000000001091
  10. Amagai S, Kaat AJ, Fox RS, Ho EH, Pila S, Kallen MA, Schalet BD, Nowinski CJ, Gershon RC  Customizing Computerized Adaptive Test Stopping Rules for Clinical Settings Using the Negative Affect Subdomain of the NIH Toolbox Emotion Battery: Simulation Study.  JMIR Form Res  2025 Mar 21;9:e60215. doi:10.2196/60215
  11. Rooper IR, Ortega A, Massion TA, Lakhtakia T, Kruger M, Parsons LM, Lipman LD, Azubuike C, Tack E, Obleada KT  et al.  Optimizing Testimonials for Behavior Change in a Digital Intervention for Binge Eating: Human-Centered Design Study.  JMIR Form Res  2025 Mar 21;9:e59691. doi:10.2196/59691
  12. Santaliz-Moreno I, Lewis-Thames MW, Khan S, Langston ME, Rice HE, L'Hotta AJ, Siječić A, Housten AJ  Correction: The hidden costs: a qualitative analysis exploring the experience of prostate cancer treatment-related side effects on sexual function and urinary incontinence among Black survivors and their caregivers.  J Cancer Surviv  2025 Mar 19;. doi:10.1007/s11764-025-01744-1
  13. Kroll EA, Warren CE, Schlegel R, McCollister Evarts C, Franklin PD, Persels C, Mullen NA, Crummer MB, Seeley SP, Lockett S  et al.  Shared Decision-Making in Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty: Understanding Surgeon and Patient Perspectives Regarding When It Is Time for Surgery.  J Bone Joint Surg Am  2025 Mar 19;107(6):575-585. doi:10.2106/JBJS.24.00685
  14. Lawrence SE, Watson RJ, Gower AL, Rider GN, Macapagal K, Russell ST, Eisenberg ME  HIV Prevention Behaviors among LGBTQ+ Adolescents: the Protective Role of LGBTQ+-Inclusive School Resources.  Prev Sci  2025 Mar 18;. doi:10.1007/s11121-025-01799-7
  15. Parchem B, Berona J, Coyne CA, Moskowitz JT, Chan YM, Ehrensaft D, Garofalo R, Hidalgo MA, Olson-Kennedy J, Rosenthal SM  et al.  Minority stress, mental health, and substance use in transgender youth: the moderating role of positive affect.  J Pediatr Psychol  2025 Mar 18;. pii:jsaf018
  16. Jacobson TA, Rahbari KJ, Schwartz WA, Bae Y, Zhang R, Nunes DA, Huang C, Issa RP, Smilowitz K, Yan LD  et al.  Dried Blood Spots to Assess Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Health.  J Am Heart Assoc  2025 Mar 18;14(6):e037454. doi:10.1161/JAHA.124.037454
  17. Amberbir A, Cyuzuzo C, Boah M, Uwinkindi F, Kalinda C, Yohannes T, Isano S, Ojiambo R, Greig CA, Davies J  et al.  Understanding needs and solutions to promote healthy ageing and reduce multimorbidity in Rwanda: a protocol paper for a mixed methods, stepwise research study.  BMJ Open  2025 Mar 17;15(3):e089344. pii:e089344
  18. Choi H, Kaat AJ  Measurement Invariance of the Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction Subscale Between Individuals With Psychiatric and Non-psychiatric Disabilities.  Eval Health Prof  2025 Mar 17;:1632787251327681. doi:10.1177/01632787251327681
  19. Seetharam D, Chandar J, Ramsoomair CK, Desgraves JF, Alvarado Medina A, Hudson AJ, Amidei A, Castro JR, Govindarajan V, Wang S  et al.  Activating antiviral immune responses potentiates immune checkpoint inhibition in glioblastoma models.  J Clin Invest  2025 Mar 17;135(6). pii:e183745
  20. Xu J, Davoudpour S, Phillips G  Applying the health belief model (HBM) to understand COVID-19 vaccine uptake among youth and young adults: Findings from a 6-month follow-up study in the United States.  Vaccine  2025 Mar 14;54:127002. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.127002
  21. Knapp AA, Cohen K, Kruzan KP, Kornfield R, Herrera M, Pederson AB, Lee S, Macapagal K, Roulston CA, Clarke K  et al.  Teen Perspectives on Integrating Digital Mental Health Programs for Teens Into Public Libraries ("I Was Always at the Library"): Qualitative Interview Study.  JMIR Form Res  2025 Mar 13;9:e67454. doi:10.2196/67454
  22. Tur P, Oldenburger E, Bottomley A, Cella D, Lee SF, Chan AW, Marta GN, Jacobs T, Chow E, Wong HCY  et al.  Evaluation of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire Core 15 Palliative Care and the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Palliative in assessing the quality of life in patients with advanced cancer.  Curr Opin Support Palliat Care  2025 Mar 12;. doi:10.1097/SPC.0000000000000750
