Lanier, P., Kennedy, S., Snyder, A., Smith, J., Napierala, E., Talbert, J., Hammerslag, L., Humble, L., Myers, E., Whittington, A., Smith, J., Bachhuber, M., Austin, A., Blount, T., Stehlin, G., Fede, A. L., Nguyen, H., Bruce, J., Grijalva, C. G., Krishnan, S., Otter, C., Horton, K., Seller, N., & Pearson, W. S. (2023). STI testing among Medicaid enrollees initiating PrEP for HIV prevention in six southern states.Southern Medical Journal, 116(6), 455–463.
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Hardin, J., Mayfield-Smith, K., Liu, Q.,
Payne, T.,
Stewart, J. E., & Brantley, V. (2011). Does health plan
type
contribute to difference in diabetes care? Journal of South
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Medical Association, 107(1), 17-20.
Lòpez De Fede, A, Kirtland,
K. A., & Mayfield-Smith,
K. (2006). The
impact of caring for children with special health care needs on
accessing needed health services and family finances: South
Carolina’s experience. Journal of South Carolina Medical
Association, 102(2), 102-106.
Porter, R. C., & Lòpez-De Fede,
A. (2000). The
medically fragile
children's program, an all inclusive health care system for special
needs children in foster care. Pediatric Research, 47(4,
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Suppl. S Apr 2000), 1286.
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Payne, T., et al.
(2000). Medically
fragile children's assessment instrument: Report of field test.
Pediatric Research, 47(4, Pt. 2, Suppl. S Apr 2000), 1285.
Shealey, K., Williams, L. S., Resciniti, N., López-De Fede, A., & Gareau, S. (2024, August 22). The South Carolina Maternal Health Innovation Collaborative (SCMHIC) (Presentation). Maternal Health Task Force Kickoff Meeting. Columbia, SC.
Williams, L., & Gareau, S. (2024, August 6-8, 2024). Strategic alignment for collaboration and enhancement: We are stronger together (Presentation). Maternal Health Innovation (MHI) Learning Exchange, Albuquerque, NM.
Gareau, S., López-De Fede, A., Kotagiri, M., Addo, P., Rodriguez Ramos, C., Kneece, A., & Bell, N. (2024, July 25). Prisma Health maternal health snapshot: Data through September 2023. Presentation at meeting of the Prisma Health System: Women's Health Service Line Monthly Leaders, Institute for Families in Society, University of South Carolina.
Mayfield-Smith, K. (2024, July 11). Negotiation: Finding acceptable solutions to shared challenges [Webinar]. At the Lifespan Respite Partner Learning Collaborative State Lifespan Roles for Implementing the Respite Actions in the National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers.
Hinds, O., Gareau, S., Karim, S., & López-De Fede, A. (2024, March 25-28). Trends and best practices in screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) for pregnant and postpartum Medicaid enrollees: Policy recommendations for South Carolina. Oral presentation at South Carolina Public Health Association Annual Conference, Myrtle Beach, SC.
Gareau, S., & López - De Fede, A. (2024, February 28-29). IFS AIM data collection and reporting [Invited presentation]. In C. Driskill, S. Gareau, I. Saini, Planning data collection for AIM: How to use AIM data collection plan and design effective data collection tools. ACOG (American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists) AIM 2024 Data Learning Institute, Washington, DC.
Kotagiri, L. M., Gareau, S., & López - De Fede, A. (2024, February 2-3). An exploration of lag in payer ascertainment among maternal delivery claims in South Carolina: Potential implications for timely maternal care [Poster presentation]. In South Carolina: Potential implications for timely maternal care. 2024 5th National Big Data Health Science Conference, Columbia, SC
Gareau, S., López-De Fede, A., & Gaffney, T. (2023, December 7). An introduction to the AIM Severe Hypertension in Pregnancy Patient Safety Bundle. Presentation at meeting of SC BOI Quality & Patient Safety Workgroup. Institute for Families in Society, University of South Carolina, developed under contract to SC Department of Health and Human Services.
