Articles, papers, presentations, and other materials authored by faculty and staff from the Biostatistics Collaborative Core of Loyola University Chicago's Health Science Campus.
Submissions from 2025
The Effectiveness of a Race-Based Stress Reduction Intervention on Improving Stress-Related Symptoms and Inflammation in African American Women at Risk for Cardiometabolic Disease: Protocol for Recruitment and Intervention for a Randomized Controlled Trial, Karen L. Saban, Cara Joyce, Alexandria Nyembwe, Linda Janusek, Dina Tell, Paula de la Pena, Darnell Motley, Lamise Shawahin, Laura Prescott, Stephanie Potts-Thompson, and Jacquelyn Y. Taylor
Unique Stress, Cultural Resources, and Psychological Resilience in Young African American Women: Insights for Effective Intervention and CVD Prevention, Sparkle Springfield-Trice, Cara Joyce, Penny Williams-Wolford, Dinishia Wolford, Destiny Onyeise, Natalie Battles, Dionne V. Milton, Chineze Mogbo, Raigine Robinson, Dave Stovall, Lena Hatchett, and Ursula M. Staudinger
Submissions from 2024
Mitigation of AI adoption bias through an improved autonomous AI system for diabetic retinal disease, Michael D. Abramoff, Philip T. Lavin, Julie R. Jakubowski, Barbara A. Blodi, Mia Keeys, Cara Joyce, and James C. Folk
Utilization of Hepatitis B viremic donors (NAT+) leads to improved kidney transplant access for older adult recipients with little to no wait time, Reynold I. Lopez-Soler, Cara Joyce, Laura Cotiguala, Oswaldo Aguirre, Manpreet Samra, Christine Trotter, Geraldine Zingraf, Jeffrey Sorensen, Rupinder Sodhi, and Anne Thorndyke
Validating the use of body mass index with computed tomography in a racially and ethnically diverse cohort of patients admitted with SARS- CoV-2, Patricia Sheean, Paula O'Connor, Cara Joyce, Amy Wozniak, Vasilios Vasilopoulos, Jared Seigal, and Perry Formanek
Diet Quality and Resilience through Adulthood: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the WELL for Life Study, Sparkle Springfield-Trice, Cara Joyce, Yi-Hsuan Wu, Ann W. Hsing, Kristen Cunanan, and Christopher Gardner
The race-based stress reduction intervention (RiSE) study on African American women in NYC and Chicago: Design and methods for complex genomic analysis, Jacquelyn Y. Taylor, Alexandria Jones-Patten, Laura Prescott, Stephanie Potts-Thompson, Cara Joyce, Bamidele Tayo, and Karen Saban
Alcohol Withdrawal Severity Measures for Identifying Patients Requiring High-Intensity Care, Daniel C. To, Tessa L. Steel, Kyle A. Carey, Cara Joyce, Elizabeth M. Salisbury-Afshar, Dana P. Edelson, Anoop Mayampurath, Matthew M. Churpek, and Majid Afshar
Submissions from 2023
Deployment of Real-time Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning Clinical Decision Support in the Electronic Health Record: Pipeline Implementation for an Opioid Misuse Screener in Hospitalized Adults, Majid Afshar, Sabrina Adelaine, Felice Resnik, Marlon P. Mundt, John Long, Margaret Leaf, Theodore Ampian, Graham J. Wills, Benjamin Schnapp, Michael Chao, Randy Brown, Cara Joyce, Brihat Sharma, Dmitry Dligach, Elizabeth S. Burnside, Jane Mahoney, Matthew M. Churpek, Brian W. Patterson, and Frank Liao
Direct Oral Anticoagulants in Patients With Cardiac Amyloidosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Spencer C. Lacy, Menhel Kinno, Cara Joyce, and Mingxi D. Yu
Applying the Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition criteria in patients admitted with SARS-CoV-2 infection using computed tomography imaging, Patricia Sheean, Paula O'Connor, Cara Joyce, Amy Wozniak, Vasilios Vasilopoulos, and Perry Formanek
Long-Term Outcomes of Cardiac Sarcoid: Prognostic Implications of Isolated Cardiac Involvement and Impact of Diagnostic Delays, Joshua Sink, Cara Joyce, Max J. Liebo, and David J. Wilber
Binge drinking alcohol and circadian misalignment in night shift nurses is associated with decreased resiliency to COVID-19 infection, Garth R. Swanson, Benjamin A. Schwartz, Cara Joyce, and Ali Keshavarzian
Risk Factors for CMV and BK Infections in an Elderly Veteran Population Following Kidney Transplantation: Implications for Immunosuppression Induction and Management, Anne Thorndyke, Cara Joyce, Manpreet Samra, Laura Cotiguala, Christine Trotter, Oswaldo Aguirre, W. James Chon, Rupinder Sodhi, and Reynold I. Lopez-Soler
Submissions from 2022
Internal and External Validation of an Alcohol Biomarker for Screening in Trauma, Majid Afshar, Kenneth Baker, Josefine Corral, Erin Ross, Erin Lowery, Richard Gonzalez, Ellen L. Burnham, Rachael A. Callcut, Lucy Z. Kornblith, Carolyn Hendrickson, Elizabeth J. Kovacs, and Cara Joyce
