Publications
REVIEWED PAPERS & CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Desai, P.M., Harkins, S., Rahman, S., Kumar, S., Hermann, A., Joly, R., Zhang, Y., Pathak, J., Kim, J., D’Angelo, D., Benda, N.C., Reading Turchioe, M.T., (in press) Visualizing Machine Learning-Based Predictions of Postpartum Depression Risk for Lay Audiences. JAMIA.
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Reading, M.T., Harkins, S., Desai, P.M., Kumar, S., Kim, J., Hermann, A., Joly, R., Zhang, Y., Pathak, J., Benda, N.C. (2023) Women’s perspectives on the use of artificial intelligence (AI)-based technologies in mental healthcare. JAMIA Open. [link]
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Burgermaster M, Desai PM, Heitkemper EM, Juul F, Mitchell EG, Turchioe M, Albers DJ, Levine ME, Larson D, Mamykina L. (2023) Who needs what (features) when? Personalizing engagement with data-driven self-management to improve health equity. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. [link]
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Cho, S., Ensari, I., Elhadad ,N., Weng, C., Radin, J. M., Bent, B., Desai, P., Natarajan, K. (2022) An interactive fitness-for-use data completeness tool to assess activity tracker data. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. [link]
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Simon, K.R., Merz, E.C., He, X., Desai, P.M., Meyer, J.S., and Noble, K.G. (2021) Socioeconomic Factors, Stress, Hair Cortisol, and White Matter Microstructure in Children. Developmental Psychobiology. [pdf]
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Mamykina L, Smaldone AM, Bakken S, Elhadad N, Mitchell EG, Desai PM, Levine ME, Tobin JN, Cassells A, Davidson PJ, Albers DJ, Hripcsak G. "Scaling Up HCI Research: from Clinical Trials to Deployment". CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’21). [pdf] [video]
Mitchell EG, Heitkemper EM, Burgermaster M, Levine ME, Miao Y, Hwang M, Desai PM, Cassells A, Tobin JN, Tabak EG, Albers DJ, Smaldone AM, Mamykina L. "From Reflection to Action: Combining Machine Learning with Expert Knowledge for Nutrition Goal Recommendations". CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’21). [pdf] [video]
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Lichtin, R.*, Merz, E.C.*, He, X., Desai, P.M., Simon, K., Melvin, S.A., Maskus, E.A., & Noble, K.G. (2020) Material Hardship, Brain Structure, and Internalizing Symptoms in Children. Developmental Psychobiology. [pdf]
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Troller-Renfree, S.V., Brito, N.H., Desai, P.M., Meyer, J.S., Isler, J., Fifer, W.P., & Noble, K.G. (2020) Infants of High-Stress Mothers Show a Maturational Lag in Brain Function. Developmental Science. [pdf]
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Turchioe, M. R., Burgermaster, M., Mitchell, E. G., Desai, P. M., & Mamykina, L. (2020). Adapting the stage-based model of personal informatics for low-resource communities in the context of type 2 diabetes. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 110, 103572. [pdf]
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Desai, P. M., Mitchell, E. G., Hwang, M., Levine, M., Albers, D., Mamykina, L. “Personal Health Oracle: Explorations of Personalized Predictions in Diabetes Self-Management”. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human-Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2019. [pdf]
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Merz, E.C., Desai, P., Maskus, E.A., Melvin, S., Rehman, R., Torres, S., Meyer, J., He, X., and Noble, K.G. (2019) Socioeconomic Disparities in Chronic Physiologic Stress Are Associated with Brain Structure in Children. Biological Psychiatry. [pdf]
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Desai, P.M., Levine, M.E., Albers, D. A., Mamykina, L. “Pictures Worth a Thousand Words: Understanding elements of effective health visualizations for low numeracy patients with Diabetes Mellitus”. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human-Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018. [pdf]
INVITED TALKS & WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED
Bear Don’t Walk IV, O.J., Pichon, A., Volpe, S.G., Liu L.G., Desai P.M., Anand T.V., Richter, L.R., Schiffer, K., Diamond, C.J., Massey, B., Bakken, S. (2022) “A Workshop to Build a Research Agenda for Justice Informatics”. American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2022 Annual Symposium. [link]
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Desai, P.M., Troller-Renfree, S.V., Brito, N.H., Meyer, J.S., & Noble, K.G (2019). “Chronic Environmental Stress is related to a Maturational Lag in Infant Brain Activity by 9 Months of Age”. Symposium presented at the annual meeting for the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Chicago, IL.
POSTERS & EXTENDED ABSTRACTS
Desai P.M., Anand T.V., Mamykina L. "Towards Personalized Meal Recommendations for Type II Diabetes Self-Management". 2022 National Library of Medicine Informatics T15 Training Conference.
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Desai P.M., Albers D.J. (2022) "From Prediction to Action: Grand Challenges in Personal Informatics and AI in Diabetes Self-Management". Workshop: 2022 CHI Workshop on Grand Challenges in Personal Informatics and AI. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’22). [link]
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Desai P.M., Ostropolets A. Richter L.R., Reyes Nieva H., Spotnitz M., Rodriguez V.A., Sun T.Y., Natarajan K. (2021) Phenotype Development and Evaluation of Heart Failure: A Case Study in using Patient-Level Prediction to Improve Phenotype Validity. 2021 Global OHDSI Symposium. [link]
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Desai P.M., Mamykina L. "Navigating the Diabetes Jungle: AI for Daily Self-Management in the Wild". Workshop: Realizing AI in Healthcare - Challenges Appearing in the Wild. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’21). [video]
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Olinsky S, Desai P.M., Turkay S, Heitkempter E, Mitchell EG, Mamyina L, Hwang M. Meals for Monsters: A Mobile Application for the Feasibility of Gaming and Social Mechanisms. Extended Abstracts CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’21) [pdf] [video]
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Desai, P.M., Merz, E.C., Maskus, E.A., Melvin, S., He, X., and Noble, K.G. Material Deprivation, Amygdala Volume and Children’s Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms. Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting 2019; Baltimore, MD.
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Desai P.M., E., Merz, E.C., Maskus, E., He, X., Noble, K.G. Socioeconomic Disadvantage, Prefrontal Cortical Structure and Executive Function in School Aged Children. Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2018; Boston, MA.
Maskus, E., Merz, E.C., Desai, P.M., He, X., Noble, K.G., Exploring links among subjective social status, prefrontal cortex structure, and cognitive skills. Cognitive Development Society 2017; Portland, Oregon.