Nicole Person-Rennell

Interests

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.

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.

Courses

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Scholarly Contributions

Journals/Publications

• Werts-Pelter, S. J., Choi, B., Mallahan, S., Person-Rennell, N., & Allen, A. M. (2024). Acceptability of Hormonal Contraceptives as a Smoking Cessation Aid for Women of Reproductive Age: A Web-Based Cross-Sectional Survey. Women's Health Reports. doi:10.1089/whr.2023.0130
• Person-Rennell, N. (2013). Midwives' identification of and response to domestic violence during pregnancy in the UK: An analysis of midwives' accounts including barriers encountered. APHA presentation.
• Truitt, F., Pina, B., Person-Rennell, N., & Angstman, K. (2013). Outcomes for collaborative care versus routine care in the management of postpartum depression. Quality in Primary Care, 21(3).
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  Background: Even with routine screening, women diagnosed with postpartum depression (PPD) often experience delays in treatment with consequences affecting mother, infant, families and communities. A collaborative care management (CCM) approach may provide more timely, effective and higher quality of care for women suffering from postpartum depression. Aims: This study compared the outcomes of women diagnosed with depression within a year of giving birth, comparing management using a collaborative care model with routine primary care. Methods: In a retrospective quantitative cohort pilot study (n = 78), the outcomes of days to first follow-up, one-year healthcare utilisation, remission rates and other quality metrics were investigated. Results Those who were managed with CCM had fewer days to first follow-up (6.1 versus 31.4; P
• Hammer, R., Jones, T., Hussain, F., Bringe, K., Harvey, R., Person-Rennell, N., & Newman, J. (2010). Students as resurrectionists--A multimodal humanities project in anatomy putting ethics and professionalism in historical context.. Anatomical sciences education, 3(5). doi:10.1002/ase.174
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  Because medical students have many different learning styles, the authors, medical students at Mayo Clinic, College of Medicine researched the history of anatomical specimen procurement, reviewing topic-related film, academic literature, and novels, to write, direct, and perform a dramatization based on Robert Louis Stevenson's The Body-Snatcher. Into this performance, they incorporated dance, painting, instrumental and vocal performance, and creative writing. In preparation for the performance, each actor researched an aspect of the history of anatomy. These micro-research projects were presented in a lecture before the play. Not intended to be a research study, this descriptive article discusses how student research and ethics discussions became a theatrical production. This addition to classroom and laboratory learning addresses the deep emotional response experienced by some students and provides an avenue to understand and express these feelings. This enhanced multimodal approach to"holistic learning" could be applied to any topic in the medical school curriculum, thoroughly adding to the didactics with history, humanities, and team dynamics.
• 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.1874-09.2009
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  Odors 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

• Casillas, P., Person-Rennell, N., Sunderman, K. A., & Meehan, E. (2024, May). Evaluating and Improving Pregnancy Care for Underserved Patients in a Mobile Resident Clinic. Society of Teachers in Family Medicine (STFM) Annual Spring Conference. Los Angeles, CA: Society of Teachers in Family Medicine (STFM).
• Meehan, E., Casillas, P., Cagno, C. K., Aldulaimi, S., Sunderman, K. A., Person-Rennell, N., Kolman, K. B., Kolman, K. B., Person-Rennell, N., Sunderman, K. A., Aldulaimi, S., Cagno, C. K., Casillas, P., & Meehan, E. (2024, May).

  Enhanced Curriculum and Improved Resident Competency within FM-Obstetrics in a Multi-Clinic System

  . Society of Teachers in Family Medicine (STFM) Annual Spring Conference. Los Angeles, CA: Society of Teachers in Family Medicine (STFM).
• Person-Rennell, N. (2023). Pregnancy, Addicaton, and Parenting Newborns (PAPN) presentation on FM care for maternity and PP families with SUD- panelist 5/16/2023, and 6/20/2023 with upcoming presentation in 2024 as well. PAPN Meeting.
• Meehan, E., Sunderman, K. A., Person-Rennell, N., Person-Rennell, N., Sunderman, K. A., & Meehan, E. (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. (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.
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  Invited 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.
• 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.