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Selected Publications

Academic Article

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2022 Assessment of Lung Cancer Risk among Smokers for Whom Annual Screening Is Not RecommendedJAMA Oncology.  8:1428-1437. 2022
2022 In-Hospital Weight Loss and Outcomes in Patients With Heart FailureJournal of Cardiac Failure.  28:1116-1124. 2022
2022 Income disparity and incident cardiovascular disease in older AmericansProgress in Cardiovascular Diseases.  71:92-99. 2022
2022 Right Ventricular Ejection Fraction and Beta-Blocker Effect in Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection FractionJournal of Cardiac Failure.  28:65-70. 2022
2022 Sugammadex versus neostigmine for routine reversal of neuromuscular blockade and the effect on perioperative efficiencyBaylor University Medical Center Proceedings.  35:599-603. 2022
2021 White matter integrity, duration of untreated psychosis, and antipsychotic treatment response in medication-naïve first-episode psychosis patientsMolecular Psychiatry.  26:5347-5356. 2021
2021 End-of-Procedure Volume Responsiveness Defined by the Passive Leg Raise Test Is Not Associated With Acute Kidney Injury After Cardiopulmonary BypassJournal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia.  35:1299-1306. 2021
2021 Abnormalities in the copper transporter CTR1 in postmortem hippocampus in schizophrenia: A subregion and laminar analysisSchizophrenia Research.  228:60-73. 2021
2021 Echocardiographic, Biochemical, and Electrocardiographic Correlates Associated With Progressive Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension.Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine.  8:705666. 2021
2021 Length of stay and readmission in older adults hospitalized for heart failureArchives of Medical Science.  17:891-899. 2021
2020 Digoxin Initiation and Outcomes in Patients with Heart Failure (HFrEF and HFpEF) and Atrial FibrillationAmerican Journal of Medicine.  133:1460-1470. 2020
2020 Neurometabolic correlates of 6 and 16 weeks of treatment with risperidone in medication-naive first-episode psychosis patientsTranslational Psychiatry.  10. 2020
2020 Circulating and tissue biomarkers as predictors of bromine gas inhalationAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences.  1480:104-115. 2020
2020 Temporal Associations and Outcomes of Breast Cancer and Heart Failure in Postmenopausal WomenJACC. CardioOncology.  2:567-577. 2020
2020 Loop Diuretic Prescription and 30-Day Outcomes in Older Patients With Heart FailureJournal of the American College of Cardiology.  76:669-679. 2020
2020 Impact of an enhanced recovery program for cesarean delivery on postoperative opioid useInternational Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia.  43:47-55. 2020
2020 Effects of Intraoperative Ketamine on Post-Operative Recovery in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Patients: A Case-Control Study.Cureus.  12:e8893. 2020
2020 Exoenzyme y contributes to end-organ dysfunction caused by pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia in critically ill patients: An exploratory studyToxins.  12. 2020
2020 Renin-Angiotensin Inhibition and Outcomes in Nursing Home Residents With Heart FailureAmerican Journal of Therapeutics.  27:e235-e242. 2020
2020 Early Effects of Starting Doses of Enalapril in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure in the SOLVD Treatment TrialAmerican Journal of Medicine.  133:e25-e31. 2020
2020 Effect of neuraxial analgesic procedures on intraoperative hemodynamics during routine clinical care of gynecological and general surgeries: A case–control query of electronic dataJournal of Pain Research.  13:1163-1172. 2020
2020 Incoming Interns Recognize Inadequate Physical Examination as a Cause of Patient Harm.Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development.  7:2382120520928993. 2020
2020 Prior Heart Failure Hospitalization and Outcomes in Patients with Heart Failure with Preserved and Reduced Ejection FractionAmerican Journal of Medicine.  133:84-94. 2020
2020 Systolic Blood Pressure and Outcomes in Older Patients with HFpEF and HypertensionAmerican Journal of Medicine2020
2019 Anterior quadratus lumborum block analgesia for total hip arthroplasty: A randomized, controlled studyRegional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine.  44:1075-1079. 2019
2019 Digoxin Use and Outcomes in Patients With Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection FractionAmerican Journal of Medicine.  132:1311-1319. 2019
2019 A longitudinal neurite and free water imaging study in patients with a schizophrenia spectrum disorderNeuropsychopharmacology.  44:1932-1939. 2019
2019 Targeted Treatment of Individuals With Psychosis Carrying a Copy Number Variant Containing a Genomic Triplication of the Glycine Decarboxylase GeneBiological Psychiatry.  86:523-535. 2019
2019 Positron-Emission Tomography Quantitative Measurements of Myocardial Blood Flow: Just the Facts…JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging.  12:1864-1867. 2019
