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Featured Work​

1. The New England Journal of Medicine. Beyond Tuskegee - Vaccine Distrust and Everyday Racism. January 20, 2021.

2. Nature Medicine. Health-based civic engagement is a professional responsibility. October 12, 2021.

3. The Lancet. Superhuman, but never enough: Black women in medicine. October 16, 2021.

4. Nature Medicine. Global health responsibilities in a Taliban-led Afghanistan. November 8, 2021.

5. Nature. COVID-19: LMICs need antivirals as well as vaccines. February 1, 2022.

6. The Lancet. Vaccine apartheid: global cooperation and equity. February 23, 2022.

7. British Medical Journal. The Ukrainian refugee crisis and the pathology of racism. March 11, 2022.

8. Nature Medicine. Building a pandemic supply chain - equity over equality. March 14, 2022.

9. British Medical Journal. Reforming global health governance in the face of pandemics and war. September 13, 2022.

10. Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences. Protecting marginalized women's mental health in the post-Dobbs era. September 23, 2022.

11. Nature Medicine. Cigarette package labels to promote lung cancer screening. October 13, 2022.

12. Lancet. Recruitmentology and the Politics of Consent in Clinical Research. January 28, 2023.

13. American Journal of Bioethics. ChatGPT: Temptations of Progress. February 28, 2023.

14. ​Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences. Affirmative Action and the Supreme Court: Diversity in Medicine at Stake. April 19, 2023.

15. British Medical Journal. Academic hierarchies are an uphill struggle for black women. August 2, 2023.

16. Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences. Community Review Boards offer a path to research equity. May 1, 2024.

17. Annals of Internal Medicine. Body Mass Index Thresholds for Asians: A Race Correction in Need of Correction? July 24, 2024.

18. Nature Medicine. Medicine’s DEI backlash offers an opportunity to refocus on evidence-based approaches. September 5, 2024.

19. Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. National Institutes of Health R01 Grant Funding Is Associated With Enhanced Research Productivity and Career Advancement Among Academic Cardiothoracic Surgeons. December 24, 2020.

20. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Treatment of Obesity: Pharmacotherapy Trends of Office-Based Visits in the United States From 2011 to 2016. October 30, 2021.

21. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. Early vs Delayed Operation for Esophageal Cancer During the COVID-19 Pandemic. May 12, 2022.

22. Annals of Thoracic Surgery. Virtual Surgical Skills Training in a High School Summer Program. August 5, 2022.​

23. Lancet Regional Health Americas. Racial and ethnic disparities in end-of-life care for patients with oesophageal cancer: Death trends over time. December 8, 2022.​​

24. JAMA Oncology. Deaths Due to COVID-19 in Patients With Cancer During Different Waves of the Pandemic in the US. August 31, 2023.

25. Radiology. Quantitative Evaluation of Large Language Models to Streamline Radiology Report Impressions: A Multimodal Retrospective Analysis. March 26, 2024.

26. JAMA Health Forum. Increasing Voter Participation Through Health Care-Based Voter Registration. June 7, 2024.

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Research Publications

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Medical Editorials

• The New England Journal of Medicine. Beyond Tuskegee - Vaccine Distrust and Everyday Racism. January 2021.

• Lancet Respiratory Medicine. The 2021 USPSTF lung cancer screening guidelines: a new frontier. May 2021.

• Postgraduate Medical Journal. Words matter, humanity matters: alienating non-citizens from the COVID-19 vaccine. May 2021.

• Blood Transfusion. What the COVID-19 pandemic can teach us about inclusive blood donation. July 2021.

• Journal of General Internal Medicine. The New CDC Mask Guidance: A Catastrophe for Health Equity. August 2021.

• International Journal of Obesity. Locking ourselves into the past: the DentalSlim Diet Control device and an incomplete understanding of obesity. August 2021.

• Nature Medicine. Health-based civic engagement is a professional responsibility. October 2021.

• The Lancet. Superhuman, but never enough: Black women in medicine. October 2021.

• Nature Medicine. Global health responsibilities in a Taliban-led Afghanistan. November 2021.

• American Journal of Public Health. All Infrastructure Is Health Infrastructure. December 2021.

• Contemporary Clinical Trials. Randomized clinical trials of weight loss: Pragmatic and digital strategies and innovations. January 2022.

• The Lancet. Vaccine apartheid: global cooperation and equity. February 2022.

• Obesity. Overcoming congressional inertia on obesity requires better literacy in obesity science. March 2022.