Mayfield-Smith, K., & Andrews, J. (2024, May 21-24). Raising the bar for respite through coordination and partnerships. 2024 National Lifespan Respite Conference, Albany, NY.
Billings, D., Hutchins, N. K., & Diallo, D. D., (Discussants). (2023, November 12-15). In S. Narsimhan (Moderator), Overturning Roe vs. Wade: Global implications for reproductive rights [Panel discussion]. APHA 2023 Annual Meeting & Expo, Atlanta, GA
Ren, Y., Wu, D., Tong, Y., López-De Fede, A., & Gareau. S. (2023, November 12-15). Using machine learning methods to identify racial differences of low birthweight risks: Evidence from a state-level large-scale data in the U.S. [Oral presentation]. APHA 2023 Annual Meeting & Expo, Atlanta, GA.
Tsien, E., Wu, D., Tong, Y., Lopez-De Fede, A., & Gareau, S. (2023, November 11-15). Introducing task-adaptive loss to multitask learning for electronic healthcare prediction [Paper presentation]. In 1st International Workshop on Network and Pathway Analysis in Health Informatics (NPAHI), 11th IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (IEEE ICHI) 2023, New Orleans, LA.
López - De Fede, A., Billings, D. L., Walker, P., & Williams, J. S. (2023, October 20-22). First Place Award (co-award), "I got you" - Maternal mortality [Video presented at 2023 Film Festival]. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists 2023 District IV Annual District Meeting, Washington, DC.
Lòpez-DeFede, A. (2023, April 27). Lessons learned in the adoption of a congenital syphilis measure in South Carolina [Invited presentation], Improving STD prevention and care through partnerships with State legislators and policy makers, CDC Foundation, Atlanta, GA
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programs [Webinar]. ARCH National Respite Network Virtual Volunteer and Faith-Based
Learning Collaborative Fall Meeting.
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S. (2022,
June 11-14). Improving prediction and risk factor analysis of
low
birthweight baby outcomes in a U.S. hospital system
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IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI) 2022
2nd Workshop on Machine Learning in Healthcare Data for Precision
Medicine, Rochester, MN.
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QI
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Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health.
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Fede, A. (2022, June 4-7).
Centering
risk-adjusted HEDIS scores around racial and ethnic equity
[Presentation]. AcademyHealth 2022 Annual Research Meeting,
Washington, DC.
Lanier P., Austin, A., Kennedy, S., Snyder, A., Smith, J.,
Napierala,
E., Talbert, J., Hammerslag, L., Humble, L., Myers, E., Blount, T.,
Dowler, S., Mobley, V., Stehlin, G., Lopez-De Fede, A.,
Nguyen, H.,
Bruce, J., Grijalva, C., Pearson, W. S., Kennedy, S., Krishnan, S.,
Otter, C., Horton, K., & Seiler, N. (2022, June 4-7). Prenatal
syphilis screening among Medicaid beneficiaries in 6 southern
states
[Poster presentation]. AcademyHealth 2022 Annual Research Meeting,
Washington, DC
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Smith, J., Napierala,
E., Talbert, J., Hammerslag, L., Humble, L., Myers, E., Blount, T.,
Dowler, S., Mobley, V., Stehlin, G., Lopez-De Fede, A.,
Nguyen, H.,
Bruce, J., Grijalva, C., Pearson, W. S., Kennedy, S., Krishnan, S.,
Otter, C., Horton, K., & Seiler, N. (2022, June 4-7). STI
screening
following PrEP initiation: Findings from a Medicaid distributed
research network in the U.S. South [Poster presentation].
AcademyHealth 2022 Annual Research Meeting, Washington, DC.
Baskin, C., Passer, R.,
Wilkerson, R., & Lopez-De Fede,
A.
