Cheryl Dennison

Assistant Professor

Academic Degrees

RN, ANP, PhD

School/Organization
School of Nursing

Department / Division
Graduate Instruction

Departmental Address
525 N Wolfe St, Rm 419

Email: cdennis4@jhmi.edu
Phone: (443) 287-4174

Research and Professional Experience

• 10/05-09/08: Principal Investigator, Improving Care in Heart Failure Patients through Decision Support. Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (5K23 NR009193), National Institutes of Health NINR.
• 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.
• 2002-2008: 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.
• 1998-2000: Principal Investigator, Substance Abuse Intervention for Black Men with High Blood Pressure. National Institute of Nursing Research, F31 NR07345-02.

Research Projects
Barriers to High Blood Pressure Care and Control in Black South Africans: The HiHi Study
The purpose of this study is to examine psychosocial and behavioral determinants of continuous hypertension (HTN) care and blood pressure (BP) control rates, co-morbid conditions, HTN-related target organ damage, and total cardiovascular (CV) risk among peri-urban hypertensive Black South Africans.

Barriers to Hypertension Care and Control in Black South Africans
The main purpose of this revised proposal is to conduct a prevalence survey to identify the determinants of hypertension (HTN) and target organ damage in black South African men and women. These data will be used subsequently to develop and test sustainable multidisciplinary interventions to...



Selected Publications

• Dennison CR, Peer N, Lombard CJ, Levitt NS, Hill MN, Steyn K. 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 2007; In Press.
• Dennison CR, Peer N, Steyn K, Hill MN. Determinants of Hypertension Control among Peri-urban Black South Africans in Treatment: The HiHi Study. Ethnicity & Disease 2007; In Press.
• Needham DM, Wang W, Mendez-Tellez PA, Dennison CR, Sevransky J, Shanholtz C, Desai SV, Ciesla N, Spillman K, Pronovost PJ. ICU exposures for long-term outcomes research: development and description of exposures for 150 ALI patients. Journal of Critical Care 2007; In press.
• Robinson KA, Dennison CR, Wayman D, Pronovost PJ, Needham DM. Systematic review identifies number of strategies important for retaining study participants. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2007; In Press.
• 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.

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