Research

Faculty Research

Presentations

2024 American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. Rios K, Sheth A, Lindsay S. Differences in delivery type, breastfeeding initiation, and length of postpartum hospitalization in patients with epilepsy within a single hospital system. April 15, 2024.

2024 International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA. Zandvliet R, Wortel S, Hartnett J, Lindsay S. Implementing a Validated Sexual Dysfunction Screening Tool at an Innter-City Women’s Health Clinic. February 23, 2024.

2023 Panel, Reproductive Healthcare Accessibility on College Campuses - Connecticut General Assembly, the Commission on Women, Children, Seniors, Equity & Opportunity. Hartford, CT.

2023 Rebuilding in a Post-Roe World", New England Obstetrics and Gynecology Society. Sturbridge, MA.

2023 Challenges in Patient Care in the Post-Roe Landscape. Grand Rounds, Middlesex Hospital. Virtual meeting.

2023 Research in a Post-Roe World”. Keynote Speaker, Resident Research Day, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Saint Francis Hospital Medical Center, Hartford, CT.

2023 Navigating the Post-Roe Landscape. Grand Rounds, Department of Family Medicine, University of Connecticut. Virtual meeting.

2022 Annual Dean’s Symposium on Quality Improvement, UConn Health, Farmington, CT. Zandvliet R, Onulack K, Hartnett J, Lindsay S. Longitudinal intervention for improved usage of peripartum mood disorder resources. June 6, 2022

2022 Annual Dean’s Symposium on Quality Improvement, UConn Health, Farmington, CT. Vasudeva, Hartnett J, Bondi L, Newmark A, Lindsay S. Improving provision of expedited partner therapy in an obstetrics and gynecology office.  June 6, 2022.

2022 ACOG Annual Clinical Meeting, San Diego, CA. Vasudeva I, Hartnett J, Bondi L, Newmark A, Lindsay S. Improving provision of expedited partner therapy in the obstetrics and gynecology office. May 6, 2022.

2022 Implications for Practicing in a Safe Harbor State. Panelist, Connecticut Genetic Counselor’s Association. Farmington, CT.

2021 Society of Family Planning Annual Meeting. Binkhorst J, O’Sullivan D, Lindsay S. Investigating implicit bias as a barrier to equitable contraceptive care. September 29, 2021. Virtual Platform.

2021 Examining the Feasibility of Text Follow-up after Medication Abortion. Fellow Research Spotlight at Society of Family Planning Annual Meeting. Virtual meeting.

2020 Society of Family Planning Annual Meeting, Virtual Event. Flaum S, Seewald M, Nichols A, Minadeo L, Dalton V, Harris L: Family Planning and the Flint Water Crisis.

2019 ACOG Annual Clinical Meeting, Nashville, TN. Gadson A, Lindsay S, White K, Woodhams E. Understanding decision making and barriers to fertility preservation in young women with cancer. May 5, 2019.

2019 Need to Know: A Pilot Study to Evaluate Informed Consent of Current Prenatal Aneuploidy Screening. The Society for Maternal-Fetal-Medicine, Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV.

Publications

Vasudeva I, Hartnett J, Bondi L, Newmark A, Lindsay S. Improving provision of expedited partner therapy in the obstetrics and gynecology office. Obstetrics and Gynecology 2022 August;140(2)305-310.

Ellison J, Cole M, Hanchate A, Kazis L, Lindsay S. Nonindicated pelvic examinations during contraceptive encounters: prevalence and provider variations. Contraception 2021 April;103(4)239-245. PMID 33373615.

Lindsay S, Woodhams E, White K, Drainoni M, Johnson N, Yinusa-Nyahkoon L. Understanding barriers to contraception screening and referral in female adolescents and young adults with cancer. Journal of Adolescent and Young Adults with Cancer 2020 Feb;9(1):63-71. PMID 31634022.

