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Justice And Equity In Diabetes Care: An Interprofessional Education Opportunity, Lisa M. Taylor, Adreanne Cordova, Robin Gatlin

Annual IPE Day

Statement of the Problem: The prevalence of diabetes has increased over the past few decades. With more treatment options becoming available, there is still a disconnect in the delivery of care. Prejudice and discrimination on an individual level, as well as on a systemic level, impacts the delivery of equitable diabetes care.

Approach: Over the course of two weekends, participants attended an IPE 2-part seminar, where they critically examined the historical roots of structural racism, supremacy, structural violence, and biases embedded in contemporary US culture with an emphasis on how these structures impact health care and health outcomes of individuals, …

College Of Nursing And Dietetic Intern Ng Tube Placement Training And Nutrition Assessment/Formula Selection Pilot Interprofessional Education Activity, Amanda Dunn, Diana Gonzales-Pacheco

Annual IPE Day

Introduction

The University of New Mexico College of Nursing (CON) and College of Education and Human Sciences (COEHS) faculty collaborated to develop and pilot an interprofessional education activity, which met the dietetic internship competency related to placement of nasogastric (NG) feeding tube and CON clinical objectives.

Methods

Fourteen upper level CON students and seven dietetic interns participated in the interactive IPE activity. CON students developed and delivered a presentation on indications for enteral feeding and the step-by-step procedure for NG tube placement. Nursing students demonstrated the procedure using simulation mannequins, and dietetic interns practiced the NG tube placement procedure. Students …

Why Screening Matters: A Collaboration Between Nursing And Dental Hygiene, Amanda Dunn, Robin Gatlin, Mitch Irvin

Annual IPE Day

Introduction

The University of New Mexico Dental Hygiene and College of Nursing (CON) faculty created an interactive interprofessional education (IPE) activity to enhance student assessment, communication, and collaboration skills, which met CON and Dental Hygiene clinical objectives and Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) competencies.

Methods

Participants of the IPE activity included 24 dental hygiene students and 62 CON students, who were divided into small groups. Nursing students provided education about pain assessments, scales, and tools, then dental hygiene students participated in a role play based scenario. The dental hygiene students provided education about oral cancers, demonstrated an oral cancer screening, then …

A Multidisciplinary Approach To Parental Maternal Mental Health In Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Theoretical Project, Courtney Grassham, Presbyterian Hospital Pediatric Medical Group

Annual IPE Day

Maternal mental health, especially in the peripartum period, is associated with a significant stigma and adverse outcomes are possible for moms and their newborns if perinatal mood and anxiety disorders are unrecognized and untreated. The neonatal intensive care unit or NICU often takes care of fragile babies for extended periods of time, while the families are far from their support systems. This places additional stress on moms and families at an already vulnerable time. The NICU is host to an extensive multidisciplinary team that could be utilized to check on and support families mental well being at this stressful time …

Hba1c Level Is Not Significantly Associated With Progression To Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy In A Cohort Of Diabetic Nephropathy Patients: A Cross-Sectional Case Control Study In A Type 2 Diabetic New Mexican Population, Cody J. Moezzi, Ashley Fitzgerald, Savannah R. Salazar, Rushi Mankad, Clifford R. Qualls, Andrea Cabrera, Finny Monickaraj, Arup Das

Annual IPE Day

SECTION: Retina (RE)

Purpose: The objective of this study was to examine whether these diabetic retinopathy (DR) and nephropathy (DN) have significant concordance in terms of progression of severity.

Methods: A cross-sectional, case-control study was performed in two cohorts of type 2 diabetic patients in a New Mexican population: Cases had confirmed end-stage renal disease (ESRD; Stage 5, on dialysis, GFR60, n=164). Systemic parameters including HbA1C, blood pressure (BP), lipid levels, serum creatinine (Cr), and retinopathy status by dilated fundus exam were collected by retrospective chart review. Statistical analyses were performed with univariate and multivariate analysis for continuous variables and …

Agenda For Ipe Day 2023, Interprofessional Education Team

Annual IPE Day

No abstract provided.

