Dr. Melissa Simon, MD

• Obstetrics & Gynecology

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• Mcgaw Medical Center Of Northwestern University

  Fellowship Hospital, 2006

• Yale-new Haven Hospital

  Residency Hospital, 2004

• Rush Medical College

  Medical School, 2000

• English

• Spanish

• Community navigators for breast and cervical cancer screening and follow-up, 2015-08-20

• Elder Mistreatment in U.S. Community-Dwelling Chinese Older Women, 2015-12-27

• DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF ACCULTURATION AND COGNITIVE HEALTH AMONG MINORITY OLDER IMMIGRANTS, 2019-11-08

• Interventions Addressing Social Needs in Perinatal Care: A Systematic Review, 2021-03-04

• Association Between Elder Self-Neglect and Hospice Utilization in a Community Population, 2012-07-05

• What do Women Want? Experiences of Low-Income Women with Postpartum Contraception and Contraceptive Counseling, 2015-09-23

• The Perception of Social Support Among U.S. Chinese Older Adults: Findings From the PINE Study, 2023-02-16

• Chinese Immigrant Women's Attitudes and Beliefs About Family Involvement in Women's Health and Healthcare: A Qualitative Study in Chicago's Chinatown, 2018-08-01

• Study Design and Implementation of the PINE Study, 2014-03-25

• Elder Abuse as a Risk Factor for Hospitalization in Older Persons, 2013-05-27

• Genetic polymorphisms of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) associated with endometriosis in Nigerian women, 2021-10-30

• Association between Reported Elder Abuse and Rates of Admission to the Skilled Nursing Facilities: Findings from a Longitudinal Population-Based Cohort Study, 2013-06-26

• Decline in Cognitive Function and Risk of Elder Self-Neglect: Finding from the Chicago Health Aging Project, 2010-10-12

• Profile of congenital heart disease in infants born following exposure to preeclampsia, 2020-03-26

• An examination of the implementation of a patient navigation program to improve breast and cervical cancer screening rates of Chinese immigrant women: a qualitative study, 2022-02-04

• Improving Research Literacy in Diverse Minority Populations with a Novel Communication Tool*, 2018-09-02

• The Expectation and Perceived Receipt of Filial Piety Among Chinese Older Adults in the Greater Chicago Area, 2023-02-16

• Association between patient-reported HIV status and provider recommendation for screening in an opportunistic cervical Cancer screening setting in Jos, Nigeria, 2018-11-22

• Elder Self-Neglect and Hospitalization: Findings from the Chicago Health and Aging Project, 2012-01-27

• Leveraging an implementation science framework to adapt and scale a patient navigator intervention to improve mammography screening outreach in a new community, 2019-03-05

• Perceptions of Patient-Provider Communication in Breast and Cervical Cancer-Related Care: A Qualitative Study of Low-Income English- and Spanish-Speaking Women, 2013-04-22

• Elder Self-Neglect Is Associated with Increased Rate of 30 Day Hospital Readmission: Findings from the Chicago Health and Aging Project, 2014-10-07

• Underrepresented Minority (URM) physician exploitation exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic: Implications to URM physician-faculty burnout and worsening health disparities, 2021-06-01

• Leveraging the Experiences of Informal Caregivers to Create Future Healthcare Workforce Options, 2015-10-09

• Perspectives of women of refugee background on healthcare needs in a major urban metropolitan community in the US: A qualitative needs assessment, 2022-09-16

• Radiology as the Point of Cancer Patient and Care Team Engagement: Applying the 4R Model at a Patient's Breast Cancer Care Initiation, 2016-09-26

• Understanding Depressive Symptoms Among Community-Dwelling Chinese Older Adults in the Greater Chicago Area, 2023-02-16

• Addressing racial disparities in perinatal care for African American/Black individuals in the Chicago community health setting: a qualitative study, 2022-10-13

• Development of a web tool to increase research literacy in underserved populations through public library partnerships, 2021-02-03

