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  • "Greenlight study": a controlled trial of low-literacy, early childhood obesity prevention. 
  • A SWOT analysis of the physiotherapy profession in Kuwait. 
  • A Test of Kangaroo Care on Preterm Infant Breastfeeding. 
  • A comparison of methods for measuring socio-economic status by occupation or postal area. 
  • A multivariate analysis of factors associated with depression: evaluating the role of health literacy as a potential contributor. 
  • A national survey of the primary and acute care pediatric nurse practitioner educational preparation. 
  • A reevaluation of the duration of survival after the onset of dementia. 
  • A school-based, peer leadership physical activity intervention for 6th graders: feasibility and results of a pilot study. 
  • APOE epsilon4 and low cholesterol as risks for depression in a biracial elderly community sample. 
  • APOE epsilon4 as a predictor of subjective quality of life in a biracial older person community sample. 
  • Abortion legislation, maternal healthcare, fertility, female literacy, sanitation, violence against women and maternal deaths: a natural experiment in 32 Mexican states. 
  • Academic Outcomes in Children With Congenital Heart Defects: A Population-Based Cohort Study. 
  • Academic achievement, close up work parameters, and myopia in Singapore military conscripts. 
  • Academic effects of concussion in children and adolescents. 
  • Acculturation, depression, self-esteem, and substance abuse among Hispanic men. 
  • Adapting the human-computer interface for reading literacy and computer skill to facilitate collection of information directly from patients. 
  • Adapting the human-computer interface for reading literacy and computer skill to facilitate collection of information directly from patients. 
  • Add ecology to the pre-medical curriculum. 
  • Adherence to self-monitoring via interactive voice response technology in an eHealth intervention targeting weight gain prevention among Black women: randomized controlled trial. 
  • Adult age differences in the attentional capacity demands of letter matching. 
  • Advanced practice psychiatric nursing: a national profile. 
  • Adverse childhood experiences, psychosocial well-being and cognitive development among orphans and abandoned children in five low income countries. 
  • African-American and white caregivers of older adults with dementia: differences in depressive symptomatology and psychotropic drug use. 
  • Age, burnout and physical and psychological work ability among nurses. 
  • Ageism compared to racism and sexism. 
  • Alcohol abuse and dependence in the rural South. 
  • Alcohol and drug use disorders among adults in emergency department settings in the United States. 
  • Alcohol use disorders and the use of treatment services among college-age young adults. 
  • Alcohol-consumption trajectories and associated characteristics among adults older than age 50. 
  • Alcoholic beverage preference, diet, and health habits in the UNC Alumni Heart Study. 
  • Alternative statistical approaches to identifying dementia in a community-dwelling sample. 
  • Ambition gone awry: the long-term socioeconomic consequences of misaligned and uncertain ambitions in adolescence. 
  • An adaptation of the modified mini-mental state examination: analysis of demographic influences and normative data: the cache county study. 
  • An assessment of the understanding and motivations of patients with schizophrenia about participating in a clinical trial. 
  • An automated "well-baby" questionnaire. 
  • An evaluation of Duke University's LIVE FOR LIFE health promotion program on changes in worker absenteeism. 
  • An examination of the dental utilization practices of adult survivors of childhood cancer: a report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • An opportunity to refine our understanding of "response shift" and to educate researchers on designing quality research studies: response to Ubel, Peeters, and Smith. 
  • Analytic cognitive style predicts religious and paranormal belief. 
  • Ancestry, Socioeconomic Status, and Age-Related Cataract in Asians: The Singapore Epidemiology of Eye Diseases Study. 
  • Antioxidant intake and cognitive function of elderly men and women: the Cache County Study. 
  • Antiretroviral treatment literacy among HIV voluntary counseling and testing clients in Moshi, Tanzania, 2003 to 2005. 
  • Apolipoprotein E polymorphism, life stress and self-reported health among older adults. 
  • Applicability of the MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery in Singapore. 
  • Are Older Adults Ready for Wireless Physical Activity Tracking Devices? A Comparison of Commonly Used Tracking Devices. 
  • Are articular cartilage lesions and meniscus tears predictive of IKDC, KOOS, and Marx activity level outcomes after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction? A 6-year multicenter cohort study. 
  • Are associations between parental divorce and children's adjustment genetically mediated? An adoption study. 
  • Are neighborhood education levels associated with BMI among adults in Cairo, Egypt? 
  • Are there adverse consequences of quizzing during informed consent for HIV research? 
  • Aspartame and susceptibility to headache. 
  • Assessment of health literacy and numeracy among Spanish-Speaking parents of young children: validation of the Spanish Parental Health Literacy Activities Test (PHLAT Spanish). 
  • Assessment of pictographs developed through a participatory design process using an online survey tool. 
  • Assessment of the importance of glenohumeral peripheral mechanics by practicing physiotherapists. 
  • Association Between Patient Characteristics and Treatment Procedure Among Patients With Uterine Leiomyomas. 
  • Association between adult and childhood socioeconomic status and prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in African Americans: the Pitt County Study. 
  • Association between birth weight and educational attainment: an individual-based pooled analysis of nine twin cohorts. 
  • Association between breast cancer and allostatic load by race: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999-2008. 
  • Association between maternal education and infant diarrhea in different household and community environments of Cebu, Philippines. 
  • Association of age, stature, and education with ocular dimensions in an older white population. 
  • Association of education with incidence of cognitive impairment in three established populations for epidemiologic studies of the elderly. 
  • Association of preterm birth with long-term survival, reproduction, and next-generation preterm birth. 
  • Association of race and socioeconomic status with automatic external defibrillator training prevalence in the United States. 
  • Associations among social support, income, and symptoms of depression in an educated sample: the UNC Alumni Heart Study. 
  • Associations between religion-related factors and breast cancer screening among American Muslims. 
  • Associations of job demands and intelligence with cognitive performance among men in late life. 
  • Associations of socioeconomic status and processed food intake with serum phosphorus concentration in community-living adults: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). 
  • Attained educational level and incident atherothrombotic events in low- and middle-income compared with high-income countries. 
