DeSilva, Malini B., MD, MPH, Sr. Research Investigator

Kharbanda, Elyse O., MD, MPH, Sr. Research Investigator 2010 -

McEvoy, Charlene E., MD, MPH, Sr. Investigator

McKinney, Zeke, MD, MHI, MPH, Sr. Investigator

Vazquez-Benitez, Gabriela, PhD, MS, Senior Research Investigator and Statistician

18 years - VISION and IVY Networks, September 2024-January 2025. 

MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2025

Attitudes and beliefs regarding COVID-19 and COVID-19 Omicron booster vaccine among adults in the Vaccine Safety Datalink, 2022-2023. 

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics. 2025

Baseline characteristics of participants and pulmonary nodules in the watch the spot trial: a pragmatic trial of less versus more intensive strategies for active surveillance of patients with small pulmonary nodules. 

Clinical Lung Cancer. 2025

COVID-19 and completion of select routine childhood vaccinations. 

Pediatrics. 2025

COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and uptake among firefighters: an application of the Health Belief Model. 

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2025

Cardiometabolic risk in pediatric patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities. 

American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2025

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination and spontaneous abortion. 

Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2025

Effectiveness of 2023-2024 seasonal influenza vaccine against influenza-associated emergency department and urgent care encounters among pregnant and non-pregnant women of reproductive age. 

Vaccine. 2025

Effectiveness of nirsevimab among infants in their first RSV season in the United States, October 2023-March 2024: a test-negative design analysis. 

Lancet Reg Health Am. 2025

Estimated 2023-2024 COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness in adults. 

JAMA network open. 2025

Increased identification of vaccines for vaccine safety surveillance through linkage with the Minnesota Immunization Information Connection as of December 31, 2023. 

Public Health Reports. 2025

Infant respiratory syncytial virus immunization coverage in the Vaccine Safety Datalink: 2023-2024. 

Pediatrics. 2025

Influenza vaccine effectiveness against hospitalizations and emergency department or urgent care encounters for children, adolescents, and adults during the 2023-2024 season, United States. 

Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2025

Influenza-associated hospitalization rates by underlying conditions, 2016-17 to 2019-20: a retrospective cohort study. 

Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2025

Interim estimates of 2024-2025 seasonal influenza vaccine effectiveness - four vaccine effectiveness networks, United States, October 2024-February 2025. 

MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2025

JYNNEOS vaccine safety surveillance in the vaccine safety datalink during the 2022 mpox outbreak in the United States. 

Infection. 2025

Methods to adjust for confounding in test-negative design COVID-19 effectiveness studies: simulation study. 

JMIR formative research. 2025

Patterns in prescribing and dispensing of influenza antivirals among adults with influenza presenting to urgent care and emergency department settings, VISION Network, 2023-2024. 

Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2025

Religious service attendance, COVID-19 vaccine attitudes, and COVID-19 vaccination status: a Vaccine Safety Datalink member survey, 2022-2023. 

AJPM Focus. 2025

Risk of immune thrombocytopenic purpura recurrence following second measles-containing vaccine dose. 

Pediatrics. 2025

Teen Leadership Council: a case study for teen engagement in health care planning. 

American Journal of Health Promotion. 2025

Tetanus and diphtheria vaccination coverage and electronic health record alerts for immigrants and refugees at three United States health systems, 2017-2023. 

Vaccine. 2025

Vaccination during pregnancy in the Vaccine Safety Datalink, 2002-2022. 

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 2025

"I'm torn": qualitative analysis of dental practitioner-perceived barriers, facilitators, and solutions to HPV vaccine promotion. 

Healthcare. 2024

18 Years - VISION and IVY Networks, September 2023-January 2024. 

MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2024

18 years with immunocompromising conditions - VISION Network, September 2023-February 2024. 

MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2024

An electronic teen questionnaire, the eTeenQ, for risk behavior screening during adolescent well visits in an integrated health system: development and pilot implementation. 

JMIR pediatrics and parenting. 2024

COVID-19 vaccination in the first trimester and major structural birth defects among live births. 

JAMA pediatrics. 2024

COVID-19 vaccine uptake among non-US-born populations in the United States, 2020-2022. 

Vaccine. 2024

Case series of patients with acute and chronic urticaria after COVID-19 vaccination. 

Annals of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology. 2024

Characterisation and validation of lactation information from structured electronic health records for use in pharmacoepidemiological studies. 

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology. 2024

Clinical epidemiology and risk factors for critical outcomes among vaccinated and unvaccinated adults hospitalized with COVID-19-VISION Network, 10 states, June 2021-March 2023. 

Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2024

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination and stillbirth in the Vaccine Safety Datalink. 

Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2024

Cumulative environmental stress and emerging cardiometabolic risk during childhood. 

Pediatric Obesity. 2024

Do children's health behaviors buffer the impact of cumulative environmental stress on emerging cardiometabolic risk?. 

Journal of the American Heart Association. 2024

Influenza vaccination accuracy among adults: self-report compared with electronic health record data. 

Vaccine. 2024

Influenza vaccine effectiveness against influenza A-associated emergency department, urgent care, and hospitalization encounters among US adults, 2022-2023. 

Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2024

Interim estimates of 2023-24 seasonal influenza vaccine effectiveness - United States. 

MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2024

Lack of evidence for vaccine-associated enhanced disease from COVID-19 vaccines among adults in the Vaccine Safety Datalink. 

Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety. 2024

Maternal smoking during pregnancy links to childhood blood pressure through birth weight and body mass index: NHANES 1999-2018. 

Journal of Human Hypertension. 2024

Mortality risk after COVID-19 vaccination: a self-controlled case series study. 

Vaccine. 2024

Obstetric complications and birth outcomes after antenatal coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination. 

Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2024

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine effectiveness against RSV-associated hospitalisations and emergency department encounters among adults aged 60 years and older in the USA, October, 2023, to March, 2024: a test-negative design analysis. 

Lancet (London, England). 2024

Risk of COVID-19 hospitalization and protection associated with mRNA vaccination among US adults with psychiatric disorders. 

Influenza and other respiratory viruses. 2024

Safety of the seasonal influenza vaccine in 2 successive pregnancies. 

JAMA network open. 2024

The impact of stimulant medications on blood pressure and body mass index in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. 

Academic Pediatrics. 2024

Time to COVID-19 vaccination by language and country of origin. 

JAMA network open. 2024

Vaccine effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2 related hospitalizations in people who had experienced homelessness or incarceration - findings from the Minnesota EHR Consortium. 

Journal of Community Health. 2024

Vaccine effectiveness against pediatric influenza-A-associated urgent care, emergency department, and hospital encounters during the 2022-2023 season: VISION Network. 

Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2024

A broad assessment of COVID-19 vaccine safety using tree-based data-mining in the vaccine safety datalink. 

Vaccine. 2023

A safety study evaluating non-COVID-19 mortality risk following COVID-19 vaccination. 

Vaccine. 2023

Active postlicensure safety surveillance for recombinant zoster vaccine using electronic health record data. 

American Journal of Epidemiology. 2023

Adapting a clinical decision support system to improve identification of pediatric hypertension in a rural health system: design of a pragmatic trial. 

Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2023

COVID-19 booster vaccination in early pregnancy and surveillance for spontaneous abortion. 

JAMA network open. 2023

COVID-19 vaccine safety surveillance in early pregnancy in the United States: design factors affecting the association between vaccine and spontaneous abortion. 

American Journal of Epidemiology. 2023

Challenges & opportunities for the epidemiological evaluation of the effects of COVID-19 vaccination on reproduction and pregnancy. 

Vaccine. 2023

Early estimates of bivalent mRNA vaccine effectiveness in preventing COVID-19-associated emergency department or urgent care encounters and hospitalizations among immunocompetent adults - VISION Network, nine states, September-November 2022. 

MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2023

Effectiveness of BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccination in children and adolescents. 

Pediatrics. 2023

Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines at preventing emergency department or urgent care encounters and hospitalizations among immunocompromised adults: an observational study of real-world data across 10 US states from August-December 2021. 

Vaccine. 2023

Effectiveness of the original monovalent coronavirus disease 2019 vaccines in preventing emergency department or urgent care encounters and hospitalizations among adults with disabilities: VISION Network, June 2021-September 2022. 

Open forum infectious diseases. 2023

Estimates of bivalent mRNA vaccine durability in preventing COVID-19-associated hospitalization and critical illness among adults with and without immunocompromising conditions - VISION Network, September 2022-April 2023. 

American Journal of Transplantation. 2023

Estimates of bivalent mRNA vaccine durability in preventing COVID-19-associated hospitalization and critical illness among adults with and without immunocompromising conditions - VISION Network, September 2022-April 2023. 

MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2023

Estimation of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine effectiveness and COVID-19 illness and severity by vaccination status during Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 sublineage periods. 

JAMA network open. 2023

Evaluation of preferred language and timing of COVID-19 vaccine uptake and disease outcomes. 

JAMA network open. 2023

Household income, cortisol, and obesity during early childhood: a prospective longitudinal study. 

Journal of Pediatrics. 2023

Impact of accounting for correlation between COVID-19 and influenza vaccination in a COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness evaluation using a test-negative design. 

