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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A comparative study of asymmetric migration events across a marine biogeographic boundary. 
  • A diverse population of Cryptococcus gattii molecular type VGIII in southern Californian HIV/AIDS patients. 
  • A practical molecular assay to predict survival in resected non-squamous, non-small-cell lung cancer: development and international validation studies. 
  • A test of the chromosomal rearrangement model of speciation in Drosophila pseudoobscura. 
  • A test of the niche dimension hypothesis in an arid annual grassland. 
  • A view from the future: the challenge for academic medicine in northern California. 
  • Access to bone marrow transplantation for leukemia and lymphoma: the role of sociodemographic factors. 
  • Active surveillance of birth defects among U.S. Department of Defense beneficiaries: a feasibility study. 
  • Acute respiratory distress syndrome in the trauma intensive care unit: Morbid but not mortal. 
  • Adjuvant hormonal therapy use among women with ductal carcinoma in situ. 
  • Affective disorders in five United States communities. 
  • Air Pollution and Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Nested Case-Control Study among Members of a Northern California Health Plan. 
  • Air pollution and morbidity: a further analysis of the Los Angeles student nurses data. 
  • Analysis of 60 reported glioma risk SNPs replicates published GWAS findings but fails to replicate associations from published candidate-gene studies. 
  • Are Gulf War veterans suffering war-related illnesses? Federal and civilian hospitalizations examined, June 1991 to December 1994. 
  • Are PRO discharge screens associated with postdischarge adverse outcomes? 
  • Assessing research results in the medical literature: trust but verify. 
  • Assessment of quality of cancer-related follow-up care from the cancer survivor's perspective. 
  • Association of Fast Visual Field Loss With Risk of Falling in Patients With Glaucoma. 
  • Association of genetic variation in IKZF1, ARID5B, and CEBPE and surrogates for early-life infections with the risk of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in Hispanic children. 
  • Association of plasma micronutrient levels and urinary isoprostane with risk of lung cancer: the multiethnic cohort study. 
  • Automated quantification of aortoaortic and aortoiliac angulation for computed tomographic angiography of abdominal aortic aneurysms before endovascular repair: preliminary study. 
  • BMI1 enhancer polymorphism underlies chromosome 10p12.31 association with childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. 
  • Barriers to Follow-up Colonoscopies for Patients With Positive Results From Fecal Immunochemical Tests During Colorectal Cancer Screening. 
  • Biomonitoring recycled water in the Santa Ana River Basin in southern California. 
  • Blood pressure screenings through community nursing health fairs: motivating individuals to seek health care follow-up. 
  • Bone marrow transplantation for hematologic malignancies: the Stanford experience. 
  • Breast cancer risk factors differ between Asian and white women with BRCA1/2 mutations. 
  • Burnout in the NICU setting and its relation to safety culture. 
  • Burnout in the neonatal intensive care unit and its relation to healthcare-associated infections. 
  • Cardiovascular Disease Among Survivors of Adult-Onset Cancer: A Community-Based Retrospective Cohort Study. 
  • Challenges to interdisciplinary research in ecosystem-based management. 
  • Characterization of Young Adult Emergency Department Users: Evidence to Guide Policy. 
  • Chiari malformation Type I surgery in pediatric patients. Part 2: complications and the influence of comorbid disease in California, Florida, and New York. 
  • Childhood conduct problems, hyperactivity-impulsivity, and inattention as predictors of adult criminal activity. 
  • Cigarette smoking and pulmonary tuberculosis in northern California. 
  • Cigarette smoking associated with lung adenocarcinoma in situ in a large case-control study (SFBALCS). 
  • Clinical characteristics of scleritis and episcleritis: results from the pacific ocular inflammation study. 
  • Coat color genetics of Peromyscus: V. California blonde, a new recessive mutation in the deer mouse. 
  • Coital risk factors for cervical cancer. Sexual activity among white middle class women. 
  • Colonization with small conidia Aspergillus species is associated with bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome: a two-center validation study. 
  • Comparative analysis of environmental and clinical populations of Cryptococcus neoformans. 
  • Comparing alternative approaches to establishing regulatory levels for reproductive toxicants: DBCP as a case study. 