2019 Digoxin Discontinuation and Outcomes in Patients With Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection FractionJournal of the American College of Cardiology.  74:617-627. 2019
2019 A longitudinal magnetic resonance spectroscopy study investigating effects of risperidone in the anterior cingulate cortex and hippocampus in schizophreniaSchizophrenia Research.  210:239-244. 2019
2019 A pilot study of combined endurance and resistance exercise rehabilitation for verbal memory and functional connectivity improvement in epilepsyEpilepsy and Behavior.  96:44-56. 2019
2019 Systolic Blood Pressure and Outcomes in Patients With Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection FractionJournal of the American College of Cardiology.  73:3054-3063. 2019
2019 Comparing Bupivacaine, Lidocaine, and a Combination of Bupivacaine and Lidocaine for Labor Epidural Activation: A Prospective, Randomized, Double-Blind StudyActa Anaesthesiologica Taiwanica.  57:55-60. 2019
2019 One- to 10-Day Versus 11- to 30-Day All-Cause Readmission and Mortality in Older Patients With Heart FailureAmerican Journal of Cardiology.  123:1840-1844. 2019
2019 Individualized decision aid for diverse women with lupus nephritis (IDEA-WON): A randomized controlled trialPLoS Medicine.  16. 2019
2019 Micro- and Macrostructural White Matter Integrity in Never-Treated and Currently Unmedicated Patients With Schizophrenia and Effects of Short-Term Antipsychotic TreatmentBiological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.  4:462-471. 2019
2019 Incidence of atrioventricular block with vasodilator stress SPECT: A meta-analysisJournal of Nuclear Cardiology.  26:616-628. 2019
2019 Landmark analysis: A primerJournal of Nuclear Cardiology.  26:391-393. 2019
2019 Meta-analysis for diagnostic testsJournal of Nuclear Cardiology.  26:68-71. 2019
2019 Erratum: Correction: Role of heme in lung bacterial infection after trauma hemorrhage and stored red blood cell transfusion: A preclinical experimental study (PLoS Med (2018) 15:3 (e1002522) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002522)PLoS Medicine.  16. 2019
2019 Opioid use and outcomes in hospitalized older patients with heart failure receiving and not receiving hospice referralsAmerican Journal of Therapeutics.  27:E356-E365. 2019
2019 Renal toxicity with mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitors: A meta-analysis of randomized clinical trialsOncology Reviews.  13:170-174. 2019
2019 Spironolactone and Outcomes in Older Patients with Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection FractionAmerican Journal of Medicine.  132:71-80.e1. 2019
2019 Utility of ultrasonography in identification of midline and epidural placement in severely obese parturientsMinerva Anestesiologica.  85:1089-1096. 2019
2018 Graduate medical education scholarly activities initiatives: A systematic review and meta-analysisBMC Medical Education.  18. 2018
2018 Role of High-Dose Beta-Blockers in Patients with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction and Elevated Heart RateAmerican Journal of Medicine.  131:1473-1481. 2018
2018 Neurometabolic abnormalities in the associative striatum in antipsychotic-naïve first episode psychosis patientsPsychiatry Research: Neuroimaging.  281:101-106. 2018
2018 Balancing statistical significance and clinical relevanceJournal of Nuclear Cardiology.  25:707-708. 2018
2018 Reducing bias using propensity score matchingJournal of Nuclear Cardiology.  25:404-406. 2018
2018 Systolic Blood Pressure and Outcomes in Patients With Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection FractionJAMA Cardiology.  3:288-297. 2018
2018 Digoxin use and lower risk of 30-day all-cause readmission in older patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction receiving β-blockers 2018
2018 Patient Handoff Education: Are Medical Schools Catching Up?American Journal of Medical Quality.  33:140-146. 2018
2018 Role of heme in lung bacterial infection after trauma hemorrhage and stored red blood cell transfusion: A preclinical experimental studyPLoS Medicine.  15. 2018
2018 Myocardial perfusion imaging: Lessons learned and work to be done—updateJournal of Nuclear Cardiology.  25:39-52. 2018
2018 Discharge home health services referral and 30-day all-cause readmission in older adults with heart failureArchives of Medical Science.  14:995-1002. 2018
2018 Histone-Complexed DNA Fragments Levels are Associated with Coagulopathy, Endothelial Cell Damage, and Increased Mortality after Severe Pediatric TraumaShock.  49:44-52. 2018
2018 Incidence of venous air embolism during endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatographyAnesthesia and Analgesia.  127:420-423. 2018
2017 Use of proper statistical techniques for research studies with small samples 2017
2017 Heart Rate and Outcomes in Hospitalized Patients With Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection FractionJournal of the American College of Cardiology.  70:1861-1871. 2017
