GIM Fellow as Lead Author

GIM Fellow Dr. Crystal Wiley will soon appear in print as the lead author of an original report in the Spring 2008 issue of the journal Ethnicity and Disease. The study is titled “Sustainability of a Multiple Risk Factor Intervention on Cardiovascular Disease in High-Risk African American Families.” Other GIM faculty members who participated in this research are Lisa Yanek, MPH, Taryn Moy, MS, David Levine, MD, and Diane Becker, ScD. Dr. Wiley’s contributions were principally to the study’s design concept, to data analysis and interpretation, and to the drafting of the manuscript.

The authors built on the Johns Hopkins Family Heart Study’s assessment of the relative effectiveness of a community-based intervention risk reduction compared to enhanced usual care at reducing risk of CVD in order to determine whether the beneficial effects of community-based intervention at one year were still in evidence after five years. Look for Dr. Wiley and her GIM colleagues soon in Ethnicity and Disease, Vol 18, No. 2.