  • Comparing personality scales across time: an illustrative study of validity and consistency in life-span archival data. 
  • Comparison of dynamic contour tonometry and goldmann applanation tonometry in African American subjects. 
  • Comparison of the frequency of coronary artery disease in alcohol-related versus non-alcohol-related endstage liver disease. 
  • Cost effectiveness of home and community-based care. 
  • Criteria for identifying and listing substances known to cause reproductive toxicity under California's Proposition 65. 
  • Critical pathway for administering high-dose chemotherapy followed by peripheral blood stem cell rescue in the outpatient setting. 
  • Cryptococcus gattii VGIII isolates causing infections in HIV/AIDS patients in Southern California: identification of the local environmental source as arboreal. 
  • Daily intake of antioxidants in relation to survival among adult patients diagnosed with malignant glioma. 
  • Determining the incidence of horseshoe kidney from radiographic data at a single institution. 
  • Developing a Semantic Model to Describe Physical Activity Data. 
  • Development and validation of a quantitative PCR for rapid and specific detection of California sea lion adenovirus 1 and prevalence in wild and managed populations. 
  • Diagnostic test use in different practice settings. A controlled comparison. 
  • Disease management status: a typology of Latino and Euro-American patients with type 2 diabetes. 
  • Diurnal torpidity in the California pocket mouse. 
  • Diversification before the most recent glaciation in Balanus glandula. 
  • Dividing the blood pressures from the Los Angeles heart study into two normal distributions. 
  • Do thick leaves avoid thermal damage in critically low wind speeds? 
  • Does Travel Distance Affect Readmission Rates after Cardiac Surgery? 
  • Donor predictors of allograft use and recipient outcomes after heart transplantation. 
  • Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS): posttreatment follow-up care among Latina and non-Latina White women. 
  • Ductal carcinoma in situ: knowledge of associated risks and prognosis among Latina and non-Latina white women. 
  • Early Intervention during Acute Stone Admissions: Revealing "The Weekend Effect" in Urological Practice. 
  • Early acute lung injury: criteria for identifying lung injury prior to the need for positive pressure ventilation*. 
  • Ecological divergence associated with mating system causes nearly complete reproductive isolation between sympatric Mimulus species. 
  • Ecological reproductive isolation of coast and inland races of Mimulus guttatus. 
  • Educational Mobility Across Generations and Depressive Symptoms Over 10 Years Among US Latinos. 
  • Effect of minor liver function test abnormalities and values within the normal range on survival in heart failure. 
  • Electrocardiographic characteristics of potential organ donors and associations with cardiac allograft use. 
  • Emergency department revisits for patients with kidney stones in California. 
  • Engaging students in dedicated research and scholarship during medical school: the long-term experiences at Duke and Stanford. 
  • Epidemiologic, clinical and laboratory aspects of wound botulism. 
  • Estimating resource acquisition and at-sea body condition of a marine predator. 
  • Etiology of azoospermia in a large nonreferral inner-city population. 
  • Evaluation of a Standardized Program for Training Practicing Anesthesiologists in Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia Skills. 
  • Evidence of weaning stress and catch-up growth in the long bones of a central California Amerindian sample. 
  • Examining the role of access to care: Racial/ethnic differences in receipt of resection for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer among integrated system members and non-members. 
  • Expanded niche for white sharks. 
  • Factors Associated With Provider Burnout in the NICU. 
  • Family perspectives on the quality of pediatric palliative care. 
  • Favorable treatment outcome in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma patients with "poor" mobilization of peripheral blood progenitor cells. 
  • Financial implications of coverage for laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding. 
  • First reported case of Cryptococcus gattii in the Southeastern USA: implications for travel-associated acquisition of an emerging pathogen. 
  • Flame retardants and their metabolites in the homes and urine of pregnant women residing in California (the CHAMACOS cohort). 
  • Fungal horizons: the Asilomar Fungal Genetics Conference 2007. 
  • GWAS in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia reveals novel genetic associations at chromosomes 17q12 and 8q24.21. 
  • Genetic determinants of childhood and adult height associated with osteosarcoma risk. 
  • Genetic isolation between two recently diverged populations of a symbiotic fungus. 
  • Genomes and gene expression across light and productivity gradients in eastern subtropical Pacific microbial communities. 