Vaccine. 2023

Increasing COVID-19 vaccination coverage for newcomer communities: the importance of disaggregation by language. 

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 2023

Influenza vaccination among pregnant women: self-report compared with vaccination data from electronic health records, 2018-2020 influenza seasons. 

Public Health Reports. 2023

Influenza vaccination during pregnancy and risk of selected major structural congenital heart defects, National Birth Defects Prevention Study 2006-2011. 

Birth defects research. 2023

Medically attended acute adverse events in pregnant people after coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) booster vaccination. 

Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2023

Number needed to vaccinate with a COVID-19 booster to prevent a COVID-19-associated hospitalization during SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.1 variant predominance, December 2021-February 2022, VISION Network: a retrospective cohort study. 

Lancet Reg Health Am. 2023

Patient and epidemiological factors associated with influenza testing in hospitalized adults with acute respiratory illnesses, 2016-2017 to 2019-2020. 

Open forum infectious diseases. 2023

Protection from COVID-19 mRNA vaccination and prior SARS-CoV-2 infection against COVID-19-associated encounters in adults during Delta and Omicron predominance. 

Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2023

Protection of two and three mRNA vaccine doses against severe outcomes among adults hospitalized with COVID-19--VISION Network, August 2021 to March 2022. 

Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2023

Racial and ethnic disparities in influenza vaccination coverage among pregnant women in the United States: the contribution of vaccine-related attitudes. 

Preventive Medicine. 2023

Relationships between social vulnerability and coronavirus disease 2019 vaccination coverage and vaccine effectiveness. 

Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2023

Safety of measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine in adolescents and adults in the Vaccine Safety Datalink. 

Vaccine. 2023

Safety signal identification for COVID-19 bivalent booster vaccination using tree-based scan statistics in the Vaccine Safety Datalink. 

Vaccine. 2023

Tdap vaccination during pregnancy and risk of chorioamnionitis and related infant outcomes. 

Vaccine. 2023

Tree-based data mining for safety assessment of first COVID-19 booster doses in the Vaccine Safety Datalink. 

Vaccine. 2023

Vaccine effectiveness against influenza-associated urgent care, emergency department, and hospital encounters during the 2021-2022 season, VISION Network. 

Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2023

Antibiotics prior to age 2 years have limited association with preschool growth trajectory. 

International Journal of Obesity (2005). 2022

Association of the COVID-19 pandemic with routine childhood vaccination rates and proportion up to date with vaccinations across 8 US health systems in the Vaccine Safety Datalink. 

JAMA pediatrics. 2022

Changes in incidence rates of outcomes of interest in vaccine safety studies during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Vaccine. 2022

Differences in the association between oral glucocorticoids and risk of preterm birth by data source: reconciling the results. 

Arthritis Care & Research. 2022

Effectiveness of 2, 3, and 4 COVID-19 mRNA vaccine doses among immunocompetent adults during periods when SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.1 and BA.2/BA.2.12.1 sublineages predominated - VISION Network, 10 states, December 2021-June 2022. 

MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2022

Effectiveness of BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 second doses and boosters for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and SARS-CoV-2-related hospitalizations: a statewide report from the Minnesota Electronic Health Record Consortium. 

Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2022

Effectiveness of COVID-19 Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2 mRNA vaccination in preventing COVID-19-associated emergency department and urgent care encounters and hospitalizations among nonimmunocompromised children and adolescents aged 5-17 years - VISION Network, 10 states, April 2021-January 2022. 

MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2022

Effectiveness of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines against COVID-19-associated hospitalizations among immunocompromised adults during SARS-CoV-2 Omicron predominance - VISION Network, 10 states, December 2021-August 2022. 

MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2022

Effectiveness of a third dose of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19-associated emergency department and urgent care encounters and hospitalizations among adults during oeriods of Delta and Omicron variant predominance - VISION Network, 10 states, August 2021-January 2022. 

MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2022

Effectiveness of homologous and heterologous COVID-19 booster doses following 1 Ad.26.COV2.S (Janssen (Johnson & Johnson)) vaccine dose against COVID-19-associated emergency department and urgent care encounters and hospitalizations among adults - VISION Network, 10 states, December 2021-March 2022. 

MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2022

Effectiveness of two-dose vaccination with mRNA COVID-19 vaccines against COVID-19-associated hospitalizations among immunocompromised adults-nine states, January-September 2021. 

American Journal of Transplantation. 2022

Estimation of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine effectiveness against medically attended COVID-19 in pregnancy during periods of Delta and Omicron variant predominance in the United States. 

JAMA network open. 2022

Evaluation of acute adverse events after Covid-19 vaccination during pregnancy. 

New England Journal of Medicine. 2022

Gestational diabetes mellitus is associated with altered abundance of exosomal microRNAs in human milk. 

