L Ebony Boulware
Biographic Data
| ID | 184008 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Ebony Boulware |
| GIVEN NAMES | L Ebony |
| FAMILY NAME | Boulware |
| SIGNATURE | BOULWARE L E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8650-4212 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Building Trustworthiness in Health Care and Research
Introduction: Project ENTRUST is a mixed-method, community-collaborative, and community-grounded initiative at Duke Health aimed at co-creating a model for equity-driven engagement and trust-building in health care and research. Methods: Community members, Duke Health, and university leaders developed the 7-phase ENTRUST Model—a structured roadmap for trust-building through collaborative survey development, town halls, and recommendations for ins…
Racial Differences in Over-the-Counter Non-steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drug Use Among Individuals at Risk of Adverse Cardiovascular Events
Needles in a Haystack
Translational research is a data-driven process that involves transforming scientific laboratory- and clinic-based discoveries into products and activities with real-world impact to improve individual and population health. Successful execution of translational research requires collaboration between clinical and translational science researchers, who have expertise in a wide variety of domains across the field of medicine, and qualitative and qu…
Perceived Susceptibility to Chronic Kidney Disease and Hypertension Self-Management among Black and White Live Kidney Donors
We found no substantial differences in perceived susceptibility to kidney disease among Black and White donors, despite published evidence that Black donors may experience greater risk of developing kidney disease than White donors. Behavioral interventions to enhance knowledge about future disease risk, attitudes, and self-care strategies among living kidney donors may be beneficial
Association between Gentrification and Health and Healthcare Utilization
Diversifying the Research Workforce as a Programmatic Priority for a Career Development Award Program at Duke University
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has prioritized efforts to increase diversity in the biomedical research workforce. NIH-funded institutional career development awards may serve as one mechanism to facilitate these efforts. In 2013, the Duke University KL2 program, an internal career development program funded by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, set a goal to increase the number of investigators from underrepresent…
Trust in American Medicine
Medical mistrust has a well‐documented harmful impact on a range of patients’ health behaviors and outcomes. It can have such egregious downstream effects on so many aspects of medicine—from clinical trial participation to health care use, timely screening, organ donation, and treatment adherence—that it is sometimes described as one of the social determinants of health. In the article “Trust, Risk, and Race in American Medicine,” Laura Specker S…
Leveraging Delivery of Blood Pressure Control Interventions among Low-income African American Adults
These findings inform development of family-oriented interventions to improve health behaviors among African American index patients at high risk for cardiovascular disease and their family members
Who Will Drive the Change? Democratizing Health Data
The author discusses the importance of stakeholders outside of the public health and health care sectors to support interventions targeting social and environmental contexts to improve community and population health
Reaching for Health Equity and Social Justice in Baltimore
Cardiovascular health disparities persist despite decades of recognition and the availability of evidence-based clinical and public health interventions. Racial and ethnic minorities and adults in urban and low-income communities are high-risk groups for uncontrolled hypertension (HTN), a major contributor to cardiovascular health disparities, in part due to inequitable social structures and economic systems that negatively impact daily environme…
Age, Race and Cardiovascular Outcomes in African American Veterans
Among patients with normal eGFR and receiving care in the Veterans Health Administration, younger African Americans had lower all-cause mortality and incidence of CHD and similar rates of stroke, independent of demographic, comorbidity and socioeconomic differences. The lower all-cause mortality persisted but attenuated with increasing age and the lower incidence of CHD ended at aged ≥80 years. The higher incidence of ischemic stroke in African A…
Adapting Hypertension Self-Management Interventions to Enhance Their Sustained Effectiveness Among Urban African Americans
African Americans suffer disproportionately poor hypertension control despite the availability of efficacious interventions. Using principles of community-based participatory research and implementation science, we adapted established hypertension self-management interventions to enhance interventions' cultural relevance and potential for sustained effectiveness among urban African Americans. We obtained input from patients and their family membe…
Creating a Transdisciplinary Research Center to Reduce Cardiovascular Health Disparities in Baltimore, Maryland