(2022, April 14). CHARGED3 - Children’s Health & Resource
Geographic
Exploration for Data-Driven Decisions [Poster
presentation]. 13th
Annual James E. Clyburn Health Equity Lecture Series Poster Session,
Columbia, SC.
Billings, D. L.,
Robillard, A., Rodriguez Ramos, C., Walker,
P.,
Lopez-De Fede, A., & Mayfield-Smith, K. (2022, April
14).
Voices/Voces: Pregnancy and birth inequities in the context of
COVID-19 [Poster presentation]. 13th Annual James E.
Clyburn Health
Equity Lecture Series Columbia, SC.
Ren, Y., Tsien, Ed., Wu, D.,
Lòpez-De Fede, A., & Gareau,
S. (2022,
February 11-12). Using machine learning methods to identify risk
factors of low-weight-birth outcomes in a US hospital
system [Poster
presentation]. Big Data Health Science Conference 2022, Columbia,
SC.
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S (2022, January 28-29).
SCBOI
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Outcomes Initiative [Panel discussion]. SC Breastfeeding
Coalition Conference. Columbia, SC
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SC
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[Presentation]. SC Birth Outcomes Initiative key
stakeholders.
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S. (2022, January 26).
SC
Postpartum
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stakeholders.
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Baskin,
C.
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Maternal and
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and
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Kick-Off Meeting. Columbia, SC.
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Fede, A. (2021,
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Identifying data patterns in prenatal care [Poster
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University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
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homes and the geographic
and socioeconomic barriers to care access [Poster
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13th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and
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R. (2020, November
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A big
data participatory research application with tableau: Strengths
and
challenges [Presentation]. University of South Carolina
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Wilkerson, R., & Mayfield-Smith,
K.
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and quality indicators for patient-centered medical homes among
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interconnected: A call for a paradigm shift [Presentation].
APHA's 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting and Expo.
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quality 2016-2019 annual results [Presentation]. October
2020
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CHARGED3:
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Impact of new
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Advanced Analysis of Social Policy, Programs, and Services,
Columbia, SC.
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Lopez-DeFede, A.,
Mayfield-Smith, K., Gareau, S., &
Wilkerson, R.
C.
(2022, March 25). Rapid cycle research report: Healthy Outcomes
Plan
(HOP) evaluation - Lessons learned and implications for the
health
care
of low-income and uninsured adults. University of South
Carolina,
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Lòpez‐DeFede,
A., Wilkerson, R., Gareau, S., &
Mayfield-Smith,
K. (2022, March 1). Independent evaluation of South
Carolina 1915(b)
Waiver: The Enhanced Prenatal and Postpartum Home Visitation
Pilot
Project - Findings for quality and access to care.
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contract to SC Department of Health and Human Services.
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Gareau, S. (2022, January 12).
SC maternal and
newborn health quality CY2020 annual results summary.
In SC
HealthViz.
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A. (2022).
Obstetric hemorrhage
AIM patient safety bundle surveys 2021-2022 results.
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Carolina, Institute for Families in Society, developed under
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DHHS
State QTIP
pediatric practice HEDIS rates compared to QTIP cohort, QTIP
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–
June
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Services.
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& Passer, R.
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access to care for South Carolina Medicaid recipients enrolled
in
fee-for-service – Fiscal year 2020. University of South
Carolina
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Gareau, S., Nguyen, H. T.,
Lòpez-DeFede, A., & Kotagiri, L.
M. (2020, October). South Carolina Alliance for
Innovation
on Maternal Health (AIM) measures: Statewide and by
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Baskin, C., Mayfield-Smith, K., Brantley, V., & Edwards,
J. (2020,
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Stone, C., & Lòpez-De Fede,
A. (2020, February).
Co-use of
addictive substances in South Carolina and surrounding states
among
working-age adults (18-64 years old): A demonstration project
using
the National Survey of Drug Use and Health (NSDUH).
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