  • Genomic dissection of conserved transcriptional regulation in intestinal epithelial cells. 
  • Geographical variation in postzygotic isolation and its genetic basis within and between two Mimulus species. 
  • HIV disinformation. 
  • Halting a pneumococcal pneumonia outbreak among United States Marine Corps trainees. 
  • Hazardous Drugs: Legislative and Regulatory Efforts to Improve Safe Handling 
  • Headache management program improves outcome for chronic headache. 
  • Heritable variation at the chromosome 21 gene ERG is associated with acute lymphoblastic leukemia risk in children with and without Down syndrome. 
  • Higher normalized concentrations of tetracycline resistance found in ballast and harbor water compared to ocean water. 
  • Highlights of the 2010 scientific sessions of the Heart Failure Society of America, San Diego, California, September 12-15, 2010. 
  • Household gun ownership. 
  • Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)- and Non-HIV-Associated Immunosuppression and Risk of Cervical Neoplasia. 
  • Hybrid inviability and differential submergence tolerance drive habitat segregation between two congeneric monkeyflowers. 
  • Impact of HIV-positive speakers in a multicomponent, school-based HIV/STD prevention program for inner-city adolescents. 
  • Impact of Medicaid expansion on access and healthcare among individuals with sickle cell disease. 
  • Impact of delay in door-to-needle time on mortality in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Implications of blood group on lung transplantation rates: A propensity-matched registry analysis. 
  • Improved resolution of major clades within Tuber and taxonomy of species within the Tuber gibbosum complex. 
  • Incidence and predictors of bleeding events after fibrinolytic therapy with fibrin-specific agents: a comparison of TNK-tPA and rt-PA. 
  • Incident stroke and mortality associated with new-onset atrial fibrillation in patients hospitalized with severe sepsis. 
  • Insulin resistance independently predicts the progression of coronary artery calcification. 
  • Internal mammary sentinel lymph node mapping for invasive breast cancer: implications for staging and treatment. 
  • Interpersonal violence is associated with depression and chronic physical health problems in midlife women. 
  • Is birth order associated with adult mortality? 
  • KIR genotypic diversity can track ancestries in heterogeneous populations: a potential confounder for disease association studies. 
  • Language barriers and patient-centered breast cancer care. 
  • Life-course socioeconomic position and incidence of diabetes mellitus among blacks and whites: the Alameda County Study, 1965-1999. 
  • Long-term results of a postoperative pneumonia prevention program for the inpatient surgical ward. 
  • Longitudinal differences in alcohol use in early adulthood. 
  • Los Angeles student nurse study. Daily symptom reporting and photochemical oxidants. 
  • Macular Pigment and Visual Function in Patients With Glaucoma: The San Diego Macular Pigment Study. 
  • Managed care in California. Daunting new realities for dermatology and academic medicine. 
  • Marital assortment and phenotypic convergence: longitudinal evidence. 
  • Measurement of flame retardants and triclosan in municipal sewage sludge and biosolids. 
  • Measuring health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in osteoporotic males using the Male OPAQ. 
  • Mental Illness Drives Hospitalizations for Detained California Youth. 
  • Mental health consequences of intimate partner abuse: a multidimensional assessment of four different forms of abuse. 
  • Mortality in individuals with autism, with and without epilepsy. 
  • Multiple stressors in the Sacramento River watershed. 
  • Mycoplasma pneumoniae: a frequent cause of pneumonia among U.S. Marines in southern California. 
  • NanoSIMS single cell analyses reveal the contrasting nitrogen sources for small phytoplankton. 
  • Native coronary disease progression exceeds failed revascularization as cause of angina after five years in the Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation (BARI). 
  • Near-roadway air pollution exposure and altered fatty acid oxidation among adolescents and young adults - The interplay with obesity. 
  • Neighborhood language isolation and depressive symptoms among elderly U.S. Latinos. 
  • Newborn Screening for Severe Combined Immunodeficiency and T-cell Lymphopenia in California, 2010-2017. 
  • Novel and high volume use flame retardants in US couches reflective of the 2005 PentaBDE phase out. 
  • Nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives, and physician assistants in California. 
