Dean’s List: SKMC Recognized Researchers

• Ronald Myers, DSW, PhD
• Kuang-Yi Wen, PhD
• Hushan Yang, PhD

Grace LuYao, PhD

Funding: “Utilizing Data Science to Tailor Treatment for Men with Metastatic Prostate Cancer” DOD, 2022-25.  PIs: Dr. Grace Lu-Yao (Jefferson) and Dr. Stephen Freedland (Cedar-Sinai Medical Center and VA); Co-I: Dr. Christopher Yang (Drexel University).

Publications:  Shah, Yash B., Shaver A. L., Beiriger, J, Nikita Nikita, Lu-Yao G. Outcomes      Following Abiraterone versus Enzalutamide for Prostate Cancer: A Scoping Review. Cancers. 2022 Aug 3; 14 (15):3773

Shah, Yash B., Shaver A. L., Beiriger, J, Nikita Nikita, Lu-Yao G. A Scoping Review Protocol to Elucidate Outcomes Following Abiraterone versus Enzalutamide for Prostate Cancer.  PLOS ONE Published: August 29, 2022 

Amy Leader, PhD

Publications:  Leader AE, Miller-Day M, Rey RT, et al.  The impact of HPV vaccine narratives on social media: Testing narrative engagement theory with a diverse sample of young adults. Preventive Medicine Reports 2022; 29: 101920.

Leader AE, Mercado J, Klein A, et al. Insight into how patients with prostate cancer interpret and communicate genetic test results: implications for families [published online ahead of print, 2022 Jul 22]. J Community Genet. 2022; 10.1007/s12687-022-00603-1.

Hee-Soon Juon, PhD

Publications:  Zhao J, Barta JA, McIntire R, Shusted C, Zeigler-Johnson C, Juon HS. Racial difference in BMI and lung cancer diagnosis: analysis of the National Lung Screening Trial. BMC Cancer. 2022 Jul 19; 22(1):797. doi: 10.1186/s12885-022-09888-4. PMID: 35854273; PMCID: PMC9297592.

Juon HS, Sheler DT, Pan J, Le D, Yang YT. Racial Disparities in Hepatitis B Birth Dose in the Washington Metropolitan Region, 2018-2020. Vaccines (Basel). 2022 Jul 14; 10(7):1121. doi: 10.3390/vaccines10071121. PMID: 35891285; PMCID: PMC9325178.

Le D, Kim HJ, Wen KY, Juon HS. Disparities in awareness of the HPV vaccine and HPV-associated cancers among racial/ethnic minority populations: 2018 HINTS. Ethnicity & Health. 2022 Aug 31:1-15. doi: 10.1080/13557858.2022.2116630. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36045478.

Hushan Yang, PhD

News:  Completed DOD LCRP review in August 2022.

Hushan will join NCI review panel in November 2022.

Ling-Zhi Liu, PhD

Publication:  Ranakul Islam, PhD student, got his review article accepted as following:  Ranakul Islam, Lei Zhao, Yifang Wang, Grace Lu-Yao, Ling-Zhi Liu*. Epigenetic Dysregulations in Arsenic-induced Carcinogenesis. Cancers. Accepted.

Fnu Nikita, PhD

Presentations:  Nikita Nikita, Amy Shaver, Krupa Gandhi, Scott W Keith, Grace Lu-Yao. Abiraterone vs Enzalutamide: Does age impact one treatment over another?

Nikita Nikita, Krupa Gandhi, Scott Keith, Bo Lu, Eugene Storozynsky, Grace Lu-Yao. Radiation Induced Atrial Arrhythmias in patients with Lung Cancer: A population-based study SIOG 2022.

Isaac E. Kim, Jr., Nikita Nikita, Joshua Banks, Krupa Gandhi, Scott Keith, Isaac Yi Kim, and Grace Lu-Yao. Association between use of second-generation antiandrogens and overall survival in patients with metastatic prostate cancer – a population-based study at the American Urology Association Annual Meeting 2022.