Publications
Dennison Himmelfarb CR, Beckie TM, Allen LA, Commodore-Mensah Y, Davidson PM, Lin G, Lutz B, Spatz ES; American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing; Council on Clinical Cardiology; Council on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research; Council on Hypertension; Council on the Kidney in Cardiovascular Disease; Council on Lifelong Congenital Heart Disease and Heart Health in the Young; Council on Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health; Council on Peripheral Vascular Disease; Council on Epidemiology and Prevention; and Stroke Council. Shared Decision-Making and Cardiovascular Health: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2023 Aug 14. doi: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000001162. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37577791.
Commodore-Mensah Y, Liu X, Ogungbe O, Ibe C, Amihere J, Mensa M, Martin SS, Crews D, Carson KA, Cooper LA, Himmelfarb CR. Design and Rationale of the Home Blood Pressure Telemonitoring Linked with Community Health Workers to Improve Blood Pressure (LINKED-BP) Program. Am J Hypertens. 2023 Apr 15;36(5):273-282. doi: 10.1093/ajh/hpad001. PMID: 37061796; PMCID: PMC10105861.
Byiringiro S, Lacanienta C, Clark R, Evans C, Stevens S, Reese M, Ouyang P, Terkowitz M, Weston C, Galiatsatos P, Guerrero Vazquez M, Luthardt FW, Dennison Himmelfarb C. Digital and virtual strategies to advance community stakeholder engagement in research during COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science. 2022:1-18. doi:10.1017/cts.2022.457.
Commodore-Mensah Y, Loustalot F, Dennison Himmelfarb C, Nickens P, Sachdev V, Bibbins-Domingo K, et al. Opportunities to Improve Hypertension Control: Proceedings from a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Virtual Workshop. (2022). Am J Hypertens. Mar 8;35(3):232-243. doi: 10.1093/ajh/hpab182. PMID: 35259237; PMCID: PMC8903890.
LaFave, S.E., Wallace II, D.J., Grover, R., Clark, R., Marks, S., Lacanienta, C., Evans, C., Kalil, G.Z., Ouyang, P., Himmelfarb, C.R., & Abshire, M. (2021). Building a pipeline of community-engaged researchers: How interdisciplinary translational research training programs can collaborate with their Community Research Advisory Councils. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science. Jul 14;5(1):e156. doi: 10.1017/cts.2021.818. PMID: 34527295.
Peeler A, Miller H, Ogungbe O, Lewis C, Martinez L, Guerrero Vazquez M, Carey S, Murli S, Singleton M, Lacanienta C, Gleason K, Ford D, Himmelfarb C. (2021). Centralized Registry for COVID-19 Research Recruitment: Design, Development, Implementation, and Preliminary Results. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science. Jul 14;5(1):e152. doi: 10.1017/cts.2021.819. PMID: 34462668.
Han HR, Xu A, Bahouth M, Waligora K, Cudjoe J, Okoye S, Reese M, Bone L, Dennison-Himmelfarb C. (2021). Exploring community engaged experiences and preferences: A multi-level qualitative investigation. BMC Research Involvement and Engagement. Mar 30;7(1):19. doi: 10.1186/s40900-021-00261-6. PubMed PMID: 33785074
Commodore-Mensah Y, Turkson-Ocran RA, Foti K, Cooper LA, Himmelfarb CD. Associations between Social Determinants and Hypertension, Stage 2 Hypertension and Controlled Blood Pressure among Men and Women in the US. Am J Hypertens. 2021 Jan 11:hpab011. doi: 10.1093/ajh/hpab011. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33428705.
Cooper LA, Marsteller JA, Carson KA, Dietz KB, Boonyasai RT, Alvarez C, Ibe CA, Crews DC, Yeh HC, Miller ER 3rd, Dennison-Himmelfarb CR, Lubomski LH, Purnell TS, Hill-Briggs F, Wang NY. The RICH LIFE Project: A cluster randomized pragmatic trial comparing the effectiveness of health system only vs. health system Plus a collaborative/stepped care intervention to reduce hypertension disparities. Am Heart J. 2020 Aug;226:94-113. doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2020.05.001. Epub 2020 May 8. PubMed PMID: 32526534; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7481013.
