Family and Community Medicine

Selected Faculty Publications (in chronological order)

Zoorob R, Sidani M, Murray J. Croup. American Family Physician. In print. May 2011.

Fry-Johnson Y, Levine RS, Rowley DL, Agboto V, Rust G. United States Black:White infant mortality disparities are not inevitable:Identification of community resilience independent from socioeconomic status. Forthcoming. Ethnicity and Disease. Volume 19: Supplement: Forthcoming, 2011.

Husaini BA, Mensah GA, Sawyer D, Cani VA, Samad Z, Hull PC, Levine RS, Sampson WKA. Race, gender and age differences in heart failure-related hospitalizations in a southern state:Implications for prevention. Circulation, Heart Failure. Forthcoming. 2011. 2010 Dec 22.

Zoorob R, Morelli V (Guest co-editors). Integrative Medicine in Primary Care, Part II: Disease States and Body Systems.Cohen-Kligerman B. (ed.) Elsevier Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice. Jun 2010

Zoorob R, Aliyu M, Hayes C. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Knowledge and Attitudes of Family Medicine Clerkship and Residency Directors. Alcohol and International Biomedical Journal. (2010): 44 379-385

Fry-Johnson Y, Levine RS, Rowley DL, Agboto V, Rust G. United States Black: White Infant Mortality Disparities are not Inevitable: Identification of Community Resilience Independent from Socioeconomic Status. Ethnicity and Disease. 2010 Winter; 20(1 Suppl 1): S1–131-5

Rust G, Satcher D, Fryer GE, Levine RS, Blumenthal DS. Triangulating on Success: Innovation, Public Health, Medical Care, and Cause-Specific US Mortality Rates Over a Half Century (1950-2000). American Journal of Public Health 2010 Apr 1;100

R. S. Levine, V. K. Agboto, R. Zoorob, P. Juarez, I. Goldzweig. Increased Black-White Disparities in Mortality Following Life-Saving Innovations: A Possible Consequence of United States Federal Laws. American Journal of Public Health. 100:11, 2176-2184, 2010.

Zoorob, R. Photo Quiz submission on Acute Dermatitis. American Family Physician. January 2010 (in print).

Brown, A., Goldzweig, I., and Sparks, L. Taking the Mystery out of Booster Seats. Child Health Talk. Submitted February 2010.

Aliyu, M., Lynch, O., Belogolovkin, V., Zoorob, R., and Salihu, H. Alcohol Use in Pregnancy and Medically Indicated versus Spontaneous Preterm Birth Outcomes: A Population-based Study.European Journal of Public Health. (2010) 20 (5): 582-587.

Pisu, M., Wang, D., Martin, M.Y., Baltrus, P., and Levine, R.S. Presence of Medical Schools may Contribute to Reducing Breast Cancer Mortality and Disparities. Journal on Health Care in the Poor and Underserved. 21.3 (2010): 961-976.

Hennekens, C.H., Schneider, W., and Levine, R. Book chapter “African-Americans and Cardiovascular Disease: A Major and Avoidable Contributor to Disparities in Mortality.” Forthcoming. 2010.

Morelli, V., Calmet, E. and Jhingade, V. Alternative Therapies for Common Dermatologic Disorders, Part 1, Part 2. Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice. (2010): 37:2

Holman, A., Williams, D., Wood, P., and Zoorob, R. Fibromyalgia: Diagnostic and Treatment Strategies for Family Physicians. CME Report 2010 May; Volume 1.

Aliyu, MH., Lynch, O., Nana, PN., ALIO, AP., Wilson, RE., Marty, PJ., Zoorob, R., Salihu, HM. Alcohol Consumption During Pregnancy and Risk of Placental Abruption and Placenta Previa. Maternal and Child Health Journal. 2010 May. Epub ahead of print.

Zoorob RJ, Morelli V. Preface: Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Elsevier Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice. 2010 Jun; 37 (2) xiii-xiv.

