Publications
Chen, S.L., Edwards, T.R., Kellman, T.P. (2022, August). Clinical Recommendations of Acupuncture Use in Palliative Care: A Synthesis of Systematic Reviews and Clinical Trials. Presented by the authors at the Graduate Nursing Student Association Conference, Washington D.C.
My colleagues and I summarize the effects of acupuncture use for adult oncology patients, especially in relieving surgical & malignancy related-cancer pain. Note that this is a specific population limited to an inpatient setting. In my practice, I still find that countless older adults with musculoskeletal pain including post-MVA trauma and degenerative joint disease in the Chinese diaspora do explore acupuncture & massage alongside physical therapy for pain relief, with the main limitations to access being similar to that which we found in this review: lack of insurance coverage for this and other integrative health modalities.
Chen, S.L., Marchiano, M. (2022). Gaps and Adapting: Care Coordination during COVID-19. ViewPoint, 44(5), 12. American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing.​​
Though the text of this article is unavailable without a subscription to ViewPoint from AAACN, my prior coworker Michelle and I discuss in it the challenges that come with care coordination in a Medicaid Health Home setting during the COVID-19 pandemic. As new nurses, we had to be creative in accessing institutional knowledge in our primary care clinic, and figuring out the best ways to communicate with on-the-ground physicians, nurse practitioners, and nurses when the care coordination team was siloed in Social Services. we assisted our team in assessing for safety through an enormous transition to telehealth only services, and we experienced firsthand the essential role that family members play in supporting their family members and neighbors through unprecedented times when home visits and in-person services were limited, and language barriers and health literacy increased the difficulty of proper communication. The experience has informed the way I explain the limits of telehealth to my patients, and provide anticipatory guidance to patients navigating the healthcare system in the United States of America, particularly after ER visits and hospitalizations.
Weldon, R.W., Chen, S.L., Au, L., Hyland, C., Park, K., Wallenborn, J.T., Newburg, D., Bradman, A. (2018, April). The MILC Study: Ensuring best practices for expression, handling, and storage of human milk. Presented by Dr. Rosana Weldon at the 7th International Congress on Donor Human Milk Banking, Denver, CO.
During my time with the MILC Study, I supported the team in qualitative interviews and data analysis with funding from the UC Berkeley STEER internship program in environmental health. Survey data explored the challenges of moms who were breastfeeding and breast pumping, attitudes about human breast milk banking, as well as general concerns with chemical contaminants, such as BPA and phthalates. Many moms felt overwhelmed by confusing literature on best practices when pumping and storing breastmilk. Additionally, while some moms were aware of the dangers of BPA at the time, most individuals were more concerned about the exposure of common abrasive household cleaners such as those containing bleach of ammonia on their babies. A chemical exposure study shows that many products labelled BPA free still had small amounts of BPA found in a variety of studies featured in our literature review. While the convenience of plastic for breastfeeding and storage bottles isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, these findings hold massive implications for the process of storage and pasteurization of human milk as it applies to mass-scale milk banking.