Cutting-edge Research: Recent Faculty Publications
Authors | Title | Publication Info |
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2025 | ||
Freeman LE, Stewart HM | “An Intersectional Account of Gender Oppression and Injustice in Healthcare” | Springer Handbook of Philosophy of Medicine. Edited by Thomas Schramme and Mary Walker |
Munnich, Elizabeth, Michael Richards, Christopher Whaley, and Xiaoxi Zhao. | “Raising the Stakes: Physician Facility Investments and Provider Agency.” | Forthcoming, American Economic Review |
Zhao, Xiaoxi, Elizabeth Munnich, Ashley Kranz, Jessica Lee, Christopher Whaley. | “Pediatric dental surgery prices: Comparing Hospital Outpatient Departments and Ambulatory Surgery Centers.” | Forthcoming, Medical Care Research and Review. |
Cadigan RJ, Ponsaran R, Rich CA, Timmons J, Brothers KB, Goldenberg AJ | Supporting Stewardship: Funding, Utilization, and Sustainability as Ethical Concerns in Networked Biobanking. | AJOB Empirical Bioethics. 16 (1): 42-51. |
Wattles BA, Brothers KB, Rich CA, Ryan L, Smith MJ. | Perspectives of paediatric providers on antibiotic stewardship in a high-prescribing rural region. | Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 2025; 31 (1): e14108. |
Biesecker BB, Ackerman SL, Brothers KB, East KM, Foreman AKM, Hindorff LA, Horowitz CR, Jarvik GP, Knight SJ, Leo MC, Patrick DL, Rini C, Robinson JO, Sahin-Hodoglugil N, Slavotinek AM, Suckiel SA, Veenstra DL, Zinberg RE, Hunter JE. | Genomic sequencing in diverse and underserved pediatric populations: parent perspectives on understanding, uncertainty, psychosocial impact, and personal utility of results. | Genetics in Medicine. 2025; 27 (4): 101363. |
Noonan, E., Weingartner, L., Combs, R., Decker, H., Cowand, A., Williams, S., Maradik Harris, L. | Recognizing and Addressing Health Care Barriers for Transgender and Nonbinary People Living with a Chronic Illness or Disability. | Qualitative Health Research. Doi: 10.1177/10497323251330253 |
Decker, H.*, Combs, R., Harris, L., Lorenz, K., Wendel, M. | Reimagining Support after Sexual Violence: Survivors’ Recommendations for Community-Based Support Organizations. | Journal of Social Service Research, 51(2):491-511. Doi: 10.1080/01488376.2025.2451932 |
Decker, H., Combs, R., Cowand, A., Noonan, E., Weingartner, L., Harris, L., Williams, S. | Shared social identity and social safety as health promoting factors for gender diverse individuals with a chronic illness and/or disability: A qualitative analysis of intersectional experiences. | International Journal of Transgender Health, 1-13. Doi: 10.1080/26895269.2025.2450236 |
Aleshire, M., Huffines, R., Combs, R., Tinman, J.S., Nzama, N., Shuying, S. | Cervical Cancer Screening Barriers and Facilitators for Sexual and Gender Minority People: A Community-Engaged Feasibility Approach. | Annals of LGBTQ Public and Population Health. |
2024 | ||
Freeman LE | “‘The Health System Wasn’t Built for Us’: Medicine and Non-Normative Bodies.” | Routledge Handbook of Non-Ideal Theory, ed. by Hilkje Charlotte Hänel and Johanna Müller |
Freeman LE, Stewart HM | Microaggressions in Medicine | New York: Oxford University Press. |
Story, A., Bell, N., Schott, S., Fletcher, F., & Kerr, J. | The Ethical Implications of Environmental Racism: Considerations for Advancing Health Equity. | The American Journal of Bioethics, 24(3), 35-37. |