• Assessing the Health Needs of Chinese Older Adults: Findings from a Community-Based Participatory Research Study in Chicago's Chinatown, 2011-01-03

• Exploring Race and Ethnicity Representational Inequities in Illinois Medical Schools, 2021-08-16

• Patient Navigators' Reflections on the Navigator-Patient Relationship, 2014-03-19

• HIV status, age at cervical Cancer screening and cervical cytology outcomes in an opportunistic screening setting in Nigeria: a 10-year Cross sectional data analysis, 2019-11-29

• ‘There's nothing you can do…it's like that in Chinatown': Chinese immigrant women's perceptions of experiences in Chicago Chinatown healthcare settings, 2019-01-28

• Accelerated Epigenetic Age Among Women with Invasive Cervical Cancer and HIV-Infection in Nigeria, 2022-04-29

• Prospective Study of the Elder Self-Neglect and Emergency Department Use in a Community Population, 2011-03-15

• "I need more knowledge”: Qualitative analysis of oncology providers' experiences with sexual and gender minority patients, 2022-08-15

• HIV and development of epithelial cell abnormalities in women with prior normal cervical cytology in Nigeria, 2020-07-29

• Voices of Informal Caregivers and Community Stakeholders: Whether and How to Develop an Informal Caregiver Training Program, 2015-12-05

• Effect of cervical cancer education and provider recommendation for screening on screening rates: A systematic review and meta-analysis, 2017-09-05

• Prevalence and Correlates of Elder Mistreatment in a Community-Dwelling Population of U.S. Chinese Older Adults, 2023-02-16

• Epidemiology and Survival outcomes of HIV-associated cervical cancer in Nigeria, 2023-08-13

• Providers' Views on a Community-Wide Patient Navigation Program: Implications for Dissemination and Future Implementation, 2016-03-23

• Association between elder abuse and use of ED: findings from the Chicago Health and Aging Project, 2013-02-08

• Demographic Characteristics of U.S. Chinese Older Adults in the Greater Chicago Area: Assessing the Representativeness of the PINE Study, 2023-02-16

• Targeting obstetric providers in interventions for obesity and gestational weight gain: A systematic review, 2018-10-05

• Using Public Claims Data for Neighborhood Level Epidemiologic Surveillance of Breast Cancer Screening: Findings from Evaluating a Patient Navigation Program in Chicago's Chinatown, 2019-12-19

• A Psychometric Assessment of the Psychological and Social Well-Being Indicators in the PINE Study, 2023-02-16

• Vulnerability Risk Index Profile for Elder Abuse in Community-Dwelling Population, 2013-11-21

• The impact of patient navigation on the delivery of diagnostic breast cancer care in the National Patient Navigation Research Program: a prospective meta-analysis, 2016-07-18

• Time and Motion Study of a Community Patient Navigator, 2014-04-06

• Structural racism and COVID-19 response: higher risk of exposure drives disparate COVID-19 deaths among Black and Hispanic/Latinx residents of Illinois, USA, 2022-02-15

• Disparities in gynecologic cancer incidence, treatment, and survival: a narrative review of outcomes among Black and White women in the United States, 2022-07-04

• The Social Contexts of Birthing People with Public- and Private-Payer Prenatal Care: Illuminating an Understudied Aspect of the Patient Experience, 2022-12-12

• Perceived Discrimination and Cancer Screening Behaviors in US Hispanics: the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos Socio-cultural Ancillary Study, 2015-10-27

• Design of a prostate cancer patient navigation intervention for a Veterans Affairs hospital, 2012-09-25

• Community-Campus Partnership in Action: Lessons Learned from the DuPage County Patient Navigation Collaborative, 2015-06-16

• The Prevalence of Loneliness Among U.S. Chinese Older Adults, 2023-02-18

• SURVIVORSHIP NAVIGATION OUTCOME MEASURES: A report from the ACS Patient Navigation Working Group on Survivorship Navigation, 2013-05-31

• Suicidal Ideation in an Older U.S. Chinese Population, 2014-07-07