  • Attention Problems and Academic Achievement: Do Persistent and Earlier-Emerging Problems Have More Adverse Long-Term Effects? 
  • Bargaining power within couples and use of prenatal and delivery care in Indonesia. 
  • Barriers to the participation of African-American patients with cancer in clinical trials: a pilot study. 
  • Baseline disability in activities of daily living predicts dementia risk even after controlling for baseline global cognitive ability and depressive symptoms. 
  • Baseline predictors of health-related quality of life after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: a longitudinal analysis of a multicenter cohort at two and six years. 
  • Behavioral and psychosocial predictors of physical performance: MacArthur studies of successful aging. 
  • Beliefs about breast cancer risk and use of postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy. 
  • Benzodiazepine anti-anxiety agents: prevalence and correlates of use in a southern community. 
  • Birth measurements, family history, and environmental factors associated with later-life hypertensive status. 
  • Birth weight and breast cancer risk. 
  • Black-white and urban-rural differences in stability of household composition among elderly persons. 
  • Body image and body satisfaction differ by race in overweight postpartum mothers. 
  • Body mass trajectories through adulthood: results from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Cohort (1981-2006). 
  • Breastfeeding and verbal ability of 3-year-olds in a multicity sample. 
  • Caesarean section rates in Mozambique. 
  • Can this patient read and understand written health information? 
  • Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Training Disparities in the United States. 
  • Caregiving, residence, race, and depressive symptoms. 
  • Cesarean section delivery among primiparous women in rural China: an emerging epidemic. 
  • Change and challenge in health care education and training: ASHET (American Society for Healthcare Education and Training) national membership survey results. 
  • Changes in fall prevention training for apprentice carpenters based on a comprehensive needs assessment. 
  • Characteristics of nonresponders in a community survey of the elderly. 
  • Characterizing and explaining differences in cognitive test performance between african american and European American older adults. 
  • Child survival, height for age and household characteristics in Brazil. 
  • Childhood Maltreatment Predicts Poor Economic and Educational Outcomes in the Transition to Adulthood. 
  • Childhood Predictors of Adult Functional Outcomes in the Multimodal Treatment Study of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (MTA). 
  • Childhood obesity prevention: fathers' reflections with healthcare providers. 
  • Childhood sexual trauma and subsequent parenting beliefs and behaviors. 
  • Childhood socioeconomic status and serotonin transporter gene polymorphism enhance cardiovascular reactivity to mental stress. 
  • Childrearing discipline and violence in developing countries. 
  • Children and welfare reform: a view from an experimental welfare program in Minnesota. 
  • Chronic HPA axis response to stress in temporomandibular disorder. 
  • Chronic arsenic exposure and adverse pregnancy outcomes in bangladesh. 
  • Chronic stressors and maternal depression: implications for prevention. 
  • Climate, socioeconomic status and Hodgkin's disease mortality in the United States. 
  • Clinical and sociodemographic factors in a sample of older subjects experiencing depressive symptoms. 
  • Clinical and sociodemographic factors predict coping styles among adults with sickle cell disease. 
  • Clinical characteristics of Kraepelinian schizophrenia: replication and extension of previous findings. 
  • Clinical implications of numeracy: theory and practice. 
  • Clinical needs assessment of middle and high school students following the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. 
  • Clinical profiles of primary open angle glaucoma versus normal tension glaucoma patients: a pilot study. 
  • Cochlear implantation update. 
  • Cognitive and affective predictors of treatment outcome in Cognitive Processing Therapy and Prolonged Exposure for posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Cognitive and sociodemographic risk factors for mortality in the Seattle Longitudinal Study. 
  • Cognitive flexibility in verbal and nonverbal domains and decision making in anorexia nervosa patients: a pilot study. 
  • Cognitive function in late life depression: relationships to depression severity, cerebrovascular risk factors and processing speed. 
  • Cognitive function, physical performance, health, and disease: norms from the georgia centenarian study. 
  • Cognitive performance on the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale: effect of education. 
  • Cognitive-behavioral screening reveals prevalent impairment in a large multicenter ALS cohort. 
  • Cohort and life-course patterns in the relationship between education and health: a hierarchical approach. 
  • Color-coding improves parental understanding of body mass index charting. 
  • Colorectal cancer screening awareness and intentions among low income, sociodemographically diverse adults under age 50. 
  • Communication technologies and maternal interest in health-promotion information about postpartum weight and parenting practices. 
  • Comorbidity of five chronic health conditions in elderly community residents: determinants and impact on mortality. 
  • Competencies: a cure for pre-med curriculum. 
  • Comprehensive assessment of the elderly cancer patient: the feasibility of self-report methodology. 
  • Conduct problems, depressive symptomatology and their co-occurring presentation in childhood as predictors of adjustment in early adolescence. 
  • Conscientiousness in life course context: a commentary. 
  • Cooperative Study of Sickle Cell Disease: Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of patients and families with sickle cell disease. 
  • Correlates of body mass index in the 1990 Ontario Health Survey. 
  • Correlates of intake of folic acid-containing supplements among pregnant women. 
  • Correlates of mother-premature infant interactions. 
  • Correlation between maternal and infant cortisol varies by breastfeeding status. 
  • Credit scores, cardiovascular disease risk, and human capital. 
  • Cross-validation and extension of the MMPI-A IMM scale. 
  • Cultural and community determinants of subjective social status among Cherokee and White youth. 
  • Database comparison of the adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation cohort study (A2ALL) and the SRTR U.S. Transplant Registry. 
  • Deconstructing racial differences: the effects of quality of education and cerebrovascular risk factors. 
  • Dementia and Medicare at life's end. 
  • Demographic and health characteristics of elderly smokers: results from established populations for epidemiologic studies of the elderly. 
  • Demographic and occupational predictors of early response to a mailed invitation to enroll in a longitudinal health study. 
  • Depression in elderly hospitalized patients with medical illness. 
  • Detection of prostate cancer with multiparametric MRI (mpMRI): effect of dedicated reader education on accuracy and confidence of index and anterior cancer diagnosis. 