Zoorob, RJ., VanBeber M, Patel I. Sore Throat, Signs and Symptoms In Family Medicine. Paulman, P. (ed) Mosby Publishing. June 2010.

Zoorob RJ, Sidani MA, Williams J, Grief SN. Women’s Health: Selected Topics. Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice. Submitted 01-16-2010. W. B. Saunders. Philadelphia, PA. In press

Eyler J, Bradley LR, Goldzweig I, Schlundt D, and Juarez, PD. The Relationship Between Service-Learning Interventions and Teen Seatbelt Use In Quality of Service Learning Interventions In Research for What? Making Engaged Scholarship Matter (Ed, Kashen, et. Al.) (2010) Information Age Publishing.

Agboto V, Nachtsheim C, Li W. Screening designs for model discrimination. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 140:3, 766-780, 2010.

Agboto V, Nachtsheim C, Li W. A comparison of three Bayesian approaches for constructing model robust designs. Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice (In Press).

Levine RS, Sanderson M, Juarez P, Agboto V. Assault mortality in male youth Ages 15 to 24 Years and Alcohol-related mortality among male adults ages 25-64 years in U.S. Counties. Am J Epid. 2010. 171(11):S76.

Aliyu MH, Salihu HM, Alio AP, Wilson RE, Chakrabarty S, Clayton HB. Prenatal Smoking among Adolescents and Risk of Fetal Demise before and during Labor. J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol. 2010 Jun;23(3):129-35. Epub 2010 Feb 11. PubMed PMID: 20149977

Levine RS, Foster JE, Fullilove RE, Fullilove MT, Briggs NT, Hull PC, Husaini BA, Hennekens CH. Black-white inequalities in mortality and life-expectancy, 1933-1999: Implications for Healthy People 2010. Pub. Health Rep. 116:474-483. 2001.

Rust G, Satcher D, Fryer GE, Levine RS, Blumenthal DS. Public health and medical care combine to reduce cause-specific U.S. mortality rates over a half century (1950-2000). Am J Pub Health. Am J Pub Health 2010;100:S95-S104. Doi:102015/AJPH:2009,164350.

Pisu M, Wang D, Maritn MY, Baltrus P, Levine. Geographic and racial variation in elderly mammography use. Journal on Healthcare for the Poor and Underserved. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2010 Aug;21 (3):961-76

Austin S, Martin M, Pisu M, Levine RS. Breast cancer screening interventions in selected US counties. Cancer Causes and Control. Cancer Causes Control. 2010; Dec; 21(12):2165-72

Hall, J. A., Willis, A., Goodman, K. M., Taylor, J., Taylor, J. & Greg V. Jensen. Integrating research and practice with hospital social workers. Research on Social Work Practice (2010).

Kosberg, J.I., Martin, S. Sun, F. & Goodman, K. M. (2010). Opportunities for social work in an aging world: Educational implications. International Journal of Social Work

Zoorob R, Sidani M, VanBeber M. Adult and Adolescent Immunizations: When to Recommend the New Vaccines. Infections in Medicine 2009; 26 (3) 72-77.

Aliyu M, Wilson R, Zoorob RJ, Brown K, Alio A, Clayton H, Salihu H. Prenatal alcohol consumption and fetal growth restriction: Potentiation effect by concomitant smoking. Nicotine and Tobacco Research 2009; 11(1):36-43.

Aliyu MH, Wilson RE, Zoorob R, Chakrabarty S, Alio AP, Kirby RS, Salihu HM. Alcohol Consumption during Pregnancy and the Risk of Early Stillbirth among Singletons. Alcohol. 2009 Aug; 42(5):369-74.