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) disparities continue to have a negative impact on African Americans in the United States, largely because of uncontrolled hypertension. Despite the availability of evidence-based interventions, their use has not been translated into clinical and public health practice. The Johns Hopkins Center to Eliminate Cardiovascular Health Disparities is a new transdisciplinary research program with a stated goal to lower the imp…
African American and Non-African American Patients' and Families' Decision Making About Renal Replacement Therapies
We conducted focus group meetings of African American and non-African American patients with end-stage renal disease (six groups) and their family members (six groups), stratified by race/ethnicity and treatment. We elicited differences in participants' experiences with shared decision making about initiating renal replacement therapy (RRT; that is, hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, or a kidney transplant). Patients were often very sick when ini…
Preferences for Current Health and Their Association With Outcomes in Patients With Kidney Disease
BACKGROUND: Patients with chronic disease who express stronger preference for their current health might be expected to have better outcomes than patients who assign lower utility to their current health state. OBJECTIVE: We sought to examine associations between preferences for current health and outcomes in a national cohort of incident hemodialysis patients. METHODS: In 567 patients treated at 74 clinics, we measured patients' preferences by t…
Race and trust in the health care system
Objective.A legacy of racial discrimination in medical research and the health care system has been linked to a low level of trust in medical research and medical care among African Americans.While racial differences in trust in physicians have been demonstrated, little is known about racial variation in trust of health insurance plans and hospitals.For the present study, the authors analyzed responses to a cross-sectional telephone survey to ass…
Race and Gender Differences in Willingness to Donate Blood and Cadaveric Organs
BACKGROUND: Recent efforts to recruit blood and organ donors have only marginally improved demographic disparities in willingness to donate. Few studies have examined which factors are most important in explaining race and gender disparities in willingness to donate. OBJECTIVES: To assess race and gender differences in willingness to donate blood and cadaveric organs, and to determine the extent to which several factors (including sociodemographi…
African American and Non-African American Patients' and Families' Decision Making About Renal Replacement Therapies
We conducted focus group meetings of African American and non-African American patients with end-stage renal disease (six groups) and their family members (six groups), stratified by race/ethnicity and treatment. We elicited differences in participants' experiences with shared decision making about initiating renal replacement therapy (RRT; that is, hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, or a kidney transplant). Patients were often very sick when ini…
Race and Gender Differences in Willingness to Donate Blood and Cadaveric Organs
BACKGROUND: Recent efforts to recruit blood and organ donors have only marginally improved demographic disparities in willingness to donate. Few studies have examined which factors are most important in explaining race and gender disparities in willingness to donate. OBJECTIVES: To assess race and gender differences in willingness to donate blood and cadaveric organs, and to determine the extent to which several factors (including sociodemographi…
Race and trust in the health care system
Objective.A legacy of racial discrimination in medical research and the health care system has been linked to a low level of trust in medical research and medical care among African Americans.While racial differences in trust in physicians have been demonstrated, little is known about racial variation in trust of health insurance plans and hospitals.For the present study, the authors analyzed responses to a cross-sectional telephone survey to ass…
Preferences for Current Health and Their Association With Outcomes in Patients With Kidney Disease
BACKGROUND: Patients with chronic disease who express stronger preference for their current health might be expected to have better outcomes than patients who assign lower utility to their current health state. OBJECTIVE: We sought to examine associations between preferences for current health and outcomes in a national cohort of incident hemodialysis patients. METHODS: In 567 patients treated at 74 clinics, we measured patients' preferences by t…
African American and Non-African American Patients' and Families' Decision Making About Renal Replacement Therapies
We conducted focus group meetings of African American and non-African American patients with end-stage renal disease (six groups) and their family members (six groups), stratified by race/ethnicity and treatment. We elicited differences in participants' experiences with shared decision making about initiating renal replacement therapy (RRT; that is, hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, or a kidney transplant). Patients were often very sick when ini…
Creating a Transdisciplinary Research Center to Reduce Cardiovascular Health Disparities in Baltimore, Maryland