Karimi SM, Parh MYA, Shakib SH, Zarei H, Aranha V, Graham A, Allen T, Khan SM, Moghadami M, Antimisiaris D, McKinney WP, Little B, Chen Y, Ingram T. | COVID-19 vaccine uptake inequality among older adults: A multidimensional demographic analysis. | Am J Infect Control. 2025 Jan;53(1):115-125. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2024.09.007. Epub 2024 Sep 12. PMID: 39277037. |
Turbitt E, Kohler JN, Brothers KB, Outram SM, Rini C, Sahin-Hodoglugil N, Leo MC, Biesecker BB. | The Parent PrU: a measure to assess personal utility of pediatric genome results. | Genetics in Medicine. 26 (1): 100994. |
Fullerton SM, Brothers KB. | Expanding Applications of Clinical Genetic Testing — Ethical Challenges. | New England Journal of Medicine. 2024; 390 (15): 1349-1351. |
Callahan KP, Mueller R, Crew K, Brothers KB, Munson D, Joffe S, Feudtner C. | Frequency and Reasons that Parents Decline Genetic Testing for Critically Ill Neonates. | Genetics in Medicine Open. 2024; 2 (101896). |
Potter D | Biographical Disruption, Redefinition, and Recovery: Experiences of Women with Depression and Diabetes | Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 28(6):918-936 |
Kerr, J., Combs, R., Sterrett, E., Krigger, K., Harris, L., Northington, T., Parker, K. | Evaluation of a Community-Informed Multimedia Intervention to Increase PrEP Awareness and Intention among African American Young Adults. | AIDS Care, 36(8): 1119-1125. Doi: 10.1080/09540121.2023.2297739 |
Weingartner, L.A., Combs, R.M., Bohnert, C.A., Decker, H., & Noonan, E.J. | Epistemic Peerhood as a Model to Improve Gender-Affirming Care in Medical Education. | Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 36(1): 89-98. doi: 10.1080/10401334.2022.2137169 |
Kolers A | “Solidarism and the Struggle Against Environmental Racism.” | Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric 14 #1: 103-23. |
Kolers A | Solidarity is not Joint Action | In Andrea Sangiovanni et al.,Solidarity: Nature, Grounds, and Value. Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 2024: 137-53. |
Kolers A | Solidarity as a Virtue of Equality | InThe Virtue of Solidarity, ed. Andrea Sangiovanni and Juri Viehoff (Oxford University Press), pp. 110-136. |
2023 | ||
Lin, Haizhen, Elizbeth Munnich, Michael Richards, Christopher Whaley, and Xiaoxi Zhao. | “Outside Equity and Healthcare Firm Behavior.” | Journal of Health Economics, 91: 102801. |
Chen, Alice, Elizabeth Munnich, Stephen Parente, and Michael Richards. | “Provider Turf Wars and Medicare Payment Rules.” | Journal of Public Economics, 218: 104812. |
Trujillo, GM, Fernandez Y | “Risking Death over Debt: The Moral Distress of EMTs Treating Patients Afraid of Medical Bills.” |
bioethics today: Blog of the American Journal of Bioethics (23 June) |
Cho MK, Lasio MLD, Amarillo I, Mintz KT, Bennett RL, Brothers KB. | Words matter: the language of difference in human genetics | Genetics in Medicine. 2023; 25 (3): 100343 |
. Lemke AA, Thompson ML, Gimpel EC, McNamara KC, Rich CA, Finnila CF, Cochran ME, Lawler JMJ, East KM, Bowling KM, Latner DR, Hiatt SM, Amaral MD, Kelley WV, Greve V, Gray DE, Felker SA, Meddaugh H, Cannon A, Luedecke A, Jackson KE, Hendon LG, Janani HM, Johnston M, Merin LE, Deans SL, Tuura C, Hughes T, Williams H, Laborde K, Neu MB, Patrick-Esteve J, Hurst ACE, Kirmse BM, Savich R, Spedale SB, Knight SJ, Barsh GS, Korf BR, Cooper GM, Brothers KB. | Parents’ Perspectives on the Utility of Genomic Sequencing in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. | Journal of Personalized Medicine. 13 (7): 1026 |
Umstead KL, Woolford S, Macnamara EF, Yanes T, Brothers KB, Han PKJ, Sapp JC, Crenshaw M, Price CS, Biesecker BB | Parental Uncertainty about a Child’s Health Scale (PUCHS): Development and Validation of a Novel Measure. | Georgetown Medical Review. 2023: 1-16. |