Nowicki, S, Izban, M, Pawelczyk, E, Agboto,V, Pratap, S, Olson,G, Nowicki, B, Preterm Labor: CD55 in Maternal Blood Leukocytes. American Journal of Reproductive Immunology (2009) 61:5

Rhodes M, Akohoue S, Shankar S, Fleming I, An A, Yu C, Acra S, Buchowski M. Growth Patterns in Children With Sickle Cell Anemia During Puberty. Pediatric Blood Center. 2009.

Emerson JS, Reece MC, Levine RS, Hull PC, Husaini BA. Predictors of New Screening for African American men Participating in a Prostate Cancer Educational Program. Journal of Cancer Education. 2009; 24:341-5.

Hutchins SS, Fiscella K, Levine RS, Ompad DC, McDonald M. Protection of Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations During an Influenza Pandemic. American Journal of Public Health. 2009; 99 Suppl 2:S261-70.

P. Juarez, R.Levine, Justin Gatebuke, Owen Johnson, V. Samaniego. Community-Based Surveillance of Youth Violence: Four Perspectives. Special Edition on Youth Violence Surveillance. December 2009.

P. C. Hull, J. Canedo, M.C. Reece, I. Lira, F. Reyes , Erandi Garcia, P.Juarez, E. Williams, B. A. Husaini. Using a Participatory Research Process to Address Disproportionate Hispanic Cancer Burden. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. December 2009.

Levine RS, Agboto V, Sanderson M, Briggs N, Chakrabarty S, Zoorob R, Hull P. Black:white disparities in US esophageal cancer mortality: Success and a paradox. Am J Epidemiol., 2009. 167:sS52

Kilbourne B, Cummings SM, Levine RS. The influence of religiousity on depression among low-income people with diabetes. Health Soc Work 2009;34:137-47.

Martin, S., Trask, J., Peterson, T., Martin, B., Baldwin, J., Knapp, M. & Goodman, K. M. (2009). Exploring the use of traditional medicine by elderly African Americans in Alabama, a qualitative study. Journal of African American Studies

Zoorob R, Morelli V. Disease Prevention and Wellness in the Twenty-first Century. Primary Care Office Practice (2008): 35, 663-667

Dorminy, Cindy A., Choi, Leena, Akohoue, Sylvie A., Chen, Kong Y., Buchowski, Maciej S. Validity of a Multisensor Armband in Estimating 24-h Energy Expenditure in Children. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. 40(4):699-706, April 2008

S Chakrabarty, R Zoorob. Fibromyalgia Remains a Controversial Medical Enigma, Letter to the Editor, American Family Physician, 77(9): 1220-22, May 1, 2008

Hull PC, Husaini BA, Tropez-Sims S, Reece M, Emerson JS, Levine RS. EPSDT Preventive Services in a Low-Income Pediatric Population: Impact of a Nursing Protocol. Clinical Pediatrics. 2007; 2008 Mar;47(2):137-42. Epub 2007 Sep 14.

Levine RS, Kilbourne BE, Baltrus PA, Williams-Brown S, Caplan L, Briggs NC, Roberts K, Husaini BA, Rust GS. National, regional and county patterns of black-white elderly breast cancer mortality in the United States before and after implementation of Medicare screening mammography benefits. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2008. Feb;19(1):103-34.

Briggs NC, Lambert EW, Goldzweig IA, Levine RS, Warren RC. Driver and Passenger Seatbelt Use Among U.S. High School Students. Am J Prev Med. 2008 Sep;35(3):224-9. Epub 2008 Jul 11..Jul 10. [Epub ahead of print]

Husaini BA, Reece MC, Emerson JS, Scales S, Hull PC, Levine RS. A church-based program on prostate cancer screening for African American men: reducing health disparities. Ethn Dis. 2008 Spring;18(2 Suppl 2):S2-179-84.

Wilson CJ, Rust G, Levine R, Alema-Mensah E. Disparities in vision impairment among adults in the United States. Ethn Dis. 2008 Spring;18(2 Supple 2):S2-242-6.