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) disparities continue to have a negative impact on African Americans in the United States, largely because of uncontrolled hypertension. Despite the availability of evidence-based interventions, their use has not been translated into clinical and public health practice. The Johns Hopkins Center to Eliminate Cardiovascular Health Disparities is a new transdisciplinary research program with a stated goal to lower the imp…
Adapting Hypertension Self-Management Interventions to Enhance Their Sustained Effectiveness Among Urban African Americans
African Americans suffer disproportionately poor hypertension control despite the availability of efficacious interventions. Using principles of community-based participatory research and implementation science, we adapted established hypertension self-management interventions to enhance interventions' cultural relevance and potential for sustained effectiveness among urban African Americans. We obtained input from patients and their family membe…
Reaching for Health Equity and Social Justice in Baltimore
Cardiovascular health disparities persist despite decades of recognition and the availability of evidence-based clinical and public health interventions. Racial and ethnic minorities and adults in urban and low-income communities are high-risk groups for uncontrolled hypertension (HTN), a major contributor to cardiovascular health disparities, in part due to inequitable social structures and economic systems that negatively impact daily environme…
Age, Race and Cardiovascular Outcomes in African American Veterans
Among patients with normal eGFR and receiving care in the Veterans Health Administration, younger African Americans had lower all-cause mortality and incidence of CHD and similar rates of stroke, independent of demographic, comorbidity and socioeconomic differences. The lower all-cause mortality persisted but attenuated with increasing age and the lower incidence of CHD ended at aged ≥80 years. The higher incidence of ischemic stroke in African A…
Leveraging Delivery of Blood Pressure Control Interventions among Low-income African American Adults
These findings inform development of family-oriented interventions to improve health behaviors among African American index patients at high risk for cardiovascular disease and their family members
Who Will Drive the Change? Democratizing Health Data
The author discusses the importance of stakeholders outside of the public health and health care sectors to support interventions targeting social and environmental contexts to improve community and population health
Trust in American Medicine
Medical mistrust has a well‐documented harmful impact on a range of patients’ health behaviors and outcomes. It can have such egregious downstream effects on so many aspects of medicine—from clinical trial participation to health care use, timely screening, organ donation, and treatment adherence—that it is sometimes described as one of the social determinants of health. In the article “Trust, Risk, and Race in American Medicine,” Laura Specker S…
Diversifying the Research Workforce as a Programmatic Priority for a Career Development Award Program at Duke University
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has prioritized efforts to increase diversity in the biomedical research workforce. NIH-funded institutional career development awards may serve as one mechanism to facilitate these efforts. In 2013, the Duke University KL2 program, an internal career development program funded by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, set a goal to increase the number of investigators from underrepresent…
Perceived Susceptibility to Chronic Kidney Disease and Hypertension Self-Management among Black and White Live Kidney Donors
We found no substantial differences in perceived susceptibility to kidney disease among Black and White donors, despite published evidence that Black donors may experience greater risk of developing kidney disease than White donors. Behavioral interventions to enhance knowledge about future disease risk, attitudes, and self-care strategies among living kidney donors may be beneficial
Association between Gentrification and Health and Healthcare Utilization
Needles in a Haystack
Translational research is a data-driven process that involves transforming scientific laboratory- and clinic-based discoveries into products and activities with real-world impact to improve individual and population health. Successful execution of translational research requires collaboration between clinical and translational science researchers, who have expertise in a wide variety of domains across the field of medicine, and qualitative and qu…
Racial Differences in Over-the-Counter Non-steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drug Use Among Individuals at Risk of Adverse Cardiovascular Events
Building Trustworthiness in Health Care and Research
Introduction: Project ENTRUST is a mixed-method, community-collaborative, and community-grounded initiative at Duke Health aimed at co-creating a model for equity-driven engagement and trust-building in health care and research. Methods: Community members, Duke Health, and university leaders developed the 7-phase ENTRUST Model—a structured roadmap for trust-building through collaborative survey development, town halls, and recommendations for ins…
Medicine (15 works) · Environmental health (7 works) · Gerontology (6 works) · Health care (6 works) · Nursing (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (5 works) · Health Policy Implementation Science (5 works) · Internal Medicine (5 works) · Population (5 works)