  23. Eyo CA, Schrock JM, Hayford C, Ryan DT, Saber R, Benbow N, Newcomb ME, Demonbreun AR, McNally EM, D'Aquila RT  et al.  Explaining Racial and Ethnic Inequities in SARS-CoV-2-Related Outcomes: Results from a Serosurvey in Chicago.  J Racial Ethn Health Disparities  2025 Mar 10;. doi:10.1007/s40615-025-02362-4
  24. Rich AJ, McGorray EL, Felt D, Kerr M, Baldwin-SoRelle C, Beach LB, Phillips G, Poteat T  Sex, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity Measurement in Health Research: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis.  LGBT Health  2025 Mar 07;. doi:10.1089/lgbt.2024.0105
  25. Wang Y, Frederick J, Medina KI, Bartom ET, Almassalha LM, Zhang Y, Wodarcyk G, Huang H, Ye IC, Gong R  et al.  Chromatin Organization Governs Transcriptional Response and Plasticity of Cancer Stem Cells.  Adv Sci (Weinh)  2025 Mar 07;:e2407426. doi:10.1002/advs.202407426
  26. Ho EH, Ece B, Tuladhar Z, Zola A, Ewa Kupczyk M, Adair L, Gershon R  Remote Assessment of Pediatric Anthropometrics.  Pediatrics  2025 Mar 07;. pii:e2024067663
  27. Atkinson TM, Mazumdar M, Van Hyfte G, Lee JY, Li Y, Lynch KA, Webb A, Holland SM, Lubetkin EI, Goldstone S  et al.  Health-Related Quality of Life for Persons Treated or Monitored for Anal High-Grade Squamous Intraepithelial Lesions (AMC-A01).  JCO Oncol Pract  2025 Mar 06;:OP2400830. doi:10.1200/OP-24-00830
  28. Lai-Kwon J, Jefford M, Best S, Zhang I, Cella D, Piccinin C, Reeve BB, Rutherford C  Mapping immune checkpoint inhibitor side effects to item libraries for use in real-time side effect monitoring systems.  J Patient Rep Outcomes  2025 Mar 06;9(1):27. pii:27
  29. Bannon SM, Rapoport A, Applebaum AJ, Schleider JL  The potential of single session intervention approaches to enhance the mental health and resilience of older adults, care partners, and healthcare systems.  Front Public Health  2025;13:1515440. pii:1515440
  30. Zuk J, Davison KE, Doherty LA, Manning BL, Wakschlag LS, Norton ES  Maternal Oral Reading Expressiveness in Relation to Toddlers' Concurrent Language Skills Across a Continuum of Early Language Abilities.  J Speech Lang Hear Res  2025 Mar 05;68(3):1177-1187. doi:10.1044/2024_JSLHR-24-00623
  31. Thirukumaran CP, Cruse JJ, Franklin PD, Ricciardi BF, Suleiman LI, Ibrahim SA  Two Decades Since the Unequal Treatment Report: The State of Racial, Ethnic, and Socioeconomic Disparities in Elective Total Hip and Knee Replacement Use.  J Bone Joint Surg Am  2025 Mar 05;107(5):523-538. doi:10.2106/JBJS.24.00347
  32. Schmulevich D, Joergensen SM, Zone AI, Bishop KE, Morlok AP, Colyar TA, Hinkle AD, Beidas RS, Delgado MK, Cannon JW  The simplest solution may be good, but is it good enough? Evaluating the effect of a nudge to administer calcium during blood product resuscitation for traumatic injuries.  Transfusion  2025 Mar 03;. doi:10.1111/trf.18180
  33. McDermott MM, Cella D  Patient Report May Understate Walking Disability in Peripheral Artery Disease.  JAMA  2025 Mar 03;. doi:10.1001/jama.2025.1077
  34. Nook EC, Ahn HE, Schleider JL, Somerville LH  Emotion Regulation is Associated with Increases in Linguistic Measures of Both Psychological Distancing and Abstractness.  Affect Sci  2025 Mar;6(1):63-76. doi:10.1007/s42761-024-00269-7
  35. Schriger SH, Marcus SC, Becker-Haimes EM, Beidas RS  Correction To: Should We Use Clinician Self-Report To Tailor Implementation Strategies? Predicting Use of Youth CBT With Clinician Self-Report Versus Direct Observation.  Adm Policy Ment Health  2025 Mar;52(2):438-440. doi:10.1007/s10488-025-01434-1
  36. Roulston CA, Ahuvia I, Chen S, Fassler J, Fox K, Schleider JL  "My family won't let me." Adolescent-reported barriers to accessing mental health care.  J Res Adolesc  2025 Mar;35(1):e70013. pii:e70013
  37. Beach LB, Flentje A, Freeman JB  In order to count, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual people must be counted.  Health Psychol  2025 Mar;44(3):332-334. doi:10.1037/hea0001478
