Karen Kim

Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Rural Health Research, Dean of Penn State College of Medicine

Most Recent Publications

Mixed methods approach to understanding COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among immigrants in the Chicago

Mary Grace Sharp, Paula Lozano, Alia Southworth, Aven Peters, Helen Lam, Fornessa T. Randal, Michael Quinn, Karen E. Kim, 2024, Vaccine

A Mixed-methods Approach to Understanding Language Interpretation Services in Health Care Settings among Asian American Immigrants from Diverse Ethnic Backgrounds

Paula Lozano, Zachary Veitch, Marygrace Sharp, Alia Southworth, Fornessa T. Randal, Karen E. Kim, 2024, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved on p. 85-101

Air quality and cancer risk in the All of Us Research Program

Andrew Craver, Jiajun Luo, Muhammad G. Kibriya, Nina Randorf, Kendall Bahl, Elizabeth Connellan, Johnny Powell, Paul Zakin, Rena R. Jones, Maria Argos, Joyce Ho, Karen Kim, Martha L. Daviglus, Philip Greenland, Habibul Ahsan, Briseis Aschebrook-Kilfoy, 2024, Cancer Causes and Control on p. 749-760

The Role of Health Insurance Type and Clinic Visit on Hypertension Status Among Multiethnic Chicago Residents

Jiajun Luo, William I. Krakowka, Andrew Craver, Elizabeth Connellan, Jaime King, Muhammad G. Kibriya, Jayant Pinto, Tamar Polonsky, Karen Kim, Habibul Ahsan, Briseis Aschebrook-Kilfoy, 2024, American Journal of Health Promotion on p. 306-315

Duration-sensitive association between air pollution exposure and changes in cardiometabolic biomarkers: Evidence from a predominantly African American cohort

Jiajun Luo, Muhammad G. Kibriya, Farzana Jasmine, Afzal Shaikh, Zhihao Jin, Robert Sargis, Karen Kim, Christopher O. Olopade, Jayant Pinto, Habibul Ahsan, Briseis Aschebrook-Kilfoy, 2024, Environmental Research

Smoking behavior among Asian Americans during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: The influence of pandemic stressors and depression

Paula Lozano, Aven Peters, Alia Southworth, Yicklun Mo, Helen Lam, Fornessa T. Randal, Karen E. Kim, 2024, Tobacco Induced Diseases

A metabolome-wide case-control study of african american breast cancer patients

Jiajun Luo, Muhammad G. Kibriya, Hui Chen, Karen Kim, Habibul Ahsan, Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, Christopher S. Olopade, Briseis Aschebrook-Kilfoy, Dezheng Huo, 2023, BMC Cancer

The impact of neighborhood disadvantage on colorectal cancer screening among African Americans in Chicago

Paula Lozano, Fornessa T. Randal, Aven Peters, Briseis Aschebrook-Kilfoy, Muhammad G. Kibriya, Jiajun Luo, Sameep Shah, Paul Zakin, Andrew Craver, Liz Stepniak, Loren Saulsberry, Sonia Kupfer, Helen Lam, Habibul Ahsan, Karen E. Kim, 2023, Preventive Medicine Reports

Characteristics of patient navigation programs in the Cancer Moonshot ACCSIS colorectal cancer screening initiative

Gloria D. Coronado, Renée M. Ferrari, Autumn Barnes, Sheila F. Castañeda, Mark Cromo, Melinda M. Davis, Mark P. Doescher, Kevin English, Jenna Hatcher, Karen E. Kim, Sarah Kobrin, David Liebovitz, Shiraz I. Mishra, Jesse N. Nodora, Wynne E. Norton, Jill M. Oliveri, Daniel S. Reuland, Sujha Subramanian, Jamie H. Thompson, Electra D. Paskett, 2023, Journal of the National Cancer Institute on p. 680-694

The Impact of Neighborhood Disadvantage on Asthma Prevalence in a Predominantly African-American, Chicago-Based Cohort

Jiajun Luo, Muhammad G. Kibriya, Sameep Shah, Andrew Craver, Sebastian De La Cruz, Jaime King, Christopher O. Olopade, Karen Kim, Habibul Ahsan, Jayant Pinto, Briseis Aschebrook-Kilfoy, 2023, American Journal of Epidemiology on p. 549-559

Most-Cited Papers

A comparison of effectiveness of hepatitis B screening and linkage to care among foreign-born populations in clinical and nonclinical settings

Edwin Chandrasekar, Ravneet Kaur, Sharon Song, Karen E. Kim, 2015, Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare on p. 1-9