Clinical Therapeutics. 2022

How to make up for rotavirus vaccination missed during the COVID-19 pandemic?-Reply. 

JAMA pediatrics. 2022

Influenza vaccination during pregnancy and risk of selected major structural noncardiac birth defects, National Birth Defects Prevention Study 2006-2011. 

Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety. 2022

Kawasaki disease following the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine and rotavirus vaccines. 

Pediatrics. 2022

Law enforcement violence in the black community: a catalyst for clinician engagement in social justice. 

American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2022

Minnesota Electronic Health Record Consortium COVID-19 Project: informing pandemic response through statewide collaboration using observational data. 

Public Health Reports. 2022

Monitoring vaccine safety using the Vaccine Safety Datalink: assessing capacity to integrate data from Immunization Information systems. 

Vaccine. 2022

Receipt of COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy and preterm or small-for-gestational-age at birth - eight integrated health care organizations, United States, December 15, 2020-July 22, 2021. 

MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2022

Risk of myocarditis and pericarditis following BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccination. 

Vaccine. 2022

Safety of COVID-19 vaccination in United States children ages 5 to 11 years. 

Pediatrics. 2022

Travelers and travel vaccines at six health care systems in the Vaccine Safety Datalink. 

Vaccine. 2022

Trends in COVID-19 vaccine administration and effectiveness through October 2021. 

JAMA network open. 2022

Using advanced racial and ethnic identity demographics to improve surveillance of work-related conditions in an occupational clinic setting. 

American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 2022

Waning 2-dose and 3-dose effectiveness of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19-associated emergency department and urgent care encounters and hospitalizations among adults during periods of Delta and Omicron variant predominance - VISION Network, 10 states, August 2021-January 2022. 

MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2022

Waning of vaccine effectiveness against moderate and severe covid-19 among adults in the US from the VISION network: test negative, case-control study. 

BMJ (Clinical research ed.). 2022

16 years, by race/ethnicity and other selected characteristics - eight integrated health care organizations, United States, December 14, 2020-May 15, 2021. 

MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2021

Association of inadvertent 9-valent human papillomavirus vaccine in pregnancy with spontaneous abortion and adverse birth outcomes. 

JAMA network open. 2021

COVID-19 vaccination coverage among pregnant women during pregnancy - eight integrated health care organizations, United States, December 14, 2020-May 8, 2021. 

MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2021

Developing algorithms for identifying major structural birth defects using automated electronic health data. 

Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety. 2021

Effect of clinical decision support on diagnostic imaging for pediatric appendicitis: a cluster randomized trial. 

JAMA network open. 2021

Effectiveness of 2-dose vaccination with mRNA COVID-19 vaccines against COVID-19-associated hospitalizations among immunocompromised adults - nine states, January-September 2021. 

MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2021

Effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines in ambulatory and inpatient care settings. 

New England Journal of Medicine. 2021

Human milk glucose, leptin, and insulin predict cessation of full breastfeeding and initiation of formula use. 

Breastfeeding Medicine. 2021

Incidence of pediatric inflammatory bowel disease within the Vaccine Safety Datalink network and evaluation of association with rotavirus vaccination. 

Vaccine. 2021

Interim estimates of COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against COVID-19-associated emergency department or urgent care clinic encounters and hospitalizations among adults during SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617.2 (Delta) variant predominance - nine states, June-August 2021. 

MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2021

Laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 among adults hospitalized with COVID-19-like illness with infection-induced or mRNA vaccine-induced SARS-CoV-2 immunity - nine states, January-September 2021. 

MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2021

Maternal dietary intake of total fat, saturated fat, and added sugar is associated with infant adiposity and weight status at 6 mo of age. 

Journal of Nutrition. 2021

Phase 3 safety and efficacy of AZD1222 (ChAdOx1 nCoV-19) Covid-19 vaccine. 

New England Journal of Medicine. 2021

Shots in shops: dispelling COVID-19 misinformation in underrepresented communities. 

ACOEM (American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine) Quarterly. 2021

Spontaneous abortion following COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy. 

JAMA. 2021

Surveillance for adverse events after COVID-19 mRNA vaccination. 

JAMA. 2021

Temporal trends in undervaccination: a population-based cohort study. 

American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2021

The childhood vaccination schedule and the lack of association with type 1 diabetes. 

Pediatrics. 2021

Using a brief tool to assess healthy school environments: a pilot study. 

American Journal of Managed Care. 2021

Vaccine Safety Datalink infrastructure enhancements for evaluating the safety of maternal vaccination. 

Therapeutic advances in drug safety. 2021

Association between rotavirus vaccination and type 1 diabetes in children. 

