Project’s description

NIH-funded project for creating a tool for providing feedback to healthcare providers when detecting implicit biases against the patient.

my responsibilities

• The student in charge of driving the qualitative component of the project.
  
• Developed research instruments for effective data collection during interviews and streamlined data analysis processes.
  
• Conducted in-depth interviews with patients from diverse backgrounds, including Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ communities.
  
• Collaboratively facilitated group design sessions (remote and in-person) with BIPOC patients, fostering an inclusive and participatory environment.
  
• Facilitated and guided co-design sessions involving active participation of healthcare professionals.
  
• Conducted in-depth qualitative data analysis utilizing template and thematic frameworks.
  
• Authored and prepared research papers for submission to research conferences.
  
• Provided guidance and supervision to a group of undergraduate and graduate students.
  

publications

• Casanova-Perez R, Apodaca C, Bascom E, Mohanraj D, Lane C, Vidyarthi D, Beneteau E, Sabin J, Pratt W, Weibel N, Hartzler AL. Broken down by bias: Healthcare biases experienced by BIPOC and LGBTQ+ patients. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2022 Feb 21;2021:275-284. PMID: 35308990; PMCID: PMC8861755.
• Apodaca C, Casanova-Perez R, Bascom E, Mohanraj D, Lane C, Vidyarthi D, Beneteau E, Sabin J, Pratt W, Weibel N, Hartzler AL. Maybe they had a bad day: how LGBTQ and BIPOC patients react to bias in healthcare and struggle to speak out. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2022 Nov 14;29(12):2075-2082. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocac142. PMID: 35985279; PMCID: PMC9667158.
  
• Lisa Dirks, Erin Beneteau, Janice Sabin, Wanda Pratt, Cezanne Lane, Emily Bascom, Reggie Casanova-Perez, Naba Rizvi, Nadir Weibel, and Andrea Hartzler. 2022. Battling Bias in Primary Care Encounters: Informatics Designs to Support Clinicians. In Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 386, 1–9.
  
• Naba Rizvi, Reggie Casanova-Perez, Harshini Ramaswamy, Lisa Dirks, Emily Bascom, and Nadir Weibel. 2022. QTBIPOC PD: Exploring the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation in Participatory Design. In Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 120, 1–4.
  
• Emily Bascom, Reggie Casanova-Perez, Harshini Ramaswamy, Deepthi Mohanraj, Janice Sabin, Wanda Pratt, and Andrea L. Hartzler. "Toward Patient-Centered Informatics Solutions: The Role of Intersectionality." In AMIA. 2021.