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(2024). Prevalence and Risk Associated with Military Sexual Trauma in a Sample of Veterans with Substance Use Disorder. Poster to be presented at the 2024 Anxiety and Depression Association of America Annual Meeting.

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(2023). Persecution as Stigma-Driven Trauma: Social Determinants, Stigma, and Violence in Asylum Seekers in the United States. Social Science & Medicine.

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(2023). Opioid- and alcohol-attributable death and reduced life-expectancy among veterans diagnosed with opioid or alcohol use disorder.

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(2023). A disproportionate burden: suicide, alcohol-and opioid-attributable deaths among veteran men and women. under review.

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(2023). The Impact of COVID-19 on Mortality Risk among Veterans with Opioid Use Disorder as a Function of Co-Occurring Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Poster to be presented at 39th International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.

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(2023). Leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) in academic grant writing: a case study with ChatGPT and Bard. Invited lecture: Section of General Internal Medicine, Research in Progress at Boston Medical Center.

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(2023). Increase Access to Life-Saving Opioid Use Disorder Treatment in the Age of Fentanyl. Presented at Annual Veteran Health Affairs Innovators Network Conference.

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(2023). Improving Access to The Story Game for Youth at Clinical High risk for Psychosis. Presented pitched for innovation project to executive leadership at VA Healthcare System.

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(2023). Disproportionate burden: suicide, alcohol-, and opioid-attributable death among veteran men and women. Invited lecture: National Center for PTSD, Women’s Health Sciences Division..

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(2023). Analyses of trends in morbidity and mortality among veterans with substance use disorders. Presented at American Psychological Association Annual Convention.

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(2023). Improving Access to The Story Game for Youth at Clinical High risk for Psychosis. Invited lecture: Mental Health Month VISN 8 Innovation Showcase.

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(2023). Using Cosine Similarity to Assess Positive Formal Thought Disorder. Seminar talk presented at the Midwest Graduate Research Symposium.

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(2023). Exploring the Validity of Natural Language Processing Tools in Psychosis Assessment. Data Blitz Presentation presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association.

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(2023). Leveraging Randomized Controlled Trial Design: HIV and Wellness Interventions with Marginalized Populations. Research on Social Work Practice.

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(2023). HIV Prevalence and HIV Screening History Among a Veterans Association Cohort of People with Opioid and Alcohol Use Disor-ders. Journal of General Internal Medicine.

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(2023). Big Data Scientist Training Enhancement Program: The role of GPT-3 and ChatGPT in Medicine. Invited lecture: The Big Data Scientist Training Enhancement Program.

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(2022). Support for COVID-19-Related Substance Use Services Policy Changes: a New York State-Wide Survey. The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research.

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(2022). The nature, motives, and perceived consequences of therapist dishonesty. Psychotherapy Research.

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(2022). The impact of China-to-US immigration on structural and cultural determinants of HIV-related stigma: implications for HIV care of Chinese immigrants. Ethnicity & Health.

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(2022). Geospatial Barriers to Accessing Addiction Health Services In New York State: Intersection of Covid-19 Pandemic and Drug Overdose Epidemic. Presented at Harvard Psychiatry Research Poster Session.

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(2022). Increasing inclusivity in precision medicine research: Views of deaf and hard of hearing individuals. Genetics in Medicine.

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(2022). COVID-19 related substance use services policy changes: Policymaker perspectives on policy development & implementation. Journal of substance abuse treatment.

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(2021). Support for COVID-19 Related Substance Use Services Policy Changes: A New York State-wide Survey. Presented at Addiction Health Services Research Conference.

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(2021). Intersection of COVID-19, Substance Use Disorder, Policy, Practice, and Implications for Equitable Service Delivery in NYS: Access to Addiction Health Services During COVID-19: Support for Policy Changes and Geospatial Barriers. Symposium conducted at Center for Healing of Opioid and Other Substance Use Disorders-Enhancing Intervention.

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(2021). Covid-19 related substance use services policy changes: Policymaker perspectives on policy development & implementation. Presented at Addiction Health Services Research Conference.

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(2021). The Role of Social Determinants of Mental Health among Asylum Seekers: Implications for Sustainable Development Goals. Presented at North American Refugee Health Conference.

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(2021). R and Data Visualization in Psychology Science. Invited lecture: Workshop at Harvard Medical School.

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(2021). Clients’ perceptions of positive regard across four therapeutic orientations.. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration.

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(2020). Prospective prediction of PTSD diagnosis in a nationally representative sample using machine learning. BMC Psychiatry.

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(2020). Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis in Opioid Use Disorder Research: Methods and Techniques. Invited lecture: Workshop at Social Intervention Group, Columbia University.