2017 INTERMACS Analysis of Stroke During Support With Continuous-Flow Left Ventricular Assist Devices: Risk Factors and OutcomesJACC: Heart Failure.  5:703-711. 2017
2017 Digoxin and 30-Day All-Cause Readmission in Long-Term Care Residents Hospitalized for Heart Failure 2017
2017 Corrigendum to “Systolic–diastolic hypertension versus isolated systolic hypertension and incident heart failure in older adults: Insights from the cardiovascular health study” [Int. J. Cardiol. 235 (2017) 11–16] (S0167527317312901) (10.1016/j.ijcard.2017.02.139))International Journal of Cardiology.  238:181. 2017
2017 Isolated diastolic hypertension and incident heart failure in community-dwelling older adults: Insights from the Cardiovascular Health StudyInternational Journal of Cardiology.  238:140-143. 2017
2017 Transthoracic Echocardiography for Diagnosing Pulmonary Embolism: A Systematic Review and Meta-AnalysisJournal of the American Society of Echocardiography.  30:714-723.e4. 2017
2017 Obesity and Neonatal Cord Blood Gas Results at Cesarean: Effect of Intraoperative Blood PressureAmerican Journal of Perinatology.  34:716-721. 2017
2017 Systolic–diastolic hypertension versus isolated systolic hypertension and incident heart failure in older adults: Insights from the Cardiovascular Health StudyInternational Journal of Cardiology.  235:11-16. 2017
2017 Hydrophilic vs lipophilic statins in coronary artery disease: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trialsJournal of Clinical Lipidology.  11:624-637. 2017
2017 Thought disorder in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder probands, their relatives, and nonpsychiatric controlsSchizophrenia Bulletin.  43:523-535. 2017
2017 Conducting and interpreting high-quality systematic reviews and meta-analysesJournal of Nuclear Cardiology.  24:471-481. 2017
2017 Statistical issues associated with terminating a clinical trial due to slow enrollmentJournal of Nuclear Cardiology.  24:525-526. 2017
2017 Risperidone effects on brain dynamic connectivity-A prospective resting-state fMRI study in SchizophreniaFrontiers in Psychiatry.  8. 2017
2017 Calculating measures of treatment effect for use in clinical practiceJournal of Nuclear Cardiology.  24:188-190. 2017
2017 Lack of evidence of lower 30-day all-cause readmission in Medicare beneficiaries with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction discharged on spironolactoneInternational Journal of Cardiology.  227:462-466. 2017
2017 Evaluation of vasopressin for septic shock in patients on chronic renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system inhibitorsCritical Care Medicine.  45:e1226-e1232. 2017
2016 Association of 30-Day All-Cause Readmission with Long-Term Outcomes in Hospitalized Older Medicare Beneficiaries with Heart FailureAmerican Journal of Medicine.  129:1178-1184. 2016
2016 Renin-Angiotensin System Inhibition and Lower 30-Day All-Cause Readmission in Medicare Beneficiaries with Heart FailureAmerican Journal of Medicine.  129:1067-1073. 2016
2016 Methods for evaluating the agreement between diagnostic testsJournal of Nuclear Cardiology.  23:511-513. 2016
2016 Infections, arrhythmias, and hospitalizations on home intravenous inotropic therapyAmerican Journal of Cardiology.  117:952-956. 2016
2016 Relationship between symptom change, relapse activity and disability progression in multiple sclerosisJournal of the Neurological Sciences.  362:121-126. 2016
2016 Higher risk for incident heart failure and cardiovascular mortality among community-dwelling octogenarians without pneumococcal vaccinationESC Heart Failure.  3:11-17. 2016
2016 Meta-analysis of regression of advanced solid tumors in patients receiving placebo or no anti-cancer therapy in prospective trials 2016
2016 Vitamin D deficiency and incident stroke risk in community-living black and white adultsInternational Journal of Stroke.  11:93-102. 2016
2015 Effect of African-American Race on Tumor Recurrence after Radical Cystectomy for Urothelial Carcinoma of the BladderClinical Genitourinary Cancer.  13:469-475. 2015
2015 Implementation of a two-group likelihood time-to-event continual reassessment method using SASComputer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine.  121:189-196. 2015
2015 Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Intravenous Inotropic Therapy in Advanced Heart FailureCirculation: Heart Failure.  8:880-886. 2015
2015 Beta-blocker use and 30-day all-cause readmission in medicare beneficiaries with systolic heart failureAmerican Journal of Medicine.  128:715-721. 2015
2015 Congestive heart failure with vascular endothelial growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors 2015
2015 Discharge hospice referral and lower 30-day all-cause readmission in medicare beneficiaries hospitalized for heart failureCirculation: Heart Failure.  8:733-740. 2015
2015 Risk of heart failure and death after prolonged smoking cessation: Role of amount and duration of prior smokingCirculation: Heart Failure.  8:694-701. 2015