Miller HN, Gleason KT, Juraschek SP, Plante TB, Lewis-Land C, Woods B, Appel LJ, Ford DE, Dennison Himmelfarb CR. Electronic medical record-based cohort selection and direct-to-patient, targeted recruitment: Early efficacy and lessons learned. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2019 Sep 25;. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocz168. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31553434.
Arnett DK, Blumenthal RS, Albert MA, Buroker AB, Goldberger ZD, Hahn EJ, Himmelfarb CD, Khera A, Lloyd-Jones D, McEvoy JW, Michos ED, Miedema MD, Muñoz D, Smith SC Jr, Virani SS, Williams KA Sr, Yeboah J, Ziaeian B. 2019 ACC/AHA Guideline on the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines. Circulation. 2019 Sep 10;140(11):e596-e646. doi: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000000678. Epub 2019 Mar 17. Erratum in: Circulation. 2019 Sep 10;140(11):e649-e650. PubMed PMID: 30879355.
Carey RM, Calhoun DA, Bakris GL, Brook RD, Daugherty SL, Dennison Himmelfarb CR., et al. Resistant Hypertension: Detection, Evaluation, and Management: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. Hypertension. 2018;0:HYP.0000000000000084.
Gleason, K.T., Ford, D.E., Gumas, D., Woods, B., Meyer, M., Murray, P., Dennison Himmelfarb, C.R. Development and Preliminary Evaluation of a Patient Portal Messaging for Research Recruitment Service. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 2018;2(1), 53-56.DOI: 10.1017/cts.2018.10.
Whelton PK, Carey RM, Aronow WS, Casey DE, Collins KJ, Dennison Himmelfarb C, DePalma SM, Gidding S, Jamerson KA, Jones DW, MacLaughlin EJ, Muntner P, Ovbiagele B, Smith SC, Spencer CC, Stafford RS, Taler SJ, Thomas RJ, Williams KA, Williamson JD, Wright JT. 2017 ACC/AHA/AAPA/ABC/ACPM/AGS/APhA/ASH/ASPC/NMA/PCNA Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults. Journal of the American College of Cardiology Nov 2017, 24430; DOI:10.1016/j.jacc.2017.11.006.
Research
A cardiometabolic health program LINKED with clinical-community support and mobile HEAlth telemonitoRing in underserved populaTionS (LINKED-HEARTS Program), MPIs: Yvonne Commodore-Mensah and Cheryl Himmelfarb, 10/01/2021-09/30/2026, NIH-NIMHD P50 MD017348 – 8183.
Improving Participation Among diverse populations in Cardiovascular clinical Trials (IMPACT), Erin Michos (Director) / Cheryl Himmelfarb (Co-Director), 10/01/2022-09/30/2026, American Heart Association.
Developing a learning COmmunity to increase eNgagemeNt and Enrollment in cardiovascular Clinical Trials (CONNECT), MPIs: Cheryl Himmelfarb and Hailey Miller, 10/01/2022-09/30/2026, American Heart Association.
Home Blood Pressure Telemonitoring Linked with Community Health Workers to Improve Blood Pressure (LINKED-BP Program), PI: Commodore-Mensah, 10/01/2021-09/30/2025, American Heart Association.
Community Engagement Alliance DC-Maryland-Virginia (CEAL-DMV). PI: Cheryl Dennison Himmelfarb, 05/15/2021-03/31/2024, NIH-NHLBI / Westat OT2HL161612.
Johns Hopkins Institutional Clinical and Translational Science Award, (PI: Dan Ford) Deputy Director, ICTR and Director of Community and Collaboration Core and Recruitment Innovation Unit: Cheryl Himmelfarb, 06/01/19-05/30/24, NIH/NCATS UL1TR003098 01.
