A5061550589- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
- Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research
- Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection
- Gastrointestinal disorders and treatments
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Drug-Induced Hepatotoxicity and Protection
- Counseling Practices and Supervision
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Gallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders
- Educational and Psychological Assessments
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Liver Disease and Transplantation
- Chemotherapy-induced organ toxicity mitigation
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Gastrointestinal Tumor Research and Treatment
- Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Pain Management and Opioid Use
Georgetown University
2016-2024
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
2019-2024
University of California, Merced
2021
University of California, Los Angeles
1994-2017
Pepperdine University
2001-2015
Harvard University Press
2013-2014
University of Toronto
2012
Disproportionately greater deficits in semantic relative to phonemic verbal fluency are seen Alzheimer's disease (AD) and have been attributed neurodegenerative changes the temporal lobe. Amnestic (AMN) mild cognitive impairment (MCI), which often represents incipient AD, is also characterized by early lobe neuropathology, but previous comparisons of between AD AMN MCI yielded mixed results. We examined performance 399 individuals (78 138 MCI, 72 non-amnestic 111 cognitively normal...
Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is considered standard of care in the medically inoperable patient population. Multiple methods SBRT delivery exist including fiducial-based tumor tracking, which allows smaller treatment margins and avoidance immobilization devices. We explore long-term clinical outcomes this novel method.In single institutional retrospective review, we detail pathologically confirmed NSCLC. Patients were treated with...
A study of patient experience and perception regarding postoperative pain management in Chinese hospitals Liu Weiran,1,* Zhang Lei,2,* Stephanie Mu-Lian Woo,3,* Tang Anliu,4,* Xie Shumin,4,* Jing,5,* Kai,6,* Zhen7 1Department Anesthesia, 2Department Thoracic Surgery, Key Laboratory Cancer Prevention Therapy, Tianjin Lung Center, Medical University Institute Hospital, Tianjin, People's Republic China; 3Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA; 4Xiangya School Central South Changsha, 5Tianjin...
Ahmad Al-Dwairy, Loai Azar, Tarek Bakain, Akram Ahmad, Stephanie Woo, Pichayut Nithagon, Walid Chalhoub
The purposes of this study were to identify knowledge and attitudes held by Chinese university students regarding cadaveric organ donation understand the factors that drive negative attitudes.Questionnaires delivered 200 medical non-medical chosen random assignment at Central South University in China.Of 400 distributed questionnaires, 369 completed returned. Medical more likely than have donation, brain death, its diagnostic criteria, as well appropriate time conduct donation. Furthermore,...
Ampullary adenomas are lesions at the duodenum's major papilla commonly associated with familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) but may also occur sporadically. Historically, ampullary were removed surgically, however endoscopic resection has become preferred method of resection. Most literature on management small single-center retrospective reviews. The objective this study is to describe papillectomy outcomes further refine guidelines.This a patients who underwent papillectomy. Demographic...
Background Previous research has generally found that variations in relatives' affective attitudes (expressed emotion; EE) towards a schizophrenic family member could not be accounted for by differences the severity or form of patient's symptomatology. These findings have been based on clinicians' ratings psychopathology patients. Method To approach question from different perspective, videotaped interactions between patient and members, obtained four to five weeks after hospital discharge,...
Studies have reported that certain measures of intrafamilial transactions are associated with an increased risk both for the initial onset schizophrenia and its recurrence following episode disorder. Two most studied these communication deviance (CD), a measure subclinical thought disorder expressed in speech, emotion (EE), defined as notable attitudes criticism and/or emotional overinvolvement manifested semistructured interview. A previous study (Goldstein et al. 1992) examined whether two...
This paper describes efforts to explicate the significance of schizophrenic patients' sub‐clinical psychopathology (SCP) affective attitudes expressed by relatives about these patients. Using data from two 10‐minute interactions between patients and close (usually parents), verbal non‐verbal behaviors were scored for signs SCP patient. Scores reflective more overt highly related relatives' emotion status their style when interacting with patient, suggesting that a complex transactional model...