Shared Decision Making among Clinicians and Asian American and Pacific Islander Sexual and Gender Minorities: An Intersectional Approach to Address a Critical Care Gap

Judy Y. Tan, Lucy J. Xu, Fanny Y. Lopez, Justin L. Jia, Mai T. Pho, Karen E. Kim, Marshall H. Chin, 2016, LGBT Health on p. 327-334

Identifying actionable strategies: using Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR)-informed interviews to evaluate the implementation of a multilevel intervention to improve colorectal cancer screening

Helen Lam, Michael Quinn, Toni Cipriano-Steffens, Manasi Jayaprakash, Emily Koebnick, Fornessa Randal, David Liebovitz, Blasé Polite, Karen Kim, 2021, Implementation Science Communications

Prevalence of Depression Symptoms Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Two Asian American Ethnic Groups

Paula Lozano, Sandra Yu Rueger, Helen Lam, Naomi Louie, Alia Southworth, Chieko Maene, Yicklun Mo, Fornessa Randal, Karen Kim, 2022, Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health on p. 909-917

A novel strategy to increase identification of African-bornpeople with chronic hepatitis B virus infection in the chicago metropolitan area, 2012-2014

Edwin Chandrasekar, Sharon Song, Matthew Johnson, Aaron M. Harris, Gary I. Kaufman, David Freedman, Michael T. Quinn, Karen E. Kim, 2016, Preventing chronic disease

Cohort profile: the ChicagO Multiethnic Prevention and Surveillance Study (COMPASS)

Briseis Aschebrook-Kilfoy, Muhammad G. Kibriya, Farzana Jasmine, Liz Stepniak, Rajan Gopalakrishnan, Andrew Craver, Paul Zakin, Saira Tasmin, Karen E. Kim, Kathleen H. Goss, Marcy List, Michelle LeBeau, Habibul Ahsan, 2020, BMJ Open on p. e038481

Improving Shared Decision Making for Asian American Pacific Islander Sexual and Gender Minorities

Stephanie Bi, Kathryn E. Gunter, Fanny Y. López, Seeba Anam, Judy Y. Tan, Danielle J. Polin, Justin L. Jia, Lucy J. Xu, Neda Laiteerapong, Mai T. Pho, Karen E. Kim, Marshall H. Chin, 2019, Medical Care on p. 937-944

Economic assessment of patient navigation to colonoscopy-based colorectal cancer screening in the real-world setting at the University of Chicago Medical Center

Karen E. Kim, Fornessa Randal, Matt Johnson, Michael Quinn, Chieko Maene, Sonja Hoover, Valerie Richmond-Reese, Florence K. L. Tangka, Djenaba A. Joseph, Sujha Subramanian, 2018, Cancer on p. 4137-4144

An Overview of Cancer in the First 315,000 All of Us Participants

Briseis Aschebrook-Kilfoy, Paul Zakin, Andrew Craver, Sameep Shah, Muhammad G. Kibriya, Elizabeth Stepniak, Andrea Ramirez, Cheryl Clark, Elizabeth Cohn, Lucila Ohno-Machado, Mine Cicek, Eric Boerwinkle, Sheri D. Schully, Stephen Mockrin, Kelly Gebo, Kelsey Mayo, Francis Ratsimbazafy, Alan Sanders, Raj C. Shah, Maria Argos, Joyce Ho, Karen Kim, Martha Daviglus, Philip Greenland, Habibul Ahsan, Brian Ahmedani, Christine D. Cole Johnson, Donna Antoine-LaVigne, Glendora Singleton, Pamelia Watson-McGee, Arnita Ford Norwood, Hoda Anton-Culver, Eric Topol, Katie Baca-Motes, Julia Moore-Vogel, Steven Steinhubl, Praduman Jain, Mark Begale, Neeta Jain, David Klein, Scott Sutherland, James Wade, Bruce Korf, Mona Fouad, Beth Lewis, David B. Goldstein, Louise Bier, Ali G. Gharavi, George Hripcsak, Murray H. Brilliant, Fornessa Randal, 2022, PLoS One

Urban spatial accessibility of primary care and hypertension control and awareness on Chicago’s South side: A study from the COMPASS cohort

Jiajun Luo, Muhammad G. Kibriya, Paul Zakin, Andrew Craver, Liz Connellan, Saira Tasmin, Tamar Polonsky, Karen Kim, Habibul Ahsan, Briseis Aschebrook-Kilfoy, 2022, Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes on p. E008845