Kristopher Fennie, MSC, MPH, PHD

Research Scientist and Lecturer

Yale School of Nursing - Rm A280
100 Church Street South
P. O. Box 9740
New Haven, CT 06536
USA

kristopher.fennie@yale.edu

203.785.2057
203.737.4480 fax

About

Teaching:
919a Introduction to Computer-Assisted Data Management and Analysis
917b Advanced Statistics for Clinical Nursing Research

Research interests

Infectious disease epidemiology in disenfranchised populations (HIV, HCV, STIs). Relationship between patient and provider in these populations. Medication adherence to HAART. Measurement issues in adherence. HIV, HCV, and blood borne pathogen education in China.

Research

R01AI57043-A1 Knafl (PI) NIH/NIAID Modelling HIV Subjects' Electronic Monitoring Device Data. Specific AIMS are 1. Identify subperiods within the EMD observation period over which a subject or a group of subjects exhibits distinctly different adherence patterns, 2. Identify the dependence on time and the variability in adherence for a subject or a group of subjects, 3. Identify classes of subjects with distinctly different adherence across those classes and similar adherence within those classes for evaluation of possible differential effects of an intervention across those classes.

Fennie (PI) Yale-Howard Partnership on Reducing Health Disparities Pilot Program. Health care needs of the transgendered. Specific AIMS are: (1)To describe, via interviews, transgender individuals' thoughts, feelings, and experiences of health care, and their level of trust in their healthcare provider; (2)To describe, via interviews, female to male transgendered individual's thoughts, feelings, and experiences of gynaecologic healthcare, and male to female transgendered individual's thoughts, feelings, and experiences of urologic healthcare. (3) To describe, via interviews, health care providers' (who have experience caring for transgender patients) thoughts and ideas on issues of access, trust, and need in the context of the transgender patient; (4)To quantify, through instruments, level of trust between patient and physician, and level of social support; (5) To determine the general interest and acceptance among transgender of a proactive patient-led approach to educating their health care providers.

Fennie (PI) Renfield Foundation. Translation of a Hospice in Prisons Model to a VA Setting. The specific aims are as follows: (1) To collect data on a sample of veterans regarding their thoughts and feelings on death and dying, their feelings on religion and spirituality, and their family and social support networks which will be compared to data collected from the Hospice in Prisons program. (2) To determine the general interest and acceptance among staff and patients of a peer driven hospice care model within Rocky Hill VA; (3) To translate the curriculum for training and the role activities in care giving from the prison model into a VA model.

Pettigrew (PI) Molecular epidemiologic identification of pneumococcal tissue specific genes.
The specific AIMS are: (1) To determine the molecular epidemiology of S. pneumoniae clinical and carriage isolates from children <5 years of age using MLST. (2) To identify tissue specific virulence factors associated with S. pneumoniae strains that cause clinical diseases in children <5 years of age and evaluate their distribution among a large collection of clinical and carriage strains. (3) To evaluate otitis media associated virulence genes (identified in aim 2) in the chinchilla model of otitis media.

Presentations

Knafl G, Fennie K, Bova C, Dieckhaus K, Friedland G, Williams A. Reported HAART Adherence (abstract, poster). 2006 NIMH/IAPAC International conference on HIV treatment adherence. Jersey City, New Jersey. (March 2006).

Ambrosino J, Fennie K, Hendrickson K, Schilling L, Urban A, Insabella G, Lindemann E, and Grey M. Coping Skills Training with Parents of School-Aged Youth with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) Improves Family Functioning (abstract; oral presentation). American Diabetes Association 65th Scientific Sessions, San Diego, Ca (June 2005). Diabetes 54: Sup 1.

Jones KR, Khaled-Makuch G, Fennie KP, O'Sullivan Cynthia, Giamattei A. Transitional Research for Quality Health Outcomes: Affecting Practice and Healthcare Policy (abstract; poster presentation). Eastern Nursing Research Society annual meetings, New York City, April 2005.

Jones KR, Khaled-Makuch G, Fennie KP, O'Sullivan Cynthia, Giamattei A. Identifying Best Practices in Chronic Wound Management (abstract; poster presentation). Symposium in Advances in Wound Care, San Diego, CA, April 2005.

Knafl, G. J., Fennie, K. P., Bova, C. A., Dieckhaus, K., Friedland, G., & Williams, A. B. Electronically monitored adherence for HIV+ subjects from the ATHENA Project (abstract; poster presentation). Eastern Nursing Research Society annual meetings, New York City, April 2005.

Williams A. B., Fennie K. P., Bova C. A., Knafl G. J., Dieckhaus K. D. ATHENA (Adherence Through Home Education and Nursing Assessment): A Randomized Controlled Trial examining the effectiveness of a home nursing and peer intervention designed to improve adherence to HAART (abstract; oral presentation by K. Fennie as well as a poster presentation). Elements of Success: An International Conference on Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy, Dallas, TX, Dec 2004.