Rothstein MA, Patrinos D, Brothers KB, Clayton EW, Joly Y, Zawati MH, Andanda P, Arawi T, Castañeda M, Chalmers D, Chen H, Ghaly M, Hatanaka R, Hendriks AC, Ho CWL, Kaye J, Krekora-Zając D, Lee WB, Mattsson T, Nicolás P, Nnamuchi O, Rial-Sebbag E, Siegal G, Wathuta JM, Knoppers BM. | Concordance of International Regulation of Pediatric Health Research. | The Journal of Pediatrics 260 (113524): 1-10. |
Kerr, J. | Now You Are Part of the Solution: Bioethicists' Contribution in Addressing Racialized Health Inequity. | Hastings Center Report, 52, S35-S38. |
Sterrett-Hong, E., Smith, A., Bullock, N.A., Combs, R., Krigger, K., Kerr, J. | Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms and PrEP Intentions among Black American Young Adults at High-Risk for HIV. | Ethnicity & Health. 29(1): 100-111. doi: 10.1080/13557858.2023.2259639 |
Combs, R., Decker, H., Noonan, E., Weingartner, L., Bohnert, L. | Gender Minority Portrayal in Patient Simulation: Transgender and Non-binary Healthcare Providers Consider the Priorities and Ethics of Practice. |
International Journal of Healthcare Simulation: Advances in Theory & Practice. doi: 10.54531/zsan7948 Selected as a Society for Simulation in Healthcare Article of Influence for 2023/24 |
Ayangeakaa, S.D., Kerr, J. Combs, R.M. Harris, L.M., Sears, J. Kimberly Parker, K., Sterrett-Hong, E. | Sociocultural and Structural Influences on HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Engagement and Uptake among African American Young Adults. | BMC Public Health, 23(1427). doi: 10.1186/s12889-023-16273-8 |
Naifeh, M.M., Stevenson, M.D., Abramson, E.L., Aston, C.E., Combs, R.M., Decker, H.R., Li, S.T. | The Early Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Pediatric Resident Education: A National Assessment. | Academic Pediatrics. doi: 10.1016/j.acap.2022.11.003 |
2022 | ||
Epistemic Injustice and the Philosophy of Reognition, ed. Paul Giladi and Nicola McMillan (New York: Routledge, 2022). [Downloadable from Academia.edu] | ||
COVID-19 vaccination status should not be used in triage tie-breaking |
Journal of Medical Ethics. Published online January 2022. | |
Walters, S., Kerr, J., Cano, M., Link, B., Earnshaw, V. | Intersectional Stigma as a Fundamental Cause of Health Disparities: A case study of how drug use stigma intersecting with racism and xenophobia creates health inequities for Black and Hispanic persons who use drugs over time. | Journal of Stigma and Health (in press) |
Freeman LE., Stewart HM. | “Power and Microaggressions in Medicine” | Routledge Handbook of Feminist Bioethics, ed. Jackie Leach Scully, Wendy Rogers, Stacy Carter, Vikki Entwistle, Catherine Mills; 2022: 351-363 |
Schuman, O. | Does donor conception violate human dignity? | Bioethics, published online 06 August 2022 |
. Family and Community Health, 45(4), 218-227. | ||
The American Journal of Bioethics, 1-13. | ||
Newborn screening for neurodevelopmental diseases: Are we there yet? | Am J Med Genet C Semin Med Genet. 2022 Jul 15;. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.c.31988. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 35838066. | |
American Journal of Public Health, 112(S4), S362-S366. | ||
The American Journal of Human Genetics, 109(3), 486-497. | ||
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Practice Patterns: A Survey of Kentucky Pediatric Providers. | J Dev Behav Pediatr. 2022 May 1;43(4):233-239. doi: 10.1097/DBP.0000000000001037. Epub 2021 Nov 17. PubMed PMID: 34799539. | |