  • Determinants of willingness to donate living related and cadaveric organs: identifying opportunities for intervention. 
  • Developing a cancer-specific geriatric assessment: a feasibility study. 
  • Development of an activities of daily living scale to screen for dementia in an illiterate rural older population in India. 
  • Development of an adaptive multimedia program to collect patient health data. 
  • Diabetes-related knowledge, atherosclerotic risk factor control, and outcomes in acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Diagnostic performance of short portable mental status questionnaire for screening dementia among patients attending cognitive assessment clinics in Singapore. 
  • Dietary restraint and gestational weight gain. 
  • Differences in patient characteristics between Veterans Administration and community hospitals. Implications for VA planning. 
  • Differential survival with Alzheimer disease. 
  • Directional dominance on stature and cognition in diverse human populations. 
  • Discrepancies between academic achievement and intellectual ability in higher-functioning school-aged children with autism spectrum disorder. 
  • Do specialty courts achieve better outcomes for children in foster care than general courts? 
  • Does age make a difference in the effects of physical health and social support on the outcome of a major depressive episode? 
  • Drinking and Schooling 
  • Dynamics of functional impairment in late adulthood. 
  • Early attention problems and children's reading achievement: a longitudinal investigation. The Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group. 
  • Early childhood caries: analysis of psychosocial and biological factors in a high-risk population. 
  • Early identification of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Early Identification of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Panel. 
  • Early-Life State-of-Residence Characteristics and Later Life Hypertension, Diabetes, and Ischemic Heart Disease. 
  • Economic evaluation of home blood pressure monitoring with or without telephonic behavioral self-management in patients with hypertension. 
  • Editorial comment--Advertising strategies to increase the public knowledge of the warning signs of stroke. 
  • Education and health disparities: a macro, not micro, phenomenon. 
  • Education influences the association between genetic variants and refractive error: a meta-analysis of five Singapore studies. 
  • Education, 15-year risk factor progression, and coronary artery calcium in young adulthood and early middle age: the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults study. 
  • Education, glucose control, and mortality risks among U.S. older adults with diabetes. 
  • Education, socio-economic status and age-related macular degeneration in Asians: the Singapore Malay Eye Study. 
  • Education, socioeconomic status, and ocular dimensions in Chinese adults: the Tanjong Pagar Survey. 
  • Education-specific estimates of life expectancy and age-specific disability in the U.S. elderly population: 1982 to 1991. 
  • Educational Mobility Across Generations and Depressive Symptoms Over 10 Years Among US Latinos. 
  • Educational attainment and hippocampal atrophy in the Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging initiative cohort. 
  • Educational attainment has a limited impact on disease management outcomes in heart failure. 
  • Educational differences in age-related patterns of disease: reconsidering the cumulative disadvantage and age-as-leveler hypotheses. 
  • Educational differences in health risks and illness over the life course: a test of cumulative disadvantage theory. 
  • Educational status and active life expectancy among older blacks and whites. 
  • Effect of WHO newborn care training on neonatal mortality by education. 
  • Effect of chronic stress associated with unemployment on salivary cortisol: overall cortisol levels, diurnal rhythm, and acute stress reactivity. 
  • Effect of socioeconomic status as measured by education level on survival in breast cancer clinical trials. 
  • Effects of admission and treatment strategies of DWI courts on offender outcomes. 
  • Effects of an educational intervention on students' attitudes toward the disabled. 
  • Effects of early childhood supplementation on the educational achievement of women. 
  • Effects of education and race on cognitive decline: An integrative study of generalizability versus study-specific results. 
  • Effects of environmental stress and gender on associations among symptoms of depression and the serotonin transporter gene linked polymorphic region (5-HTTLPR). 
  • Effects of socioeconomic and clinical factors on survival in multiple myeloma. 
  • Effects of the dietary approaches to stop hypertension diet alone and in combination with exercise and caloric restriction on insulin sensitivity and lipids. 
  • Effects of the status of women on the first-birth interval in Indian urban society. 
  • Elevated C-reactive protein and self-reported disease activity in systemic lupus erythematosus. 
  • Emerging issues regarding pediatric nurse practitioner education in acute and primary care. 
  • Emerging trends in breastfeeding practices in Singaporean Chinese women: findings from a population-based study. 
  • Employment after coronary angioplasty or coronary bypass surgery in patients employed at the time of revascularization. 
  • Environmental contingencies and genetic propensities: social capital, educational continuation, and dopamine receptor gene DRD2. 
  • Environmental contributors to the achievement gap. 
  • Epidemiology of psychiatric disorders in very young children in a Romanian pediatric setting. 
  • Ethnicity and gestational diabetes in New York City, 1995-2003. 
  • Ethnicity, education, and the cortisol response to awakening: a preliminary investigation. 
  • Evaluation of Web sites on management of pain in children. 
  • Evaluation of a Web-based education program on reducing medication dosing error: a multicenter, randomized controlled trial. 
  • Evaluation of a tool to categorize patients by reading literacy and computer skill to facilitate the computer-administered patient interview. 
  • Experience of the school-aged child with tracheostomy. 
  • Explaining life course and cohort variation in the relationship between education and health: the role of income. 
  • Exposing racial discrimination: implicit & explicit measures--the My Body, My Story study of 1005 US-born black & white community health center members. 
  • Eye movement impairment and schizotypal psychopathology. 
  • Factor Structure for Chronic Stress Before and During Pregnancy by Racial/Ethnic Group. 
  • Factor structure of cognitive ability measures in older African Americans. 
  • Factors affecting child development assessed by the Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ) in an Arabic speaking population. 
  • Factors affecting delays in tuberculosis diagnosis in rural China: a case study in four counties in Shandong Province. 
  • Factors associated with African Americans' enrollment in a national cancer genetics registry. 
  • Factors associated with lack of viral suppression at delivery among highly active antiretroviral therapy-naive women with HIV: a cohort study. 
  • Factors determining the rate of referral, transplantation, and survival on dialysis in women with ESRD. 