Knafl, G., Fennie, K., Bova, C., Dieckhaus, K., Friedland, G., & Williams, A. Adaptive Poisson regression of MEMS adherence data (abstract; oral presentation by G. Knafl as well as a poster presentation). Elements of Success: An International Conference on Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy, Dallas, TX, Dec 2004.

Williams AB, Fennie KP, Bova CA, Knafl GJ, Dieckhaus KD. 2004. ATHENA: A RCT examining the effectiveness of a home-based nursing intervention designed to improve adherence to HAART. XV International AIDS Conference. July 2004. Bangkok, Thailand.

Knafl G, Fennie KP, Bova CA, Dieckhaus K, Williams AB. 2004. An Example Application of New Methods for Analyzing MEMS Cap Data. American Heart Association 2nd Annual Conference on Adherence. May 2004. Washington DC.

Knafl G, Fennie KP, Bova CA, Dieckhaus K, Williams AB. 2004. Adaptive Modeling of Electronic Monitoring Device Data. American Statistical Association Connecticut Chapter. March 2004. NewHaven, Connecticut.

Zulkowski, K., Fennie, K., Lyder C. 2003. Program for the Advancement of Chronic Wound Care (Overview, poster). Society for the Advancement of Wound care, 2003. Las Vegas Nevada

Knafl G, Fennie KP, Bova CA, Dieckhaus K, Williams AB. 2002. Adaptive Poisson Regression Modeling Applied to Electronic Monitoring Device Data. American Public Health Association annual meetings. November 2002. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Bova, C., Fennie, K., Watrous, E. Factors that Influence the development of Patient Trust in Health Care Providers: Development of the Health Care Relationship (HCR) Trust Scale. 15th Scientific Session of the Eastern Nursing Research Society, 2003. New Haven, Connecticut

Wang H, Fennie K, He G, Burgess J, Williams A. A training program for prevention of occupational exposure to blood borne pathogens: Impact on knowledge, behavior and incidence of needle sticks among student nurses in Changsha, China. 2nd Pan-Pacific Nursing Conference. 2002. Hong Kong. November 2002.

Fennie K, Knafl G, Bova C, Dieckhaus K, Williams A. A novel method for visualizing individual electronic monitoring adherence data. XIV International AIDS Conference. 2002. Barcelona Spain.

Bova C, Fennie K, Knafl G, Dieckhaus K, Watrous E, Williams A. Evaluating electronic monitoring device use to measure antiretroviral adherence. XIV International AIDS Conference. 2002. Barcelona Spain.

Bova C, Fennie K, Watrous E, Williams A. Mental illness, substance abuse and antiretroviral adherence. 14th Annual Scientific Sessions of the Easter Nursing Research Society. 2002. University Park PA.

Huang J, Fennie K, Burgess J, Jiang D, Wang X, Liu Y, Williams A. Changing knowledge, behavior and practice related to universal precautions among hospital nurses in Changsha, China. 2nd Pan-Pacific Nursing Conference. 2002. Hong Kong.

Fennie KP, Bova CA, Burgess J, Knafl G, Williams A. Home-based nursing intervention to improve adherence to HAART. APHA National Meeting, Session 5702.0. 2001. Atlanta GA.

Selected awards and honors

Chia Fellowship (Research in China), Yale-China Association 2002.

PEW Research Grant, Urban Health Initiative 1996.

Enders Research Grant, Yale School of Graduate Studies 1995.

Invited Talks

Fennie KP. Translation of Research into Public Health Practice; Needle Exchange:LessonsPerseverance. Chia Conference, Chansha, Hunan, PRC, October 2005.

Fennie KP, Bova CA. Enhancing Adherence: A state of the science meeting on intervention research to improve anti-retroviral adherence. Yale University, November 2005. Invitation only meeting. Workshop and discussion on electronic monitoring data management and analysis issues.

Fennie KP. 2006 NIMH/IAPAC International conference on HIV treatment adherence. Jersey City, New Jersey, March 2006. Censoring in data management and analysis of electronic monitoring data management and analysis.

Citizenship

YSN Diversity Action Committee (co-Chair)

Yale Coalition on Diversity

Yale-China Health Advisory Board

APHA Epidemiology Section Governing Council (2006-2008)

Membership: American College of Epidemiology, Society for Epidemiologic Research, American Public Health Association

“ The poor person does not exist as an inescapable fact of destiny. His or her existence is not politically neutral, and it is not ethically innocent. The poor are a by-product of the system in which we live and for which we are responsible.
As health care workers, we must recognize not just that poor are at increased risk for disease and premature death, but that we must focus on serving the poor and be aware of the asymmetry and the inter-dependence of power and poverty. ”
   G Gutierrez.

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