Perceived Utility of Genomic Sequencing: Qualitative Analysis and Synthesis of a Conceptual Model to Inform Patient-Centered Instrument Development. | Patient. 2022 May;15(3):317-328. doi: 10.1007/s40271-021-00558-4. Epub 2021 Oct 18. Review. PubMed PMID: 34658003; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9013723. | |
The Hastings Center Report, 52(S1), s35-s38. | ||
Genome sequencing as a first-line diagnostic test for hospitalized infants. | Genet Med. 2022 Apr;24(4):851-861. doi: 10.1016/j.gim.2021.11.020. Epub 2021 Nov 27. PubMed PMID: 34930662; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8995345 | |
*Zebrack, B. Schapmire, T., Otis-Green, S., Nelson, K., Miller, N., Donna, D., & Grignon, M. | Establishing core competencies, opportunities, roles and expertise for oncology social work. | Journal of Social Work, 0(0), 14680173211051983. https://doi.org/10.1177/14680173211051983 |
A systematic review of neighborhood-level influences on HIV vulnerability. | AIDS and Behavior, 26, 874-934. | |
Streamlining ethics review for international health research. | Science. 2022 Feb 25;375(6583):825-826. doi: 10.1126/science.abn0675. Epub 2022 Feb 24. PubMed PMID: 35201881 | |
Is a Video Worth a Thousand Words? | AMA Journal of Ethics, 24(7), 549-555 | |
2021 | ||
Peer Support Specialists and Bourdieu's Theory of Practice; Lay Experts and Recovery in Mental health Organizations |
Sociological Forum 36 (3): 624-48. |
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Caring for unvaccinated patients in the ICU: beyond frustration, toward beneficial relationships. | Critical Care Explorations3(12). | |
“Toward a Harm-Based Account of Microaggressions” | Perspectives in Psychology16 (5). | |
"If It's Ethical During a Pandemic…": Lessons from COVID-19 for Post-Pandemic Biobanking. | Am J Bioeth. 2021 Dec;21(12):34-36. doi: 10.1080/15265161.2021.1991034. PubMed PMID: 34806961. | |
Conceptualization of utility in translational clinical genomics research. | Am J Hum Genet. 2021 Nov 4;108(11):2027-2036. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2021.08.013. Epub 2021 Oct 22. Review. PubMed PMID: 34687653; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8595895. | |
Examining access to care in clinical genomic research and medicine: Experiences from the CSER Consortium. | J Clin Transl Sci. 2021;5(1):e193. doi: 10.1017/cts.2021.855. eCollection 2021. PubMed PMID: 34888063; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8634302 | |
The Therapeutic Odyssey: Positioning Genomic Sequencing in the Search for a Child's Best Possible Life. | AJOB Empir Bioeth. 2021 Jul-Sep;12(3):179-189. doi: 10.1080/23294515.2021.1907475. Epub 2021 Apr 12. PubMed PMID: 33843487. | |
Taking an antiracist posture in scientific publications in human genetics and genomics. | Taking an antiracist posture in scientific publications in human genetics and genomics. | |
Employees' Views and Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Assessment of Voluntary Workplace Genomic Testing. | Front Genet. 2021;12:643304. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2021.643304. eCollection 2021. PubMed PMID: 33815477; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8010177. | |
*Zebrack, B., Grignon, M., Guan, T., Long, D., Miller, N., Nelson, K., Otis-Green, S., Rayton, M., Schapmire, T., & Wiener, L. | Six months in: COVID-19 and its impact on oncology social work practice. | Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, 1-6. doi:10.1080/07347332.2021.1893421 |