Morelli V, Zoorob, R. Preface. Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice (2008) 35:4 xiii-xiv

Briggs NC, Lambert EW, Goldzweig IA, Levine RS, Warren RC. Driver and Passenger Seatbelt Use Among U.S. High School Students. Am J Prev Med. 2008 Sep;35(3):224-9. Epub 2008 Jul 11..Jul 10.

Buchowski MS, Swift L, Akohoue A, Shankar S, Flakoll P, Abumrad N. Defects in Postabsorptive Plasma Homeostasis of Fatty Acids in Sickle Cell Disease. Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. 2007 Aug; 31(4):263-268

Zoorob RJ and the Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Consortium Regional Training Centers Consortium. Educating health professionals about fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. American Journal of Health Education. 2007; 38(6):364-373.

Ilaben Bhagubhai Patel, MD, Mohamad Sidani, MD, MS, and Roger Zoorob, MD, MPH. Mitochondrial Encephalopathy, Lactic Acidosis and Stroke-like Syndrome (MELAS): A Case Report, Presentation, and Management. Southern Medical Journal. 2007;100:70-72

Zoorob RJ, Sidani MA. Reducing senior’s risk of falling. Cortlandt Forum. 2007;September:55-6.

Akohoue S, Shankar S, Milne G, et al. Energy expenditure, inflammation, and oxidative stress in steady-state adolescents with sickle cell anemia. Pediatr Res. 2007;61:233–238

Chakrabarty S, Zoorob RJ. Fibromyalgia American Family Physician. July, 2007; 76:247-254.

Williams-Brown S, Satcher D, Levine RS, Gaylor M.. The 100 Black Men Challenge: A program for upper and middle class African American men and their mentees. American Journal of Health Education. 2007;38:55-59.

Zhu K, Moriarty C, Levine R. Smoking and primary liver cancer: A cohort study in a low-incidence population. Cancer Causes and Control. 2007 Apr;18(3):315-21. Epub 2007 Feb 10.

Sherkat DE, Kilbourne BJ, Cain VA, Hull PC, Levine RS, Husaini BA. The impact of health service use on racial differences in mortality among the elderly. Journal of Aging 2007; 29:207-224.

Levine RS, Briggs NC, Hollar D, Kilbourne BJ, Hennekens CH. Descriptive and analytic epidemiological studies to identify modifiable determinants of disparities in mortality rates between blacks and whites. Ethn Dis. 2007;17:280-3.

Levine RS, Briggs NC, Kilbourne BS, King WD, Fry-Johnson Y, Baltrus PT, Husaini BA, Rust, GS. Black-white mortality from HIV in the United States before and after introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy in 1996. Am J Public Health 2007; Oct;97(10):1884-92.

FASD Regional Training Centers Consortium. Educating health professionals about fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. American Journal of Health Education. 2007;38(6):364-373.

Zoorob RJ, Smith V. Metabolic Syndrome: call to Action. Courtland Forum, August 2006

Levine RS, Briggs NC, Schlundt D, Stinson N, Goldzweig I, Warren R. Seatbelt Law Enforcement and Motor Vehicle Crash Fatalities among Blacks and Whites in Louisiana and Mississippi. Southern Medical Journal. 2006 Feb;99(2):143-8.

Zhao B, Stain S, Cain VA, Kilbourne B, Briggs NC, Husaini B, Levine R. Use of colotrectal procedures and rates of diagnosed colorectal cancer among black and white Tennessee elderly (1996-2000). Ethnicity and Disease 2006 Spring; 16:412-420.

Briggs NC, Schlundt DG, Levine RS, Goldzweig IA, Stinson N Jr., Warren RC. Seat belt law enforcement and racial disparities in seat belt use. Am J Prev Med 2006; 31(2):135-141.

Gahagan S, Sharpe T, Brimacombe M, Fry-Johnson Y, Levine R, Mengel M, O’Connor M, Paley B, Adubato S, Brenneman G. Pediatricians’ Knowledge, Training, and Experience in the Care of Children With Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Pediatrics. 2006;118:e657-68.

