Medical College of Wisconsin
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CURRICULUM VITAE

David A. Nelson PhD
Professor
Department of Family and Community Medicine

OFFICE ADDRESS:
8701 Watertown Plank Road
Milwaukee, WI 53226


BIBLIOGRAPHY
Refereed Journal Publications/Original Papers
1. Hinojosa, M.S., Hinojosa, R., Nelson, D.A., Delgado, A., Witzack, B., Gonzalez, M., Elliot, B., Farias, R., Ahmed, S., Meurer, L. (2010). Salud de la Mujer: Using Fotonovelas to Increase Health Literacy Among Latinos, Progress for Community Health Partnerships. Spring (4.1), p 25-30.
2. Hinojosa, R., Melanie S. Hinojosa, Nelson, K., and Nelson, D. (2010). Veteran Family Reintegration and Primary Care Needs, Journal of American Board of Family Medicine, 23(6), 770-774.
3. Hinojosa, M.S., Nelson, DA, Hinojosa, R., Delgado, A., Witzack, B., Gonzalez, M., Elliott, W., Steiner, J., Fontanez, M. Farias, R. (2011). "Using fotonovelas to promote healthy eating in a latino community. American Journal of Public Health, 101(2), 258-259.
4. L. K. Marriott, D. A. Nelson, S. Allen, K. Calhoun, C. E. Eldredge, K. S. Kimminau, R. J. Lucero, F. Pineda-Reyes, B. B. Rumala, A. P. Varanasi, J. S. Wasser, J. Shannon, Using health information technology to engage communities in health, education, and research. Sci. Transl. Med. 4, 119mr1 (2012).
5. Kharofa, R.Y., Meurer, J.R. & Nelson, D. (2014). Perceptions about eating healthy in WIC participants. Clinical Pediatrics, 53(4) 403-406. http://cpj.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/03/24/0009922813482180.full.pdf .
6. Kusch, J. D., Nelson, D. A., Simpson, D., Gerrits, R. and Glass, L. Using AI to Understand Key Success Features in Evolving CTSAs. Clinical and Translational Science, 2013; 6(4):314-316. doi: 10.1111/cts.12027.
7. Nokes, K.M., Nelson, D.A., McDonald, M.A., Hacker, K., Gosse, J., Sanford, B., Opel, S. (2013). Faculty perceptions of how community engagement is valued. Clinical and Translational Science. Aug;6(4):259-66.
8. Bedinghaus J, Nelson D. Team-Based Learning of Evidence-Based Medicine: Screening. MedEdPORTAL; 2013. Available from: www.mededportal.org/publication/9450.
9. Nelson D., Bedinghaus J. Team-Based Learning of EBM: Case-Control and Cohort Studies. MedEdPORTAL; 2013. Available from: www.mededportal.org/publication/9447.
10. Bedinghaus, J., & Nelson, D., Team-Based Learning of EBM: Randomized Controlled Trials
11. MedEdPORTAL; 2013 Available from: www.mededportal.org/publication/9513.
12. Bedinghaus J, Nelson D. Team-Based Learning of EBM: Diagnostic Testing. MedEdPORTAL; 2013 Available from: www.mededportal.org/publication/9519.
13. Fink, J., Morris, G., Singh, M., Nelson, D., Walker R. Cisler, R.A. (2014). Obesity remains underdiagnosed: Discordant documentation of obesity BMI and obesity diagnosis in patients' EMR. Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews. 1(4) 164-170.
14. Ahmed, S.M., Nelson, D., Kissack, A., Franco, Z., Whittle, J., Kotchen, T., Meurer, J.R., Morzinski, J. & Brandenburg, T. (2015). Towards Building a Bridge between Community Engagement in Research (CEnR) and Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER). Clinical and Translational Science. 8(2), 160-165.
15. Nelson, D.A., Simenz, C.J., O'Connor, S.P., Greer, Y.D., Bachrach, A.L., Fuller, B.A., Horrigan, K., Pritchard, K., Springer, J.B. & Meurer, J.R. (2015). Using Group Model Building to Understand Factors Influencing Childhood Obesity in an Urban Environment. Journal of Public Health Management & Practice. Supplement May/June 2015 21(3).