2015 Breast cancer subtypes predispose the site of distant metastasesAmerican Journal of Clinical Pathology.  143:471-478. 2015
2015 Pancreatitis with vascular endothelial growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors 2015
2015 Characteristics and outcomes of patients with advanced chronic systolic heart failure receiving care at the veterans affairs versus other hospitals insights from the Beta-blocker Evaluation of Survival Trial (BEST)Circulation: Heart Failure.  8:17-24. 2015
2014 Prognostic impact of C-reactive protein in metastatic prostate cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysisOncology Research and Treatment.  37:772-776. 2014
2014 Calcium channel blockers and outcomes in older patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fractionCirculation: Heart Failure.  7:945-952. 2014
2014 Impact of atrial fibrillation and heart failure, independent of each other and in combination, on mortality in community-dwelling older adultsAmerican Journal of Cardiology.  114:909-913. 2014
2014 Spironolactone use and higher hospital readmission for medicare beneficiaries with heart failure, left ventricular ejection fraction <45%, and estimated glomerular filtration rate <45 ml/min/1.73 m2American Journal of Cardiology.  114:79-82. 2014
2014 A hierarchical finite mixture model that accommodates zero-inflated counts, non-independence, and heterogeneityStatistics in Medicine.  33:2238-2250. 2014
2014 Digoxin and 30-day all-cause hospital admission in older patients with chronic diastolic heart failureAmerican Journal of Medicine.  127:132-139. 2014
2014 Digoxin use and lower 30-day all-cause readmission for medicare beneficiaries hospitalized for heart failureAmerican Journal of Medicine.  127:61-70. 2014
2014 Impact of atrial fibrillation and heart failure, independent of each other and in combination, on mortality in community-dwelling older adults.American Journal of Cardiology.  114:909-913. 2014
2014 Impact of prednisone on toxicities and survival in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials 2014
2014 In replyJAMA Psychiatry.  71:339-340. 2014
2014 Resident and attending physician perception of maladaptive response to stress in residents 2014
2014 Resident and attending physician perception of maladaptive response to stress in residents. 2014
2013 Zero-inflated and overdispersed: What's one to do?Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation.  83:1671-1683. 2013
2013 Early coagulopathy is an independent predictor of mortality in children after severe traumaShock.  39:421-426. 2013
2013 The magnetic resonance imaging 'rule of five': Predicting the occurrence of relapse 2013
2012 No association between conventional brain MR imaging and chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency in multiple sclerosisAmerican Journal of Neuroradiology.  33:1913-1917. 2012
2012 Clinical correlates of chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency in multiple sclerosisBMC Neurology.  12. 2012
2010 Modeling lesion counts in multiple sclerosis when patients have been selected for baseline activity 2010
2010 Wide variation in the multiplicity of HIV-1 infection among injection drug usersJournal of Virology.  84:6241-6247. 2010
2010 High multiplicity infection by HIV-1 in men who have sex with menPLoS Pathogens.  6:1-17. 2010
2009 Types of deception revealed by individual differences in cognitive abilitiesSocial Neuroscience.  4:554-569. 2009

Chapter

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2011 Measures of neurological impairment and disability in multiple sclerosis.  56-64. 2011

Investigator On

  • Contribution of Glutamate Excess and Inflammation to Progressive White Matter Changes in Psychosis  awarded by National Institute of Mental Health/NIH/DHHS
  • Coupling Osteoinductive Factors to Graft Materials to Promote Osteoregeneration  awarded by National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research/NIH/DHHS
  • Discontinuation of Disease Modifying Therapies (DMTs) in Multiple Sclerosis (MS)  awarded by University of Colorado
  • Exercise for Memory Rehabilitation in Epilepsy  awarded by National Institute of Child Health and Human Development/NIH/DHHS
  • Extension of Combination Therapy in Multiple Sclerosis (eCombiRx)  awarded by MT. SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
  • Glycan Control of Stem Cell-Associated Pathways in Pancreatic Cancer  awarded by National Cancer Institute/NIH/DHHS
  • Individualized Patient Decision Making for Treatment Choices Among Minorities with Lupus  awarded by PATIENT CENTERED OUTCOMES RESEARCH INSTITUTE
  • Phosphorus-Based Food Additives, Mineral Metabolism and Cardiovascular Health  awarded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases/NIH/DHHS
  • Preclinical Phenotypic Modeling of Chronic Urologic Pelvic Pain  awarded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases/NIH/DHHS
  • Private Grant  awarded by GW RESEARCH LTD.
