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School of Graduate Studies

This was the first time attending SfN for Issac Vingan, using funds from the travel grant he won  for his presentation at the 2023 Downstate Annual Research Day. "I found SfN to be extremely enriching!", he says. "The opportunity to share my own research for a 4 hour poster session was an invaluable experience. There is so much incredible science at SfN and there is never enough time to see it all. I can say that my passion for neuroscience has been reinvigorated from what I was able to see in my 4 days there. I only wish there were more opportunities for physician scientist trainees."

João Vitor's poster featured his work developing a biophysically-detailed computational model of the thalamocortical circuits responsible for sensing the information from the whiskers in the mouse brain and use this model to study how the brain processes sensory information and the contribution of the thalamus in that process. His work has also been selected for a featured talk at the trainees session of the Thalamocortical Interactions Gordon Research Conference, in February 2024.

School of Health Professions

Diagnostic Medical Imaging


Publications

  •   Struk, I. (2023). Are New York City sonographers a diverse group? Exploring diversity and perceptions related to culture among the city's sonography clinicians and educators. Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography, 39(5), 461-469. https://doi.org/10.1177/87564793231179143 

  • Pessin, Y, J. (2023). Scope of practice of sonographers across the United States: A survey study. Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography, 39(4), 356-367. https://doi.org/10.1177/87564793231153650

  • Callpani, V. (in press). A pilot study assessing burnout among NYC sonographers.  Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography.

  • Struk, I. (in press). Is location everything?: The effects of placental location on maternal and neonatal outcomes, Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography


Presentations

  •  Dr. Yosefa Pessin presented at the Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography (SDMS) Annual Conference, National Harbor, Maryland.

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Physical Therapy

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Publications

  • Wingood, M., Criss M.G., Irwin, K.E., Freshman, C., Phillips, E.L., Dhaliwal, P., Chui, K. (2023). Screening for osteoporosis risk among community-dwelling older adults: A scoping review. Journal of Geriatric Physical Therapy. October/December, 46(4), E137-E147.

 

Presentations

  • Dr. Puneet Dhaliwal was an invited speaker at the Meridian Polyclinics and Diagnostic Centre, Kathmandu, Nepal.

  • Dr. Farhad Haeri presented at the APTA, New York State Annual Conference.

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Health Informatics

 

Publications

  • Jumbo, A. (2023). Sustainable management of family and societal resources: Theoretical and empirical perspectives. Journal for Family & Society Research, Aug 1, 2(1).

  • Dorritie, A., Faysel, M., Gruessner, A., & Robakis, D. (2023). Black and Hispanic patients with movement disorders less likely to undergo deep brain stimulation. Parkinsonism Relat Disord, Oct;115:105811. doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2023.105811. PMID: 37657299.

  • Khairat, S., Feldman, S.S., Rana, A., Faysel, M., Purkayastha, S., Scotch, M., & Eldredge, C. (2023). Foundational domains and competencies for baccalaureate health informatics education. J Am Med Inform Assoc, Sep 25;30(10):1599-1607. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocad147. PMID: 37561427; PMCID: PMC10531204.

  • Rivera, B.D., Nurse, C., Shah, V., Roldan, C., Jumbo, A.E., Faysel, M., Levine, S.R., Kaufman, D.R., & Afable, A. (in press). Do digital health interventions hold promise for stroke prevention and care in Black and Latinx populations in the United States? A scoping review. BMC Public Health, November.

  • [Edited Book] A. Kushniruk, A., Kaufman, D.R, Kannampallil, T.G., & Patel, V.L. (in press for 2024) (Eds.), Cognitive Informatics in Biomedicine: Human Computer Interaction in Healthcare. Second Edition. London: Springer.

  • [Book Chapter] Patel, V.L., Kannampallil, T.G., & Kaufman, D.R. (in press). A multi-disciplinary science of human computer interaction in biomedical informatics. In A. Kushniruk, D.R. Kaufman, Kannampallil, T.G., & V.L. Patel, (Eds.), Cognitive Informatics in Biomedicine: Human Computer Interaction in Healthcare. Second Edition. London: Springer.

  • [Book Chapter] Kaufman, D.R., Kannampallil, T.G., & Patel, V.L. (in press). Cognition and human computer interaction in health and biomedicine. In A. Kushniruk, D.R., Kaufman, Kannampallil, T.G., & V.L. Patel, (Eds.), Cognitive Informatics in Biomedicine: Human Computer Interaction in Healthcare. Second Edition. London: Springer.

  • Kaufman, D.R., and Taylor, T.N. (in press). A cognitive approach to understanding and mitigating a pernicious infodemic. In A. Kushniruk, D.R., Kaufman, Kannampallil, T.G., & V.L. Patel, (Eds.), Cognitive Informatics in Biomedicine: Human Computer Interaction in Healthcare. Second Edition. London: Springer.

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Midwifery

 

Presentations

  • Dr. Susanrachel Condon, CM, LM, DM, FACNM, presented at the American Association of Birth Centers Birth Institute's conference, Birth Centers - An Oasis in the Desert in Tucson, AZ, on October 15, 2023. Topic: “Seamless Transfer - Creating the Ideal Experience for Everyone.” 

  • Dr. Ronnie Lichtman had a poster presentation accepted for the PRIM&R—"Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research”--conference to be held December 3-6, 2023, in Washington, DC.  Other DHSU team members are collaborators.

