Grants Awarded

  • Fuster, M. NIH/NHLBI, K01 HL147882-01, 08/2019-07/2024聽“Applying Innovative Approaches to Design and Implement an Intervention to Improve Cardiovascular Health in Hispanic/Latino communities through Restaurants.” Grant will support training in implementation science, systems science, and human-centered design approaches to design an innovative, stakeholder-engaged intervention in Hispanic Caribbean restaurants to improve cardiovascular health in Caribbean Hispanic/Latino communities.
  • Jiang, X. Effects of choline supplementation on fetal growth in gestational diabetes mellitus. The Maimonides Research and Development Foundation (MRDF) Spring/Summer 2019 Grant. Role: co-I (Fisher PI).
  • Jiang, X. Effects of maternal choline supplementation on liver metabolism and severity of alcoholic liver disease in mouse offspring exposed to alcohol in utero. PSC-CUNY Enhance Award. Role: PI (Trasino co-PI).

Papers Published

  • Briker S, Aduwo J, Mugeni R, Horlyck-Romanovsky MF, Dubose C, Mabundo L, Hormenu T, Chung ST, Ha J, Sherman A, Sumner AE. A1C Underperforms as a Diagnostic Test in Africans even in the Absence of Nutritional Deficiencies, Anemia and Hemoglobinopathies: Insight from the Africans in America Study. Front. Endocrinol., 07 August 2019.
  • Friedman, S.R., Pouget, E.R., Sandoval, M., Nikolopoulus, G.K., Mateu-Gelabert, P., Rossi, D., Auerbach, J.D. (2019). New Measures for Research on Men Who Have Sex with Men and for At-Risk Heterosexuals: Tools to study links between structural interventions or large-scale social change and HIV risk behaviors, service use, and infection. AIDS & Behavior, published online July 11.
  • Fuster M, Weindorf S, Mateo KF, Barata-Cavalcanti O, Leung MM. (2019) “It’s Sort Of, Like, in My Family’s Blood”: Exploring Latino Pre-adolescent Children and Their Parents’ Perceived Cultural Influences on Food Practices. Ecology of Food and Nutrition: 1鈥�17.
  • Hollander M. and Greene M. (2019). A conceptual framework for understanding iatrophobia. Patient Education and Counseling.
  • Korsmo H, Jiang X, Caudill M. Choline: Exploring the Growing Science on Its Benefits for Moms and Babies. Nutrients. 2019; 11 (8), 1823.
  • Weston, R.E. (2019). The Contributions of Martial Art Training and Other Physical Activities to Health Status: Data from the ECLS-K Survey. International Journal of Martial Arts, 5(1).

Conference Presentations

  • Briker SM, Horlyck-Romanovsky MF, Aduwo JY, Mugeni R, DuBose C, Mabundo L, Chung ST, Ha J, Sherman A. Sumner AE. Sickle Cell Trait, Hemoglobin C Trait and Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency Contribute to Decreased Detection of Hyperglycemia by A1C. Presented at the American Diabetes Association’s 79th Scientific Sessions, June 7鈥�11, 2019, in San Francisco. Poster.
  • Briker SM, Mugeni R, Horlyck-Romanovsky MF, Aduwo JY, DuBose C, Ha J, Sherman A. Sumner AE.聽 Duplicate Oral Glucose Tolerance Tests Reveal Excellent Reproducibility for Detection of Diabetes but Inconsistent Results for Prediabetes: A Study of Africans. Presented at the American Diabetes Association’s 79th Scientific Sessions, June 7鈥�11, 2019, in San Francisco. Poster.
  • Briker SM, Horlyck-Romanovsky MF, Mugeni R, Aduwo JY, DuBose C, Sumner AE. Glycated Albumin may be an Effective Alternative to A1C in the Presence of Hemoglobin C Trait. Presented at the American Diabetes Association’s 79th Scientific Sessions, June 7鈥�11, 2019, in San Francisco. Poster.
  • Fullington, LA, M Fuster, M Horlyck-Romanovsky, S Jakuboski. “Evidence-based library instruction for nutrition research: Librarian and faculty collaboration.” Presented at the 10th International Evidence Based Library and Information Practice Conference, Glasgow, Scotland (June 17鈥�19).
  • Fuster, M, S Burrowes, S Lewis, B McCarthy, G Shen, “Taxing sugar-sweetened beverages in Latin America: A qualitative comparative examination of the Mexican and Chilean experience.” Presented at the American Society for Nutrition Annual Meeting Nutrition, Baltimore (June 9).
  • Horlyck-Romanovsky MF, Mugeni R, Aduwo JY, Briker SM, DuBose CW, Mabundo LS, Chung ST, Ha J, Sherman A, Sumner AE. A1C-Modified Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Prediction Equation for Diabetes Can Be Replaced in Africans by Fasting Glucose. Presented at the American Diabetes Association’s 79th Scientific Sessions, June 7鈥�11, 2019, in San Francisco. Poster.
  • Mugeni R, Aduwo JY, Briker SM, Horlyck-Romanovsky MF, Mabundo L, DuBose C, Sumner AE. Glycated Albumin Identifies Dysglycemia not Detected by A1C: The Case for Combining Glycated Albumin and A1C in Africans. Presented at the American Diabetes Association’s 79th Scientific Sessions, June 7鈥�11, 2019, in San Francisco. Poster.
  • Mugeni R, Briker SM, Aduwo JY, DuBose C, Sumner AE, Horlyck-Romanovsky MF. Detecting Diabetes in Africans is Improved by Both Modifying the A1C Threshold and Adding Glycated Albumin. Presented at the American Diabetes Association’s 79th Scientific Sessions, June 7鈥�11, 2019, in San Francisco. Poster.

Invited Talks

  • Fuster, M. “Ethnic restaurants and nutrition environments: Examining Latin-Caribbean Restaurants in New York City.” Presented at the Rising Stars in Health Related Sciences symposium, University of Indiana-Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana (July 17, 2019).