Students Exploring Careers In Health; Minimizing Barriers To Healthcare Careers, Oluwaseun Oyeku, Chantel Clark, Dante Rangel, Kristen Cummings, Lynn Midani, Dominique Spence, Samantha Moore

Annual IPE Day

Students Exploring Careers in Health (SECiH) is an organization born out of a student project. It is now led by a group of dedicated health professions students committed to sharing knowledge about the healthcare field with students at under-resourced high schools around New Mexico. We envision to increase the awareness of the spectrum of professions in healthcare for the student participants and hopefully instill in them the understanding that these professions are open to them and attainable for their futures.

SECiH is run by a diverse group of professionals from various health colleges including medicine, occupational therapy, and population health. …

Teaching Compassionate Acute Care For Albuquerque’S Houseless Population: A Partnership Between Unm’S Student-Run Aoc Clinic And The Emergency Medicine Residency, Mary Blasi, Lila Baca, Sarah Bouquin, Emily Sarvis

Annual IPE Day

The Albuquerque Opportunity Center (AOC) is an emergency overnight shelter run by the local housing non-profit, Heading Home. This clinic provides men experiencing homelessness a temporary, safe place to sleep at night, store their belongings, and access social services. Weekly, the AOC collaborates with UNM HSC to host an interprofessional, student-run, free clinic comprised of students from the MD, Pharmacy, Nursing, and PA programs. During the clinic, medical services are provided at no cost to individuals staying at the AOC, allowing for more ease of access to medical care. Additionally, students are able to reinforce skills obtained in their respective …

Learning Disabilities In Health Care Education, James Underhill, Rachael Amble

Annual IPE Day

No abstract provided.

Care Of The Transgender Patient, Jonathan Hulse

Annual IPE Day

This was the IPE Keynote Speaker Presentation

What Is A Polygonal Impact Crater? A Proposed Framework Toward Quantifying Crater Shapes, Stuart J. Robbins, Jamie D. Riggs

College of Population Health Faculty Papers

Impact craters are used for a wide array of investigations of planetary surfaces. A crater form that is somewhat rare, forming only ∼10% of impact craters, is the polygonal impact crater (or PIC). These craters have been visually, manually identified as having at least two rim segments that are best represented as straight lines. Such straight lines or edges are most often used to infer details about the subsurface crust where faults control the structure of the crater cavity as it formed. The PIC literature is scant, but almost exclusively these craters are identified manually, and the potentially straight edges …

Hyperspectral Point Cloud Projection For The Semantic Segmentation Of Multimodal Hyperspectral And Lidar Data With Point Convolution-Based Deep Fusion Neural Networks, Kevin T. Decker, Brett J. Borghetti

Faculty Publications

The fusion of dissimilar data modalities in neural networks presents a significant challenge, particularly in the case of multimodal hyperspectral and lidar data. Hyperspectral data, typically represented as images with potentially hundreds of bands, provide a wealth of spectral information, while lidar data, commonly represented as point clouds with millions of unordered points in 3D space, offer structural information. The complementary nature of these data types presents a unique challenge due to their fundamentally different representations requiring distinct processing methods. In this work, we introduce an alternative hyperspectral data representation in the form of a hyperspectral point cloud (HSPC), which …

Analysis Of Performance And Failure Modes Of The Iroc Proton Liver Phantom, Hunter Mehrens, Paige Taylor, Paola Alvarez, Stephen Kry

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Purpose: To analyze trends in institutional performance and failure modes for the Imaging and Radiation Oncology Core’s (IROC’s) proton liver phantom.

Materials and Methods: Results of 66 phantom irradiations from 28 institutions between 2015 and 2020 were retrospectively analyzed. Univariate analysis and random forest models were used to associate irradiation conditions with phantom results. Phantom results included pass/fail classification, average thermoluminescent dosimeter (TLD) ratio of both targets, and percentage of pixels passing gamma of both targets. The following categories were evaluated in terms of how they predicted these outcomes: irradiation year, treatment planning system (TPS), TPS algorithm, treatment machine, number …

Resistance To Human Immunodeficiency Virus 1 Infection Conferred By A Compound Ccr5Δ32 And Ccr5 C20s Heterozygote, Bashar Alkhatib, Mary Jabari, Shymaa Bilasy, Husni Abdul-Rahman, Kamal Sandhu, Ghalib Alkhatib