  • Factors that influence the timing of spontaneous labor at term. 
  • Fears of genocide among black Americans as related to age, sex, and region. 
  • Findings from a nursing student CPR study: implications for staff development educators. 
  • Formulation of the age-education index: measuring age and education effects in neuropsychological performance. 
  • From statistical associations to causation: what developmentalists can learn from instrumental variables techniques coupled with experimental data. 
  • Fruit and vegetable consumption and prevention of cancer: the Black Churches United for Better Health project. 
  • Functional status and self-rated health in 2,262 nonagenarians: the Danish 1905 Cohort Survey. 
  • Gender, educational and ethnic differences in active life expectancy among older Singaporeans. 
  • Gender, health inequalities and welfare state regimes: a cross-national study of 13 European countries. 
  • General performance on a numeracy scale among highly educated samples. 
  • Generalizability of trial results to elderly Medicare patients with advanced solid tumors (Alliance 70802). 
  • Genetic analysis of social-class mobility in five longitudinal studies. 
  • Genetic and environmental correlates of topiramate-induced cognitive impairment. 
  • Genetic counseling and testing for breast-ovarian cancer susceptibility: what do women want? 
  • Genetics and the geography of health, behaviour and attainment. 
  • Genetics of nurture: A test of the hypothesis that parents' genetics predict their observed caregiving. 
  • Global, regional, and national under-5 mortality, adult mortality, age-specific mortality, and life expectancy, 1970-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. 
  • Growing up with a chronic illness: social success, educational/vocational distress. 
  • Growth and diet quality are associated with the attainment of walking in rural Guatemalan infants. 
  • HIV seroprevalence among homeless and marginally housed adults in San Francisco. 
  • Health literacy and adherence to glaucoma therapy. 
  • Health literacy and vision-related quality of life. 
  • Health status of patients with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis at 1 and 5 years after diagnosis. 
  • Health-related quality of life in long-term breast cancer survivors: differences by adjuvant chemotherapy dose in Cancer and Leukemia Group B study 8541. 
  • Heavy drinking in early adulthood and outcomes at mid life. 
  • Heavy episodic drinking in early adulthood and outcomes in midlife. 
  • Helping relationships and genetic propensities: a combinatoric study of DRD2, mentoring, and educational continuation. 
  • Hereditary influences on cognitive functioning in older men. A study of 4000 twin pairs. 
  • High cumulative incidence of uterine leiomyoma in black and white women: ultrasound evidence. 
  • High food insecurity and its correlates among families living on a rural American Indian Reservation. 
  • High, usual and impaired functioning in community-dwelling older men and women: findings from the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Aging. 
  • History of foot ulcer increases mortality among individuals with diabetes: ten-year follow-up of the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study, Norway. 
  • Hospital readmissions in decompensated cirrhotics: Factors pointing toward a prevention strategy. 
  • Hostility during late adolescence predicts coronary risk factors at mid-life. 
  • Hostility, coronary heart disease, and ischemia. The role of socioeconomic status. 
  • How big are educational and racial fertility differentials in the U.S.? 
  • How does lower education get inside the body to raise blood pressure? What can we do to prevent this? 
  • How should DSM-V criteria for schizophrenia include cognitive impairment? 
  • How to manage difficult patient encounters. 
  • Hygiene self-care of older adults in West Virginia: effects of gender. 
  • Hypertensive patients' use of blood pressure monitors stationed in pharmacies and other locations: a cross-sectional mail survey. 
  • Hypochondriacal patients' beliefs about good health. 
  • IQ in late adolescence/early adulthood, risk factors in middle age and later all-cause mortality in men: the Vietnam Experience Study. 
  • Identification of MCI individuals using structural and functional connectivity networks. 
  • Identifying at-risk children at school entry: the usefulness of multibehavioral problem profiles. 
  • Impact of bullying in childhood on adult health, wealth, crime, and social outcomes. 
  • Impact of race on early treatment termination and outcomes in posttraumatic stress disorder treatment. 
  • Impact of recipient body mass index on organ allocation and mortality in orthotopic heart transplantation. 
  • Improving patients' understanding of terms and phrases commonly used in self-reported measures of sexual function. 
  • Increasing colorectal cancer screening among individuals in the carpentry trade: test of risk communication interventions. 
  • Influence of cognitive reserve on neuropsychological functioning in asymptomatic human immunodeficiency virus-1 infection. 
  • Influence of encoding difficulty, word frequency, and phonological regularity on age differences in word naming. 
  • Insurance and education predict long-term survival after orthotopic heart transplantation in the United States. 
  • Intellectual, neurocognitive, and academic achievement in abstinent adolescents with cannabis use disorder. 
  • Interest in BRCA1/2 testing in a primary care population. 
  • Intergenerational effects of parental substance-related convictions and adult drug treatment court participation on children's school performance. 
  • Interventions for individuals with low health literacy: a systematic review. 
  • Interventions in response to chemically dependent nurses: effect of context and interpretation. 
  • Knowledge and attitudes about AIDS among Canadian nursing students: educational implications. 
  • Knowledge, beliefs, and prior screening behavior among blacks and whites reporting for prostate cancer screening. 
  • Latent transition models to study women's changing of dietary patterns from pregnancy to 1 year postpartum. 
  • Later life education in the 1990s: increasing involvement and continuing disparity. 
  • Lessons learned about adolescent nutrition from the Minnesota Adolescent Health Survey. 
  • Life-course financial strain and health in African-Americans. 
  • Life-course socioeconomic status and breast and cervical cancer screening: analysis of the WHO's Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE). 
  • Lifecourse socioeconomic position and weight change among blacks: The Pitt County study. 
  • Lifespan influences on mid- to late-life cognitive function in a Chinese birth cohort. 
  • Links between childhood and adult social circumstances and obesity and hypertension in the Mexican population. 
  • Literacy and blood pressure--do healthcare systems influence this relationship? A cross-sectional study. 
  • Literacy and informed consent: a case for literacy screening in glaucoma research. 
