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2025-2026 Fordham Law School Faculty Bibliography, Fordham Law School

Faculty Bibliography

Bibliography of Fordham Law School faculty publications in print from July 2025-June 2026.

Always... Patsy Cline, Otterbein Theatre And Dance Department

2025 Summer Theatre

No abstract provided.

Investment In Family Medicine To Improve Health Outcomes In Sub-Saharan Africa, Sunanda C. Ray, Mpundu Makasa, Innocent Besigye, Jacob Shabani, Martha Makwero

Family Medicine, East Africa

Family physicians (FPs), as educators, capacity builders and clinical governance leaders of primary care (PC) teams, work to make them more effective and responsive to the needs of their patients. Various strategies are required to raise the profile of Family Medicine (FM) to ensure stronger representation in health sector planning and policy development for advocacy on behalf of the communities they serve. An illustration is given of the need for FP leaders to become equal partners in the National Surgical, Obstetric and Anaesthesia Planning process to ensure safer surgery at district hospitals and to address unmet surgical needs. Integrating FM …

Unmanned Aerial Systems (Uass) In Rangeland Ecosystem Management: Assessing Grazing Impacts At Willits, California, Pramil Khanal

Master's Theses

California's rangelands, vital for biodiversity and cattle production, face threats from land use changes and climate changes, necessitating robust management strategies. While overgrazing has been studied extensively, the effects of light rotational grazing on vegetation have seldom been assessed. This study used Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) and multispectral imagery to assess the seasonal impacts of light rotational grazing on vegetation health and coverage in wetland mitigation areas near Willits, California. Data were collected in May (spring) and November (fall) 2024 using a DJI M3M drone and MicaSense camera capturing RGB and Near-Infrared (NIR) bands. Green Chromatic Coordinate (GCC) and Normalized …

Associations Of Hepatitis C Virus (Hcv) Antibody Positivity With Opioid, Stimulant, And Polysubstance Injection Among People Who Inject Drugs (Pwid) In Rural U.S. Communities, Angela T. Estadt, William C. Miller, David Kline, Bridget M. Whitney, April M. Young, P. Todd Korthuis, Thomas J. Stopka, Judith Feinberg, William A. Zule, Mai T. Pho, Peter D. Friedmann, Ryan P. Westergaard, Kellene V. Eagen, Andrew Seaman, Jimmy Ma, Vivian F. Go, Kathryn E. Lancaster

Epidemiology and Environmental Health Faculty Publications

Background: People who inject drugs (PWID) in the rural U.S. often inject stimulants, alone or with opioids. The impact of these substance use patterns may influence HCV risk behaviors. This analysis examines the associations of HCV antibody positivity with injecting only opioids, only stimulants (methamphetamine/cocaine), and opioids and stimulants together among rural PWID. Methods: The Rural Opioid Initiative (ROI) consists of eight research sites that enrolled people who use drugs in rural communities in ten U.S. states from 2018 to 2020. This cross-sectional analysis included adult participants who resided in a study area and injected any drug in the past …

The Effects Of Parental Occupational Exposures On Autism Spectrum Disorder Severity And Skills In Cognitive And Adaptive Domains In Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Erin C. Mccanlies, Ja Kook Gu, Claudia C. Ma, Wayne T. Sanderson, Yunin J. Ludeña-Rodriguez, Irva Hertz-Picciotto

Epidemiology and Environmental Health Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Generative Ai For Operations Management Education And Learning: A Critical Assessment And Analysis, Yaojie Li, Johnny Ho

Management and Marketing Faculty Publications

The rise of generative AI is transforming the realm of business education. As interest and concerns surrounding the use of generative AI in schools grow, research examining the effects of generative AI in education and learning remains sparse. To that end, this study aims to demystify the potential generative AI by evaluating the performance of ChatGPT in addressing Operations Management problems and questions, which are classified according to Bloom’s taxonomy and grouped as quantitative vs. qualitative, deterministic vs. stochastic groups. Our findings reveal that ChatGPT generally performed well but struggled with Bloom’s “applying” and stochastic questions, suggesting its limitations in …

Annual Review Of Seqra Cases And Developments, Michael B. Gerrard

Faculty Scholarship

The New York State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) turns 50 this year. The statute has changed only a little in the last half century, but it continues to be a font of litigation. The courts decided 43 cases under SEQRA in 2024.