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

We analyzed findings in a same-gender couple discordant in their human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) status. The HIV+ partner was homozygous for CCR5 while his receptive HIV- partner was a CCR5Δ32 heterozygote with a C20S missense mutation in his CCR5 allele. The cells from the HIV- partner showed significant resistance to R5 fusion/infection and had no chemotactic response to CCL4 (macrophage inflammatory protein 1β). We demonstrated abundant CCR5-specific RNA in the HIV- partner's cells but no detectable CCR5 protein. CCR5 promoter region cloned from each partner's DNA indicated no significant impact on RNA transcription. The compound effect of CCR5Δ32 and C20S …

An Observational Study To Develop A Predictive Model For Bacterial Pneumonia Diagnosis In Severe Covid-19 Patients-C19-Pneumoscore, Francesca Pozzana, Amato Infante, Luigi Larosa, Maria Antonietta Mazzei, Salvatore Lucio Cutuli, Domenico Luca Grieco, Alessandra Bisanti, Simone Carelli, Gianmarco Lombardi, Edoardo Piervincenzi, Gabriele Pintaudi, Tommaso Pirronti, Mario Tumbarello, Massimo Antonelli, Gennaro De Pascale

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

In COVID-19 patients, antibiotics overuse is still an issue. A predictive scoring model for the diagnosis of bacterial pneumonia at intensive care unit (ICU) admission would be a useful stewardship tool. We performed a multicenter observational study including 331 COVID-19 patients requiring invasive mechanical ventilation at ICU admission; 179 patients with bacterial pneumonia; and 152 displaying negative lower-respiratory samplings. A multivariable logistic regression model was built to identify predictors of pulmonary co-infections, and a composite risk score was developed using β-coefficients. We identified seven variables as predictors of bacterial pneumonia: vaccination status (OR 7.01; 95% CI, 1.73-28.39); chronic kidney disease …

Unique Transcriptional Profiles Underlie Osteosarcomagenesis Driven By Different P53 Mutants, Dhruv Chachad, Lalit R Patel, Carlos Vera Recio, Rasoul Pourebrahim, Elizabeth M Whitley, Xiaoping Su, Dung-Fang Lee, Guillermina Lozano

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Missense mutations in the DNA binding domain of p53 are characterized as structural or contact mutations based on their effect on the conformation of the protein. These mutations show gain-of-function (GOF) activities, such as promoting increased metastatic incidence compared with p53 loss, often mediated by the interaction of mutant p53 with a set of transcription factors. These interactions are largely context specific. To understand the mechanisms by which p53 DNA binding domain mutations drive osteosarcoma progression, we created mouse models, in which either the p53 structural mutant p53R172H or the contact mutant p53R245W are expressed specifically in osteoblasts, yielding osteosarcoma …

Bicc1 Drives Pancreatic Cancer Progression By Inducing Vegf-Independent Angiogenesis, Chongbiao Huang, Hui Li, Yang Xu, Chao Xu, Huizhi Sun, Yi Ge, Tiansuo Zhao, Song Gao, Xiuchao Wang, Shengyu Yang, Peiqing Sun, Zhe Liu, Jing Liu, Antao Chang, Jihui Hao

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

VEGF inhibitors are one of the most successful antiangiogenic drugs in the treatment of many solid tumors. Nevertheless, pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PAAD) cells can reinstate tumor angiogenesis via activation of VEGF-independent pathways, thereby conferring resistance to VEGF inhibitors. Bioinformatic analysis showed that BICC1 was one of the top genes involved in the specific angiogenesis process of PAAD. The analysis of our own cohort confirmed that BICC1 was overexpressed in human PAAD tissues and was correlated to increased microvessel density and tumor growth, and worse prognosis. In cells and mice with xenograft tumors, BICC1 facilitated angiogenesis in pancreatic cancer in a VEGF-independent …

Green Growth And Competitiveness In Eu Climate Policy: Paradigm Shift Or 'Plus De La Même Chose'?, O Fitch-Roy, I Bailey

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

Constrained Tropical Land Temperature-Precipitation Sensitivity Reveals Decreasing Evapotranspiration And Faster Vegetation Greening In Cmip6 Projections, Boyuan Zhu, Yongzhou Cheng, Xuyue Hu, Yuanfang Chai, Wouter R. Berghuijs, Alistair G.L. Borthwick, Louise Slater