Kerr, J., Burton, K., Tharao, W., Greenspan, N., Calzavara, L., Browne, O., Luyombya, H., Arnold, K., Nakamwa, J., Muchenje-Marisa, M., Husbands, W. | Examining HIV-related stigma among African, Caribbean, and Black church congregants from the Black PRAISE Study in Ontario, Canada. | AIDS Care, 33(12), 1636-1641. |
*Guan, T., Nelson, K., Otis-Green, S., Rayton, M., Schapmire, T., Wiener, L., & Zebrack, B. | Moral distress among oncology social workers. | JCO Oncology Practice, 17(7), e947-e957. https://doi.org/10.1200/op.21.00276 PMID: 34252313 |
Head, B., Schapmire, T., Jones, C., Peters, B., Furman, C. D., Shaw, M. A., Woggon, F., & Pfeifer, M. | “Opening eyes to real interprofessional education”: results of a national faculty development initiative focused on interprofessional education in oncology palliative care | Journal of Interprofessional Care, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/13561820.2021.1965102 |
Schapmire, T. J., Head, B. A., Furman, C. D., Jones, C., Peters, B., Shaw, M. A., Woggon, F., Ziegler, C., & Pfeifer, M. P. | The Interprofessional Education Exchange: The Impact of a Faculty Development Program in Interprofessional Palliative Oncology Education on Trainee Competencies, Skills, and Satisfaction. | Palliative Medicine Reports, 2(1), 296-304. https://doi.org/10.1089/pmr.2021.0045 |
Kolers, A. | What Does Solidarity Do for Bioethics? | Journal of Medical Ethics. 47:2 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2019-106040 |
Husbands, W., Kerr, J., Calzavara, L., Tharao, W., Greenspan, N., Muchenje-Marisa, M., ... & Browne, O. | Black PRAISE: engaging Black congregations to strengthen critical awareness of HIV affecting Black Canadian communities. | Health Promotion International, 36(2), 303-312. |
Karimi, S.M., Salunkhe, S.S., White, K.B., Little, B.B., McKinney, W.P., Mitra, R., Chen, Y., Adkins, E.R., Barclay, J.A., Ezekekwu, E. and He, C.X. | Prevalence of unmasked and improperly masked behavior in indoor public areas during the COVID-19 pandemic: Analysis of a stratified random sample from Louisville, Kentucky. | PloS one, 16(7), p.e0248324. |
Karimi, S.M., Salunkhe, S.S., White, K.B., Alzahrani, S.A., Little, B., McKinney, W.P., DuPre, N., Mitra, R., Chen, Y., Popescu, M.M. and Adkins, E.R., 2021. | Facial Mask Use and COVID-19 Protection Measures in Jefferson County, Kentucky: Results from an Observational Survey, November 5− 11, 2020. | The University of Louisville Journal of Respiratory Infections, 5(1), p.7. |
DuPre, N.C., Karimi, S., Zhang, C.H., Blair, L., Gupta, A., Alharbi, L.M.A., Alluhibi, M., Mitra, R., McKinney, W.P. and Little, B. | County-level demographic, social, economic, and lifestyle correlates of COVID-19 infection and death trajectories during the first wave of the pandemic in the United States. | Science of The Total Environment, 786, p.147495. |
Harris, L.M., Silverstein, S., Crawford, T.N., Kerr, J.C. & Ball, D. | Exploring the impact of alcohol and other drug use on HIV care among African American older adults living with HIV/AIDS. | Innovation in Aging, 5(Suppl 1), 870-870. |
Karimi, S.M., Majbouri, M., DuPré, N., White, K.B., Little, B.B. and McKinney, W.P. | Weather and COVID-19 Deaths During the Stay-at-Home Order in the United States. | Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 63(6), p.462. |
2020 | ||
Schuman, O., et al. | Responding to Hospital Staff’s Paranormal Experiences Related to a Medical Assistance in Dying Room. | Canadian Journal of Bioethics/Revue canadienne de bioéthique, 3(1), 172-174. |
