Scholars@Duke
Tamara J. Somers

Tamara J. Somers

Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Behavioral Medicine & Neurosciences
Box 102506, Durham, NC 27710
2400 Pratt Street, North Pavil, 7 Floor, Room 7046, Durham, NC 27705

Scholarly Works - Conferences

The Validity of the Distress Thermometer in Patients with Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma.

Conference Ophthalmol Glaucoma · March 2, 2026 OBJECTIVE: To validate the Distress Thermometer (DT) as a screening tool for psychosocial distress in primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) patients and determine optimal cutoff score for clinical use. DESIGN: A clinic-based cross-sectional study. PARTICIPANT ... Full text Link to item Cite

Assessing Whole Health Needs in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Conference ARTHRITIS & RHEUMATOLOGY · October 2025 Link to item Cite

Predicting Type 1 and Type 2 SLE Activity Using the LupusPRO

Conference ARTHRITIS & RHEUMATOLOGY · October 2025 Link to item Cite

Identifying factors associated with anxiety in glaucoma

Conference INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE · June 2025 Link to item Cite

Geriatric Assessment Identifies Impairments in Younger Candidates for Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

Conference Blood · November 13, 2019 Introduction: Geriatric assessment (GA) is a multidimensional evaluation of patient health and function that may detect impairments not identified as part of routine care, predict treatment-related morbidity and mortality, and inform treatment plan ... Full text Cite

A System for Assessment of Canine-Human Interaction during Animal-Assisted Therapies.

Conference Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc · July 2018 Animal-assisted therapies (AAT) are becoming increasingly common to help hospitalized patients, especially in oncology units. There is a critical need for methods and technologies that can enable a quantifiable understanding of AAT to objectively demonstra ... Full text Link to item Cite

Coping Skills Training To Improve Psychological Distress Among Critical Illness Survivors: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE · January 1, 2017 Link to item Cite