Assistant Professor Public
Health (Sociomedical Sciences)
and Medical Informatics
Original, peer reviewed
Russo RM, Harvey B, Kukafka R, Supino P, Freis PC, Hamilton P.
The use of community health aids in an urban school health program. J
School Health 1982; Sept;52(7):425-427.
Kukafka R, Lussier YA, Patel VL, Cimino JJ. Modeling patient response
to AMI: implications for a tailored technology based program to reduce
patient delay. Proc AMIA Symp 1999:570-574.
Lussier YA, Kukafka R, Cimino JJ. Overcoming the barriers of WEB-based
interventions for elder patients: enabling strategies for the MI HEART
clinical trial. Proc AMIA Sym 1999:1110.
Bakken S, Cimino J, Haskel R, Kukafka R, Chan G, Matsumoto C, Juff S.
Evaluation of the clinical LOINC (Logical observation identifiers, names,
and codes) semantic structure as a terminology model for standardized
assessment measures. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2000:
Nov-Dec;7(6):529-38.
Lussier YA, Kukafka R, Patel VL, Cimino JJ. Formal combinations of guidelines:
a requirement for self-administered personalized health education. Proc
AMIA Symp 2000: 522-6.
Kukafka R, Lussier, YA, Cimino JJ. Eng P. Developing and evaluating theory-based
education content for WEB application. Proc AMIA Symp 2000:1056.
Chuang J, Kukafka R, Lussier YA, Jenders RA, Cimino J. A Web-based system
for prediction of coronary heart disease risk using the framingham algorithm.
Proc AMIA Symp 2000:983.
Lussier YA, Wang D, Kukafka R, CImino, J. Improving the development of
composite educational guidelines using decomposition of concept lattices.
Proc AMIA Symp 2000:1073.
Kukafka R, Lussier YA, Patel VL, Cimino J. Developing Tailored Theory-Based
Educational Content for WEB Applications: Illustrations from the MI-HEART
Project. MedInfo2001. In Press.
Kukafka R, Lussier Y, Patel, Cimino J. The MI-HEART Project: Information
technology (IT) for one-to-one tailored patient communication. Proc AMIA
Symp 2001. In press.
Houston TK, Chang B, Brown S, Kukafka R. Consumer health informatics:
A consensus description and commentary from the American Medical Informatics
Association Membership. Proc AMIA Symp 2001. In press.
Issues and Opportunities in public health informatics: A panel discussion.
J of Public Health Practice and Management. In press.
Yasnoff WA, Overhage JM, Humphreys B, LaVenture M, Goodman K, Gatewood
L, Reid J, Hammond E, Dwyer D, Huff S, Gotham I, Kukafka R, Loonsk J,
Wagner M. A national agenda for public health informatics. J of Public
Health Practice and Management.
Abstracts
Kukafka R. HeartWise Dining. American Public Health Association
Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, November 1, 1995.
Kukafka R. Prevention in clinical practice: five-year follow up of an
intervention to promote National Cholesterol Education (NCEP) Guidelines.
American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, New York, November
17, 1996.
Kukafka R. Osteoporosis: an integrated approach to counseling on lifestyle
modification. American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Washington
DC, November 18, 1998. Abstracts, Session 1044, p.26.
Kukafka R, Allegrante JP. Health promotion in the midst of a technology
revolution. Annual Meeting of the Society for Public Health Education,
Chicago, IL, November 7, 1999.
Kukafka R, Lussier, YA, Cimino JJ. Evaluating web-based tailored health
communications:Illustrations from the MI-HEART project. American Public
Health Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, October 24, 2001. Abstract
Session 5069.
Brennan P, Glassman B, Houston TK, Kukafka, R. Public health informatics
and consumer healthinformatics: Enhancing the collaboration. Proc
AMIA Symp 2001.