  • Literacy and laryngectomy: how should one treat head and neck cancer in patients who cannot read or write? 
  • Literacy is an independent risk factor for vision impairment and poor visual functioning. 
  • Longitudinal links between spanking and children's externalizing behaviors in a national sample of White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian American families. 
  • Low educational attainment, John Henryism, and cardiovascular reactivity to and recovery from personally relevant stress. 
  • Low health literacy and health outcomes: an updated systematic review. 
  • Low life course socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with negative NEO PI-R personality patterns. 
  • Low self-esteem is related to aggression, antisocial behavior, and delinquency. 
  • Lower education and income predict worse long-term outcomes after injury. 
  • Maintaining normalcy: a grounded theory of engaging in HIV-oriented primary medical care. 
  • Marital status and its relationship with the risk and pattern of visual impairment in a multi-ethnic Asian population. 
  • Married with children: predictors of mental and physical health in middle-aged women. 
  • Maternal education preferences moderate the effects of mandatory employment and education programs on child positive and problem behaviors. 
  • Maternal role attainment with medically fragile infants: Part 2. relationship to the quality of parenting. 
  • Maternal work hours and adolescents' school outcomes among low-income families in four urban counties. 
  • Measured versus estimated creatinine clearance in a high-functioning elderly sample: MacArthur Foundation Study of Successful Aging. 
  • Measurement of dietary intake in the UNC Alumni Heart Study. University of North Carolina. 
  • Measures of social class based on education for use in health studies in developing countries. 
  • Medical student name tags: identification or obfuscation? 
  • Medical, psychological and social correlates of work disability among men with coronary artery disease. 
  • Memory complaint as a predictor of cognitive decline: a comparison of African American and White elders. 
  • Men's knowledge and attitudes about cervical cancer screening in Kenya. 
  • Meta-analysis of gene-environment-wide association scans accounting for education level identifies additional loci for refractive error. 
  • Migration in the urban-rural hierarchy of China: insights from the microdata of the 1987 National Survey. 
  • Misuse of analysis of covariance in aging research revisited. 
  • Modeling change in memory performance and memory perceptions: findings from the ACTIVE study. 
  • Modeling the impact of Trichomonas vaginalis infection on HIV transmission in HIV-infected individuals in medical care. 
  • Moderating effects of prior social resources on the hospitalizations of elders who become widowed. 
  • Modernization and status of the aged: international correlations. 
  • Montreal Cognitive Assessment for screening mild cognitive impairment: variations in test performance and scores by education in Singapore. 
  • More educated emergency department patients are less likely to receive opioids for acute pain. 
  • Mother-infant interactions of medically fragile infants and non-chronically ill premature infants. 
  • Mothers' Psychological Distress and Feeding of Their Preterm Infants. 
  • Multilevel examination of diabetes in modernising China: what elements of urbanisation are most associated with diabetes? 
  • Multivitamin/Mineral supplementation does not affect standardized assessment of academic performance in elementary school children. 
  • Mystery behind the match: an undergraduate medical education-graduate medical education collaborative approach to understanding match goals and outcomes. 
  • Neighborhood deprivation and adverse birth outcomes among diverse ethnic groups. 
  • Neighborhood language isolation and depressive symptoms among elderly U.S. Latinos. 
  • Neighborhood-level socioeconomic determinants impact outcomes in nonsmall cell lung cancer patients in the Southeastern United States. 
  • Neurocognitive Predictors of Academic Outcomes Among Childhood Leukemia Survivors. 
  • Neuropsychological findings in childhood neglect and their relationships to pediatric PTSD. 
  • Neuropsychological findings in pediatric maltreatment: relationship of PTSD, dissociative symptoms, and abuse/neglect indices to neurocognitive outcomes. 
  • New destinations, new trajectories? The educational progress of Hispanic youth in North Carolina. 
  • Nonrecursive models of labor force participation, fertility behavior and sex role attitudes. 
  • Norms and standardization of the Brief Assessment of Cognition in Schizophrenia (BACS). 
  • Nurses' acceptance of the decision support computer program for cancer pain management. 
  • Occupational exposure to crystalline silica and risk of systemic lupus erythematosus: a population-based, case-control study in the southeastern United States. 
  • Occupational outcomes of adult childhood cancer survivors: A report from the childhood cancer survivor study. 
  • Optimization of informed consent for umbilical cord blood banking. 
  • Oral health among white, black, and Mexican-American elders: an examination of edentulism and dental caries. 
  • Outcome and life satisfaction of adults with myelomeningocele. 
  • Parent-reported homework problems in the MTA study: evidence for sustained improvement with behavioral treatment. 
  • Parental education and late-life dementia in the United States. 
  • Parental education predicts corticostriatal functionality in adulthood. 
  • Parental misinterpretations of over-the-counter pediatric cough and cold medication labels. 
  • Parenting-related stress and psychological distress in mothers of toddlers with autism spectrum disorders. 
  • Parents' Knowledge and Education of Retinopathy of Prematurity in Four California Neonatal Intensive Care Units. 
  • Participation in a women's breast cancer risk counseling trial. Who participates? Who declines? High Risk Breast Cancer Consortium. 
  • Patient education level as a predictor of survival in lung cancer clinical trials. 
  • Patient-related predictors of rehabilitation use for community-dwelling older Americans. 
  • Patient-reported quality of life with obesity - development of a new measurement scale. 
  • Patients seek integrative medicine for preventive approach to optimize health. 
  • Patterns and predictors of clustered risky health behaviors among adult survivors of childhood cancer: A report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Patterns and predictors of vaginal bleeding in the first trimester of pregnancy. 
  • Patterns of professional activities of psychiatrists: a follow-up of 100 psychiatric residents. 
  • Perceived barriers to and incentives for participation in a weight-loss program among low-income women in WIC. 
  • Perinatal, neonatal, and family social factors predicting poor school outcome of low-birth-weight survivors: an integrative review. 
  • Persistent infection with neurotropic herpes viruses and cognitive impairment. 
  • Planning in middle childhood: early predictors and later outcomes. 