Freeman L. | “A Matter of Justice: ‘Fat’ is not Necessarily a Bad Word.” | Hastings Center Report 50. |
Kerr, J., Harris, L., Glass, E., Golden, T., Crawford, T. | “I Shall Live and Not Die”: Using monologues based on the experiences of older African Americans living with HIV to address HIV-related stigma among African Americans in Louisville, Kentucky.” | Family and Community Health, 43(4), 257-263. |
Rothstein MA | “The Coronavirus Pandemic: Public Health and American Values” | 48(2) Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 354-359. |
Rothstein MA et al. | “Unregulated Health Research Using Mobile Devices: Ethical Considerations and Policy Recommendations.” | 48 (Supp. 1) Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 196-226. |
Harris, L.M., Crawford, T., Kerr, J., Thomas, T., Schmidt, V. | "African American older adults living with HIV: Exploring stress, stigma, and engagement in HIV care." | Journal of Healthcare for the Poor and Underserved, 31(1), 265-286. |
Hanson SS, Antimisiaris DE. | “Ethical Aspects of COVID-19 Antibody Testing.” | The University of Louisville Journal of Respiratory Infections. October 2020. |
Rothstein MA | “Public Health and Privacy in the Pandemic” | 110(9) American Journal of Public Health 1374-1375 |
Freeman L., and Schroer JW., eds. | Microaggressions and Philosophy. | New York: Routledge. |
Banning Genetic Discrimination in Life Insurance - Time to Follow Florida's Lead. | N Engl J Med. 2020 Nov 26;383(22):2099-2101. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp2024123. Epub 2020 Nov 21. PubMed PMID: 33253510. | |
Analogies in Genomics Policymaking: Debates and Drawbacks. | Am J Hum Genet. 2020 Nov 5;107(5):797-801. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2020.08.024. PubMed PMID: 33157006; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7674995. | |
Kolers A. | “Groundwork for the Mechanics of Morals.” | Canadian Journal of Philosophy 50 #5: 636-51. |
Wagner JK, Colwell C, Claw KG, Stone AC, Bolnick DA, Hawks J, BrothersKB, Garrison NA. | “Fostering Responsible Research on Ancient DNA.” | American Journal of Human Genetics. 107 (2) : 183-195. |
Rothstein MA, Wilbanks JT, Beskow LM, Brelsford KM, Brothers KB, Doerr M, Evans BJ, Hammack-Aviran CM, McGowan ML, Tovino SA. | “Unregulated Health Research Using Mobile Devices: Ethical Considerations and Policy Recommendations.” | Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics. 48 (S1) : 196-226. |
Brothers KB, Clayton EW, Goldenberg AJ. | “Online Pediatric Research: Addressing Consent, Assent, and Parental Permission." | Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics. 2020; 48 (S1) : 129-137. |
Rothstein MA. and Coughlin CN. | “Ensuring Compliance with Quarantine by Undocumented Immigrants and Other Vulnerable Groups: Public Health versus Politics” | 110 (9) American Journal of Public Health 1179-1183. |
Bibler TM, Stahl D, Fantus S, Lion A, Brothers KB. | “Responding to Parents/Guardians Who Hope for a Miracle: A Process-Based Approach.” | Pediatrics. 145 (3) : e20192319. |
Hannan, K.S. and McKinney, W.P. | An overview of current clinical trials of agents for the treatment and prevention of COVID-19 in the United States. | The University of Louisville Journal of Respiratory Infections, 4(1), p.49. |
Karimi, S., DuPre, N., McKinney, W.P., Little, B.B., Patel, N. and Moyer, S. | Projecting the COVID-19 Weekly Deaths and Hospitalizations for Jefferson County, Kentucky. | The University of Louisville Journal of Respiratory Infections, 4(1), p.44. |