Cheryl Dennison

Assistant Professor

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

• 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.

• 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.