  • Plasmodium falciparum, anaemia and cognitive and educational performance among school children in an area of moderate malaria transmission: baseline results of a cluster randomized trial on the coast of Kenya. 
  • Polygenic scores associated with educational attainment in adults predict educational achievement and ADHD symptoms in children. 
  • Polygenic transmission disequilibrium confirms that common and rare variation act additively to create risk for autism spectrum disorders. 
  • Post-secondary maternal education buffers against neural risk for psychological vulnerability to future life stress. 
  • Post-traumatic stress outcomes in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma survivors. 
  • Posttraumatic growth in treatment-seeking female assault victims. 
  • Pre-counseling education materials for BRCA testing: does tailoring make a difference? 
  • Predicting changes in physical performance in a high-functioning elderly cohort: MacArthur studies of successful aging. 
  • Predicting student success in nurse practitioner programs. 
  • Predictors of Prolonged Breast Milk Provision to Very Low Birth Weight Infants. 
  • Predictors of basal cell carcinoma in high-risk patients in the VATTC (VA Topical Tretinoin Chemoprevention) trial. 
  • Predictors of breastfeeding in overweight and obese women: data from Active Mothers Postpartum (AMP). 
  • Predictors of cognitive change in older persons: MacArthur studies of successful aging. 
  • Predictors of cognitive decline after cardiac operation. 
  • Predictors of cognitive recovery after cardiac surgery. 
  • Predictors of hospitalised patients' preferences for physician-directed medical decision-making. 
  • Predictors of nutritional supplement use by the elderly. 
  • Predictors of occurrence and severity of first time low back pain episodes: findings from a military inception cohort. 
  • Predictors of smoking cessation in patients with a diagnosis of coronary artery disease. 
  • Predictors of the performance of foreign medical graduates on the 1982 certifying examination in internal medicine. 
  • Preliminary report of a genetic basis for cognitive decline after cardiac operations. The Neurologic Outcome Research Group of the Duke Heart Center. 
  • Preliminary report of a genetic basis for cognitive decline after cardiac operations. The Neurologic Outcome Research Group of the Duke Heart Center. 
  • Prenatal exposure to stilbestrol. A prospective comparison of exposed female offspring with unexposed controls. 
  • Prevalence and correlates of clinically significant depressive symptoms among elderly people in Sri Lanka: findings from a national survey. 
  • Prevalence and correlates of intimate partner violence among women attending HIV voluntary counseling and testing in northern Tanzania, 2005-2008. 
  • Prevalence and correlates of physical inactivity among older adults in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. 
  • Prevalence and correlates of sexual abuse reported by late adolescent school children in Sri Lanka. 
  • Prevalence and predictors of multiple behavioral risk factors for colon cancer. 
  • Prevalence and risk factors of undercorrected refractive errors among Singaporean Malay adults: the Singapore Malay Eye Study. 
  • Prevalence of Pragmatically Defined High CV Risk and its Correlates in LMIC: A Report From 10 LMIC Areas in Africa, Asia, and South America. 
  • Prevalence, components, and correlates of metabolic syndrome (MetS) among elderly Muscovites. 
  • Prevalences of type 2 diabetes, the insulin resistance syndrome, and coronary heart disease in an elderly, biethnic population. 
  • Prices, infrastructure, household characteristics and child height. 
  • Probability samples of area births versus clinic populations for reproductive epidemiology studies. 
  • Problems meeting basic needs moderate the association between the APOE epsilon4 allele and cognitive decline. 
  • Profile of public health nutrition personnel: challenges for population/system-focused roles and state-level monitoring. 
  • Prognostic factors that increase the risk for reduced white matter volumes and deficits in attention and learning for survivors of childhood cancers. 
  • Projection of young-old and old-old with functional disability: does accounting for the changing educational composition of the elderly population make a difference? 
  • Prospective randomized trial of normothermic versus hypothermic cardiopulmonary bypass on cognitive function after coronary artery bypass graft surgery. 
  • Protective connections and educational attainment among young adults with childhood-onset chronic illness. 
  • Psychiatric disorders. A rural/urban comparison. 
  • Psychosocial factors and risk of hypertension: the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study. 
  • Psychosocial variables associated with coping of HIV-positive women diagnosed during pregnancy. 
  • Psychotropic drug use among caregivers of patients with dementia. 
  • Public health implications of voters' attitudes regarding statewide tobacco policy. 
  • Public health literacy defined. 
  • Quality of education impacts late-life cognition. 
  • Quality of patient-physician discussions about CKD in primary care: a cross-sectional study. 
  • Questions & answers: Integrating academics in the context of eating disorder treatment. 
  • Racial differences in blood pressure control: potential explanatory factors. 
  • Racial differences in cognitive decline in a sample of community-dwelling older adults: the mediating role of education and literacy. 
  • Racial differences in enrolment in a cancer genetics registry. 
  • Racial differences in gait mechanics associated with knee osteoarthritis. 
  • Racial differences in hypertension knowledge: effects of differential item functioning. 
  • Racial differences in physician recommendation of hormone replacement therapy. 
  • Racial differences in the relationship between alcohol consumption in early adulthood and occupational attainment at midlife. 
  • Rates of Vitrectomy among Enrollees in a United States Managed Care Network, 2001-2012. 
  • Recruiting intergenerational African American males for biomedical research Studies: a major research challenge. 
  • Reducing frailty and falls in older persons: an investigation of Tai Chi and computerized balance training. Atlanta FICSIT Group. Frailty and Injuries: Cooperative Studies of Intervention Techniques. 
  • Reduction in consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages is associated with weight loss: the PREMIER trial. 
  • Relative importance of birth size and postnatal growth for women's educational achievement. 
  • Religion and perceptions of community-based conservation in Ghana, West Africa. 
  • Religious attitudes and practices of hospitalized medically ill older adults. 
  • Remediating organizational functioning in children with ADHD: immediate and long-term effects from a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Report of the substudy assessing the impact of neurocognitive function on quality of life 5 years after cardiac surgery. 