Development and multimodal validation of a substance misuse algorithm for referral to treatment using artificial intelligence (SMART-AI): a retrospective deep learning study, Majid Afshar, Brihat Sharma, Dmitriy Dligach, Madeline Oguss, Randall Brown, Neeraj Chhabra, Hale M. Thompson, Talar Markossian, Cara Joyce, Matthew M. Churpek, and Niranjan S. Karnik
Retrospective Clinical Evaluation of a Decision-Support Software for Adaptive Radiotherapy of Head and Neck Cancer Patients, Sebastien A. A. Gros, Anand P. Santhanam, Alec M. Block, Bahman Emami, Brian H. Lee, and Cara Joyce
Development and Validation of a Simple Model to Predict the Risk of Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer on Screening Total Body Skin Examination, Rebecca Hartman, Yun Xue, Ryan Karmouta, Elizabeth Tkachenko, Sara J. Li, David G. Li, Cara Joyce, and Arash Mostaghimi
The Urobiomes of Adult Women With Various Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Status Differ: A Re-Analysis, Cara Joyce, Thomas Halverson, Caroline Gonzalez, Linda Brubaker, and Alan J. Wolfe
The Evaluation of a Clinical Decision Support Tool Using Natural Language Processing to Screen Hospitalized Adults for Unhealthy Substance Use: Protocol for a Quasi-Experimental Design, Cara Joyce, Talar W. Markossian, Jenna Nikolaides, Elisabeth Ramsey, Hale M. Thompson, Juan C. Rojas, Brihat Sharma, Dmitriy Dligach, Madeline Oguss, Richard S. Cooper, and Majid Afshar
Clinical Features and Body Composition in Men with Hormone-Sensitive Metastatic Prostate Cancer: A Pilot Study Examining Differences by Race, Patricia M. Sheean, Paula O'Connor, Cara Joyce, Vasilios Vasilopoulos, Ami Badami, and Melinda Stolley
Reducing Disparities in Postpartum Care Utilization: Development of a Clinical Risk Assessment Tool, Sandi Tenfelde, Cara Joyce, Dina Tell, Lisa Masinter, Jena Wallander-Gemkow, and Lindsey Garfield Dr.
Antibody Response to SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Vaccination in COVID-19-naive and Experienced Individuals, Susan L. Uprichard, Amornrat O'Brien, Monika Evdokimova, Cynthia L. Rowe, Cara Joyce, Matthew Hackbart, Yazmin Edith Cruz Pulido, Courtney A. Cohen, Michelle L. Rock, John M. Dye, Paul Kuehnert, Keersten M. Ricks, Marybeth Casper, Lori Linhart, Katrina Anderson, Laura Kirk, Jack A. Maggiore, Andrew S. Herbert, Nina M. Clark, Gail E. Reid, and Susan C. Baker
Submissions from 2021
Comparison and interpretability of machine learning models to predict severity of chest injury, Sujay Kulshrestha, Dmitriy Dligach, Cara Joyce, Richard Gonzalez, Ann P. O'Rourke, Joshua M. Glazer, Anne Stey, Jacqueline M. Kruser, Matthew M. Churpek, and Majid Afshar
Low medication adherence is associated with decline in health-related quality of life: results of a longitudinal analysis among older women and men with hypertension, Erin Peacock, Cara Joyce, Leslie S. Craig, Zachary Lenane, Elizabeth W. Holt, Paul Muntner, and Marie Krousel-Wood
Targeting EphA2 suppresses hepatocellular carcinoma initiation and progression by dual inhibition of JAK1/STAT3 and AKT signaling, Hao Wang, Wei Hou, Aldeb Perera, Carlee Bettler, Jordan Beach, Xianzhong Ding, Jun Li, Michell F. Denning, Asha Dhanarajan, Scott J. Cotler, Cara Joyce, Jun Yin, Fowsiyo Ahmed, Lewis R. Roberts, and Wei Qiu
Submissions from 2020
Surgical Approach to Orbital Floor Fractures: Comparing Complication Rates Between Subciliary and Subconjunctival Approaches, Joel A. Bronstein, William J. Bruce, Fadi Bakhos, Dalia Ishaq, Cara Joyce, and Victor Cimino
Publicly available machine learning models for identifying opioid misuse from the clinical notes of hospitalized patients, Brihat Sharma, Dmitriy Dligach, Kristin Swope, Elizabeth Salisbury-Afshar, Niranjan S. Karnik, Cara Joyce, and Majid Afshar
Association of Hospital Discharge Against Medical Advice With Readmission and In-Hospital Mortality, Sally Y. Tan, Jeremy Y. Feng, Cara Joyce, Jonathan Fisher, and Arash Mostaghimi
Submissions from 2019
Subtypes in patients with opioid misuse: A prognostic enrichment strategy using electronic health record data in hospitalized patients, Majid Afshar, Cara Joyce, Dmitriy Dligach, Brihat Sharma, Robert Kania, Meng Xie, Kristin Swope, Elizabeth Salisbury-Afshar, and Niranjan S. Karnik
Obstructive sleep apnea co-morbidity in patients with fibromyalgia: a single-center retrospective analysis and literature review, Edwin S. Meresh, Hewa Artin, Cara Joyce, Steven Birch, David Daniels, Jack H. Owens, Alvaro J. La Rosa, Murali S. Rao, and Angelos Halaris
Constraint and trade-offs regulate energy expenditure during childhood, Samuel S. Urlacher, J. Josh Snodgrass, Lara R. Dugas, Lawrence S. Sugiyama, and Melissa A. Liebert