Julie Womack, PhD, CNM, FNP-BC, FAAN, FACNM
About
Julie A. Womack, PhD, CNM, FNP-BC, FAAN, FACNM is an associate professor at the Yale School of Nursing and a Health Sciences Researcher at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, CT. Her undergraduate degree is from Stanford University where she majored in Comparative Religions. She received a Master’s Degree from Stanford in International Development Education. She has a subsequent Master’s Degree in Nursing (midwifery) from Yale School of Nursing and a post-Master’s from Vanderbilt University School of Nursing (family nurse practitioner). She received her PhD in Nursing from Yale University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Informatics at VHA Connecticut, West Haven Campus.
Research Interests/Clinical Practice
Research Interests
Dr. Womack’s research focuses on HIV and aging with a focus on conditions that disproportionally affect women such as falls, frailty, and functional disability. She is particularly interested in the use of informatics tools to facilitate research on these and other patient-centered outcomes.
Clinical Practice
Dr. Womack maintains a clinical practice at the Nathan Smith Clinic where she provides primary and specialty HIV care to patients living with HIV.
Selected Publications/Presentations
Publications
Kidwai-Khan, F., Wang, R., Skanderson, M., Brandt, C.A., Fodeh, S., Womack, J.A. (2024). A Roadmap to Artifical Intelligence (AI): Methods for Designing and Building AI ready Data to Promote Fairness. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. In press.
Carson, H., Wang, K.H., Paek, H., Hoffman, P., Arakaki, A., Gonzalez-Colaso, R., Aoun-Barakat, L., Womack, J.A. (2023). Equity and use of telehealth modalities among people living with HIV during COVID-19 pandemic. Digital Health. 9: 20552076231218840. PMID 38107977.
Smith, A., Goulet, J.L., Vlahov, D., Justice, A.C., Womack, J.A. (2023) Risk Factors for suicide among Veterans living with and without HIV: a nested case-control study. AIDS and Behavior. 28(1):115-124. PMID 37751112.
Womack, J.A., Murphy, T.E., Leo-Summers, L., Kidwai-Khan, F., Skanderson, M., Gill, T.M., Gulanski, B., Rodriguez-Barradas, M.C., Tien, P.C., Yin, M.T., Hsieh, E. (2023). Perfomance of a modified Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX) for fragility fracture prediction among older Veterans living with HIV. AIDS. 37(9):1399-1407. PMID: 37070536.
Lendvai, D.L., Whittemore, R., Womack, J.A., Fortier, C.B., Milberg, W., Fonda, J.R. (2023). The Impact of blast exposure - with or without traumatic brain injury - on metabolic abnormalities in post - 9/11 Veterans. Journal of Head Trauma and Rehabilitation. doi: 10. 1097/HTR. 0000000000000874. PMID: 36951458.
Womack, J.A., Murphy, T.E., Leo-Summers, L., Bates, J., Jarad, S., Smith, A.C., Gill, T.M., Hsieh, E., Rodriguez-Barradas, M.C., Tien, P.C., Yin, M.T., Brandt, C.A., Justice, A.C. (2023). Assessing the contributions of modifiable risk factors to serious falls and fragility fractures among older persons living with HIV. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.18304
Goulet, J.L., Warren, A., Workman, T.E., Skanderson, M., Gordon, K.S., Abel, E.A, Akgün, K., Bean-Mayberry B., Zeng-Treitler, Q., Haskell, S., Bastian, L.A., Womack, J.A., Post, L.A., Hwang, U., Brandt, C.A. (2023). Variation in Firearm Screening and Documentation in Emergency Visits by Sexual and Gender Diverse Veterans. Academic Emergency Medicine. 30:420-423.
Womack, J.A.,Murphy, T.E., Rentsch, C.T., Tate, J.P., Bathulapalli, H., Smith, A.C., Bates, J., Jarad, S., Gibert, C.L., Rodriguez-Barradas, M.C., Tien, P.C., Yin, M.T., Gill, T.M., Friedlaender, G., Brandt, C.A., Justice, A.C. (2019). Polypharmacy, hazardous alcohol and illicit substance use and serious falls among PLWH and uninfected comparators. (2019). JAIDS, In press.
Womack, J.A.,Novick, G., Fried, T. The beginning of the end: a qualitative study of falls among HIV+ individuals. (2018). PLoS One, 13(11):e0207006.
Carnevale, C., Zucker, J., Womack, J.A., Dixon, J., Cohall, A. Sobieszczyk, M., Gordon, P. (2018). Adolescent PrEP administration: An education curriculum for providers. Journal of Pediatric HealthCare, 33(3), 288-295.