  • Reproductive and family planning history, knowledge, and needs: a community survey of low-income women in Beijing, China. 
  • Retinal microvascular abnormalities and cognitive function in Latino adults in Los Angeles. 
  • Revisiting literacy and adherence: future clinical and research directions. 
  • Revisiting the association between reading achievement and antisocial behavior: new evidence of an environmental explanation from a twin study. 
  • Rising cesarean delivery rate in primiparous women in urban China: evidence from three nationwide household health surveys. 
  • Risk communication in clinical trials: a cognitive experiment and a survey. 
  • Risk due to inactivity in physically capable older adults. 
  • Risk factors for strabismus and amblyopia in young Singapore Chinese children. 
  • Risk of late effects of treatment in children newly diagnosed with standard-risk acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: a report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study cohort. 
  • Risk perceptions and smoking decisions of adult Chinese men. 
  • School outcomes of aggressive-disruptive children: prediction from kindergarten risk factors and impact of the fast track prevention program. 
  • Screening for behavioral and emotional problems in primary care pediatrics. 
  • Self-reported ageism in social work practitioners and students. 
  • Self-reported diabetes and posttraumatic stress disorder among adults in the community. 
  • Serum albumin in older persons: relationship with age and health status. 
  • Severity of symptoms in chronically institutionalized geriatric schizophrenic patients. 
  • Sex differences in adult outcomes by changes in weight status from adolescence to adulthood: results from Add Health. 
  • Short-Term Changes in the Prevalence of Probable Dementia: An Analysis of the 2011-2015 National Health and Aging Trends Study. 
  • Silent cerebral infarction, income, and grade retention among students with sickle cell anemia. 
  • Simulation for Teaching Orthopaedic Residents in a Competency-based Curriculum: Do the Benefits Justify the Increased Costs? 
  • Smoking, socioeconomic factors, and age-related cataract: The Singapore Malay Eye study. 
  • Social and racial differences in selection of breast cancer adjuvant chemotherapy regimens. 
  • Social inequalities in BMI trajectories: 8-year follow-up of the Pró-Saúde study in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 
  • Social service interventions for caregivers of patients with dementia: impact on health care utilization and expenditures. 
  • Social, educational, and psychological correlates of weight status in adolescents. 
  • Sociodemographic and clinical predictors of mortality in geriatric depression. 
  • Sociodemographic correlates of health beliefs among black and white community dwelling elderly individuals. 
  • Sociodemographic, lifestyle, and medical risk factors for visual impairment in an urban asian population: the singapore malay eye study. 
  • Socioeconomic Disparities in the Prevalence of Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Ghanaian Women. 
  • Socioeconomic and behavioral correlates of body mass index in black adults: the Pitt County Study. 
  • Socioeconomic disparities in the prevalence of work-related injuries among adolescents in the United States. 
  • Socioeconomic disparity in use of eye care services among US adults with age-related eye diseases: National Health Interview Survey, 2002 and 2008. 
  • Socioeconomic position and hysterectomy: a cross-cohort comparison of women in Australia and Great Britain. 
  • Socioeconomic status and adolescent mental disorders. 
  • Socioeconomic status and alcohol use among urban and rural residents in China. 
  • Socioeconomic status and the Black-White mortality crossover. 
  • Socioeconomic status, John Henryism, and hypertension in blacks and whites. 
  • Socioeconomic status, systolic blood pressure and intraocular pressure: the Tanjong Pagar Study. 
  • Somatization disorder in a community population. 
  • Spousal-residence separation among Chinese young couples. 
  • Statin use and hippocampal volumes in elderly subjects at risk for Alzheimer's disease: a pilot observational study. 
  • Stigma in leprosy: miles to go! 
  • Stories we teach by: intersections among faculty biography, student formation, and instructional processes. 
  • Strategies to improve healthcare websites. 
  • Stress may add bite to appetite in women: a laboratory study of stress-induced cortisol and eating behavior. 
  • Stressful life events and cognitive decline in late life: moderation by education and age. The Cache County Study. 
  • Stressful life events and the onset of a generalized anxiety syndrome. 
  • Studying ulcerative colitis over the World Wide Web. 
  • Substance abuse, violence, HIV, and depression: an underlying syndemic factor among Latinas. 
  • Survey of US public attitudes toward pharmacogenetic testing. 
  • Symptom experience and self-care strategies among healthy, midlife African-American women. 
  • Targeting risk factors for reducing the racially disparate burden in breast cancer. 
  • Teachers' education, classroom quality, and young children's academic skills: results from seven studies of preschool programs. 
  • Teaching crucial skills: An electrocardiogram teaching module for medical students. 
  • Texting Motivational Interviewing: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Motivational Interviewing Text Messages Designed to Augment Childhood Obesity Treatment. 
  • The Canadian Study of Health and Aging: risk factors for Alzheimer's disease in Canada. 
  • The Edgecombe County High Blood Pressure Control Program: I. Correlates of uncontrolled hypertension at baseline. 
  • The Genetics of Success: How Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms Associated With Educational Attainment Relate to Life-Course Development. 
  • The MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery, part 2: co-norming and standardization. 
  • The Most Common Barriers to Glaucoma Medication Adherence: A Cross-Sectional Survey. 
  • The association between socioeconomic status and disability after stroke: findings from the Adherence eValuation After Ischemic stroke Longitudinal (AVAIL) registry. 
  • The association between socioeconomic status and overweight/obesity in a Malay population in Singapore. 
  • The association of health and income in the elderly: experience from a southern state of Brazil. 
  • The association of weight change in Alzheimer's disease with severity of disease and mortality: a longitudinal analysis. 
  • The associations of patient demographic characteristics and health information recall: the mediating role of health literacy. 
  • The boundary of social phobia. Exploring the threshold. 
  • The continuous performance test, identical pairs: norms, reliability and performance in healthy controls and patients with schizophrenia in Singapore. 
  • The contribution of sociodemographic, medical, and attitudinal factors to blood donation among the general public. 
  • The demographic transition in southern Africa: another look at the evidence from Botswana and Zimbabwe. 
