Publications
Hughes S, Dennison CR. (2008). Cardiovascular Nurses Called to Don Public Health Hats. Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 23(6):536-537.
Rolley JX, Davidson PM, Dennison CR, Ong A, Everett B, Salamonson Y. (2008). Medication Adherence Self-Report Instruments: Implications for Practice and Research. Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 23(6):497-505.
Dennison CR, Hughes S. (2008). New Guideline for Tobacco Use and Dependence Provides Arsenal of Effective Interventions. Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 23(5):383-385.
Dowdy DW, Dinglas V, Mendez-Tellez PA, Bienvenu OJ, Sevransky J, Dennison CR, Shanholtz C, Needham DM. (2008). Intensive Care Unit Hypoglycemia Predicts Depression During Early Recovery from Acute Lung Injury. Critical Care Medicine, 36(10):2726-2733.
Peer N, Steyn K, Dennison CR, Levitt NS, Nyo MTL, Commerford PJ, Nel H, Hill MN. (2008). The Prevalence and Determinants of Target Organ Damage in Black Hypertensive Patients Using Primary Healthcare Services in Cape Town: The Hi-Hi Study. American Journal of Hypertension, 21(8):896-902.
Hughes S, Dennison CR. (2008). Progress in Prevention. How Can We Help Patients Seek Information on the World Wide Web? An Opportunity to Improve the “Net Effect”. Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 23(4):324-325.
Umoh NJ, Fan E, Mendez-Tellez PA, Sevransky JE, Dennison CR, Shanholtz C, Pronovost PJ, Needham DM. (2008). Patient and Intensive Care Unit Organizational Factors Associated with Low Tidal Volume Ventilation in Acute Lung Injury. Critical Care Medicine, 36:1463-1468.
Dennison CR, Hughes S. (2008). Progress in Prevention. Raising the Bar to Lower Blood Pressure: Key Steps to Improve Blood Pressure Control Rates. Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 23(3):293-294.
Dennison CR, Needham DM, Mendez-Tellez PA, Wang W, Pronovost PJ. (2007). Barriers to Low Tidal Volume Ventilation in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Survey Development, Validation, and Results. Critical Care Medicine, 35:2747-2754.
Dennison CR, Peer N, Lombard CJ, Levitt NS, Hill MN, Steyn K. (2007). Cardiovascular Risk and Co-Morbid Conditions among Black South Africans with Hypertension Receiving Primary Care in Public and Private Settings: The HiHi Study. Ethnicity & Disease, 17:477-483.
Dennison CR, Peer N, Steyn K, Hill MN. (2007). Determinants of Hypertension Control among Peri-urban Black South Africans in Treatment: The HiHi Study. Ethnicity & Disease, 17:484-491.
Needham DM, Wang W, Desai SV, Mendez-Tellez PA, Dennison CR, Sevransky J, Shanholtz C, Ciesla N, Spillman K, Pronovost PJ. (2007). Intensive Care Unit Exposures for Long-Term Outcomes Research: Development and Description of Exposures for 150 Patients with Acute Lung Injury. Journal of Critical Care, 22:275-284.
Robinson KA, Dennison CR, Wayman D, Pronovost PJ, Needham DM. (2007). Systematic Review Identifies Number of Strategies Important for Retaining Study Participants. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 60:757-765.
Dennison CR, Post WS, Kim MT, Bone LR, Cohen D, Blumenthal RS, Rame JE, Roary MC, Levine DM, Hill MN. Underserved Urban African American Men: Hypertension Trial Outcomes and Mortality During 5 Years. American Journal of Hypertension 2007;20:164-171.
Dowdy DW, Eid MP, Dennison CR, Mendez-Tellez PA, Herridge MS, Guallar E, Pronovost PJ, Needham DM. Quality of Life After Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: A Meta-Analysis. Intensive Care Medicine 2006;32(8):1115-24.
Needham DM, Dennison CR, Dowdy DW, Mendez-Tellez PA, Ciesla N, Sevransky J, Shanholtz C, Scharfstein D, Herridge MS, Pronovost PJ. The Improving Care of Acute Lung Injury Patients (ICAP) Study: Study Design and Methods. Critical Care 2005;10(1):R9 [Epub ahead of print].
Han H, Kim MT, Rose L, Dennison CR, Hill MN. Effects of stressful life events in young black men with high blood pressure. Ethnicity & Disease 2006;10(1):64-70.
Brownstein JN, Bone LR, Dennison CR, Hill MN, Levine DM. Community health workers as interventionists in research and practice for the prevention of heart disease and stroke. Am J Prev Med 2005;29(5S1):128-133.
Haque M, Emerson SH, Dennison CR, Navsa M, Levitt N. Barriers to Initiating Insulin Therapy in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Public-Sector Primary Health Care Centres in Cape Town. S Afr Med J 2005;95(10):798-802.
Dennison CR, Prasad M, Lloyd A, Bhattacharyya S, Dhawan R, Coyne K. The health-related quality of life and economic burden of constipation. Pharmacoeconomics 2005;23(5):461-476.
Pronovost PJ, Rinke ML, Emery K, Dennison C, Blackledge C, Berenholtz SM. Interventions to reduce mortality among patients treated in Intensive Care Units. J Crit Care 2004;19:158-64.
Hill MN, Han HR, Dennison CR, Kim MT, Roary MC, Blumenthal RS, Bone LR, Levine DM, Post WS. Hypertension care and control in underserved urban African American men: behavioral and physiologic outcomes at 36 months. American Journal of Hypertension 2003;16(11):906-913.
Post W, Hill MN, Dennison CR, Weiss JL, Gerstenblith G, Blumenthal RS. High prevalence of target organ damage in young, African-American inner-city men with hypertension. Journal of Clinical Hypertension 2003;5(1):24-30.
Norman GR, Dennison CR. Interpretation of changes in HRQL outcomes:
the relationship between distribution- and anchor-based approaches. European Respiratory Review 2002:12(83):104-107.
Dennison CR. The role of patient reported outcomes in evaluating the quality of medical care. American Journal of Managed Care 2002;8:S580-S586.
Cheng A., Braunstein J., Dennison C., Nass C., Blumenthal R. Reducing global risk for cardiovascular disease: Using lifestyle changes and pharmacotherapy. Clinical Cardiology 2002;25:205-212.
Rose LE, Kim MT, Dennison CR, Hill MN. The context of adherence for African-Americans with high blood pressure. Journal of Advanced Nursing 2000;32(3): 587-594.
Kim MT, Dennison CR, Hill MN, Bone LR, Levine DM. Relationship of alcohol and illicit drug use with high blood pressure care and control among urban hypertensive black men. Ethnicity & Disease 2000;10:175-183.
Hill MN, Bone LR, Kim MT, Miller DJ, Dennison CR, Levine DM. Barriers to hypertension care and control in young urban black men. American Journal of Hypertension 1999;12:951-958.
Funded research, training grants and/or programs
2008-2010: Principal Investigator, Nurse-Led Heart Failure Care Transition Intervention for African Americans. National Institutes of Health NINR (1R21NR011056-01).
2008-2009: Principal Investigator, Nurse-Led Heart Failure Care Transition Intervention for Older Adults. John A. Hartford Foundation Claire M. Fagin Fellow, Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity Program.
2007-2009: Director of the Office of Recruitment and Retention. Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical Translational Research. National Institutes of Health, Institutional Clinical and Translational Science Award (1U54RR023561-01A1). D Ford, PI.
2007-2009: Co-Investigator / Site Principal Investigator, Rural Hospital Quality Collaborative on Evidence-Based Nursing (Heart Failure Care). Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative. R. Newhouse, PI.
10/05-09/08: Principal Investigator, Improving Care in Heart Failure Patients through Decision Support. Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award, National Institutes of Health NINR (5K23 NR009193).
07/05-10/05: Principal Investigator, Improving Care in Heart Failure Patients through Decision Support. NIH Roadmap Johns Hopkins Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Career Development Award Grant (K12 HD049104) from the National Institutes of Health.
07/05-05/10: Co-Investigator, Reducing Total Cardiovascular Risk in an Urban Community. National Institutes of Health NHLBI (1 R01 HL082638-01). J Allen, PI.
2003-2007: Co-Investigator, Molecular Approaches To Ventilator-Associated Lung Injury: Long-Term Outcomes Of Specific Ventilator Strategies. National Institutes of Health. Specialized Center of Clinically Oriented Research Program. P. Pronovost, Project Leader. J. Garcia, PI.
2002-2006: Co-Investigator, Barriers to HBP Care and Control in Black South Africans. FIRCA 1 R03 TWO5756-01A1. M.N. Hill, US PI; Krisela Steyn, South Africa PI.
1997-2006: Co-Investigator, Comprehensive HBP Care for Young Urban Black Men. National Institute of Nursing Research (RO1 NR04119-02). M Hill, PI.
2000-2001: Co-Principal Investigator, Effects of Simvastatin on Lipids and Apolipoproteins in Hyperlipidemic African Americans. Merck & Co.
1998-2000: Principal Investigator, Substance Abuse Intervention for Black Men with High Blood Pressure. National Institute of Nursing Research (F31 NR07345-02).