Briggs, NC Schlundt DG, Levine RS, Goldzwig IAm Stinson Jr, N, Warren RC.Seatbelt use among Hispanic ethnic subgroups of National origin. Inj Prev. 2006;12:421-6.

Briggs NC, Schlundt DG, Levine RS, Goldzweig IA, Stinson N Jr., Warren RC. Seat belt law enforcement and racial disparities in seat belt use. Am J Prev Med 2006; 31(2):135-141.

Briggs, NC Schlundt DG, Levine RS, Goldzwig IAm Stinson Jr, N, Warren RC.Seatbelt use among Hispanic ethnic subgroups of National origin. Inj Prev. 2006;12:421-6.

Brazil K, Ozer E, Cloutier M, Levine R, Stryer D. From theory to practice: improving the impact of health services research. BMC Health Services Research 2005, 5:1. doi:10.1186/1472-6963-5-1.

Fry-Johnson YW, Daniels EC, Levine R, Rust G. Being uninsured: impact on children's healthcare and health. Curr Opin Pediatr. 2005 Dec;17(6):753-8.

Wu H, Zhu K, Levin LI, Gorham E, Levine RS, Shah M, Potter J. Self-reported Hepatitis and Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma: An Analysis According to the Time Since Hepatitis Diagnosis. Ann Epidemiol. 2005 Oct 21; [Epub ahead of print]

Briggs NC, Levine RS, Haliburton WP, Schlundt DG, Goldzweig I, Warren RC. The Fatality Analysis Reporting System as a tool for investigation racial and ethnic determinants of motor vehicle crash fatalities. Accident Analysis and Prevention. Accid Anal Prev. 2005 Jul;37(4):641-9. Epub 2005 Apr 11.

Levine RS, Briggs NC, Husaini BA, Foster I, Hull PC, Pamies RJ, Tropez-Sims S, Emerson JS. HEDIS Prevention Performance Indicators, Prevention Quality Assessment and Healthy People 2010. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2005;16(4):64-82.

Sherkat DE, Kilbourne BS, Cain VA, Hull PC, Levine RS, Husaini BA. Explaining Race Differences in Mortality among the Tennessee Medicare Elderly: The Role of Physician Services. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2005 Nov;16(4):50-63.

Husaini BA, Emerson JS, Hull PC, Sherkat DE, Levine RS, Cain VA. Rural-Urban Differences in Breast Cancer Screening among African American Women. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2005 Nov;16(4):1-10.

Cui Y, Wen W, Moriarty CJ, Levine RS. Risk factors and their effects on the dynamic process of smoking relapse among veteran smokers. Behav Res Ther. 2005 Sep 6; [Epub ahead of print]

Sharpe TT, Alexander M, Hutcherson J, Floyd RL, Brimacombe M, Levine R, Mengel M, Stuber M. Physician and allied health professioals’ training and fetal alcohol syndrome. J. Women’s Health 2004;13:133-139.

Zhu K, Lee I-M, Sesso HD, Buring JE, Levine RS, Gaziano JM. History of diabetes mellitus and risk of prostate cancer in male physicians. Am J Epidemiol 2004. 159:978-82.

Husaini, Baqar A., Pamela C. Hull, Robert S. Levine, Darren E. Sherkat, Janice S. Emerson, Monica T. Overton, Clinton Craun, and Van A. Cain. Diabetes, Depression, and Health Care Utilization among African Americans in Primary Care. Journal of the National Medical Association.2004; 96(4):476-484.

Husaini BA, Sherkat DE, Levine RS, Craun C, Hull PC, Cain VA, Kilbourne B. Age differences in the influence of race SES, and psychiatric morbidity on healthcare utilization and expenditures. Research in Healthcare financial management. 2004. 9:29-48.