16. Fink, J.T., Havens, K.K., Schumacher, J.A., Walker, R.E., Morris, G.L., Nelson, D.A., Singh, M. & Cisler, R.A. (2015). Impact of the Heart WATCH program on patients at risk of developing metabolic syndrome, prediabetes or cardiovascular disease. Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews, Volume 2(2) 56-63.
17. Ahmed, S.M., Maurana, C., Nelson, D., Meister, T., Neu Young, S., Lucey, P. Opening the black box: Conceptualizing community engagement from 109 community-academic partnership programs. Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action, 10(1), Spring 2016, pp. 51-61.
18. Nelson, D., Nelson, K., Miller, J., Miller, M. & Ramsey, M. (2016) Traces and spaces of those living on the margins of Milwaukee. Medical Anthropology Theory, 3(1) 110-121.
19. Nelson, D., Harris, A., Horner-Ibler, B., Harris, K.S., Burns, E. (2016). Hearing the community: Evolution of a nutrition and physical activity program for African American women to improve weight. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 27: 560-567.
20. Morris, G.L., Chapman, K., Nelson, D., Fink, J., Walker, R., & Cisler, R. (2016). Physician use of electronic health record in obesity management. Wisconsin Medical Journal, 115(3), 33-35.
21. Nelson DA, Ruffalo L, Dyer A, Nelson K. (2016) Patient Perceptions of Weight Loss: Implications for Patients, Providers, and Trainees. International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 51(4) 325-336.
22. May M, Brousseau DC, Nelson DA, Flynn KE, Wolf MS, Lepley B, Morrison AK. Why parents seek care for acute illness in the clinic or the ED: The role of health literacy. Academic Pediatrics, 2017. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 2862577.
23. Nelson, D. & Ruffalo, L. Grant writing: Moving from generating ideas to applying for grants that matter. The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine. 52(3); 236-244.
24. Bernstein R, Ruffalo L, Morzinski J, Nelson D, Ahmed SM, Seehusen DA. Continuity in Community Medicine Training Is It Time to Rethink the Block Rotation? PRiMER. 2017; 1:19. DOI: 10.22454/PRiMER.2017.677380.
25. Ahmed SM, Young SN, Defino M, Nelson D, Franco Z. Towards a Practical Model for Community Engagement: Advancing the Art and Science of Community Engagement in Academic Health Centers (ACHS). Journal of Clinical Translational Science. https://doi.org/10.1017/cts.2017.304 Published online: 28 December 2017.
26. Braza. D., Iverson, M., Lee, K. Hennessy, C. & Nelson, D. (2018) Promoting Physical Activity: Creating awareness of Adaptive Sports and Recreation Opportunities. Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education and Action. Volume 12, Issue 2, Summer' 165-172.
27. Walker RE, Kusch J, Fink JT, Nelson DA, Morris G 3rd, Skalla J, Cisler RA. Facilitating factors and barriers to weight management in women: physician perspectives. J Patient Cent Res Rev. 2018;5:18-27.
28. Agyeman, P., DeVita., BSJ, FitzPatrick, N., & Nelson DA. (2018). Nutritional quality of inventory at a Milwaukee Food Pantry. Journal of Nutrition and Health Sciences, Volume 5 Issue 4 pp1-6.
29. Azam, L., Meurer, J., Asan, O., Flynn, K., Nelson, D., Knudson, P., Young, S. (2018). Cultural and social challenges of diabetes self-management education through voices of physicians. Wisconsin Medical Journal, 117(5): 219-223.
30. Johnston, B. El-Arabi, A. Tuomela, K. & Nelson, DA. (2018). The food doctors: A pilot study to connect urban children and medical students using nutrition education. Health Education Journal 78 (4); 441-450.
31. De Santis, J.L., O'Connor, S.P., Pritchard, K., Franco, Z., Ahmed, S.M., & Nelson, D.A. (2019). The Collective Power of We: Breaking barriers in community engagement. Innovative Higher Education, 44 92), 149-160 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10755-018-9454-y.