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

Over the tropical land surface, accurate estimates of future changes in temperature, precipitation and evapotranspiration are crucial for ecological sustainability, but remain highly uncertain. Here we develop a series of emergent constraints (ECs) by using historical and future outputs from the Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) Earth System Models under the four basic Shared Socio-economic Pathway scenarios (SSP126, SSP245, SSP370, and SSP585). Results show that the temperature sensitivity to precipitation during 2015–2100, which varies substantially in the original CMIP6 outputs, becomes systematically negative across SSPs after application of the EC, with absolute values between −1.10 °C mm−1 day …

A Comparative Meta-Analysis Identifying Salivary Cytokines, Il-6, Il-8 And Tnf-A, And Lactate Dehydrogenase As Potential Non-Invasive Diagnostic Biomarkers Of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma, Matthew Perry, Mohammed Haseeb Chohan, Paul Laurance-Young, Andrew Foey, Vehid Salih

School of Biomedical Sciences

Diagnostic screening of oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) generally involves detection of biomarkers in invasive biopsy samples. Extensiveinvestigations have detected a wide molecular signature, present in saliva that may be indicative of OSCC and stage of development. This metaanalysis assesses the potential of salivary cytokines, IL-1α, IL-6, IL-8 and TNFα, and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) as suitable non-invasivebiomarkers for OSCC and to identify those distinguishing between different stages of disease, as well as other oral pathologies. Electronicsearches were conducted across databases such as PubMed, Web of Science and Scopus among others. The identified studies were screened, andeligibility was assessed using specific …

Molecular Dissection And Testing Of Prss37 Function Through Lc-Ms/Ms And The Generation Of A Prss37 Humanized Mouse Model, Alexander Saltzman, Mei Leng, Sureshbabu Nagarajan, Anna Malovannaya, Masahito Ikawa, Thomas X Garcia, Martin M Matzuk

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

The quest for a non-hormonal male contraceptive pill for men still exists. Serine protease 37 (PRSS37) is a sperm-specific protein that when ablated in mice renders them sterile. In this study we sought to examine the molecular sequelae of PRSS37 loss to better understand its molecular function, and to determine whether human PRSS37 could rescue the sterility phenotype of knockout (KO) mice, allowing for a more appropriate model for drug molecule testing. To this end, we used CRISPR-EZ to create mice lacking the entire coding region of Prss37, used pronuclear injection to create transgenic mice expressing human PRSS37, intercrossed these …

Developing A Person-Centred Approach In Dentistry Beyond Nhs Recall Intervals: A Commentary, Ian Mills, Sasha Scambler, Patricia Neville, Koula Asimakopoulou

Peninsula Dental School

Person-centred care (PCC) is acknowledged as a fundamental dimension of quality within health care and provides significant benefits for patients and clinicians. Models of PCC have primarily been developed from the medical literature, with limited consideration of their application within dentistry. The Personalised Care Institute was established to deliver education and training on PCC and is working with the Office of the Chief Dental Officer for England to develop resources on shared decision-making (SDM) to promote tailored recall intervals.This paper seeks to promote the value of PCC and SDM in delivering high-quality care but cautions against the use of generic …

Lrp1 Is Essential For Lethal Rift Valley Fever Hepatic Disease In Mice, Madeline M Schwarz, Safder S Ganaie, Annie Feng, Griffin Brown, Tenzin Yangdon, J Michael White, Ryan M Hoehl, Cynthia M Mcmillen, Rachael E Rush, Kaleigh A Connors, Xiaoxia Cui, Daisy W Leung, Takeshi Egawa, Gaya K Amarasinghe, Amy L Hartman

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) is an emerging arbovirus found in Africa. While RVFV is pantropic and infects many cells and tissues, viral replication and necrosis within the liver play a critical role in mediating severe disease. The low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 1 (Lrp1) is a recently identified host factor for cellular entry and infection by RVFV. The biological significance of Lrp1, including its role in hepatic disease in vivo, however, remains to be determined. Because Lrp1 has a high expression level in hepatocytes, we developed a mouse model in which Lrp1 is specifically deleted in hepatocytes to test how …