Husaini BA, Cummings S, Kilbourne B, Roback H, Sherkat D, Levine R, Cain VA. Group therapy for depressed elderly women. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy. 2004; 54:295-319.

Zoorob RJ, Campbell J. Acute Dyspnea in the Office. American Family Physician. 2003;68:1803-10.

Husaini BA, Sherkat DE, Moonis M, Levine R, Holzer C, Cain VA. Racial differences in the diagnosis of dementia and in its effects on the use and costs of health care services. Psychiatr Serv. 54(1):92-6. 2003.

Briggs NC, Levine RS, Hall I, Cosby O, Brann EA, Hennekens CH. Occupational risk factors for selected cancers among African American and white men in the United States. Amer.J. Pub. Health. 93:1748-52. 2003.

Levine RS, Husaini BA, Emerson JS, Hull PC, Briggs NC, Moriarty CJ, Cain VA. Using a nursing protocol to assure equitable delivery of cancer-related prevention services. Cell Mol Biol (noisy-le-grand). 49:1229-32. 2003.

Zhu J, Zhu K, Levine RS, Caplan LS. Blood transfusions as a risk factor for non-Hodgkins lymphoma in the San Francisco Bay area: a population based study. Amer. J. Epidemiol. 2003 Jun 1;157(11):1052.

Husaini BA, Moonis M, Levine R. Dementia and hormone use. Psychiatr Serv 2003; 54:575

Zoorob RJ, Malpani V, Malpani S. Adult inpatient training for a family practice residency: a university-versus community-based setting. Family Medicine (2002): 34(7):518-21

Hall, I.H., Caplan, L.S., Coughlin, S.S., Levine, R.S., Zhu, K. An empirical study of the use of living versus deceased study subjects: Associations with liver cancer in the Selected Cancers Study. Ann. Epidemiolol. 12(1):15-20. 2002.

Husaini BA, Sherkat DE, Levine R, Bragg R, Holzer C, Anderson K, Cain V, Moten C. Race, gender, and health care service utilization and costs among Medicare elderly with psychiatric diagnoses. J. Aging and Health. 14:79-95. 2002.

Husaini, BA, Sherkat, DE, Levine R, Bragg R, Cain VA, Emerson JS, Mentes CM. The effects of a church-based breast cancer screening education program on mammography rates among African-American women. J. Nat. Med. Assoc. 94:100-106. 2002.

Briggs NC, Levine RS, Brann EA. Allergies and risk of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma by subtype. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention. 11: 401-407. 2002.

Zhu K, Levine RS, Brann EA, Hall I, Caplan LS, Gnepp DR. Case-control study evaluating the homogeneity and heterogeneity of risk factors between sinonasal and nasopharyngeal cancers. Int J Cancer. 99:119-123. 2002.

Zhu K, Hunter S, Bernard LJ, Payne-Wilks K, Roland CL, Elam LC, Feng Z, Levine RS. An intervention study on screening for breast cancer among single African American women aged 65 and older. Preventive Medicine. 34:536-45. 2002.

Thompson FE, Patterson BH, Weinstein SJ, McAcams M, Spate VL, Hamman RF, Levine RS,Mallin K, Stolley PD, Brinton LA, Morris JS, Ziegler RG. Serum selenium and the risk of cervical cancer among women in the United States. Cancer Causes and Control. 13:517-526. 2002.

Briggs, N.C., Levine, R.S., Bobo, L.D., Haliburton W.P., Brann, E.A., Hennekens, C.H. Wine drinking and risk of non Hodgkin’s lymphoma among men in the United States: A population–based, case-control study. Am. J. Epidemol. 156: 454-462. 2002.

Briggs NC, Hall HI, Brann EA, Moriarty CJ, Levine RS. Cigarette smoking and risk of Hodgkin’s disease: A population-based case-control study. Am. J. Epidemiol. 156(11):1011-20. 2002.