32. Waniger, A., Gale, K., DeNomie, M. & Nelson, D. (2019) Community and caregiver perceptions of giving care to seniors. International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine. First published, July 3, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1177/0091217419860726
33. Nelson, D.A., Morzinski, J., & Flower, M. (2019). The Milwaukee Continuum: Older veterans and non-veterans use housing first to exit homelessness. Journal of Humanistic Psychology First published August 8, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022167819866523
34. Kohlbeck, S. & Nelson, D.A. (2019). Initiating a dialogue about gun violence: Shifting the focus. Violence and Gender. DOI: 10.1089/vio.2019.0018.
35. Gehring, M., Lerrett, S., Johnson, T., Rieder, J., Nelson, D., Copeland, L., Titan, A., Morris, M., Whittle, J. & Burns, E. (2019). Patient Expectations for Recovery After Elective Surgery: A Common-Sense Model Approach. Journal of Behavioral Medicine. Published online, 11 September, DOI 10.1007/s10865-019-00097-2.
36. Gliedt, J., Holmes, B.D. & Nelson, D.A. (2020). The Manchurian candidate: chiropractors as propagators of neoliberalism in health care Chiropractic & Manual Therapies (2020) 28:20 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12998-020-00311-y.
37. Meurer LN, DeNomie M, Morzinski JA, Nelson DA, Meurer JR, Chandler TE, Ahmed S. Incorporating Community Engagement in Primary Care Research Training: 11-Year Outcomes. Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education and Action; 14(1); 63-74. https://doi.org/ 10.1353/cpr.2020.0009.
38. Runkle NK, Nelson DA. The silence of food insecurity: disconnections between primary care and community. J Patient Cent Res Rev. 2021;8:31-8. doi: 10.17294/2330-0698.1765.
39. Eder, M.M., The PACER Group, Millay, T.A., and Cottler, L.B. A compendium of community engagement responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Clinical and TranslationalScience5:e133,1-8.doi:10.1017/ cts.2021.800
40. Matzke, J., Johnston, B., Schneider, T. & Nelson, D. (2022). A health needs assessment
41. among Milwaukee's homeless. Wisconsin Medical Journal.
42. Doubeni, C., Nelson, D., Cohn, E., Paskett, E., Asfaw, S., Sumar, M., Ahmed, S., McClinton-Brown, R., Wieland, M.L., Kinney, A., Aguilar-Gaxiola, S Rosas, L.G. & Patino, C. (2022). Community engagement education in academic health centers, colleges, and universities. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 6(1), E109. doi:10.1017/cts.2022.424
43. Bethany Korom, Meghan Malloy, Caroline Remmers, Mari Cevilla, Kelly Dione, Paula Papanek, Jeff Condit and David Nelson. (2023)."It's about being healthy"; a novel approach to the socio-ecological model using family perspectives within the Latinx community. BMC Public Health. 23:86. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15005-2
44. Johnston, B., Ruffalo, L., Nelson, D., O'Connor, S., Petterson, E., & Young, S. (2023). The stacked community engagement model: A practical model for developing community-engaged academic medical faculty. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 7(1), E36. Doi:10.1017/cts.2023.
45. Kohlbeck S., Quinn K., deRoon-Cassini T., Hargarten S., Nelson D. & Cassidy L., A social ecological analysis of Farmer Stresses and supports in Wisconsin, SSM - Qualitative Research in Health (2023), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2023.100248.
46. Meghan Malloy, Sergey Tarima, Bethany Canales, David Nelson, & Jessica Hanley. (2023). Identifying Risk Factors for Appointment No-Shows in a Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery Clinic: Original Research. Journal of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America, 5(3)).
47. https://doi.org/10.55275/JPOSNA-2023-695
48. Johnston B, Ruffalo L, Nelson D, O'Connor S, Young S. Foundations of community engagement: a series for effective community-engaged research. MedEdPORTAL. 2023;19:11350. https://doi.org/10.15766/mep_2374-8265.11350
49. Conroy, M., Remmers, C., Korom, B., Malloy, M., Sieracki, R., Thalji, S., Tsai, S., & Nelson, D. (2023). Pancreatic Cancer and Community Engagement: A Scoping Review of the Literature. Oncology Issues, 38(5), 52-60.