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(2020). HIV/AIDS and the Syndemic of Substance Abuse and Violence (SAVA) in New York City. Presented at the American Public Health Association Conference.

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(2020). Understanding factors associated with Forced Sex among Young Men who have sex with Men (YMSMs) engaging in risky sexual behaviors. Presented at the American Psychological Association Conference.

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(2020). The Importance of Context in Understanding Sexual Risk Behaviors. Presented at the American Psychological Association Conference.

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(2020). Contextual factors affecting forced sex and intimate partner violence among individuals engaging in sexual risk behaviors. Presented at the American Psychological Association Conference.

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(2020). Systematic Review of Reviews of Sexual Risk Behaviors. Symposium conducted at Annual HIV Prevention Trial Network Sexual Risk Behavior Working Group.

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(2020). The predictive validity of suicide risk measures over time: A meta-analysis of prospective studies from 1985 to 2018. Presented at Anxiety and Depression Association of America’s Anxiety and Depression Conference.

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(2020). In different voices: the views of people with disabilities about return of results from precision medicine research. Public Health Genomics.

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(2020). COVID-19, mental health, and opioid use disorder: Old and new public health crises intertwine.. Educational Publishing Foundation.

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(2020). Assessing factors associated with discharge from opioid agonist therapy due to incarceration in the United States. Journal of Addictive Diseases.

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(2020). Advancing study of cognitive impairments for antipsychotic-naïve psychosis comparing high-income versus low-and middle-income countries with a focus on urban China: Systematic review of cognition and study methodology. Schizophrenia research.

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(2019). Risky neighborhoods, homelessness, and HIV/STI behavioral risk factors among women completing community corrections sentences in New York City. Poster presented at Annual Meeting & Expo for American Public Health Association.

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(2019). Cognitive Functioning in Drug-Naive Patients with Schizophrenia: Review of Studies. Poster presented at American Psychological Association Convention.

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(2019). Men in Community Correction Programs and Their Female Primary Sex Partners: Latent Class Analysis to Identify the Relationship of Clusters of Drug Use and Sexual Behaviors and HIV Risks. Journal of Urban Health.

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(2019). Validation and Improved Reliability of a Community Participation Measure among Individuals with Mental Illness and a History of Homelessness. Poster presented at The Third Psychology at Teachers College Conference.

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(2019). The Predictive Validity of Suicide Risk Measures: A Meta-Analysis of Prospective Studies. Poster presented at The Third Psychology at Teachers College Conference.

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(2019). Measurement of Sexual Risk Behaviors: A systematic review of reviews. Poster presented at The Third Psychology at Teachers College Conference.

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(2019). Positive regard and affirmation. Psychotherapy relationships that work.

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(2019). Including the blind community in precision medicine research: findings from a national survey and recommendations. Genetics in Medicine.

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(2019). Disability inclusion in precision medicine research: a first national survey. Genetics in Medicine.

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(2018). Prospective Prediction of PTSD Onset: A Machine Learning Approach to Analysis. Presented at the Clinical Psychology Department Colloquium at Teachers College, Columbia University.

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(2018). A Patient of Life. Presented at the Clinical Psychology Department Case Conference at Teachers College, Columbia University.

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(2018). Dignity has no nationality: HIV and migrants' rights: Criminal justice involvement as a social determinant of sexual risk among male migrant and non-migrant market vendors in Kazakhstan - Implications for HIV prevention and human rights. Oral abstract presented at 22nd International AIDS Conference.

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(2018). Structural determinants of Community Viral Load Trends in New York City (2009-2013). Presenting at 80th Annual Scientific Meeting of College on Problems of Drug Dependence.

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(2018). Systematic Review of Reviews of Sexual Risk Behaviors. Symposium conducted at Annual HIV Prevention Trial Network Committee Leadership Meeting.

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(2018). Understanding the Sting of \"Psycho\": A Behavioral Study of Stigmatizing Words Associated with Mental Illness for Individuals at Clinical High-Risk for Psychosis. Poster presented at Society for Affective Science Annual Conference.

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(2018). Big Little (Therapists’) Lies Psychotherapists’ Assessment of Truth, Candor, and Honesty (PATCH). Presented at the 2nd Psychology at Teachers College Conference.

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(2018). Principal Components Analysis of Topics of Therapists’ Dishonesty & Predictors of High Dishonesty from a Logistic Regression Model Psychotherapists’ Assessment of Truth, Candor, and Honesty (PATCH). Presented at the Clinical Psychology Department Colloquium at Teachers College, Columbia University.

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(2018). Intimate relationships and patterns of drug and sexual risk behaviors among people who inject drugs in Kazakhstan: A latent class analysis. Drug and alcohol dependence.