Flink-Bochacki R, Flaum S, Betstadt SJ: Barriers and outcomes associated with unfulfilled requests for permanent contraception following vaginal delivery. Contraception 99(2): 98-103, 2019. PM30465753.

Savage AH, Lindsay SF. Committee on Adolescent Health, Long-Acting Reversible Contraception Work Group. ACOG Committee Opinion 735: Adolescents and long-acting reversible contraception: implants and intrauterine devices. Obstetrics & Gynecology 2018;131(5):e130-139.

DaCosta, Marisa C; Mogaka, Joyce; Gebhardt, Laura; Goff, Sarah L; Qasba, Neena; Attanasio, Laura .  Readiness to Implement a Doula-Hospital Partnership Program. Journal of obstetric, gynecologic, and neonatal nursing : JOGNN 2024 Mar;53(2):197-206.

Qasba, Neena T; Wallace, Kate F; Yu, Veronica; Capoccia, Kam L; Goff, Sarah L; Shcherbakova, Natalia. Online survey of consumer awareness and perceptions of a Massachusetts law for 12-month supply of contraception. Contraception 2023 Dec;128110138.

Qasba N, Goff S. Twelve-Month Contraception Dispensing Advances Access and Equity. Day SL, Health Affairs Forefront. 2023 Apr.

Qasba, Neena T; Dowd, Patrick; Bianchet, Elyse; Goff, Sarah L. A qualitative study of clinicians' perspectives on a law that allows for a 12-month supply of short-acting contraceptives in Massachusetts: Barriers and facilitators to implementation. Health services research 2023 Apr;58(2):498-507.

Dethier Divya; Qasba, Neena; Kaneshiro.  Society of Family Planning clinical recommendation: Extended use of long-acting reversible contraception., Bliss Contraception 2022 Sep;11313-18.

Russell, Colin B; Qasba, Neena; Evans, Megan L; Frankel, Angela; Arora, Kavita Shah. Variation in the interpretation and application of the Medicaid sterilization consent form among Medicaid officials. Contraception 2022 May;10957-61.

Qasba, Neena; Wallace, Kate F; Sopko, Juliana; Czajka, Jennifer; Capoccia, Kam L; Shcherbakova, Natalia; Goff, Sarah L.  Twelve-month supply of short-acting contraception methods: Pharmacists' perspectives on implementation of new state law. Journal of the American Pharmacists Association: JAPhA 2022 Jan;62(4):1296-1303.e2.

Reisinger-Kindle, Keith; Qasba, Neena; Cayton, Colby; Niakan, Shiva; Knee, Alexander; Goff, Sarah L.  Evaluation of rapid telehealth implementation for prenatal and postpartum care visits during the COVID-19 pandemic in an academic clinic in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States of America. Health science reports 2021 Dec;4(4):e455.

Evans, Megan L; Qasba, Neena; Shah Arora.  COVID-19 highlights the policy barriers and complexities of postpartum sterilization. Kavita Contraception 2021 Jan;103(1):3-5.

Russell, Colin B; Evans, Megan L; Qasba, Neena; Frankel, Angela; Arora, Kavita.  Medicaid sterilization consent forms: variation in rejection and payment consequences. Shah American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 2020 Dec;223(6):934-936.

Qasba, Neena T; Stutsman, John W; Weaver, Greta E; Jones, Kathleen E; Daggy, Joanne K; Wilkinson, Tracey.  Informing Policy Change: A Study of Rapid Repeat Pregnancy in Adolescents to Increase Access to Immediate Postpartum Contraception. A Journal of women's health (2002) 2020 Jun;29(6):815-818.

Bentley, M., Delaney C., Treder, K., Woodhams, E., Weilnau, T., Barnett, K.G. Reproductive health: equity and innovation during the COVID-19 pandemic. In: Phillips, R.S. & Basu, S. Primary care in the COVID-19 pandemic: Improving access to high-quality primary care, accelerating transitions to alternative forms of care delivery, and addressing health disparities. Boston: Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care, 2021.