Implementation of SEQRA is also raising policy issues. The legislature is considering whether to amend SEQRA to speed up affordable housing projects, and the State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is drafting regulations concerning the role SEQRA should play in advancing environmental justice.

A constant theme is the tension between thoroughly studying important project impacts and involving …

Transforming The World With Reparations?, Ingrid Brunk, Monica Hakimi

Faculty Scholarship

Claims for reparations in international law commonly reflect two competing visions--one transformative, the other corrective. The transformative vision looks to reparations to end the long tail of injustices that are associated with large-scale historic harms. The corrective vision is more confined; it focuses on repairing specific, legally cognizable harms and returning the agents or entities involved as closely as possible to the status quo ante. We argue in this Essay that these two visions have distinct conceptual logics, even though they often overlap in practice, and that the transformative vision cannot carry the burdens that are placed on it.

"I Don't Think Librarians Can Save Us": The Material Conditions Of Information Literacy Instruction In The Misinformation Age, Amber Willenborg, Robert Detmering

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

This national qualitative study investigates academic librarians’ instructional experiences, views, and challenges regarding the widespread problem of misinformation. Findings from phenomenological interviews reveal a tension between librarians’ professional, moral, and civic obligation to address misinformation and the actual material conditions of information literacy instruction, which influence and often constrain librarians’ pedagogical and institutional roles. The authors call for greater professional reflection on current information literacy models that focus on achieving ambitious educational goals but which may be unsuitable for addressing the larger social and political crisis of misinformation.

Competition In The Labor Market: The Wage Effect Of Employer Concentration In China, Jianan Liu, Hongbo Cai, Carl Lin

Faculty Journal Articles

Competition in the labor market theoretically leads to higher wages, yet empirical evidence to substantiate it, particularly in developing countries, has been sparse. Our study delves into the impact of increased competition in the labor market on workers' wages using a panel dataset from Chinese industrial firms spanning 1998 to 2013. Employing OLS and IV regressions, we demonstrate that a decrease in employer concentration is significantly linked to higher wages. The elasticities of employer concentration on wages fall within the range of −0.034 and −0.107. Additionally, our findings suggest that state-owned enterprises gained the most from this upswing in competition, …

A Pathway To Research-Reliable Dynamic Temporal And Tactile Cueing For Children With Childhood Apraxia Of Speech: A Multiphase Process For Training Community Clinicians, Julia Case, Maria I. Grigos, Shelley L. Velleman, Elizabeth Murray, Donna C. Thomas, Shelby Anumandla, Jenya Iuzzini-Seigel

Speech Pathology and Audiology Faculty Research and Publications

Purpose: Mounting research supports the use of motor-based intervention (e.g., Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing [DTTC]) for children with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS), but large randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are needed to better understand optimal treatment conditions. Partnering with community clinicians may help support recruitment and data collection for large groups of participants with CAS. However, to achieve this, rigorous training is needed to ensure high-fidelity treatment and adherence to research protocols. This work presents a multiphase process for training community clinicians to implement high-fidelity DTTC. We then examined whether clinician factors predicted their performance on assessment tasks used …

Full Issue, Vol. 16

Monographs of the Western North American Naturalist

No abstract provided.

Creating Space For Social Justice Discussions – How We Made The Uncomfortable Comfortable, Emilie Keeton, Msod, Jacqueline Hill, Bridgette Jones

Presentations

Current models of graduate medical education and faculty development have been described as inadequate for teaching, learning, and dialoguing about race and racism in medicine. We created the “Not-So Journal Club” (NSJC) to provide opportunities to review articles and discuss current events and social justice issues. Respondents reported planning to discuss with colleagues, make change to professional behaviors, and requested actions they could take to spur change. NSJC model appears to be effective to engage faculty in meaningful conversations about race and racism in medicine.