Zhu K, Beiler J, Hunter S, Payne-Wilks K, Roland CL, Forbes DS, Chinchilli VM, Bernard LJ, Jacobsen KH, Levine RS. The relationship between menstrual factors and breast cancer according to estrogen receptor status of tumor: A case-control study in African-American women. Ethn. Dis. 12(4):S3-23-9. 2002.

Sidani MA, Campbell J. Gynecology: select topics. Primary care Clinics in Office Practice; Alternative therapies. 2002;29:297-321

Zoorob RJ, Anderson R, Sidani MA, Cefalu C. Cancer Screening Guidelines in Family Practice. American Family Physician 2001; 63:1101-1112.

Weinstein SJ, Ziegler RG, Selhub J, Fears TR, Strickler HD, Brinton LA, Hamman RF, Levine RS, Mallin K, Stolley PD. Elvated serum homocysteine levels and increased risk of invasive cervical cancer in US women. Cancer Causes and Control. 12:317-324. 2001.

Weinstein SJ, Zielger RG, Frongillo EA Jr, Colman N, Saurberlich HE, Brinton LA, Hamman RF, Levine RS, Mallin K, Stolley PD, Bisogni CA. Low serum and red blood cell folate are moderately, but non-significantly associated with increased risk of invasive cervical cancer in US women. J. Nutr. 131:2040-2048. 2001.

Zhu K, Levine RS, Brann EA, Gu Y, Caplan LS, Hall I, Baum MK. Risk factors for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma according to family history or haematolymphoproliferative malignancies. Int. J. Epidemiol. 30:818-24. 2001.

Husaini VA, Sherkat DE, Bragg R, Levine R, Emerson BS, Mentes, CM, Cain VA. Predictors of breast cancer screening in a panel study of African American women. Women & Health. 34:35-51. 2001.

Zoorob R, Anderson R, Cefalu C, Sidani M. Cancer screening guidelines. American Family Physician. 2001 Mar 15;63 (6):1101-12.

Sidani MA. Thyroid Disorders in the Elderly. The Female Patient. 2001;26:52-57.

Zoorob RJ, Morelli V, Arif A. Hypertension. Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, 2000; 22:589-613.

Morelli V, Zoorob RJ. Alternative Therapies: Part I. Depression, Diabetes, Obesity. American Family Physician 2000; 62:1051-1060.

Zoorob RJ, Larzelere MM, Malpani S.Upper Respiratory Infections and Antibiotics: Use and Perceptions among College Students. Journal of Family Practice 2000; 50:32-37.

Caplan L.S., Hall, I., Levine, R.S., Zhu, K. Preventable risk factors of nasal cancer. Ann. Epidemiol. 10:186-91. 2000.

Husaini, B.A., Levine, R.S., Summerfelt, R., Holzer, Newbrough, R., Bragg, R., Cain, V.A., Pitts, D. Economic Grand Rounds: Prevalence and cost of treating mental Disorders among elderly recipients of Medicare services. Psychiatric Services. 51:1245-47. 2000.

Zhu, K., Hunter, S., Bernard, L.J., Roland, C.L., Levine, R.S. Recruiting elderly African-American women in cancer prevention and control studies: A multifaceted approach and its effectiveness. J. Nat. Med. Assoc. 92(4): 169-175. 2000.

Zhu, K., Hunter, S., Bernard, L.J., Payne-Wilks, K., Roland, C.L., Levine, R.S. Mammography screening in single older African-American women: A study of related factors. Ethnicity and Disease. 10(3):395-405. 2000.

McCarthy M, Zoorob RJ. Training in Behavioral Change for Family Practice Residents. Academic Medicine 1999; 74:606

Zoorob RJ, Sidani MA. Developing a Managed Care Curriculum for Primary Care Residency programs. Medical Education 1999; 33:854-59.

Zhu, K., Weiss, N.S., Stanford, J.L., Stergachis, A., Mckinght, B., Brawer, M.K., Levine, R.S. A case-control study of prostate cancer in relation to the use of an electric blanket or heated water bed. Epidemiololgy. 1999:10:83-85.