JAMA pediatrics. 2020

Birth and early developmental screening outcomes associated with cannabis exposure during pregnancy. 

Journal of Perinatology. 2020

COVID-19 trials protect human rights. 

Minnesota Spokesman Recorder. 2020

Clinical decision support for recognizing and managing hypertensive blood pressure in youth: no significant impact on medical costs. 

Academic Pediatrics. 2020

Diagnostic performance of emergency physician gestalt for predicting acute appendicitis in patients age 5 to 20 years. 

Academic Emergency Medicine. 2020

Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on routine pediatric vaccine ordering and administration - United States, 2020. 

MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2020

Evaluating the association of stillbirths after maternal vaccination in the Vaccine Safety Datalink. 

Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2020

Improving hypertension recognition in adolescents, a small but important first step in cardiovascular disease prevention. 

Academic Pediatrics. 2020

Oral corticosteroid use during pregnancy and risk of preterm birth. 

Rheumatology (Oxford, England). 2020

The effects of financial incentives on diabetes prevention program attendance and weight loss among low-income patients: the We Can Prevent Diabetes cluster-randomized controlled trial. 

BMC public health. 2020

Development of a clinical decision support system for pediatric abdominal pain in emergency department settings across two health systems within the HCSRN. 

EGEMS (Washington, DC). 2019

Higher maternal diet quality during pregnancy and lactation is associated with lower infant weight-for-length, body fat percent, and fat mass in early postnatal life. 

Nutrients. 2019

Impact of updated pediatric hypertension guidelines on progression from elevated blood pressure to hypertension in a community-based primary care population. 

Journal of Clinical Hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.). 2019

Maternal antibiotic use during pregnancy and childhood obesity at age 5 years. 

International Journal of Obesity (2005). 2019

Metoprolol for the prevention of acute exacerbations of COPD. 

New England Journal of Medicine. 2019

Relationship of maternal weight status before, during, and after pregnancy with breast milk hormone concentrations. 

Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.). 2019

Safety of guidelines recommending live attenuated influenza vaccine for routine use in children and adolescents with asthma. 

Vaccine. 2019

Similar relative risks of seizures following measles containing vaccination in children born preterm compared to full-term without previous seizures or seizure-related disorders. 

Vaccine. 2019

Uptake and safety of hepatitis A vaccination during pregnancy: a Vaccine Safety Datalink study. 

Vaccine. 2019

Validation of the Pediatric Appendicitis Risk Calculator (pARC) in a community emergency department setting. 

Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2019

Clinical decision support for recognition and management of hypertension: a randomized trial. 

Pediatrics. 2018

Cost-effectiveness of a community-based diabetes prevention program with participation incentives for medicaid beneficiaries. 

Health Services Research. 2018

Development and validation of a novel Pediatric Appendicitis Risk Calculator (pARC). 

Pediatrics. 2018

Evaluation of an electronic clinical decision support tool for incident elevated BP in adolescents. 

Academic Pediatrics. 2018

Infant hospitalizations and mortality after maternal vaccination. 

Pediatrics. 2018

Racial disparities in family-provider interactions for pediatric asthma care. 

Journal of Asthma. 2018

Risk of spontaneous abortion after inadvertent human papillomavirus vaccination in pregnancy. 

Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2018

Uptake and safety of Hepatitis B vaccination during pregnancy: a Vaccine Safety Datalink study. 

Vaccine. 2018

Congenital microcephaly: case definition & guidelines for data collection, analysis, and presentation of safety data after maternal immunisation. 

Vaccine. 2017

Febrile seizure risk after vaccination in children one to five months of age. 

Pediatric Neurology. 2017

Financial incentives for diabetes prevention in a Medicaid population: study design and baseline characteristics. 

Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2017

First trimester influenza vaccination and risks for major structural birth defects in offspring. 

Journal of Pediatrics. 2017

Identifying birth defects in automated data sources in the Vaccine Safety Datalink. 

Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety. 2017

Immunization: Vaccine Safety Datalink. 

Minn Physician. 2017

Maternal Tdap vaccination and risk of infant morbidity. 

Vaccine. 2017

Maternal and infant outcomes after human papillomavirus vaccination in the periconceptional period or during pregnancy. 

Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2017

Severe polyserositis induced by the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine: a case report. 

Journal of medical case reports. 2017

Spontaneous abortion and ectopic pregnancy: case definition & guidelines for data collection, analysis, and presentation of maternal immunization safety data. 

Vaccine. 2017

The merits of MIIC: Minnesota's immunization information system excels at population health surveillance. 

Minnesota Medicine. 2017

Change in weight status and development of hypertension. 