  • Private Grant  awarded by GW RESEARCH LTD.
  • Trajectories of Treatment Response as Window into the Heterogeneity of Psychosis: a Longitudinal Multimodal Imaging Study in Medication-naieve first Episode Psychosis Patients  awarded by National Institute of Mental Health/NIH/DHHS
  • UAB Cannabidiol Program  awarded by ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
  • Teaching Activities

  • BST613 - Intermediate Statis Analy III (Fall Term 2015)
  • BST621 - Statistical Methods I (Fall Term 2013)
  • BST626 - Data Management with SAS (Fall Term 2012)
  • BST626L - Data Mgt & Reportng w/ SAS Lab (Fall Term 2012)
  • BST665 - Survival Analysis (Spring Term 2014)
  • BST665 - Survival Analysis (Spring Term 2015)
  • BST665 - Survival Analysis (Spring Term 2016)
  • BST665 - Survival Analysis (Spring Term 2017)
  • BST665 - Survival Analysis (Spring Term 2018)
  • BST665 - Survival Analysis (Spring Term 2019)
  • BST680 - Statistical Computing with R (Summer Term 2022)
  • BST691 - Pre-doc Sem Series (Fall Term 2021)
  • BST691 - Pre-doc Sem Series (Spring Term 2022)
  • BST691 - Pre-doc Sem Series (Summer Term 2021)
  • BST691 - Pre-doc Sem Series (Summer Term 2022)
  • BST698 - Non Thesis Research (Fall Term 2013)
  • BST698 - Non Thesis Research (Fall Term 2019)
  • BST698 - Non Thesis Research (Fall Term 2021)
  • BST698 - Non Thesis Research (Fall Term 2022)
  • BST698 - Non Thesis Research (Spring Term 2013)
  • BST698 - Non Thesis Research (Spring Term 2016)
  • BST698 - Non Thesis Research (Spring Term 2020)
  • BST698 - Non Thesis Research (Summer Term 2013)
  • BST698 - Non Thesis Research (Summer Term 2014)
  • BST698 - Non Thesis Research (Summer Term 2016)
  • BST698 - Non Thesis Research (Summer Term 2017)
  • BST698 - Non Thesis Research (Summer Term 2018)
  • BST698 - Non Thesis Research (Summer Term 2019)
  • BST698 - Non Thesis Research (Summer Term 2020)
  • BST698 - Non Thesis Research (Summer Term 2021)
  • BST723 - Theory of Linear Models (Fall Term 2019)
  • BST723 - Theory of Linear Models (Fall Term 2020)
  • BST723 - Theory of Linear Models (Fall Term 2022)
  • BST798 - Non-Dissertation Research (Fall Term 2017)
  • BST798 - Non-Dissertation Research (Fall Term 2018)
  • BST798 - Non-Dissertation Research (Spring Term 2017)
  • BST798 - Non-Dissertation Research (Spring Term 2018)
  • BST798 - Non-Dissertation Research (Spring Term 2023)
  • BST798 - Non-Dissertation Research (Summer Term 2015)
  • BST798 - Non-Dissertation Research (Summer Term 2017)
  • BST798 - Non-Dissertation Research (Summer Term 2018)
  • BST799 - Dissertation Research (Fall Term 2019)
  • BST799 - Dissertation Research (Spring Term 2019)
  • BST799 - Dissertation Research (Summer Term 2019)
  • Full Name

  • Charity Morgan