Implementing Shared Decision Making For Early-Stage Breast Cancer Treatment Using A Coproduction Learning Collaborative: The Shair Collaborative Protocol, Danielle Schubbe, Mary Politi, Julie Margenthaler, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: Shared decision making (SDM) in breast cancer care improves outcomes, but it is not routinely implemented. Results from the What Matters Most trial demonstrated that early-stage breast cancer surgery conversation aids, when used by surgeons after brief training, improved SDM and patient-reported outcomes. Trial surgeons and patients both encouraged using the conversation aids in routine care. We will develop and evaluate an online learning collaborative, called the SHared decision making Adoption Implementation Resource (SHAIR) Collaborative, to promote early-stage breast cancer surgery SDM by implementing the conversation aids into routine preoperative care. Learning collaboratives are known to be effective for …

Notes From The Field: Multipathogen Respiratory Virus Testing Among Primary And Secondary School Students And Staff Members In A Large Metropolitan School District - Missouri, November 2, 2022-April 19, 2023., Jennifer Goldman, Brian R. Lee, Janelle Porter, Anila Deliu, Shannon Tilsworth, Olivia M. Almendares, Sadia Sleweon, Hannah L. Kirking, Rangaraj Selvarangan, Jennifer E. Schuster

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

No abstract provided.

Recovering Clean Speech From Noisy Audio Input Via Ambient Speech Characterization, D Shin

Defensive Publications Series

Video and audio conferencing hardware and software can implement noise filters to remove non-speech background noise captured when a participant is in a noisy environment. However, while noise filters can help remove non-speech background noise, the audio signal can still contain unwanted background speech from parties co-located with the speaker. The quality of a speaker’s audio can additionally be impacted by hardware and/or software issues which noise filters cannot remove. This disclosure describes the use of generative voice models to clean up degraded audio of a user’s speech. The recovery of the user speech is based on dynamically updated ambient …

Artificial Reality Interaction Models

Defensive Publications Series

In some implementations, the technology can render a dense layout of interactive mechanisms (e.g., selectable text and/or graphics) that are responsive to low accuracy input methods on the XR device. In some implementations, an XR device can associate a shortcut with the physical object (e.g., an action relative to the physical object, an option to perform an action relative to the physical object, etc.). In some implementations, a workload manager can select an augmentation workload using one or more of captured environment data (e.g., captured visual frames, audio, etc.), output from the initial stage model(s), any other suitable data.

Improving The High School And College Classroom Experience For Learners With Refugee Status: Theory, Practice, And Change., Kayte Thomas, Sara-Jean Lipmen

Journal of Applied Disciplines

Refugee populations are increasing globally, and children make up more than fifty percent of those displaced. Unique experiences that come with forced migration including fragmented education, trauma, family separation, grief, and adverse other effects can impact learning in the classroom for refugee students. Existing data indicates that schools lack sufficient protocols to meet the needs of students with refugee status who consistently face risks associated with ill-prepared learning environments, and therefore must rethink possibilities to address this. By adopting strategic decolonized approaches, educational leaders can create supportive environments which improve instructional methods and learning outcomes for these students as they …

Solemn Vow: Solum's Originalism, Treaties, And Tribal Sovereignty In Castro-Huerta, Liam T. Sheridan

Maine Law Review

In Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta, the Supreme Court held that states have inherent authority to prosecute crimes committed by non-Indians in “Indian country.” Only two years earlier, the Court in McGirt v. Oklahoma held that most of eastern Oklahoma was Indian country, and thus immune from any state criminal jurisdiction. Castro-Huerta limited this immunity and narrowed the Court’s view of tribal sovereignty as a whole. The majority represented the Court’s originalist faction—minus Justice Gorsuch, who had penned both the majority opinion in McGirt and the dissent in Castro-Huerta. The majority and dissent disagreed over whether federal statutes preempted Oklahoma’s criminal jurisdiction. …

The Growing List Of Reasons To Amend The Maine Indian Jurisdictional Agreement, Nicole Friederichs

Maine Law Review

The Passamaquoddy Tribe and the Penobscot Nation brought their lands claims against the State of Maine in an effort to reclaim taken lands, to ensure that they could self-determine their futures and to hold on to their cultures and languages. What they faced were a state and federal governments opposed to such a goal. With favorable court decisions in hand, the Tribes began the long process of negotiating for the financial restitution of those claims. They learned, however, that restitution—the recovery of a small portion of their traditional territories—would only be possible if an agreement was made with the State …