• British Medical Journal. The Ukrainian refugee crisis and the pathology of racism. March 2022.

• Nature Medicine. Building a pandemic supply chain - equity over equality. March 2022.

• Milbank Quarterly. The Infrastructure Bill—Investing in Environmental Justice & Health Equity. June 2022.

• Lancet Digital Health. Paradox of telemedicine: building or neglecting trust and equity. June 2022.

• International Journal of Obesity. International lack of equity in modern obesity therapy: the critical need for change in health policy. July 2022. 

• International Journal of Surgery. The hidden surgical humanitarian response in Ukraine. August 2022.

• British Medical Journal. Reforming global health governance in the face of pandemics and war. September 2022.

• Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences. Protecting marginalized women's mental health in the post-Dobbs era. September 2022.

• Nature Medicine. Cigarette package labels to promote lung cancer screening. October 2022.

• American Journal of Infection Control. COVID-19 Pandemic Relief Funding-A Lifeline for Equity. October 2022.

• Journal of Public Health & Management Practice. Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire: COVID-19 as a Roadmap for Integrated Chronic Disease Prevention. December 2022.

• British Medical Journal Oncology. Bridging the Gap: Promoting Equity and Diversity in Global Oncology Research Within Sub-Saharan Africa. January 2023.

• Lancet. Recruitmentology and the Politics of Consent in Clinical Research. January 2023.

• American Journal of Bioethics. ChatGPT: Temptations of Progress. February 2023.

• Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences. Affirmative Action and the Supreme Court: Diversity in Medicine at Stake. April 2023.

• Annals of Surgical Oncology. ASO Author Reflections: Colon Cancer Disparities in Stage at Presentation and Time to Surgery for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. April 2023.

• British Medical Journal. Academic hierarchies are an uphill struggle for black women. August 2023.

• American Journal of Medical Sciences. Recruitment to retention - Addressing the needs and driving improvement within the rural physician pipeline. September 2023.

• Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health. Equity in Scientific Publishing: Can Artificial Intelligence Transform the Peer Review Process? November 2023.

• ecancermedicalscience. Digital Roots: Harnessing Digital Platforms in Advancing Traditional and Complementary Medicine for Cancer Care in Sub-Saharan Africa. March 2024.

• Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health. Social Media and Artificial Intelligence – Understanding Medical Misinformation Through Snapchat’s New AI Chatbot. April 2024.

• Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences. Community Review Boards offer a path to research equity. May 2024.

• Annals of Internal Medicine. Body Mass Index Thresholds for Asians: A Race Correction in Need of Correction? July 2024.

• Discover Health Systems. Bridging healthcare access: strategies beyond the COVID‑19 public health emergency. August 2024.

• Nature Medicine. Medicine’s DEI backlash offers an opportunity to refocus on evidence-based approaches. September 2024.

• Lancet Regional Health Americas. Supervised safe consumption sites — lessons and opportunities for North America. September 2024.

• Vaccine. No person left behind: Understanding vaccine hesitancy in low- and middle-income countries. October 2024.

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Original Research

• Surgery. Impact of advanced clinical fellowship training on future research productivity and career advancement in adult cardiac surgery. July 2020.

• Annals of Thoracic Surgery. Women in Thoracic Surgery Scholarship: Impact on Career Path and Interest in Cardiothoracic Surgery. September 2020.

• Annals of Thoracic Surgery. New Attending Surgeons Hired by Their Training Institution Exhibit Greater Research Productivity. November 2020.

• Annals of Thoracic Surgery. Early Engagement in Cardiothoracic Surgery Research Enhances Future Academic Productivity. November 2020.

• Annals of Thoracic Surgery. Off-Pump Minithoracotomy Versus Sternotomy for Left Anterior Descending Myocardial Bridge Unroofing. December 2020.

• Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. National Institutes of Health R01 Grant Funding Is Associated With Enhanced Research Productivity and Career Advancement Among Academic Cardiothoracic Surgeons. December 2020.

• Journal of Surgical Research. Career Research Productivity Correlates With Medical School Ranking Among Cardiothoracic Surgeons. March 2021.

• Surgery. Characterization of academic cardiothoracic surgeons who started as attendings in private or community practice. July 2021.

• Journal of Surgical Research. Characterization of Cardiothoracic Surgeons Actively Leading Basic Science Research. August 2021.

• Journal of Surgical Education. The Academic Impact of Advanced Clinical Fellowship Training among General Thoracic Surgeons. October 2021.

• Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. The impact of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery on National Institutes of Health grant funding for cardiothoracic surgeons. October 2021.

• Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Treatment of Obesity: Pharmacotherapy Trends of Office-Based Visits in the United States From 2011 to 2016. October 2021.

• Annals of Surgical Oncology. Trends in Location of Death for Individuals with Pancreatic Cancer in the United States. November 2021.

• American Heart Journal. Socioeconomic disparities in healthcare utilization for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. January 2022.

• Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Research Open. Quantitative goals for research output and scholarly impact to enhance basic science R01 grant renewal for cardiothoracic surgeons. February 2022.

• Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Research Open. An Automated Line Clearing Chest Tube System After Cardiac Surgery. February 2022.

• Journal of Surgical Research. Analyzing the Scholarly Impact of Cardiothoracic Surgery Research Using the Relative Citation Ratio. March 2022.

• Clinical Lung Cancer. Extended Delay to Treatment for Stage III-IV Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer and Survival: Balancing Risks During the COVID-19 Pandemic. May 2022.

• Journal of the American College of Surgeons. Early vs Delayed Operation for Esophageal Cancer During the COVID-19 Pandemic. May 2022.

• American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Obesity and Eligibility for Obesity Treatments Among Adults With Disabilities in the U.S. May 2022.

• Annals of Thoracic Surgery. Career Progression and Research Productivity of Women in Academic Cardiothoracic Surgery. May 2022.

• Journal of Surgical Research. Diminishing Basic Science Research Experience Among United States Cardiothoracic Surgery Trainees. July 2022.

• World Journal of Surgery. Impact of PhD Degree Versus Non-PhD Research Fellowship on Future Research Productivity Among Academic Cardiothoracic Surgeons. July2022.

• Annals of Thoracic Surgery. Virtual Surgical Skills Training in a High School Summer Program. August 2022.

• Obesity Surgery. Trends in Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Reimbursement in the USA. October 2022.

• Lancet Regional Health Americas. Racial and ethnic disparities in end-of-life care for patients with oesophageal cancer: Death trends over time. December 2022.

• American Journal of Surgery. Trends in Location of Death for Individuals with Metastatic Lung Cancer in the United States. February 2023.

• Annals of Surgical Oncology. Colon Cancer Disparities in Stage at Presentation and Time to Surgery for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders: A Study with Disaggregated Ethnic Groups. April 2023.

• PLoS One. Results following implementation of a Cardiac Surgery ERAS Protocol. July 2023.

• JAMA Oncology. Deaths Due to COVID-19 in Patients With Cancer During Different Waves of the Pandemic in the US. August 2023.

• Annals of Surgical Oncology. Trends and Determinants of Location of Death Due to Colorectal Cancer in the United States: A Nationwide Study. October 2023.

• Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Pharmacotherapy causing weight gain and metabolic alteration in those with obesity and obesity-related conditions: A review. March 2024.

• Radiology. Quantitative Evaluation of Large Language Models to Streamline Radiology Report Impressions: A Multimodal Retrospective Analysis. March 2024.

• JAMA Health Forum. Increasing Voter Participation Through Health Care-Based Voter Registration. June 2024.

• Journal of Clinical Rheumatology. Contemporary Patterns of Financial Toxicity Among Patients With Rheumatologic Disease in the United States. July 2024.

• Journal of the American Heart Association. Impact of American Heart Association Awards on the Academic Careers of Cardiac Surgeons. August 2024. 

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Histories, Case Reports, and Letters to the Editor

• Obesity Surgery. Dignity and Respect: People-First Language with Regard to Obesity. February 2021.

• European Heart Journal. Respectful language and putting the person first with obesity. December 2021.

• British Dental Journal. Promoting Stigma. December 2021.

• Synthesis. Wealthy White Men Only: Examining the American Medical Association's Use of the Flexner Report as Propaganda to Reform Medical Education. December 2021.

• Annals of Thoracic Surgery. History of Surgery for Mitral Stenosis: John Mayow to Charles Bailey. January 2022.

• Nature. COVID-19: LMICs need antivirals as well as vaccines. February 2022.

• Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics. Weight gain after in vitro fertilization: a potential consequence of controlled ovarian stimulation. February 2022.​

• Lancet Regional Health West Pacific. Orthogeriatric co-management care models: The need for integrated practice units. March 2022.

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Book Chapters

• Routledge. "Chronic stress-related disorders and the possible epigenetic mechanisms" in Contemporary Issues in Equity, Democracy, and Public Education: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from Education, Social Sciences, and Health. December 2024.