Nicole Person-Rennell
- Assistant Clinical Professor, Family and Community Medicine - (Clinical Series Track)
- (520) 626-7864
- AHSC, Rm. 4320
- npersonrennell1@arizona.edu
Biography
Nicole Person-Rennell grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and attended ASU as a Flinn Scholar, graduating summa cum laude with a global studies degree and winning an award for most outstanding thesis project from Barrett, the Honors College at ASU for her work in intimate partner violence. Dr. Person-Rennell received her medical degree from Mayo Medical School and her master’s degree in public health with distinction from Cambridge University in England on the Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She completed her family medicine residency training at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where she was awarded most outstanding intern, and completed an additional year as Chief Resident.
Degrees
- M.D. Medicine
- Mayo Medical School, Rochester, Minnesota, United States
- MPH Public Health
- Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
- Midwives' Identification of and Response to Domestic Violence during Pregnancy: An Analysis of Midwives' Accounts including Barriers Encountered
Awards
- Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians
- AAFP, Summer 2023
- UA COMT Faculty Advisor Award
- UA, Summer 2023
- UA FCM Residency MCH Faculty of the Year
- UA FCM Residency Program, Summer 2023
- Women in Medicine and Science (WIMS) Torchbearer Award
- University of Arizona office of DEI, Summer 2023
- AMES Education Award
- UA COMT, Spring 2023 (Award Nominee)
- MCH faculty of the year 2022
- Dept of FCM Residency Program, Summer 2022
- South Campus Residency Outpatient Teaching Faculty Award
- UA FCM Residency- South Campus, Summer 2021
- Faculty of the Year, SC Residency
- FCM South Campus Residency Program, Summer 2020
- South Campus Residency Faculty of the Year
- UA FCM Residency- South Campus, Summer 2020
Licensure & Certification
- Arizona Medical License, Arizona Medical Board (2018)
Interests
Teaching
women's health, substance use disorders, intimate partner violence, care for the medically underserved, social determinants of health, and the intersection of public health and primary care, including clinical innovations for population health improvement.
Research
women's health, substance use disorders, intimate partner violence, care for the medically underserved, social determinants of health, and the intersection of public health and primary care, including clinical innovations for population health improvement.
Courses
No activities entered.
Scholarly Contributions
Journals/Publications
- Fernandez, P. C., Locatelli, F. F., Person-rennell, N., Deleo, G., & Smith, B. H. (2009). Associative conditioning tunes transient dynamics of early olfactory processing.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 29(33), 10191-202. doi:10.1523/jneurosci.1874-09.2009More infoOdors evoke complex spatiotemporal responses in the insect antennal lobe (AL) and mammalian olfactory bulb. However, the behavioral relevance of spatiotemporal coding remains unclear. In the present work we combined behavioral analyses with calcium imaging of odor induced activity in the honeybee AL to evaluate the relevance of this temporal dimension in the olfactory code. We used a new way for evaluation of odor similarity of binary mixtures in behavioral studies, which involved testing whether a match of odor-sampling time is necessary between training and testing conditions for odor recognition during associative learning. Using graded changes in the similarity of the mixture ratios, we found high correlations between the behavioral generalization across those mixtures and a gradient of activation in AL output. Furthermore, short odor stimuli of 500 ms or less affected how well odors were matched with a memory template, and this time corresponded to a shift from a sampling-time-dependent to a sampling-time-independent memory. Accordingly, 375 ms corresponded to the time required for spatiotemporal AL activity patterns to reach maximal separation according to imaging studies. Finally, we compared spatiotemporal representations of binary mixtures in trained and untrained animals. AL activity was modified by conditioning to improve separation of odor representations. These data suggest that one role of reinforcement is to "tune" the AL such that relevant odors become more discriminable.
Presentations
- Person-Rennell, N. (2023). Care for the family unit with Opioid Use Disorder (OUD). NOWS the Time: A Collaborative Care Workshop for the Treatment of Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome. University of Arizona, Tucson.More infoInvited oral presentation on care for families with OUD at conference on neonatal opiate withdrawal syndrome
- Person-Rennell, N. (2023, September). University of Arizona Mobile Health Program Framework for Partner Readiness and Strategic Partnership Building. Mobile Healthcare Association Annual Conference. Pittsburgh, PA.
- Sunderman, K. A., Meehan, E., Person-Rennell, N., Person-Rennell, N., Meehan, E., & Sunderman, K. A. (2023, May). Mobile Health Prenatal Program: Addresses Gaps in Maternity Care for Underserved Patients and Residency Education. 2023 Annual Spring Conference Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. Tampa, FL: Society of Teachers of Family Medicine.
- Person-Rennell, N. (2022, Aug). Community Partnerships: University of Arizona mobile Health Clinic Prenatal and COVID-19 Vaccination Program Partnerships for Care. Mobile Health Association Annual Conference. Phoenix, AZ.
- Person-Rennell, N. (2022, Nov). Management of Biopolar disorder and lactation and
Breastfeeding and Lactation in Jails. The Institute for Advancement of Breastfeeding and Lactation Education (IABLE) Hot Topics in Breastfeeding Medicine Conference. Phoenix, Arizona: IABLE. - Person-Rennell, N., & Galewyrick, S. (2019, May). In Our Hands: A primary care procedures elective teaches students the scope and role of family medicine. STFM Spring Conference.