Justice, A.C., Gordon, K.S., Skanderson, M., Edelman, E.J., Akgun, K.M., Gibert, C.L., Lo Re V.III, Rimland D., Womack, J.A.,Wyatt, C.M., Tate, J.P. (2018) Nonantiretroviral polypharmacy and adverse health outcomes among HIV-infected and uninfected individuals. AIDS,32(6), 739 – 749.
Womack, J.A.,Murphy, T.E., Bathulapalli, H., Akgün, K.M., Gibert, C., Kunisak,i K.M., Rodriguez-Barradas, M., Yaggi, H.K., Justice, A.C., Redeker, N.S. (2017). Trajectories of Sleep Disturbance Severity in HIV-Infected and Uninfected Veterans. J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care, 28(3), 431-437.
Womack, J.A.,Murphy, T.E., Bathulapalli, H., Akgun, K.M., Gibert, C., Kunisaki, K.M., Rimland, D., Rodriguez-Barradas, M., Yaggi, H.K., Justice, A.C., Redeker, N.S. (2016). Sleep disturbance among HIV infected and uninfected Veterans. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr, 74(4), e117 – e120.
Akgün, K.M., Tate, J.P., Oursler, K.K., Crystal, S., Leaf, D.A., Womack, J.A., Brown, T.T., Justice, A.C., Crothers, K. (2016). Association of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with frailty measurements in HIV infected and uninfected Veterans. AIDS (London, England), 30(14), 2185-93.
Yin, M.T., Shiau, S., Rimland, D., Gibert, C.L., Bedimo, R.J., Rodriguez-Barradas, M.C., Harwood, K., Aschheim, J., Justice, A.C., Womack, J.A. (2016). Fracture prediction with modified-FRAX in older HIV-infected and uninfected men. Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes,72(5), 513-20.
Goulet, J.L., Martinello, R.A., Bathulapalli, H., Higgins, D., Driscoll, M.A., Brandt, C.A., & Womack, J.A. (2014). STI diagnosis and HIV testing among OEF/OIF/OND Veterans. Medical Care, 52(12), 1064-7.
Womack, J.A., Chang, C.C.H., So-Armah, K.A., Alcorn, C., Baker, J.V., Brown, S.T., Budoff, M., Butt, A.A., Gibert, C., Goetz, M.B., Gottdiener, J., Gottlieb, S., Justice, A.C., Leaf, D., McGinnis, K., Rimland, D., Rodriguez-Barradas, M.C., Sico, J., Skanderson, M., Tindle, H., Tracy, R.P., Warner, A., Freiberg, M.S. (2014). HIV infection and cardiovascular disease in women. Journal of the American Heart Association, 3(5), e001035.
Womack, J.A., Brandt, C.A., Justice, A.C. (2014). Primary care of women aging with HIV. Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health,60(2), 146-57.
Womack, J.A., Brandt, C.A., Justice, A.C. (2014). Women, aging, and HIV: Clinical issues and management strategies. Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 10(6), 409-416.
Akgun, K.M., Tate, J.P., Crothers, K., Crystal, S., Leaf, D.A., Womack, J., Brown, T.T., Justice, A.C., Oursler, K.K. (2014). An adapted frailty-related phenotype and the VACS Index as predictors of hospitalization and mortality in HIV-infected and uninfected individuals. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr, 67(4), 397-404.
Selected Presentations
Womack, J.A. and Justice, A.C. Multimorbidity among women aging with HIV. NIH Scientific Workshop on HIV and Women. March 21-22, 2024. Bethesda, MD.
Womack, J.A. Quality of life among women aging with HIV. Invited talk: Women’s Research Initiative on HIV/AIDS. May 2019. La Jolla, California.
Womack, J.A. Aging among HIV+ women. Invited talk: 14thGraying of HIV Conference. March, 2019. Baltimore, MD.
Womack, J.A. (2012). Women, Aging, and HIV. Invited talk. 2nd International workshop on HIV & Women, from Adolescence through Menopause. January 2012. Bethesda, Maryland.
Womack, J.A., Goulet, J.L., Gibert, C., Brandt, C., Fraenkel, L., Gulanski, B., Mattocks, K., Rimland, D., Rodriguez-Barradas, M., Tate, J., Yin, M., and Justice, A.C. for the VACS Project Team. (2010). HIV Infection and Fragility Fractures among Male Veterans. Oral Presentation at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), February, 2010, San Francisco, CA.
Selected Books/Chapters
Scotch, M., Brandt, C.A., Leung, S., Womack, J.A.(2016). Natural language processing for understanding contraceptive use at the VA. Annals of Information Science, 19, 249-259.