Pediatrics. 2016

Congenital anomalies: Case definition and guidelines for data collection, analysis, and presentation of immunization safety data. 

Vaccine. 2016

Febrile seizure risk after vaccination in children 6 to 23 months. 

Pediatrics. 2016

Implementation of electronic clinical decision support for pediatric appendicitis. 

Pediatrics. 2016

Influenza vaccination during pregnancy: influenza seasons 2002-2012, Vaccine Safety Datalink. 

American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2016

Maternal Tdap vaccination: coverage and acute safety outcomes in the vaccine safety datalink, 2007-2013. 

Vaccine. 2016

Mismatching among guidelines, providers, and parents on controller medication use in children with asthma. 

The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice. 2016

Potential misclassification of blood pressure status in children and adolescents with short or tall stature. 

American Journal of Epidemiology. 2016

Risk of anaphylaxis after vaccination in children and adults. 

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 2016

Risk of preterm or small-for-gestational-age birth after influenza vaccination during pregnancy: caveats when conducting retrospective observational studies. 

American Journal of Epidemiology. 2016

Tdap vaccination during pregnancy and microcephaly and other structural birth defects in offspring. 

JAMA. 2016

Vaccination and 30-day mortality risk in children, adolescents, and young adults. 

Pediatrics. 2016

Association of Tdap vaccination with acute events and adverse birth outcomes among pregnant women with prior tetanus-containing immunizations. 

JAMA. 2015

Comparing US paediatric and adult weight classification at the transition from late teenage to young adulthood. 

Pediatric Obesity. 2015

Factors associated with adherence to blood pressure measurement recommendations at pediatric primary care visits, Minnesota and Colorado, 2007-2010. 

Preventing Chronic Disease. 2015

Impacting delayed pediatric influenza vaccination: a randomized controlled trial of text message reminders. 

American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2015

Notes from the field: fatal yellow fever vaccine-associated viscerotropic disease--Oregon, September 2014. 

MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2015

Preventable major cardiovascular events associated with uncontrolled glucose, blood pressure, and lipids and active smoking in adults with diabetes with and without cardiovascular disease: a contemporary analysis. 

Diabetes care. 2015

Safety of tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid, and acellular pertussis and influenza vaccinations in pregnancy. 

Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2015

TeenBP: development and piloting of an EHR-linked clinical decision support system to improve recognition of hypertension in adolescents. 

EGEMS (Washington, DC). 2015

Who must we target now to minimize future cardiovascular events and total mortality? Lessons from the Surveillance, Prevention and Management of Diabetes Mellitus (SUPREME-DM) cohort study. 

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. 2015

A comparison of confounding adjustment methods for assessment of asthma controller medication effectiveness. 

American Journal of Epidemiology. 2014

Evaluation of the association of maternal pertussis vaccination with obstetric events and birth outcomes. 

JAMA. 2014

Impact of hypertension on healthcare costs among children. 

American Journal of Managed Care. 2014

Influenza vaccine text message reminders for urban, low-income pregnant women: a randomized controlled trial. 

American Journal of Public Health. 2014

Influenza vaccine: an updated position statement of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. 

Journal of Adolescent Health. 2014

Initiation of oral contraceptives and changes in blood pressure and body mass index in healthy adolescents. 

Journal of Pediatrics. 2014

Lipid screening in children and adolescents in community practice: 2007 to 2010. 

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. 2014

Maternal influenza vaccine and risks for preterm or small for gestational age birth. 

Journal of Pediatrics. 2014

Missed opportunities for pregnancy prevention among insured adolescents. 

JAMA pediatrics. 2014

Monovalent H1N1 influenza vaccine safety in pregnant women, risks for acute adverse events. 

Vaccine. 2014

Prevalence of obesity and extreme obesity in children aged 3-5 years. 

Pediatric Obesity. 2014

Receipt of pertussis vaccine during pregnancy across 7 Vaccine Safety Datalink Sites. 

Preventive Medicine. 2014

Severe obesity in children: prevalence, persistence and relation to hypertension. 

International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology. 2014

Use of leukotriene receptor antagonists are associated with a similar risk of asthma exacerbations as inhaled corticosteroids. 

The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice. 2014

Vaccinations given during pregnancy, 2002-2009: a descriptive study. 

American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2014

Adolescent consent for vaccination: a position paper of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. 

Journal of Adolescent Health. 2013

Aspirin treatment failure and the risk of recurrent stroke and death among patients with ischemic stroke. 

Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases. 2013

Benefits of early hypertension control on cardiovascular outcomes in patients with diabetes. 

Diabetes care. 2013

Identifying pregnancy episodes, outcomes, and mother-infant pairs in the Vaccine Safety Datalink. 