Effectiveness Of A Telephone-Delivered Walk With Ease Program On Arthritis-Related Symptoms, Function, And Activity: A Randomized Trial, Christine Pellegrini Ph.D., Sara Wilcox Phd, Yesil Kim, Scott Jamieson, Katherine Devivo, Daniel Heidtke

Faculty Publications

Objective

Walk With Ease (WWE) is a six-week arthritis-appropriate evidence-based physical activity program traditionally offered in a face-to-face format. Because many populations encounter participation barriers to in-person programs, WWE was modified for telephone delivery (WWE-T). The short- and long-term effects of this program on physical activity and arthritis-related outcomes were examined.

Methods

Participants (n = 267) with arthritis were randomized to WWE-T or a wait list control. WWE-T participants received two telephone calls per week (one group and one individual call) for six weeks. Group calls focused on arthritis education and social support. Individual calls focused on problem-solving and goal …

Uni Impact: Faculty/Staff Scholarly Publications And Featured Awards Newsletter, V3i1, 2024, Rod Library. Research & Sponsored Programs. Uni Foundation. University Of Northern Iowa.

UNI Impact: Faculty/Staff Scholarly Publications and Featured Awards Newsletter

Highlights the scholarship, research, and other scholarly work produced by University of Northern Iowa faculty, students, and staff.

This issue covers the period of January - June 2024.

The Administrative Burden Of Medication Affordability Resources: An Environmental Scan With Implications For Health Informatics To Advance Health Equity., Marcy G Antonio, Jennylee Swallow, Rachel Richesson, Christine Carethers, Antoinette B Coe, Divya Jahagirdar, Yung-Yi Huang, Tammy Toscos, Mindy Flanagan, Tiffany C Veinot

Health Services and Informatics Research

OBJECTIVE: To characterize and demonstrate how to reduce the administrative burden experienced by patients when navigating medication affordability resources in the United States.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: Informed by administrative burden theory, we conducted an environmental scan of medication affordability resources for atrial fibrillation, and four common comorbidities (diabetes, heart failure, hypertension, and lipid disorder). We systematically searched for resources (eg, patient assistance programs, savings cards and nonprofit support) and extracted information about types, eligibility criteria, needed documentation, and application processes.

RESULTS: We identified 66 resources across 12 categories across the five conditions. The resources' varied eligibility criteria, application processes, and …

Extubation Decisions With Predictive Information For Mechanically Ventilated Patients In Icu, Guang Cheng, Jingui Xie, Zhichao Zheng, Haidong Luo, Oon Cheong Ooi

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Weaning patients from mechanical ventilators is a crucial decision in intensive care units (ICUs), significantly affecting patient outcomes and the throughput of ICUs. This study aims to improve the current extubation protocols by incorporating predictive information on patient health conditions. We develop a discrete-time, finite-horizon Markov decision process with predictions of future state to support extubation decisions. We characterize the structure of the optimal policy and provide important insights into how predictive information can lead to different decision protocols. We demonstrate that adding predictive information is always beneficial, even if physicians place excessive trust in the predictions, as long as …

Relational History: Correcting Temporal Myopia In Social Network Research, Julia Brennecke, Gianluca Carnabuci, Gokhan Ertug

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Scholars have used network concepts and methods to explain a wide range of organizational phenomena. Despite this broad interest, prevalent approaches tend to neglect a critical constitutive dimension of network ties: their history. We invoke the concept of relational history to signify the temporal path and biography of a network tie. We argue that a network tie’s history shapes what the relationship means to the parties involved, what can be accomplished in and through the relationship, and how the relationship might further evolve. In directing the attention of organizational network researchers to the relational history of network ties, we aim …

Information Production By Institutions And Information Extraction By Underwriters In Hybrid Ipo Auctions, Thomas J. Chemmanur, Pengfei Ma, Qianqian Yu

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

We analyze the informational properties of hybrid IPO auctions using a large and unique database of institutional bids from Chinese IPO auctions. We find strong evidence of information production by institutions about the intrinsic values of IPO firms and of underwriters extracting and using this information in IPO pricing. The IPO offer price is more sensitive to bids from institutions able to produce more precise information. In particular, the offer price is more sensitive to bids from domestic institutions, compared to bids from foreign institutions who likely have less knowledge or experience about the Chinese firms and financial market due …