50. Remmers, Caroline A. BS*; Conroy, Meghan M. BS*; Korom, Bethany M. BS*; Malloy, Meghan E. BS*; Sieracki, Rita MLS*; Fairbanks, Stacy L. MD†; Nelson, David A. PhD‡. Anesthesiologists and Community Engagement: A Scoping Review of the Literature. Anesthesia & Analgesia ():10.1213/ANE.0000000000006740, November 23, 2023. | DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000006740
51. Franco Z, Davis CS, Kalet A, Hooyer K, Nelson D, El Amin Q, Stevenson M, Cox M, Yaspan A, Perkins H, Kryshak T, Kryshak M, Spellecy R, Abdullah A, Lord M, O'Connor S, Ahmed S. Medical School Civic Engagement During COVID-19: Activating Institutions for Equitable Community Response. Journal of Humanistic Psychology: Special Issue on Equitable Pandemic Response. In press. https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678231206202
52. Korom, B., Malloy, M., Remmers, C., Welsch, E., Cevilla, M., Alamillo-Roman, Z., Torres, D., Dione, K., and Nelson, D. "It Takes a Village": Reflections from participants after a Hispanic community-based health promotion program. BMC Public Health 24, 237 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-17737-1
53. Kohlbeck, S., Quinn, K., deRoon-Cassini, T., Hargarten, S., Nelson, D., & Cassidy, L. (2024). Toward a Public Health Approach to Farmer Suicide Prevention: The Potential Power of Systems Change. Journal of Agromedicine, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1080/1059924X.2024.2388253
54. Miller, T., Balza, J., Kellis, J., Paradis, H., Meurer, J. & Nelson, D. (2024). Lead poisoning in Milwaukee: A medical and public health update. Wisconsin Medical Journal, 123(4), 267-271 https://wmjonline.org/123no4/miller/
55. BOOK CHAPTERS
56. Hunter, P., Kessler, C., Frazer, D., Greer, Y., Nelson, D., Harley, A., Martinez, R. & Flynn, P. (2014). JHCPU-Apr-2014-RF-0264 entitled "Nutrition Education at Mobile Markets: Community-engaged, Evidence-based Interventions to Address Obesity in Low-income Neighborhoods in Milwaukee" as a Report from the Field for the book Obesity Interventions in Underserved US Communities: Evidence and Directions, pages 325-336, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press.
57. Harris, A., Nelson, D., Salas Harris, K., Horner-Ibler, B., Burns, E. (2014). 'We Need a New Normal': Sociocultural Constructions of Obesity and Overweight among African American Women. Book Chapter in Black Sociology: Contemporary Issues and Future Trends (Ashgate Publishing Company).
58. EDITORIALS, LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, AND OTHER
59. Nelson, D. Regulate fast food as a public health issue. Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel, August 28, 2008.
60. Brennan, L. Sabouchi, N., Behlmann, T., Nelson, D., and O'Connor, S. Systems Thinking in Communities: Understanding the Causes of Inactivity, Poor Diet/Nutrition and Childhood Obesity in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 2013 http://www.transtria.com/hkhc. Accessed date, May 2014.
61. Ahmed SM, Franco Z, Nelson D. Advancing the PCORI Engagement Rubric. Commentary on Sheridan S, Schrandt S, Forsythe L, Tillard TS, Paez K: The PCORI Engagement Rubric: Promising Practices for Partnering in Research, Ann Fam Med, 2017, 15: 165-170. Online discussions focus track (Topical Response to the Annals of Community Knowledge), March 24, 2017, www.annfammed.org
62. Fuller, B. & Nelson, D. (2017). Collaborative Partnership. (insert). In LEADERSHIP IN ACTION textbook.
63. Nelson, D.A. Imagine a world...J Patient Cent Res Rev. 2018;5:18-27.
64. Simenz, C.J. & Nelson, D.A. (2019). Supporting adolescents in development of an Orientation to Active Living. Wisconsin Health and Physical Education Association. Spring 2019.
65. PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS
66. Nelson, D. Self-direction and coping in adults with asthma. Dissertation Abstracts International Section A: Humanities and Social Sciences. Vol. 61(9-A), March 2001, pp 3440.
67. Ahmed, S., Nelson, D.A., Biedrzycki, P.A., Sandy, M.G., Opel, S. & Franco, Z. (2012). Community engagement for translational disaster research: Fostering public, private & responder group partnerships. Proceedings for the 9th International ISCRAM Conference, Vancouver, Canada, April.