Julie Womack, PhD, CNM, FNP-BC, FAAN, FACNM

Julie Womack

Associate Professor of Nursing

Yale School of Nursing - Room 22108

email: julie.womack@yale.edu
phone: 203-737-1488

Ab​out

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 Yale Center for Infectious Disease where she provides primary and specialty HIV care to patients living with HIV and routine women’s health care to eligible patients.

Selected Publications/Presentations

Publications

Womack, J.A., Leblanc, M.M., Sager, A.S., Zaets, L.N., Maisto, S.A., Garcia, A., Barakat, L.A., Brown, S., Edelman, E.J., Fiellin, D., Fisher, J., Fraenkel, L., Kidwai-Khan, F., Marconi, V.C., Martino, S., Pulk, R., Satre, D., Virata, M., Justice, A.C., Hsieh, E. The feasibility and acceptability of a clinical pharmacist-delivered intervention to reduce bothersome health symptoms from polypharmacy and alcohol use among people with HIV: Pilot Study Protocol. AIDS and Behavior. Online ahead of print. doi: 10.1007/s10461-024-04533-6.

Fodeh-Jarad, S., Wang, R., Murphy, T.E., Kidwai-Khan, F., Leo-Summers, L.S., Tessier-Sherman, B., Hsieh, E., Womack, J.A. (2024) BoneScore: A natural language processing algorithm to extract bone mineral density data from DXA Scans. Health Informatics Journal. https://doi.org/10.1177/14604582241295930.

Smith, A., Goulet, J.L., Vlahov, D., Justice, A.C., Womack, J.A. (2024) Self-injurious unnatural death among Veterans with HIV: a nested case-control study. AIDS. 38 (10):1570-1578. PMID: 38814683.

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. 154:104654. PMID: 38740316.

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.

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.