Talk to the Veterans Crisis Line now
U.S. flag
An official website of the United States government
ORD only    All VA Research websites

Office of Research & Development

print icon sign up for VA Research updates
Header - Big Data Scientist Training Enhancement Program (BD-STEP)

Accomplishments

2020 Publications

Prevalence of Helicobacter pylori Positive Non-cardia Gastric Adenocarcinoma Is Low and Decreasing in a US Population. 
Dig Dis Sci.
Nguyen TH, Mallepally N, Hammad T, et al.

Virtual Care Expansion in the Veterans Health Administration During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Clinical Services and Patient Characteristics Associated with Utilization [published online ahead of print, 2020 Oct 30]. 
J Am Med Inform Assoc.
Ferguson JM, Jacobs J, Yefimova M, Greene L, Heyworth L, Zulman DM.

A meta-learning approach for genomic survival analysis. 
Nat Commun.
Qiu YL, Zheng H, Devos A, Selby H, Gevaert O.

Social Risk Adjustment in Health Care Performance Measures
JAMA Network Open
Tran LD.

2-Amino-1,3-benzothiazole-6-carboxamide Preferentially Binds the Tandem Mismatch Motif r(UY:GA). 
Biochemistry.
Chang AT, Chen L, Song L, Zhang S, Nikonowicz EP.

Tobacco Retail Density and Initiation of Alternative Tobacco Product Use Among Teens.
Journal of Adolescent Health
Magid HS, Halpern-Felsher B, Ling PM, Bradshaw PT, Mujahid MS, Hendriksen L.

Screen Time for Children and Adolescents During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Obesity (Silver Spring)
Nagata JM, Magid HS, Gabriel KP.

Comparative Transcriptome Profiling Provides Insights Into Plant Salt Tolerance in Seashore Paspalum (Paspalum Vaginatum)
BMC Genomics
Wu P, Cogil S, Qiu Y, Li Z, Zhou M, Hu Q, Chang Z, Noorai RE, Xia X, Saski C, Raymer P, Luo H.

A Comparison of COVID-19 and Imaging Radiation Risk in Clinical Patient Populations
Research Square
Ria F, Fu W, Chalian H, Abadi E, Segars PW, Fricks R, Khoshpouri P, Samei E. 

Development of realistic multi-contrast textured XCAT (MT-XCAT) phantoms using a dual-discriminator conditional-generative adversarial network (D-CGAN).
Phys Med Biol.
Chang Y, Lafata K, Segars WP, Yin FF, Ren L.

2019 Publications

Superior safety of direct oral anticoagulants compared to Warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation and underlying cancer: a national veterans affairs database study
Journal of Geriatric Cardiology
Sawant AC, Kumar A, McCray W, Tetewsky S, Parone L, Sridhara S, Prakash MPH, Tse G, LIU T, Kanwar N, Bhardwaj A, Khan S, Manion C, Lahoti A, Pershad A, Elkin P, Corbelli J.

Interactive Machine Learning for Laboratory Data Integration
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Fillmore N, Do N, Brophy M, Zimolzak A.

With equal access, African Americans have superior survival compared to Caucasians with Multiple Myeloma: a VA study
Blood
Fillmore N, Yellapragada S, Ifeorah C, Mehta A, Cirstea D, White P, Rivero G, Zimolzak A, Pyarajan S, Do N, Brophy M, Munshi N.

The role of coagulation and platelets in colon cancer-associated thrombosis
American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology
Mitrugno A, Tassi Yunga S, Sylman JL, Zilberman-Rudenko J, Shirai T, Hebert JF, Kayton R, Zhang Y, Nan X, Shatzel JJ, Esener S, Duvernay MT, Hamm HE, Gruber A, Williams CD, Takata Y, Armstrong R, Morgan TK, McCarty OJT.

Summary of veterans health administration cancer data sources
Journal of Registry Management
Zullig LL, Jazowski SA, Chawla N, Williams CD, Winski D, Slatore CG, Clary AC, Rasmussen KM, Ticknor LM and Kelley MJ.













Questions about the R&D website? Email the Web Team.

Any health information on this website is strictly for informational purposes and is not intended as medical advice. It should not be used to diagnose or treat any condition.