Resident Publications

Below is a sampling of the publications of our current residents and most recent class of graduates. This list only includes publications occurring during their training.


Lauren Maldonado (Class of 2023)

Improving maternal, newborn and child health outcomes through a community-based women’s health education program: a cluster randomised controlled trial in western Kenya.
Maldonado LY, Bone J, Scanlon ML, Anusu G, Chelagat S, Jumah A, Ikemeri JE, Songok JJ, Christoffersen-Deb A, Ruhl LJ.
BMJ Glob Health. 2020 Dec;5(12):e003370. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003370.
PMID: 33293295 


Emma Materne (Class of 2024)


Cytomegalovirus-Specific T Cell Epitope Recognition in Congenital Cytomegalovirus Mother-Infant Pairs.

Materne EC, Lilleri D, Garofoli F, Lombardi G, Furione M, Zavattoni M, Gibson L.
Front Immunol. 2020 Nov 24;11:568217. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.568217. eCollection 2020.
PMID: 33329532 


Audrey Carr (Class of 2023)

Distinguishing Features of Patients Evaluated for Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children.
Kelly MS, Fernandes ND, Carr AV, Lahoud-Rahme M, Cummings BM, Chiu JS.
Pediatr Emerg Care. 2021 Mar 1;37(3):179-184. doi: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000002344.
PMID: 33651762


Gregory Fricker (Class of 2023)

Influenza vaccine community outreach: Leveraging an interprofessional healthcare student workforce to immunize marginalized populations.
Brown SH, Fisher EL, Taylor AQ, Neuzil KE, Trump SW, Sack DE, Fricker GP, Miller RF.
Prev Med. 2021 Jun;147:106460. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2021.106460. Epub 2021 Feb 18. PMID: 33609616


Miranda Ravicz (Class of 2023)

Health Worker Perspectives on Barriers and Facilitators of Assisted Partner Notification for HIV for Refugees and Ugandan Nationals: A Mixed Methods Study in West Nile Uganda.
Klabbers RE, Muwonge TR, Ayikobua E, Izizinga D, Bassett IV, Kambugu A, Tsai AC, Ravicz M, Klabbers G, O’Laughlin KN.
AIDS Behav. 2021 Apr 21. doi: 10.1007/s10461-021-03265-1. Online ahead of print.
PMID: 33884511


Nora Abo-Sido (Class of 2022)

Abo-Sido, N, Simon, L and Tobey, M. Rates of Criminal Legal System Involvement Among Patients Who Are Discharged Against Medical Advice. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2018 Oct; 33(10):1616-1617. PMID: 29959611.


Michael Kelly (Class of 2022)


Distinguishing Features of Patients Evaluated for Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children.

Kelly MS, Fernandes ND, Carr AV, Lahoud-Rahme M, Cummings BM, Chiu JS.
Pediatr Emerg Care. 2021 Mar 1;37(3):179-184. doi: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000002344.
PMID: 33651762

Racial disparities in Kawasaki disease are the effect not the cause.
Kelly MS, James AK.
J Pediatr. 2021 Mar;230:276-277. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2020.11.021. Epub 2020 Nov 22.
PMID: 33238168 


Seth Tobolsky (Class of 2021)


The LGBTQ Applicant-Resident Chat: LGBTQ-Focused Residency Recruitment as an Opportunity for Increasing Diversity, Representation, and Inclusivity in Medical Training.

Tobolsky SA, Abrams HR, Axelrath SA, Matthiesen MI, Cunningham EA.
J Grad Med Educ. 2021 Jun;13(3):420-422. doi: 10.4300/JGME-D-20-01321.1. Epub 2021 Jun 14.
PMID: 34178270 


Vinayak Venkataraman (Class of 2021)


Secondary histiocytic sarcoma with BRAFV600E mutation responsive to MAPK-targeted therapy presenting with recurrence with mTOR mutation responsive to mTOR-targeted therapy.

Venkataraman V, Massoth LR, Sullivan RJ, Friedmann AM.
Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2021 Jun 1:e29166. doi: 10.1002/pbc.29166. Online ahead of print.
PMID: 34061432 


Akash Gupta (Class of 2019)

Patton ME, Kirkcaldy RD, Chang DC, Markman S, Yellowman M, Petrosky E, Adams L,Robinson C, Gupta A, Taylor MM. “Increased Gonorrhea Screening and Case Finding After Implementation of Expanded Screening Criteria – Urban Indian Health Service Facility in Phoenix, Arizona, 2011-2013.” Sexually Transmitted Diseases. 2016 Jun;43(6):396-401


Aisha James (Class of 2018)

Järvinen, K. M., Westfall, J. E., Seppo, M. S., James, A. K., Tsuang, A.J., Feustel, P. J., … Berin, C. (2014). Role of maternal elimination diets and human milk IgA in the development of cow’s milk allergy in the infants. Clinical and Experimental Allergy: Journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 44(1), 69–78. https://doi.org/10.1111/cea.12228

Bakshi, S., James, A., Hennelly, M. O., Karani, R., Palermo, A.-G., Jakubowski, A., … Atkinson, H. (2015). The Human Rights and Social Justice Scholars Program: a collaborative model for preclinical training in social medicine. Annals of Global Health, 81(2), 290–297. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aogh.2015.04.001

James, A.*, Chen, Y.C.*, Kung, E., & Madhavan, V.(2017). A Case of Herpes Zoster and Meningitis in a Twice-Vaccinated Healthy Adolescent. Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0036-1597691

James, A. K.,Hess, P., Perkins, M. E., Taveras, E. M., & Scirica, C. S. (2017).Prescribing Outdoor Play: Outdoors Rx. Clinical Pediatrics, 56(6),519–524. https://doi.org/10.1177/0009922816677805

James A, Berkowitz SA, Ashburner JM, Chang Y, Horn DM, O’Keefe SM, Atlas SJ.Impact of a Population Health Management Intervention on Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease Control. J Gen Intern Med. 2018 Jan 8.doi:10.1007/s11606-017-4227-3.


Madeleine Matthiesen (Class of 2018)

Press, VG, Matthiesen MI, Ranadive A, Hariprasad SM, Meltzer DO, Arora VM. Insights into inpatients with poor vision: A high value proposition. Journal of Hospital Medicine. 2015 May;10(5):311-3. PMID 25755206

Matthiesen MI, Vela MB, Press VG. Health Literacy During Aging. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2015 Dec; 30(12): 1731.PMID 26245734

Press,VG, Matthiesen MI, Ranadive A, Hariprasad SM, Meltzer DO, Arora VM. The authors reply, “Insights into inpatients with poor vision: A high value proposition.” Journal of Hospital Medicine. 2016 May; 11(5): 386-7. PMID25755206

Jaffee EG, Arora VM, Matthiesen MI, Hariprasad SM, Meltzer DO, Press VG.Post-discharge Falls and Readmissions: Associations with Insufficient Vision and Low Health Literacy among Hospitalized Seniors. Journal of Health Communications 2016; 21 (sup2): 135-140. PMID 27660917

Louis A, Arora VM, Matthiesen MI, Meltzer DO, Press VG. Screening Hospitalized Patients for Low Health Literacy: Beyond the REALM of Possibility? Health Education and Behavior, 2017 Jun; 44(3): 360-364. PMID 27540034

Jaffee EG, Arora VM, Matthiesen MI, Meltzer DO, Press VG. Health Literacy and Hospital Length of Stay: an Inpatient Cohort Study. Journal of Hospital Medicine 2017 Dec; 12(12): 969-973. PMID 29236095