Defending The Golden Fleece: A Study Of Disruption And Resilience In The Movement To Defund Public Libraries In Louisiana, Ciel Lane Quebedeaux

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

In this moment of societal change and institutional capture, public educational institutions have become sites of contention where national ideological and political debates are carried out in local school and library board meetings across the country. In Louisiana, the creation and expansion of a statewide conservative organization has led to the defunding of public libraries sparked by accusations of grooming and inappropriate programming. In response, local library defenders have created another statewide organization to share information and organizing strategies to combat disinformation campaigns propagated by conservative organizers at local and state levels. This qualitative study includes in-depth interviews with library …

Performance Comparison Of Quantum And Classical Machine Learning Models For Chronic Kidney Disease Prediction, Parama Sridevi, Paramita Basak Upama, Masud Rabbani, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed

Computer Science Faculty Research and Publications

In this study, we develop and compare quantum and classical machine learning-based chronic kidney disease prediction models. We used the "Chronic_Kidney_Disease Data Set" of the UCI Machine Learning Repository. We performed data preprocessing and applied feature engineering techniques to select the best features. We developed two quantum machine learning-based models and two classical machine learning-based models. We used a hybrid classical-quantum environment for building quantum machine learning models. Finally, we compared the performances of all four models. We found that the Quantum Support Vector Machine performs best among the quantum models. The model’s accuracy was 95% with a k-fold cross-validation …

The Role Of Insularity: Plants Have Few Ornithophilous Traits But Are Visited By Morphologically More Distinct Hummingbirds In The Caribbean Islands, Maximillian G.R. Vollstädt, Rasmus D. Jensen, Pietro K. Maruyama, Matthias Schleuning, Francielle P. Araújo-Hoffmann, Marlies Sazima, Jesper Sonne, Taia S.O. Schrøder, Fredrik Møller-Stranges, Stefan Abrahamczyk, Mónica B. Ramírez-Burbano, Marcelo Ferreira De Vasconcelos, Boris A. Tinoco, María A. Maglianesi, Ruth Partida-Lara, José Raúl Vázquez-Pérez, Paula L. Enríquez, André Rodrigo Rech, Aline G. Coelho, Fernando Gonçalves, Edvaldo Nunes Da Silva Neto, Manoel Martins Dias Filho, Matheus Reis, Oscar H. Marín-Gómez, Juan Francisco Ornelas, Peter A. Cotton, Paulo Eugenio Oliveira, Adriana Oliveira Machado, Jeferson Vizentin-Bugoni, Pedro Joaquim Bergamo

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Functional traits determine interactions between plants and pollinators, and to increase pollination efficiency, many plants have evolved traits to attract specific pollinator groups. However, biogeographical setting may influence trait evolution and biotic interactions. For instance, plants pollinated by hummingbirds often have ornithophilous traits, that is, flowers with elongated corollas, dilute nectar and red colours, but—due to colonization history, depauperate biotas and unstable environmental conditions—it might be disadvantageous for species to rely on mutualistic partners with specific functional traits on oceanic islands. Hummingbird-visited plants on islands are thus expected to have fewer ornithophilous traits and be functionally less diverse in their …

Fall Prevention In Long-Term Care, Steven Zissler

All Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Scholarly Projects

Problem: Falls among older adults residing in long-term care facilities continue to rise, resulting in injuries that contribute to adverse outcomes, a reduced quality of life, and increased healthcare costs. Despite existing safety interventions, falls persist, indicating a gap in effective, sustainable fall prevention strategies. Repeated failures to reduce falls among adults aged 65 years and older highlight the need for a structured, evidence-based approach aimed at addressing this critical patient safety issue.

Aim of the Project: The aim of this project was to reduce falls and fall-related injuries by 25% for older adults residing in a long-term care facility …

Implementing The Patient Health Questionnaire-2 To Improve Referral Rates To Mental Healthcare Through Routine Depression Screening, Kelly Murakata

All Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Scholarly Projects

Problem: Primary care settings often encounter patients with depression symptoms, characterized by feelings of sadness, lack of interest in activities, and functional impairment, impacting quality of life. At the project site, the PHQ-9 was only used during annual or new patient visits, resulting in low screening rates of 12% and a 33% referral rate. The lack of routine screening led to missed opportunities for mental health referrals and detection of depression.