Vaccine. 2013

Inactivated influenza vaccine during pregnancy and risks for adverse obstetric events. 

Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2013

Influenza and pertussis vaccination coverage among privately insured women of reproductive age. 

Maternal and child health journal. 2013

Maternal safety of trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine in pregnant women. 

Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2013

Mortality rates and cause-of-death patterns in a vaccinated population. 

American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2013

Patterns of care and persistence after incident elevated blood pressure. 

Pediatrics. 2013

Prehypertension and hypertension in community-based pediatric practice. 

Pediatrics. 2013

Project Wings, a coping intervention for Latina adolescents: a pilot study. 

Western Journal of Nursing Research. 2013

Receipt of human papillomavirus vaccine among privately insured adult women in a U.S. midwestern health maintenance organization. 

Preventive Medicine. 2013

Safety of the yellow fever vaccine: a retrospective study. 

Journal of Travel Medicine. 2013

Secular trends in diagnostic code density in electronic healthcare data from health care systems in the Vaccine Safety Datalink Project. 

Vaccine. 2013

Effect of a text messaging intervention on influenza vaccination in an urban, low-income pediatric and adolescent population: a randomized controlled trial. 

JAMA. 2012

Identifying adolescent females at high risk of pregnancy in a pediatric emergency department. 

Journal of Adolescent Health. 2012

Long-term comparative immunogenicity of protein conjugate and free polysaccharide pneumococcal vaccines in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. 

Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2012

Text4Health: impact of text message reminder-recalls for pediatric and adolescent immunizations. 

American Journal of Public Health. 2012

Azithromycin for prevention of exacerbations of COPD. 

New England Journal of Medicine. 2011

Delivering adolescent preventive services in an office setting. 

Adolescent Medicine: State of the Art Reviews. 2011

Exploring pregnant women's views on influenza vaccination and educational text messages. 

Preventive Medicine. 2011

Obesogenic family types identified through latent profile analysis. 

Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2011

Text message reminders to promote human papillomavirus vaccination. 

Vaccine. 2011

The role of human papillomavirus vaccination in promoting delivery of other preventive and medical services. 

Academic Pediatrics. 2011

Changes in Tdap and MCV4 vaccine coverage following enactment of a statewide requirement of Tdap vaccination for entry into sixth grade. 

American Journal of Public Health. 2010

Cost-effectiveness analysis of protected carotid artery stent placement versus endarterectomy in high-risk patients. 

Journal of Endovascular Therapy. 2010

Use of influenza A (H1N1) 2009 monovalent vaccine: recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), 2009. 

MMWR: Recommendations and Reports. 2009

Maintaining unity in support of vaccines for adolescents in an ever-changing environment [editorial]. 

Journal of Adolescent Health.  77. 2025

COVID-19 mRNA vaccines during pregnancy: new evidence to help address vaccine hesitancy [editorial]. 

JAMA.  327. 2022

Get a doctor to avoid going to the doctor. 

MinnesotaSpokesmanRecorder.  2022

Black MN doctors on COVID-19 vaccine: 'the benefits outweigh the risks'. 

MinnesotaSpokesmanRecorder.  2021

Combating fear of the unknown in healthcare worker COVID vaccination [editorial]. 

Minnesota Medicine.  104. 2021

Invest in tobacco prevention to improve health, ease health disparities [editorial]. 

MinnPost.  2021

To protect Black lives, ban menthol tobacco products [editorial]. 

Star Tribune.  39. 2021

Toward the quadruple aim: caring for oneself [editorial]. 

Minnesota Medicine.  104. 2021

Which COVID-19 vaccine to choose [editorial]. 

Minnesota Medicine.  104. 2021

Community partnership in clinical research [editorial]. 

Minnesota Medicine.  103. 2020

Engaging the community, one physician at a time [editorial]. 

Minnesota Medicine.  103. 2020

Is Tdap the best prevention we have against pertussis disease [editorial]?. 

Journal of Adolescent Health.  62. 2018

Are we measuring blood pressure correctly in children, particularly in obesity [editorial]?. 

Archives of Disease in Childhood.  101. 2016

Helping mothers to get the message about influenza: are texts the future for increased immunization [editorial]?

2015

Financing vaccines for adolescents: a position paper of the society for adolescent health and medicine [editorial]. 

Journal of Adolescent Health.  48. 2011

Understanding COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among firefighters: application of the Health Belief Model [poster]

2023

Elevated blood pressure and risks for progression to hypertension in youth 10-17 years of age [poster]

2019

Factors associated with Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) compliance and weight loss among low-income participants [poster]

2019

Analytic evaluation of immunization overutilization rates in Minnesota [poster]

2017

Development and validation of a risk equation for appendicitis in children presenting with abdominal pain [poster]

2017

Racial/ethnic disparities in completion of the routine immunization series by age two [poster]

2017

Results of a cluster-randomized trial testing the effects of TeenBP, an EHR-based clinical decision support tool, on recognition of adolescent hypertension [poster]

2017

What factors facilitate weight loss among Medicaid beneficiaries participating in the diabetes prevention program [poster]?