Dr. Amal Amar, CNM, LM, DM, successfully completed her dissertation defense on “The Effects of Perceived Religious Discrimination on the Health of Muslim Women Living in New York City” for the Doctor of Midwifery degree at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Amar presented her research in a podium presentation at Midwifery Thinks, a national symposium that celebrates midwifery scholarship and innovation in the United States.  

College of Nursing

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SUNY Nursing, Engineering & Applied Research Collaborative

 

This collaborative was established by Dr. Roberts (SUNY Downstate) and Dr. Tulk Jesso (SUNY Binghamton) with the over-arching goal of investigating the nursing work environment, nursing care processes, and human factors related to nurses and nursing care. The team is comprised of faculty and students from SUNY schools in the disciplines of nursing, engineering, and applied sciences, as well as external collaborators working in healthcare. The team is actively engaged in data collection, grant writing, and manuscript writing. The team hosted our first full-team gathering on 11.20 – 11.22 at SUNY Binghamton for a meeting that included exploration, broad discussions of the most pressing challenges facing nurses and US based healthcare, and planning for future highly-impactful research endeavors.

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School Of Public Health

Health Policy Management
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  •  Dr. Thomas I. Mackie, Chair of Health Policy and Management has secured a 3-year $2.1M award, entitled “Improving Research Partnership With Engagement Mapping: A Pilot Study to Advance Engagement Science” from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). The study will advance the development of strategies to facilitate meaningful engagement of communities underrepresented in research partnerships. The research will be conducted in partnership with University of Illinois-Champaign-Urbana, Postpartum Support International, and University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School. 

  • Dr. Thomas I. Mackie, Chair of Health Policy and Management, has secured a 6-year 3.1 million sub-contractual award to conduct a perinatal mental health equity study in partnership with Postpartum Support International and University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, the lead institution. Funded by the Patient-Centered Outcome Research Institute (PCORI), the “Pathways to Perinatal Mental Health Equity research study,” is a cluster randomized control trial. Researchers will compare a medical model of improving mood and anxiety disorder care in OB practices to a healthcare community partnership model. There will be 32 OB practices across the country, half of them will have the healthcare model, the other half will have healthcare-community partnership model. Together with Drs. Camille Clare and Azure Thompson, the team at Downstate Health Sciences University will lead the intervention implementation study and the Engagement Core. 

  • Ms. Ana Schaefer, Project Staff Associate at Research Foundation, and Dr. Thomas I. Mackie, Associate Professor and Chair of Health Policy and Management have published a publicly available technical report to support efforts to engage communities underrepresented in research partnerships more meaningfully.  The Roadmap provides a framework and resources to support meaningful engagement including delineation and examples of the: (1) structures, (2) processes to lift voices and expertise of key community partners, and (3) strategies to measure impact and invest in continuous quality improvement in community-academic partnerships. Supported through Charting the Course for Patient-Centered Research to Address Inequities in Perinatal Mental Health & Maternal Mortality project (PCORI/ EACB-23288), the report is available at: https://20.500.14038/52730.  

 

Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences

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  • Dr. Laura, Geer, Chair and Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, was been named a 2024 Climate and Health Scholar by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). As one of only seven individuals nationwide to receive this honor, Dr. Geer will contribute to NIH’s initiatives addressing health threats from climate change, focusing on enhancing health resilience globally. 

  • Dr. Lori Hoepner, Assistant Professor of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, has won the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH) Awards' "Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry" Best Paper Award 2023 as co-author on the paper "Prenatal exposure to air pollution is associated with altered brain structure, function, and metabolism in childhood" with researchers at Columbia University and the University of Southern California. Dr. Hopener's winning paper can be accessed at the linked below https://lnkd.in/e3fAWMua.

  • Dr. Lori Hoepner, Assistant Professor of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, and her collaborators have published a research article titled "Associations Between Nutrients in One-carbon Metabolism and Fetal DNA Methylation in Pregnancies With or Without Gestational Diabetes Mellitus," in Clinical Epigenetics. Download the full article: https://lnkd.in/dR_J-F-p

  • Dr. Paul Landsbergis, Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, is senior author of a new chapter written with a team of international researchers on the global epidemic of cardiovascular disease and its work-relatedness:
    Landsbergis P, Garcia-Rivas J, Juarez A, Choi BK, Dobson M, Gomez V, Krause N, Li J, Schnall PL. Occupational Psychosocial Factors and Cardiovascular Disease. In Tetrick LE, Fisher GG, Ford MT, Quick JC (Eds.) Handbook of Occupational Health Psychology, Volume 3 (pp. 309-339). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2024. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-16899-016 

 

Epidemiology and Biostatistics

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  • Dr. Janet Rosenbaum, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, has received three honors at the 2023 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting & Expo. These include:

  1. The inaugural mid-career achievement award for the statistics section of APHA 

  2. The paper of the year award in the Journal of Public Health Policy for a 2021 paper that she co-authored with Marco Stillo (DrPH student), Nathaniel Graves (MPH graduate), and Roberto Rivera (University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez). The research article titled "Timeliness of provisional United States mortality data releases during the COVID-19 pandemic: delays associated with electronic death registration system and weekly mortality."  Dr. Rosenbaum's paper can be accessed using the link provided: https://lnkd.in/eYkGA65x.

  3. Appointment to a three-year term on the 12-member editorial board of the American Journal of Public Health.

  • Dr. Marcus Lambert, Associate Professor in the School of Public Health, has been granted a $1.72 million NIH Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) R35 grant for a period of five years by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS). The grant will support his research on effective mentorship networks for underrepresented researchers. The study will use graph theory and develop an intervention to assist underrepresented researchers in building strong mentoring networks.

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