  • Nurse staffing and adverse events in hospitalized children. 
  • Nutrition and physical activity randomized control trial in child care centers improves knowledge, policies, and children's body mass index. 
  • Obesity Is Associated with Early Onset of Gastrointestinal Cancers in California. 
  • Occurrence and Sources of Radium in Groundwater Associated with Oil Fields in the Southern San Joaquin Valley, California. 
  • Occurrence of contaminants of emerging concern in mussels (Mytilus spp.) along the California coast and the influence of land use, storm water discharge, and treated wastewater effluent. 
  • Ocular Determinants of Refractive Error and Its Age- and Sex-Related Variations in the Chinese American Eye Study. 
  • Parents' Knowledge and Education of Retinopathy of Prematurity in Four California Neonatal Intensive Care Units. 
  • Particulate matter exposure, prenatal and postnatal windows of susceptibility, and autism spectrum disorders. 
  • Performance of a Machine Learning Classifier of Knee MRI Reports in Two Large Academic Radiology Practices: A Tool to Estimate Diagnostic Yield. 
  • Perinatal factors associated with clinical presentation of osteosarcoma in children and adolescents. 
  • Phylogenomic inferences from reference-mapped and de novo assembled short-read sequence data using RADseq sequencing of California white oaks (Quercus section Quercus). 
  • Physical activity, long-term symptoms, and physical health-related quality of life among breast cancer survivors: a prospective analysis. 
  • Plastic breeding system response to day length in the California wildflower Mimulus douglasii. 
  • Population-based approaches to treatment and readmission after spinal cord injury. 
  • Population-genomic inference of the strength and timing of selection against gene flow. 
  • Post-discharge Follow-up Characteristics Associated With 30-Day Readmission After Heart Failure Hospitalization. 
  • Practice environment for nurse practitioners in California. Identifying barriers. 
  • Practice patterns in the delivery of radiation therapy after mastectomy among the University of California Athena Breast Health Network. 
  • Predicting the Risk of Breakthrough Urinary Tract Infections: Primary Vesicoureteral Reflux. 
  • Predictors of treatment engagement in ethnically diverse, urban children receiving treatment for trauma exposure. 
  • Prevalence and predictors of osteoporosis treatment in nursing home residents with known osteoporosis or recent fracture. 
  • Prevalence of BRCA mutations among women with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) in a genetic counseling cohort. 
  • Prevalence of birth defects among infants of Gulf War veterans in Arkansas, Arizona, California, Georgia, Hawaii, and Iowa, 1989-1993. 
  • Primary non-adherence to bisphosphonates in an integrated healthcare setting. 
  • Problems of Southeast Asian children in a refugee camp. 
  • Prognosis by coronary computed tomographic angiography: matched comparison with myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography. 
  • Protecting Confidentiality in Cancer Registry Data With Geographic Identifiers. 
  • Psychiatric consultation in a Vietnamese refugee camp. 
  • Psychiatric emergency room: a resource for the eighties. 
  • Psychometric properties of the Osteoporosis-specific Morisky Medication Adherence Scale in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis newly treated with bisphosphonates. 
  • Psychopharmacology curriculum field test. 
  • Quality of life after surgery for intracranial meningioma. 
  • Quality of reproductive health services to limited English proficient (LEP) patients. 
  • Quantifying shorebird habitat in managed wetlands by modeling shallow water depth dynamics. 
  • Racial/Ethnic Disparity in NICU Quality of Care Delivery. 
  • Regional comparison of organophosphate flame retardant (PFR) urinary metabolites and tetrabromobenzoic acid (TBBA) in mother-toddler pairs from California and New Jersey. 
  • Regional variation in antenatal corticosteroid use: a network-level quality improvement study. 
  • Residency is not a race: our ten-year experience with a flexible schedule residency training option. 
  • Right coronary wall CMR in the older asymptomatic advance cohort: positive remodeling and associations with type 2 diabetes and coronary calcium. 
  • Ripple effect: Shared governance and nurse engagement. 
  • Risk factors among handgun retailers for frequent and disproportionate sales of guns used in violent and firearm related crimes. 
  • Risk factors for estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer. 
  • Role of postmastectomy radiation after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in stage II-III breast cancer. 