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(2017). What Matters Most: Exploring the Cultural Dimensions of Stigma Experiences Among Individuals with Schizophrenia in India. Presented at American Psychological Association Convention.

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(2017). Pilot Validation of an Internalized Stigma Adjective List for CHR Individuals. Presented at American Psychological Association Convention.

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(2017). Race, Ethnicity, and Genetic Diversity: The Challenges for Precision Medicine Research. Poster presented at the 4th Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) Congress.

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(2017). A Machine Learning Approach to PTSD Prediction Across the United States. Poster presented at 29th Annual Association for Psychological Science Convention.

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(2017). Creation of an Objective Measure of Social Integration for Previously Homeless Individuals. Presented at the First Annual Dissertation in 3-minutes (Di3) at Teachers College, Columbia University.

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(2017). Violating clan and kinship roles as risk factors for suicide and stigma among Lao refugees: an application of the cultural model of suicide and\" what matters most\" frameworks. Israel Journal of Psychiatry.

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(2016). What Matters Most: Evaluation of Stigma Measures Among People with Mental Illness in Rural India. Poster presented at American Psychological Association Convention.

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(2016). Utilizing Community Perspective to Inform Suicide Prevention in Lao Community. Poster presented at APHA Annual Meeting & Expo.

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(2016). Exposure to Childhood Abuse and Later Substance Use: Indirect Effects of Emotion Dysregulation and Exposure to Trauma. Journal of Traumatic Stress.

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(2016). Cognition Deficits in Completely Untreated individuals with schizophrenia: A systematic review. Poster presented at American Psychological Association Convention.

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(2016). Exploratory Analysis of Psychosocial Factors and Trauma among the Homeless: Implications for Recovery. Poster presented at Integrative Project Showcase at Teachers College, Columbia University.

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(2016). Implementation of Mindfulness Based Techniques in Residential Support Services. Invited lecture: Workshop conducted at International House.

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(2015). The Role of Community-Based Mental Health Interventions Among the Homeless Individuals in New York. Invited lecture: Workshop conducted at Nightingale-Bamford School.

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(2015). Let’s Talk About Sex. Invited lecture: Workshop conducted at International House.

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(2015). Addressing Stigma of Suicide within Laotian Community: A Community-Based Approach. Poster presented at 143rd Annual Meeting & Expo for American Public Health Association.

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(2015). An example journal article. Journal of Source Themes, 1(1).

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(2015). Cultural Dynamics of coping with severe mental illness and stigma: Secrecy among Chinese immigrants with psychosis. poster presented at Asian American Psychology Association Annual Convention.

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(2015). Understanding Cultural Stigma Towards Suicide within Laotian Community. Poster presented for 32nd Annual Winter Roundtable at Teachers College, Columbia University.

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(2015). Ethnic Disparities is Stigma and Causal Attributions of Depression. Poster presented for 32nd Annual Winter Roundtable at Teachers College, Columbia University.

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(2015). The application of a cognitive defusion technique to negative body image thoughts: A preliminary analogue investigation. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science.

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(2015). Environmental Scan of Orange County, NJ.

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(2014). Psychological Resilience as a Protective Factor for PTSD and Depression in Survivors of Childhood Maltreatment. Poster presented at International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies 30th Annual Meeting.

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(2014). Multicultural Research within Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: The Role of Psychological Inflexibility and Mindfulness in Somatization, Depression, and Anxiety Among Non-Clinical Asian Americans. Symposium conducted at Association for Contextual Behavioral Science Annual World Conference 12.

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(2014). A cognitive defusion technique decreases the discomfort, believability, and decentering of self-referential negative body image thoughts.. Poster presented at Georgia State University Undergraduate Research Conference.

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(2014). Resilience and Emotion Regulation as Protective Factors For PTSD, Depression, And Substance Use. Poster presenting at Anxiety and Depression Association of America’s Anxiety and Depression Conference.

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(2013). Examining the Impact of Cognitive Defusion and Thought Distraction Techniques on Negative Body Image Thoughts in a Non-clinical College Sample. Poster presented at Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies 47th annual convention.

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(2013). An example conference paper. In ICW.

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(2013). The Role of Psychological Flexibility in Mental Health Stigma and Psychological Distress For the Stigmatizer in an African American College Sample. Poster presented at Georgia State University Research Conference.

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(2013). The Role of Mindfulness and Psychological Inflexibility in Regulating Psychological Distress in Non-Clinical Asian American Sample. Poster presented at Georgia State University Research Conference.

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(2012). The Effect of Cognitive Defusion Interventions on Emotional Discomfort and Believability of Negative Self-Referential Thoughts. Poster presented at Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference.

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(2012). A Preliminary Look at Global Skin Bleaching Prevalence. Poster presented at Southeastern Ecological Community Psychology Conference.

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