  • The demographic transition in southern Africa: reviewing the evidence from Botswana and Zimbabwe. 
  • The economic burden of anxiety disorders in the 1990s. 
  • The effect of a telephone family assessment intervention on the functional health of patients with elevated family stress. 
  • The effect of school-based kindergarten transition policies and practices on child academic outcomes. 
  • The effect of the PREMIER interventions on insulin sensitivity. 
  • The effect of the home environment on physical activity and dietary intake in preschool children. 
  • The effect of women's status on infant and child mortality in four rural areas of Bangladesh. 
  • The effects of a break in water fluoridation on the development of dental caries and fluorosis. 
  • The effects of health changes on projections of health service needs for the elderly population of the United States. 
  • The epidemiology of at-risk and binge drinking among middle-aged and elderly community adults: National Survey on Drug Use and Health. 
  • The epidemiology of social phobia: findings from the Duke Epidemiological Catchment Area Study. 
  • The impact of anticipation of job loss on psychological distress and worksite blood pressure. 
  • The impact of comorbidity on treatment (chemoradiation and laryngectomy) of advanced, nondistant metastatic laryngeal cancer: a review of 16 849 cases from the national cancer database (2003-2008). 
  • The impact of education on caregiver burden on two inpatient oncology units. 
  • The impact of occupation on self-rated health: cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence from the health and retirement survey. 
  • The impact of prenatal education on behavioral changes toward breast feeding and smoking cessation in a healthy start population. 
  • The impact of the format of graphical presentation on health-related knowledge and treatment choices. 
  • The impact of tutoring on early reading achievement for children with and without attention problems. 
  • The influence of health literacy level on an educational intervention to improve glaucoma medication adherence. 
  • The introduction of a midwife-led obstetric triage system into a regional referral hospital in Ghana. 
  • The knowledge and awareness of hypertension among patients with hypertension in central Poland: a pilot registry. 
  • The prevalence and distribution of major depression in a national community sample: the National Comorbidity Survey. 
  • The quality of retrospective data on cohabitation. 
  • The relationship between birthweight and early age-related maculopathy: the atherosclerosis risk in communities study. 
  • The role of perceived benefits and costs in patients' medical decisions. 
  • The role of vision in academic school performance. 
  • The socioeconomic impact of hearing loss in U.S. adults. 
  • The spatial distribution of known predictors of autism spectrum disorders impacts geographic variability in prevalence in central North Carolina. 
  • The use of Internet cancer support groups by ethnic minorities. 
  • The use of complementary and alternative medicine by patients with chronic hepatitis C. 
  • Time Trends and Educational Inequalities in Out-of-Hospital Coronary Deaths in Norway 1995-2009: A Cardiovascular Disease in Norway (CVDNOR) Project. 
  • Toward population impact from early childhood psychological interventions. 
  • Trajectory classes of body mass index in a representative elderly community sample. 
  • Trajectory classes of depressive symptoms in a community sample of older adults. 
  • Twenty years of follow-up among survivors of childhood and young adult acute myeloid leukemia: a report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Twenty-five-year follow-up among survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Two colliding epidemics - obesity is independently associated with chronic pain interfering with activities of daily living in adults 18 years and over; a cross-sectional, population-based study. 
  • U.S.S.R. and U.S. nutrient intake, plasma lipids, and lipoproteins in men ages 40-59 sampled from Lipid Research Clinics populations. 
  • Understanding dementia prevalence among centenarians. 
  • Understanding the relative importance of preserving functional abilities in Alzheimer's disease in the United States and Germany. 
  • Use of and reactions to a tailored CD-ROM designed to enhance oncologist-patient communication: the SCOPE trial intervention. 
  • Use of health services by hospitalized medically ill depressed elderly patients. 
  • Use of psychotherapy in a representative adult community sample in São Paulo, Brazil. 
  • Use of videotaped interactions during pediatric well-child care: impact at 33 months on parenting and on child development. 
  • Utilisation of maternal health care in western rural China under a new rural health insurance system (New Co-operative Medical System). 
  • Variation in prevalence of myopia between generations of migrant indians living in Singapore. 
  • Vestibular Assessment and Rehabilitation: Ten-Year Survey Trends of Audiologists' Opinions and Practice. 
  • Video-Only Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Education for High-Risk Families Before Hospital Discharge: A Multicenter Pragmatic Trial. 
  • Weight-loss practices, nutrition beliefs, and weight-loss program preferences of urban American Indian women. 
  • Welfare policies and adolescents: exploring the roles of sibling care, maternal work schedules, and economic resources. 
  • What Do North American Babies Hear? A large-scale cross-corpus analysis. 
  • What do we really know about ADHD in college students? 
  • When Lightning Strikes Twice: Profoundly Gifted, Profoundly Accomplished. 
  • When do older adults turn to the internet for health information? Findings from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. 
  • Who pays attention in stated-choice surveys? 
  • Why eat at fast-food restaurants: reported reasons among frequent consumers. 
  • Why literacy matters. Links between reading ability and health. 
  • Young adult outcomes of children growing up with chronic illness: an analysis of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. 
  • Youth violence across multiple dimensions: a study of violence, absenteeism, and suspensions among middle school children. 
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  • Anderson, Ruth A., Professor Emerita in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Bettger, Janet Prvu, Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Nursing
  • Clotfelter, Charles T., Z. Smith Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Economics
  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society
  • Gibson-Davis, Christina M., Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy
  • Grambow, Steven C., Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Ladd, Helen F., Susan B. King Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, Economics
  • Landry, Michel Daniel, Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedics, Physical Therapy
  • Laskowitz, Daniel Todd, Professor of Neurology, Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Moorman, Patricia Gripka, Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, Duke Cancer Institute
  • Muir, Kelly Walton, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Glaucoma
  • Peterson, Eric David, Fred Cobb, M.D. Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Cardiology
  • Roy Choudhury, Kingshuk, Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Stinnett, Sandra Sue, Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Swaminathan, Madhav, Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Cardiothoracic
  • Wu, Li-Tzy, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine