Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston 2003
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing, Duke University 2012 - 2016
  • Consulting Associate in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing, Duke University 2011 - 2012
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • NOV 19, 2014

    Richesson Elected Fellow of American College of Medical Informatics
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Improving SCD Care using Web-based Guidelines, Nurse Care Managers and Peer Mentors in Primary Care and Emergency Departments in Central North Carolina awarded by National Institutes of Health 2016 - 2022
  • Quantifying System and Data Readiness for Automated Clinical Decision Support awarded by National Institutes of Health 2016 - 2018
  • Health Care Systems Research Collaboratory - Coordinating Center awarded by National Institutes of Health 2012 - 2018
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Conference Papers

    • Richesson, RL, Pathak, J, McLeod, W, Blackmon, G, and Vehik, K. "Requirements and Strategy for the Development of a Pediatric Drug Ontology." CEUR-WS.org, 2012.
    • MacIsaac, P, Walker, D, Richesson, RL, Grain, H, Elkin, PL, and Patrick, J. "Essential SNOMED: Simplifying SNOMED-CT and supporting Integration with Health Information Models." CEUR-WS.org, 2008.
    • Richesson, RL, Syed, A, Guillette, H, Tuttle, MS, and Krischer, JP. "A Web-based SNOMED CT Browser: Distributed and Real-time Use of SNOMED CT During the Clinical Research Process." IOS Press, 2007.  Full Text
    • Mirhaji, P, Richesson, RL, Turley, JP, Zhang, JJ, and Smith, JW. "Public health situation awareness, towards a semantic approach." 2004.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Mirhaji, P, Zhang, JJ, Srinivasan, A, Richesson, RL, and Smith, JW. "Knowledge based public health situation awareness." 2004.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Turley, JP, Johnson-Throop, KA, Eick, C, Tuttle, MS, and Richesson, RL. "The role of context in the integration of heterogeneous health care databases." 2004.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Richesson, RL, Turley, JP, and Tuttle, MS. "The semantic Web and the integration of health data resources." 2002.  Link to Item

  • Journal Articles

    • Westra, BL, Sylvia, M, Weinfurter, EF, Pruinelli, L, Park, JI, Dodd, D, Keenan, GM, Senk, P, Richesson, RL, Baukner, V, Cruz, C, Gao, G, Whittenburg, L, and Delaney, CW. "Big data science: A literature review of nursing research exemplars." Nursing outlook (December 8, 2016).  Full Text
    • Matney, SA, Settergren, TT, Carrington, JM, Richesson, RL, Sheide, A, and Westra, BL. "Standardizing Physiologic Assessment Data to Enable Big Data Analytics." Western journal of nursing research (July 18, 2016).
    • Richesson, RL, Sun, J, Pathak, J, Kho, AN, and Denny, JC. "Clinical phenotyping in selected national networks: demonstrating the need for high-throughput, portable, and computational methods." Artificial intelligence in medicine 71 (July 2016): 57-61.  Full Text
    • Dizon, JM, Richesson, RL, Lytle, KS, and Hawks, SJ. "Factors Disrupting the Preference Card Management Process: A Root Cause Analysis." AORN journal 103, no. 1 (January 2016): 105.e1-105.12.  Full Text
    • Lytle, KS, Short, NM, Richesson, RL, and Horvath, MM. "Clinical Decision Support for Nurses: A Fall Risk and Prevention Example." Computers, informatics, nursing : CIN 33, no. 12 (December 2015): 530-E1.  Full Text
    • Richesson, RL, and Chute, CG. "Health information technology data standards get down to business: maturation within domains and the emergence of interoperability." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 22, no. 3 (May 16, 2015): 492-494.  Full Text
    • Rice, HE, Englum, BR, Rothman, J, Leonard, S, Reiter, A, Thornburg, C, Brindle, M, Wright, N, Heeney, MM, Smithers, C, Brown, RL, Kalfa, T, Langer, JC, Cada, M, Oldham, KT, Scott, JP, St Peter, S, Sharma, M, Davidoff, AM, Nottage, K, Bernabe, K, Wilson, DB, Dutta, S, Glader, B, Crary, SE, Dassinger, MS, Dunbar, L, Islam, S, Kumar, M, Rescorla, F, Bruch, S, Campbell, A, Austin, M, Sidonio, R, Blakely, ML, and Splenectomy in Congenital Hemolytic Anemia (SICHA) Consortium, . "Clinical outcomes of splenectomy in children: report of the splenectomy in congenital hemolytic anemia registry." American journal of hematology 90, no. 3 (March 2015): 187-192.  Full Text
    • Richesson, RL. "An informatics framework for the standardized collection and analysis of medication data in networked research." Journal of biomedical informatics 52 (December 2014): 4-10. (Review)  Full Text
    • Mooney, J, Spalding, N, Poland, F, Grayson, P, Leduc, R, McAlear, CA, Richesson, RL, Shereff, D, Merkel, PA, and Watts, RA. "The informational needs of patients with ANCA-associated vasculitis-development of an informational needs questionnaire." Rheumatology (Oxford, England) 53, no. 8 (August 2014): 1414-1421.  Full Text
    • Grayson, PC, Amudala, NA, McAlear, CA, Leduc, RL, Shereff, D, Richesson, R, Fraenkel, L, and Merkel, PA. "Causal attributions about disease onset and relapse in patients with systemic vasculitis." The Journal of rheumatology 41, no. 5 (May 2014): 923-930.  Full Text
    • Fung, KW, Richesson, R, and Bodenreider, O. "Coverage of rare disease names in standard terminologies and implications for patients, providers, and research." AMIA .. Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium 2014 (January 2014): 564-572.
    • Richesson, R, Fung, KW, and Bodenreider, O. "Coverage of rare disease names in clinical coding systems and ontologies and implications for electronic health records-based research." CEUR Workshop Proceedings 1327 (January 1, 2014): 78-80.
    • Richesson, RL, Horvath, MM, and Rusincovitch, SA. "Clinical research informatics and electronic health record data." Yearbook of medical informatics 9 (January 2014): 215-223.  Full Text
    • Richesson, RL. "An informatics framework for the standardized collection and analysis of medication data in networked research." Journal of Biomedical Informatics 52 (January 1, 2014): 4-10. (Review)  Full Text
    • Richesson, RL, Hammond, WE, Nahm, M, Wixted, D, Simon, GE, Robinson, JG, Bauck, AE, Cifelli, D, Smerek, MM, Dickerson, J, Laws, RL, Madigan, RA, Rusincovitch, SA, Kluchar, C, and Califf, RM. "Electronic health records based phenotyping in next-generation clinical trials: a perspective from the NIH Health Care Systems Collaboratory." J Am Med Inform Assoc 20, no. e2 (December 2013): e226-e231.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Richesson, RL, Rusincovitch, SA, Wixted, D, Batch, BC, Feinglos, MN, Miranda, ML, Hammond, WE, Califf, RM, and Spratt, SE. "A comparison of phenotype definitions for diabetes mellitus." J Am Med Inform Assoc 20, no. e2 (December 2013): e319-e326.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Grayson, PC, Amudala, NA, McAlear, CA, Leduc, RL, Shereff, D, Richesson, R, Fraenkel, L, and Merkel, PA. "Illness perceptions and fatigue in systemic vasculitis." Arthritis Care and Research 65, no. 11 (2013): 1835-1843.  Full Text
    • Richesson, RL, Moldwin, R, Andrews, JE, and Shereff, DE. "The use of metadata and terminology standards to support for retrieval and re-use of question and answer sets for patient registries." International Journal of Functional Informatics and Personalised Medicine (December 2012). (Academic Article)
    • Richesson, RL, Shereff, D, and Andrews, JE. "Standardization of questions in rare disease registries: The PRISM Library Project." Interactive Journal of Medical Research 1, no. 2 (October 2012): e10-. (Academic Article)  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Richesson, RL, Sutphen, R, Shereff, D, and Krischer, JP. "The Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network Contact Registry update: features and functionality." Contemp Clin Trials 33, no. 4 (July 2012): 647-656.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Richesson, RL, and Nadkarni, P. "Data standards for clinical research data collection forms: current status and challenges." J Am Med Inform Assoc 18, no. 3 (May 1, 2011): 341-346.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Richesson, RL. "Data standards in diabetes patient registries. (Published online)" J Diabetes Sci Technol 5, no. 3 (May 1, 2011): 476-485.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Kallem, C, Richesson, R, DuLong, D, Sison, L, Van Dyke, P, and Mon, DT. "Advancing secondary data uses through data standards." Journal of AHIMA / American Health Information Management Association 82, no. 4 (April 2011): 38-39. (Academic Article)  Full Text
    • Barton, C, Kallem, C, Dyke, PV, Mon, D, and Richesson, R. "Demonstrating "collect once, use many"--assimilating public health secondary data use requirements into an existing Domain Analysis Model." AMIA .. Annual Symposium proceedings / AMIA Symposium. AMIA Symposium 2011 (2011): 98-107.
    • Kallem, C, Richesson, R, DuLong, D, Sison, L, Dyke, PV, and Mon, DT. "Advancing secondary data uses through data standards." Journal of AHIMA / American Health Information Management Association 82, no. 4 (2011): 38-39.
    • Shereff, D, Graves, A, Andrews, J, and Richesson, R. "Promoting the use of standard questions in patient registries and research: A library of questions related to rare diseases." Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting 48 (2011).  Full Text
    • Pathak, J, and Richesson, RL. "Use of standard drug vocabularies in clinical research: a case study in pediatrics. (Published online)" AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2010 (November 13, 2010): 607-611.  Link to Item
    • Rubinstein, YR, Groft, SC, Bartek, R, Brown, K, Christensen, RA, Collier, E, Farber, A, Farmer, J, Ferguson, JH, Forrest, CB, Lockhart, NC, McCurdy, KR, Moore, H, Pollen, GB, Richesson, R, Miller, VR, Hull, S, and Vaught, J. "Creating a global rare disease patient registry linked to a rare diseases biorepository database: Rare Disease-HUB (RD-HUB)." Contemporary clinical trials 31, no. 5 (September 2010): 394-404. (Academic Article)  Full Text
    • Richesson, RL, Smith, SB, Malloy, J, and Krischer, JP. "Achieving standardized medication data in clinical research studies: two approaches and applications for implementing RxNorm." J Med Syst 34, no. 4 (August 2010): 651-657.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Richesson, R, and Vehik, K. "Patient registries: utility, validity and inference." Advances in experimental medicine and biology 686 (Rare Diseases Epidemiology), no. 2-3 (July 2010): 87-104. (Academic Article)  Full Text
    • Richesson, R, Shereff, D, and Andrews, J. "[RD] PRISM Library: Patient Registry Item Specifications and Metadata for Rare Diseases." Journal of library metadata 10, no. 2-3 (April 2010): 119-135. (Academic Article)  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Andrews, JE, Shereff, D, Patrick, TB, and Richesson, RL. "The Question about Questions: Is DC a good choice to address the challenges of representation of clinical research questions and value sets?." Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (2010): 88-93.
    • Patrick, TB, Andrews, JE, and Richesson, RL. "Introduction." International Journal of Functional Informatics and Personalised Medicine 3, no. 4 (2010): 257-259.
    • Richesson, RL, Shereff, D, Spisla, C, Albarracin, N, Konicek, DJ, and Andrews, JE. "The use of SNOMED CT to support retrieval and re-use of Question and Answer Sets for patient registries." I. J. Functional Informatics and Personalised Medicine 3 (2010): 342-365.  Full Text
    • Weng, C, Tu, SW, Sim, I, and Richesson, RL. "Formal representation of eligibility criteria: A literature review." Journal of Biomedical Informatics 43 (2010): 451-467.  Full Text
    • Richesson, RL, Lee, HS, Cuthbertson, D, Lloyd, J, Young, K, and Krischer, JP. "An automated communication system in a contact registry for persons with rare diseases: scalable tools for identifying and recruiting clinical research participants." Contemp Clin Trials 30, no. 1 (January 2009): 55-62.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Andrews, JE, Patrick, TB, Richesson, RL, Brown, H, and Krischer, JP. "Comparing heterogeneous SNOMED CT coding of clinical research concepts by examining normalized expressions." J Biomed Inform 41, no. 6 (December 2008): 1062-1069.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Richesson, RL, Fung, KW, and Krischer, JP. "Heterogeneous but "standard" coding systems for adverse events: Issues in achieving interoperability between apples and oranges." Contemp Clin Trials 29, no. 5 (September 2008): 635-645.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Moyers, S, Richesson, RL, and Krischer, JP. "Trans-Atlantic data harmonization in the classification of medicines and dietary supplements: A challenge for epidemiologic study and clinical research." I. J. Medical Informatics 77 (2008): 58-67.  Full Text
    • Patrick, TB, Richesson, R, Andrews, JE, and Folk, LC. "SNOMED CT coding variation and grouping for "other findings" in a longitudinal study on urea cycle disorders." AMIA .. Annual Symposium proceedings / AMIA Symposium. AMIA Symposium (2008): 11-15.
    • Richesson, RL, Malloy, JF, Paulus, K, Cuthbertson, D, and Krischer, JP. "An automated standardized system for managing adverse events in clinical research networks." Drug Saf 31, no. 10 (2008): 807-822. (Review)  Link to Item
    • Richesson, RL. "Data standards in clinical research: Gaps, overlaps, challenges, and future directions (vol 14, pg 687, 2007)." JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL INFORMATICS ASSOCIATION 15, no. 2 (2008): 265-265.  Link to Item
    • Richesson, RL, and Krischer, J. "Data standards in clinical research: gaps, overlaps, challenges and future directions." J Am Med Inform Assoc 14, no. 6 (November 2007): 687-696.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Richesson, RL, Young, K, Lloyd, J, Adams, T, Guillette, H, Malloy, J, and Krischer, JP. "An automated communication system in a Contact Registry for persons with rare diseases: tools for retaining potential clinical research participants. (Published online)" AMIA Annu Symp Proc (October 11, 2007): 1094-.  Link to Item
    • Andrews, JE, Richesson, RL, and Krischer, J. "Variation of SNOMED CT coding of clinical research concepts among coding experts." J Am Med Inform Assoc 14, no. 4 (July 2007): 497-506.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Richesson, R, Syed, A, Guillette, H, Tuttle, MS, and Krischer, J. "A web-based SNOMED CT browser: Distributed and real-time use of SNOMED CT during the clinical research process." Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 129 (2007): 631-635.
    • Richesson, RL, Andrews, JE, and Krischer, JP. "Use of SNOMED CT to represent clinical research data: a semantic characterization of data items on case report forms in vasculitis research." J Am Med Inform Assoc 13, no. 5 (September 2006): 536-546.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Richesson, R, Young, K, Guillette, H, Tuttle, M, Abbondondolo, M, and Krischer, J. "Standard terminology on demand: facilitating distributed and real-time use of SNOMED CT during the clinical research process." AMIA .. Annual Symposium proceedings / AMIA Symposium. AMIA Symposium (2006): 1076--.
    • Markham, C, Baumler, E, Richesson, R, Parcel, G, Basen-Engquist, K, Kok, G, and Wilkerson, D. "Impact of HIV-positive speakers in a multicomponent, school-based HIV/STD prevention program for inner-city adolescents." AIDS Education and Prevention 12, no. 5 (2000): 442-454.
    • Richesson, RL, and Hwang, LY. "Impact of the 1993 CDC surveillance definition of AIDS in Texas, 1991-1994." Tex Med 94, no. 1 (January 1998): 56-63.  Link to Item
• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • NURSING 574: Directed Research 2017
  • NURSING 717: Health Information Exchange Standards, Methods, & Models 2017
  • NURSING 725: Synthesis of Specialty Practice, Informatics 2017
  • NURSING 963: Data Driven Health Care Improvements 2017
  • NURSING 975: DNP Capstone 2017
  • NURSING 315: Directed Research 2015
  • NURSING 359: Independent Study 2015
  • NURSING 410: Health Information Exchange Standards, Methods and Models 2015
  • NURSING 498: Synthesis of Specialty Practice 2015
  • NURSING 665: Capstone Project 2015

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