  38. Newcomb ME, Swann G, Addington EL, Macapagal K, Moskowitz JT, Sarno EL, Whitton SW, Mustanski B  Randomized controlled trial of a relationship education and HIV prevention program for young male couples: Biomedical and behavioral outcomes.  Health Psychol  2025 Mar;44(3):297-309. doi:10.1037/hea0001448
  39. Wang Z, Wang F, Qin C, Lyu J, Ouyang C, Wang S, Li Y, Yu M, Zhang H, Guo K  et al.  CMRxRecon2024: A Multimodality, Multiview k-Space Dataset Boosting Universal Machine Learning for Accelerated Cardiac MRI.  Radiol Artif Intell  2025 Mar;7(2):e240443. doi:10.1148/ryai.240443
  40. Kohli-Lynch CN, Moran AE, Kazi DS, Bibbins-Domingo K, Jordan N, French D, Zhang Y, Wang TJ, Bellows BK  Cost-Effectiveness of a Polypill for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in an Underserved Population.  JAMA Cardiol  2025 Mar 01;10(3):224-233. doi:10.1001/jamacardio.2024.4812
  41. Janulis P, Phillips Ii G, Cascalheira C, Mustanski B, Wolff T, Birkett M  Estimating Substance Use Homophily in the Sexual Network of a Large Cohort of Young Sexual and Gender Minorities Assigned Male at Birth.  AIDS Behav  2025 Mar;29(3):933-938. doi:10.1007/s10461-024-04576-9
  42. Balogun M, Kuhns LM, Akanmu AS, Garofalo R, Badru T, Adekanmbi AF, Akinbami A, Agbaji O, David AN, Omigbodun O  et al.  Risk Factors for Viral Non-suppression Among Youth Living with HIV in Nigeria: Findings from the iCARE Nigeria Study.  AIDS Behav  2025 Mar;29(3):848-857. doi:10.1007/s10461-024-04565-y
  43. Houts CR, Savord A, Gardner MJ, Mattera M, Peipert JD, Agrawal T, Baig M, Barala P, Bauml J, Diorio B  et al.  Patient-reported outcomes in non-small cell lung cancer: psychometric evaluation of the PROMIS PF-SF 8c and NSCLC-SAQ in two phase 3 clinical trials.  Qual Life Res  2025 Mar;34(3):751-762. doi:10.1007/s11136-024-03846-2
  44. Munroe S, Schackman BR, Madkins K, Saber R, Macapagal K, Vititow J, Sweeney N, Feder NM, Benbow N, Mustanski B  et al.  Economic Evaluation of Delivering an Evidence-Based Online HIV Prevention Program to MSM via Direct-To-Consumer Marketing Versus Community-Based Organization Recruitment.  J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr  2025 Mar 01;98(3):257-264. doi:10.1097/QAI.0000000000003572
  45. Schriger SH, Marcus SC, Becker-Haimes EM, Beidas RS  Should We Use Clinician Self-Report to Tailor Implementation Strategies? Predicting Use of Youth CBT with Clinician Self-Report Versus Direct Observation.  Adm Policy Ment Health  2025 Mar;52(2):428-437. doi:10.1007/s10488-024-01421-y
  46. Li YR, Zhou Y, Yu J, Kim YJ, Li M, Lee D, Zhou K, Chen Y, Zhu Y, Wang YC  et al.  Generation of allogeneic CAR-NKT cells from hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells using a clinically guided culture method.  Nat Biotechnol  2025 Mar;43(3):329-344. doi:10.1038/s41587-024-02226-y
  47. Cohen KA, Bruns EJ, Schleider JL  Debate: Where to next for universal school-based mental health interventions? Tensions in prevention - To build better school-based programming, we must start with what we know.  Child Adolesc Ment Health  2025 Feb 28;. doi:10.1111/camh.12758
  48. Miller TE, El Farran CA, Couturier CP, Chen Z, D'Antonio JP, Verga J, Villanueva MA, Gonzalez Castro LN, Tong YE, Saadi TA  et al.  Programs, origins and immunomodulatory functions of myeloid cells in glioma.  Nature  2025 Feb 26;. doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08633-8
  49. Hitch AE, Sietins E, Mustanski B, Newcomb ME  Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms and HIV Risk-Related Behaviors among Young Sexual and Gender Minorities Assigned Male at Birth: the Moderating Effects of Teenage Childhood Sexual Abuse.  AIDS Behav  2025 Feb 25;. doi:10.1007/s10461-025-04661-7
  50. Obleada KT, Ortega A, Rooper IR, Parsons LM, Kruger M, Azubuike C, Lipman LD, Chen D, Wildes JE, Graham AK  Exploring pathways between internalized weight bias, eating disorder psychopathology, and weight loss expectations in treatment-seeking adults with binge eating and obesity.  Eat Weight Disord  2025 Feb 21;30(1):17. pii:17

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