2017

Incident ADHD diagnosis and use of stimulant medication among youth 10-17 years [poster]

2015

Relation of change in weight status to the development of hypertension in children and adolescents [poster]

2015

Implementation of a pediatric prehospital pain management protocol [poster]

2014

Preventable major cardiovascular events due to uncontrolled glucose, blood pressure, and lipids or active smoking in adults with diabetes with and without cardiovascular disease [poster]

2014

Diagnosis of pediatric hypertension depends on clinical practice guideline definitions [poster]

2013

Frequency and results of glucose screening in children and adolescents 2007-2011 [poster]

2013

Impact of BMI and change in BMI on progression from normotension to prehypertension or hypertension in patients ages 3-17 [poster]

2013

Impact of oral contraceptives on adolescent blood pressure and BMI [poster]

2013

Impact of oral contraceptives on adolescent blood pressure and BMI [poster]

2013

Prehypertension and hypertension in community-based pediatric practice [poster]

2013

Prevalence of obesity and extreme obesity in children aged three to five years [poster]

2013

Acute adverse events following trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (TIV) in pregnancy [poster]

2012

Baseline blood pressure among adolescents initiating hormonal contraception [poster]

2012

Pregnancy among insured adolescents [poster]

2012

We can prevent diabetes in Minnesota [poster]

2012

Intentions for pregnancy among female adolescents presenting to a pediatric emergency department [poster]

2011

Provider and staff beliefs and attitudes about creating care systems for the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease in a private medical group [poster]

2011

Safety of seasonal influenza vaccine (TIV) in pregnant women [poster]

2011

Safety of the yellow fever vaccine: a retrospective study [poster]

2011

Osteoporosis prevention and treatment in patients requiring prolonged glucocorticosteroid therapy [poster]

2006

Assessing the safety of influenza immunization during pregnancy: the Vaccine Safety Datalink [review]. 

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2012

Vaccinating teens: current guidelines, challenges, and opportunities [review]. 

Pediatric Annals. 2010

All is not equal...or is it? Targeting uncontrolled cardiovascular risk factors in racial and ethnic populations to prevent major cardiovascular events [abstract]. 

Diabetologia. 2016

Can financial incentives prevent diabetes in a low-income population? [abstract]. 

Diabetes. 2016

Pediatric appendicitis: trends in emergency department imaging and outcomes in the community setting, 2010-2015 [abstract]. 

Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2016

Relation of change in weight status to the development of hypertension in children and adolescents [abstract]. 

Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2016

How to minimize future CV events and total mortality in adults with diabetes: lessons from the 10,000,000 person-year SUPREME Cohort Study [abstract]. 

Diabetes. 2015

Surveillance of cardiovascular events and total mortality among insured adults with and without diabetes: the SUPREME Cohort Study [abstract 55-OR]. 

Diabetes. 2015

Glucose screening and identification of pre-diabetes in children and adolescents 2007-2011 [abstract]. 

Diabetes. 2013

Leukotriene inhibitors may be more effective than inhaled corticosteroids in preventing asthma-related exacerbations [abstract]. 

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 2013

A descriptive study of vaccinations occurring during pregnancy, 2002-2006 [abstract]. 

Clinical Medicine & Research. 2012

Identifying pregnancy episodes in the Vaccine Safety Datalink [abstract]. 

Clinical Medicine & Research. 2012

Prevalence of HT in children: comparison between task force recommendations and average of multiple measurements over 2 or 4 years [abstract]. 

Clinical Medicine & Research. 2012

Prevalence of elevated blood pressure and BMI in U.S. children and adolescents [abstract]. 

Clinical Medicine & Research. 2012

HMORN research on pediatric hypertension and obesity: predictors, care, and costs: design of a new pediatric cohort [abstract]. 

Clinical Medicine & Research. 2011

Overweight and obesity in those age 3-17 years old: implications for diabetes prevention [abstract 2377-PO]. 

Diabetes. 2011

Prevalence of overweight and elevated blood pressure in a large cohort of children and adolescents (age 3-17 years) at an initial clinic examination [abstract]. 

Journal of Clinical Hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.). 2011

Equity and education in the community [podcast]

2022

The air we breathe: risks of poor indoor air quality [podcast]

2022

Two-dimensional scan statistics for assessing vaccine safety in pregnancy (PRISM)

2016