Research Newsletter 1. Spotlight on a Faculty Researcher: Dr. Mary Byrne 2. Recent Grant Awards 3. Recent Grant Submissions 4. Funding Opportunities 5. Awards and Accolades 6. CUSON Presence at National Meetings 7. Electronic Grant Submission Update 8. ORR Standard Operating Procedures 9. NIH Announcements 10. Resources on the Shared Drive 11. Continuing Education and Training Courses 12. Statistical Assistance 13. Research Bulletin Boards

Research Newsletter

6. CUSON Presence at National Meetings

• MedInfo 2007: Columbia University School of Nursing faculty, doctoral students, and alumni were highly visible at the Triennial meeting of the International Medical Informatics Association (Medinfo 2007) held August 20-24, 2007 in Brisbane, Australia. Three faculty members (Suzanne Bakken, Leanne Currie, and Ritamarie John) and one doctoral student (Sarah Collins) presented papers. Sarah Collins' paper was nominated for Best Paper. Dr. Nam-Ju Lee, Dr. Tsai-Ya Lai, and Po-Yin Yen presented posters based upon their research. Dr. Patricia Dykes and Dr. Leanne Currie participated in a pre-conference on international leadership in nursing informatics. As the United States representative to the Nursing Working Group of the International Medical Informatics Association, Suzanne Bakken presented the successful U.S. bid to host Nursing Informatics 2012 and participated in the deliberations of the IMIA-NI Assembly.
  
  Papers:

  Bakken S, Roberts WD, Chen E, Dilone J, Lee N-J, Mendonca E, Markatou M. PDA-based Informatics Strategies for Tobacco Use Screening and Smoking Cessation Management: A Case Study. Stud Health Technol Inform 2007;129:1447-51.

  Collins S, Currie L, Patel V, Bakken S, Cimino JJ. Multitasking by Clinicians in the Context of CPOE and CIS Use. Stud Health Technol Inform 2007;129:958-62.

  Currie LM, Desjardins K, Stone P, Lai T-Y, Schwartz E, Schnall R, Bakken S. Near-miss and hazard reporting: Promoting mindfulness in patient safety education. Stud Health Technol Inform 2007;129:285-90.

  John R, Buschman P, Chaszar M, Honig J, Mendonca E, Bakken S. Development and Evaluation of a PDA-based Decision Support System for Pediatric Depression Screening. Stud Health Technol Inform 2007;129:1382-6.

  Posters:

  Lai T-Y, Choi J, Sapp J, Velez O, Currie L, Bakken S. Applying Tailoring Techniques for the Development of Consumer-focused and Clinician-focused Adult Depression Management Systems. Stud Health Technol Inform 2007.

  Lee N-J, Currie L, John R, Chen E, Joyce M, Bakken S. Heuristic Evaluation of a Web-based Prototype for a PDA-DSS for the Management of Obesity. Stud Health Technol Inform 2007.

  Yen P-Y, Bakken S. Information Needs Associated with Hazard and Near Miss Reporting. Stud Health Technol Inform 2007.

• Dr. Suzanne Bakken was an invited speaker at the Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science's Conference, "Practice-Based Evidence: Another side of the Knowledge Development Coin" which took place October 23-24, 2007 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC. Dr. Bakken's presentation, "Translating Informatics Research to Practice" covered the development of an informatics research program and the extent to which health information standards have enabled translation of that research into practice.


• Dr. Mary Byrne, Stone Foundation and Elise D. Fish Professor for Clinical Health Care of the Underserved, presented at the 12th National Workshop on Adult and Juvenile Female Offenders, Association on Programs for Female Offenders, on October 23, 2007 in Baltimore, MD. With Lorie Goshin, RN, MS, DNSc candidate and Community Coordinator for Dr. Byrne's current RO1 project, she presented, "What does a Nurse Practitioner intervention add to a prison nursery program and to the reentry transition?" She also organized and chaired a panel, "Successful reentry of women and children: 'Against all odds," which included presentations by Ms. Lorie Goshin, Dr. Gina Hijjawi of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, Mary Hughes, Esq., Deputy District Attorney and Confidential Assistant to the District Attorney, and Teresa Fabi, Esq., Deputy District Attorney and Chief, Crime Prevention, both at the Kings County District Attorney's Office.


• Dr. Byrne also sponsored Ms. Lorie Goshin, DNSc candidate and Ms. Sarah Joestl, MPH, DrPH student to attend the American Public Health Association annual meeting in November in Washington DC and present a co-authored poster (Byrne, Goshin, Joestl, and Bond), "Drug factors and interrupted attachment following reentry from a prison nursery". On behalf of co-authors (Byrne, Evan, Goshin, Erlich, Hsiao, Katz, Saroyan & Zeltzer), Dr. Byrne presented their paper, "Parental self-efficacy and caregiver strain in caring for seriously ill children" at the International Nursing Congress, Sigma Theta Tau International, in July in Vienna, Austria.