Zhu, K., McKnight, B., Stergachis, A., Daling, J.R., Levine, R.S. Comparison of self-reported and medical records data: Results from a case-control study on prostate cancer. Int.J.Epidemiol. 1999; 28:409-417.

Levine, R.S. St.Onge, J., Moriarty, S., Bailey, S., Logan, T., Nelson, B., Hodder, R., Marino, W. Preventive practicum training in health care organizations: The Meharry Model. Am J Prev Med 1999; 17:91-6.

Bull EK; Chakrabarty S; Brodsky I; Haines DS. mdm2-P2 transcript levels predict the functional activity of the p53 tumor suppressor in primary leukemic cell. Oncogene 16(17): 2249-57, 1998 Apr 30.

Zhu, K., Levine, R.S., Gu, Y., Brann, E., Hall, I., Caplan, L.,Baum, M. Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and family history of malignant tumors in a case-control study. Cancer Causes and Control. 9:77- 82. 1998

Levine, R., Zhu, K., Gu, Y., Brann, E., Hall, I., Caplan, L., Baum, M. Self-reported infectious mononucleosis and six cancers: A population-based, case-control study. Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases. 30:211-214.1998.

Husaini, B.A., Levine, R.S., Blasi, A.J., Summerfelt, T., Miller, O., Cain, V. Effect of race and co-morbidity of mental health service utilization among the Medicare beneficiaries in Tennessee. Psychiatry in Medicine. 27:331-32. 1998

Ninef Zaya, Alexandra Roginsky, Jamila Williams, and Domenic Castignetti. Evidence that a deferrioxamine B degrading enzyme is a serine protease. Canadian Journal of Microbiology. (1998): 44:6, 521-527

Zoorob, RJ. Practice Management Curriculum for Family Practice Residents. Academic Medicine 1997; 72:446-447.

Zoorob RJ, Hagen MD. Guidelines for the Care of Diabetic: Nephropathy, Retinopathy and Foot Care. American Family Physician 1997; 56:2021-8.

Zhu, K., Bernard, L.J., Levine, R.S., and Williams, S.M. Estrogen receptor status of breast cancer: A marker of different stages of tumor or different entities of the disease? Medical Hypotheses. 49: 69-75. 1997.

Zhu, K., Levine R.S., Brann, E.A., Baum, M.K. The relationship of hepatitis history and pathological diagnosis of primary liver cancer. J. Clin. Epidemiol. 50:297-301. 1997.

Zhu, K., Levine, R.S., Brann, E.A., Baum, M.K. Cigarette smoking and nasopharyngeal cancer: An analysis of the relationship according to the age at diagnosis and age at starting smoking. Epidemiol. 7:107-111. 1997.

Mainous AG III, Zoorob RJ, Hueston WJ. Current Management of Acute Bronchitis in Ambulatory Care: The Use of and Bronchodilators. Archives of Family Medicine. 1996; 5:79-83.

Levine, R.S. Public Health: Practicing without a net. TIKKUN. 8:65-73. Sept/Oct. 1995.

Zhu, K., Levine, R.S., Brann, E., Gnepp, D., and Baum, M. A population-based, case-control study of the relationship between cigarette smoking and nasopharyngeal cancer (United States). Cancer Causes and Control. 6:507-512. 1995.

Levine, R.S., Hennekens, C.H., Jesse, M.J. Development of blood pressure in a population-based cohort of newborn twins. BMJ. 308: 298-302. 1994.

Levine, R.S. and Doull, J. Global estimates of pesticide mortality and morbidity. Rev. Env. Contam. and Toxicol. 129:29-50. 1992.

Levine, R.S. and Dolin, P. Pregnancy and Breast Cancer: A Possible explanation for the negative association. J. Med. Hypoth. 38:278-283. 1992.