Aim of the Project: The aim of the project was to increase mental health referral rates through early identification of depression symptoms by implementing routine PHQ-2 screens.

Review of …

Evidence-Based Pain Management Bundle For Pediatric Postoperative Orthopedic Patients, Samantha Firmstone

All Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Scholarly Projects

Problem: Postoperative pain management in pediatric orthopedic patients is often inconsistent due to variability in provider practices and a lack of standardized protocols. At a Central Texas pediatric orthopedic clinic, all patients received opioid prescriptions post-knee surgery regardless of procedure severity, leading to frequent caregiver calls for clarification. This practice revealed a critical gap in preoperative education and multimodal pain management strategies, contributing to patient safety concerns and increased clinic workload.

Aim of the Project: The primary aim of the project was to improve pain control, reduce opioid reliance, and decrease postoperative pain-related follow-up calls by implementing a standardized, evidence-based …

Reducing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections In The Intensive Care Unit, Rosa Shiffman

All Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Scholarly Projects

Problem: Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) remain among the most common healthcare-associated infections in intensive care units (ICUs), contributing to increased morbidity, prolonged hospital stays, and elevated healthcare costs. Despite established prevention guidelines, inconsistent practices in catheter removal and gaps in daily necessity reviews persist. At the project site’s 24-bed ICU, the CAUTI rate was 1.9 per 1000 catheter days, which exceeds the national benchmark of 1.0. Gaps in consistent assessment of necessity and delays in removal contributed to an elevated infection risk.

Aim of the Project: This project aimed to reduce CAUTI rates in the ICU through evidence-based interventions …

Utilizing The Patient Health Questionnaire In A Family Practice Clinic To Enhance Clinical Benchmarks, Dorothy Akaeze

All Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Scholarly Projects

Problem: About one-third of the 129 million chronically ill patients in the United States experience persistent depressive symptoms. Approximately 300 of 500 (60%) chronically ill patients treated at the project site each month show signs of depression, indicating a higher prevalence than the national rate of 33.33%. Despite the critical role of family practice in identifying and managing depression, many patients are not adequately screened, leading to missed opportunities for early diagnosis and treatment. The project site does not use the digitized PHQ screening tool to screen patients for depression. An analysis of patient charts revealed that, out of about …

Peer Mentorship Of Midwifery Faculty In Bangladesh: A Process Evaluation, Pronita Raha, Joy Kemp, Farida Begum, Rowsan Ara, Vibhavendra S. Raghuvanshi, Nabila Purno, Daniel Novak, Hoque Emdadul Hoque

Journal of Asian Midwives (JAM)

Development of midwifery faculty is key to strengthening quality midwifery education. This article presents a process evaluation of a peer mentorship programme, implemented between 2021 and 2023, for around 370 midwifery faculty in Bangladesh, including 40 newly deployed faculty. 20 peer mentors, prepared by international midwifery faculty, conducted quarterly visits to public midwifery education institutions (MEIs) to provide mentorship support to midwifery faculty and to monitor the quality of midwifery education. A digital community of practice was also created. Data were collected with a checklist based on the World Health Organization (WHO) midwifery educator competencies and entered into a digital …

Functional Assays In Drosophila Facilitate Classification Of Variants Of Uncertain Significance Associated With Rare Diseases, Jung-Wan Mok, Shelley B Gibson, Haley A Dostalik, Shinya Yamamoto

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Individuals living with rare diseases often undergo a frustrating and expensive diagnostic odyssey. Clinical geneticists who analyze exome or genome sequencing data from rare disease patients often encounter a list of variants of uncertain significance (VUS) in known disease-causing genes or rare variants in genes of uncertain significance (GUS) that are difficult to interpret, even with the integration of the latest bioinformatic tools. In this Perspective, we review how studies using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster have facilitated rare disease diagnosis by uncovering the clinical relevance of GUS and classifying rare variants into specific allelic categories (loss-of-function or gain-of-function, Muller's …