  • S-allele diversity in a natural population of Physalis crassifolia (Solanaceae) (ground cherry) assessed by RT-PCR. 
  • Sacroiliac joint radiofrequency ablation with a multilesion probe: a case series of 60 patients. 
  • San Francisco's HIV infection rate doubles. 
  • Selection of treatment among Latina and non-Latina white women with ductal carcinoma in situ. 
  • Social dominance and 22-year all-cause mortality in men. 
  • Social stressors associated with antepartum depressive symptoms in low-income African American women. 
  • Sound surgeons. 
  • Speciation on a local geographic scale: the evolution of a rare rock outcrop specialist in Mimulus. 
  • Standards in clinical decision support: activities in health level seven. 
  • Stanford University Network for Diagnosis of Retinopathy of Prematurity (SUNDROP): 24-month experience with telemedicine screening. 
  • Stanford University network for diagnosis of retinopathy of prematurity (SUNDROP): 36-month experience with telemedicine screening. 
  • Study protocol: the Adherence and Intensification of Medications (AIM) study--a cluster randomized controlled effectiveness study. 
  • The Affordable Care Act reduces emergency department use by young adults: evidence from three States. 
  • The Association of Level of Care With NICU Quality. 
  • The Contemporary Safety and Effectiveness of Lower Extremity Bypass Surgery and Peripheral Endovascular Interventions in the Treatment of Symptomatic Peripheral Arterial Disease. 
  • The Effects of Family Functioning on the Development of Posttraumatic Stress in Children and Their Parents Following Admission to the PICU. 
  • The Effects of Turner Syndrome, 45,X on Obstetric and Neonatal Outcomes: A Retrospective Cohort Evaluation. 
  • The Sepulveda VA Geriatric Evaluation Unit: data on four-year outcomes and predictors of improved patient outcomes. 
  • The acoustic mechanics of stick slip friction in the California spiny lobster (Panulirus interruptus). 
  • The effect of system-level access factors on receipt of reconstruction among Latina and white women with DCIS. 
  • The effects of a managed care educational program on faculty and trainee knowledge, attitudes, and behavioral intentions. 
  • The evolution and diversification of the red oaks of the California Floristic Province (Quercus section Lobatae, series Agrifoliae). 
  • The family and disease management in Hispanic and European-American patients with type 2 diabetes. 
  • The frequency and troublesomeness of symptoms associated with Alzheimer's disease. 
  • The mRECIST Classification Provides Insight into Tumor Biology for Patients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma Awaiting Liver Transplantation. 
  • The relationship between mandated community treatment and perceived barriers to care in persons with severe mental illness. 
  • The relationship between violence in Northern Mexico and potentially avoidable hospitalizations in the USA-Mexico border region. 
  • The role of socioeconomic factors in Black-White disparities in preterm birth. 
  • Trematodes with a reproductive division of labour: heterophyids also have a soldier caste and early infections reveal how colonies become structured. 
  • Trends in Readmission and Costs After Transcatheter Implantation Versus Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients With Renal Dysfunction. 
  • Trisomy 13 and the risk of gestational hypertensive disorders: a population-based study. 
  • Trisomy 18 Pregnancies: Is there an Increased Maternal Risk? 
  • Understanding the Complex Relationship between Critical Thinking and Science Reasoning among Undergraduate Thesis Writers. 
  • Using difficulty resuming sleep to define nocturnal awakenings. 
  • Using expert judgment to estimate marine ecosystem vulnerability in the California Current. 
  • Utilizing a diabetic registry to manage diabetes in a low-income Asian American population. 
  • Variations in cataract extraction rates in Medicare prepaid and fee-for-service settings. 
  • Vision loss among diabetics in a group model Health Maintenance Organization (HMO). 
  • Visit-to-Visit Blood Pressure Variability and Mortality and Cardiovascular Outcomes Among Older Adults: The Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study. 
  • Work-related illness and injury claims among nationally certified athletic trainers reported to Washington and California from 2001 to 2011. 
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  • Curtis, Lesley H., Professor in Population Health Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Ferguson, P. Lee, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Richard Sean Stack, M.D. Distinguished Professor, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Roth, V. Louise, Professor of Biology, Evolutionary Anthropology