Cristy Geno Rasmussen, PhD

Assistant Professor, Pediatrics-Barbara Davis Center


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Graduate School
  • MPH, University of Northern Colorado (1999)
Undergraduate School
  • BS, University of Missouri (MO) (1995)
Department
Pediatrics-Barbara Davis Center

Publications

  • Assessment of nutrition and physical activity practices using self-report and observation in early care and education across multiple US states. Smith TM, Blaser C, Geno Rasmussen C, Shuell J, Plumlee C, Yaroch AL. Public Health Nutr. 2017 Jun;20(9):1692-1698. doi: 10.1017/S1368980017000155. Epub 2017 Mar 6. PMID: 28262079
  • Improving Nutrition and Physical Activity Policies and Practices in Early Care and Education in Three States, 2014-2016. Smith TM, Blaser C, Geno-Rasmussen C, Shuell J, Plumlee C, Gargano T, Yaroch AL. Prev Chronic Dis. 2017 Aug 31;14:E73. doi: 10.5888/pcd14.160513. PMID: 28858606
  • Ms. No.: PMEDR-17-38R2 Title: Meals for Good: An Innovative Community Project to Provide Healthy Meals to Children in Early Care and Education Programs through Food Bank Catering Corresponding Author: Ms. Leah R Carpenter Authors: Teresa M Smith, PhD, MS; Katherine Stern, MPH; Lisa Weissenburger-Moser Boyd, PhD; Cristy Rasmussen, PhD, MPH; Kelly Schaffer, Ed.M; Julie Shuell, MPA; Karen Broussard; Amy Yaroch, PhD
  • Alethea Chiappone*, MPH, MSW; Teresa M. Smith, PhD, MS, Paul A. Estabrooks, PhD2, Cristy Geno Rasmussen PhD, MPH; Casey Blaser, MS, Amy L Yaroch, PhD; The role of technical assistance on changes to nutrition and physical activity practices in the National Early Care and Education Learning Collaboratives Project, 2015-2016 Preventing Chronic Disease
  • Smith TM, Blaser C, Geno-Rasmussen C, Shuell J, Plumlee C, Gargano T, Yaroch AL. Improving Nutrition and Physical Activity Policies and Practices in Early Care and Education in Three States, 2014-2016. Prev Chronic Dis. 2017 Aug 31;14:E73. PubMed PMID: 28858606
  • Chiappone A, Smith TM, Estabrooks PA, Rasmussen CG, Blaser C, Yaroch AL. Technical Assistance and Changes in Nutrition and Physical Activity Practices in the National Early Care and Education Learning Collaboratives Project, 2015-2016. Prev Chronic Dis. 2018 Apr 26;15:E47. PubMed PMID: 29704371
  • Carpenter LR, Smith TM, Stern K, Boyd LW, Rasmussen CG, Schaffer K, Shuell J, Broussard K, Yaroch AL. Meals for Good : An innovative community project to provide healthy meals to children in early care and education programs through food bank catering. Prev Med Rep. 2017 Dec;8:210-214. PubMed PMID: 29159015
  • Smith, T., Blaser, C., Geno-Rasmussen, C., Shuell, J., Plumlee, C., Gargano, T., and Yaroch, A. Preventing Chronic Disease Real world implementation of a project aimed to improve nutrition and physical activity policies and practices in early care and education across three states, 2014 - 2016
  • Kathleen Waugh, Brigitte I. Frohnert, Marian Rewers, Judith Baxter, Cristy R. Geno Rasmussen. Reporting History of Diabetes Symptoms and Random Blood Glucose Testing to Detect Presymptomatic Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) in the General Pediatric Population, American Diabetes Association, 2019.
  • Cristy. R. Geno Rasmussen, Kimberly A. Driscoll, Rachel M. Sippl, Amy C. Alman, Amena Keshawarz, Janet K. Snell-Bergeon. Depressive Symptoms Are Associated with Lower Diabetes Self-Management in Adults with Type 1 Diabetes. American Diabetes Association, 2019.
  • Messer, L., Berget, C., Vigers, T., Pyle, L., Geno, C., Wadwa, P., Driscoll, K., Forlenza, G. Real World Hybrid Closed Loop Discontinuation: Predictors and Perceptions of Youth Discontinuing the 670G System in the First 6 Months. Pediatric Diabetes.
  • Laura Messer, Cari Berget, Tim Vigers, Laura Pyle, Cristy Geno, R. Paul Wadwa, Kimberly A. Driscoll, Gregory P. Forlenza. Real world hybrid closed-loop discontinuation: Predictors and perceptions of youth discontinuing the 670G system in the first 6 months. Pediatrics Diabetes 2019 Dec 29; https://doi.org/10.1111/pedi.12971
  • Marisa Stahl, Cristy Geno Rasmussen, Fran Dong, Kathleen Waugh, Jill M. Norris, Judith Baxter, Liping Yu, Andrea K. Steck, Brigitte I. Frohnert, Edwin Liu, and Marian J. Rewers, and the ASK Study Group. Mass Screening for Celiac Disease: The Autoimmunity Screening for Kids Study Am J Gastroenterol. 2020 Jul 22. doi: 10.14309/ajg.0000000000000751.
  • R. Brett McQueen, Cristy Geno Rasmussen, Kathleen Waugh, Brigitte I. Frohnert, Andrea K. Steck, Liping Yu, Judith Baxter, and Marian Rewers. Cost and Cost-effectiveness of Large-scale Screening for Type 1 Diabetes in Colorado Diabetes Care 2020 Jul; 43(7): 1496-1503.
  • Jia X, He L, Miao D, Waugh K, Geno Rasmussen C, Dong F, Steck AK, Rewers M, Yu L. High-affinity ZnT8 autoantibodies by electrochemiluminescence assay improve risk prediction for type 1 diabetes. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2021 Aug 3. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 34343303
  • Stahl MG, Geno Rasmussen C, Dong F, Waugh K, Norris JM, Baxter J, Yu L, Steck AK, Frohnert BI, Liu E, Rewers MJ. Mass Screening for Celiac Disease: The Autoimmunity Screening for Kids Study. Am J Gastroenterol. 2021 Jan 1;116(1):180-187. PubMed PMID: 32701732
  • Jia X, Gesualdo P, Geno Rasmussen C, Alkanani AA, He L, Dong F, Rewers MJ, Michels AW, Yu L. Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies in Children and Adults with Type 1 Diabetes. Diabetes Technol Ther. 2021 Jul;23(7):517-521. PubMed PMID: 33544017
  • He L, Jia X, Gu Y, Miao D, Waugh K, Geno C, Liu E, Rewers M, Yu L. Large-Scale Screening in General Population Children for Celiac Disease with a Multiplex Electrochemiluminescence (ECL) Assay. J Immunol Res. 2020;2020:8897656. PubMed PMID: 33426098
  • Cristy Geno Rasmussen, Janet K. Snell-Bergeon, Haley K. Wise, Viral Shah, and Kimberly A. Driscoll. Adult Women with T1D with Clinically Elevated Depression in Need of Intervention to Improve A1C. [abstract]. Diabetes 2021 Jun; 70 (Supplement 1)
  • Cristy Geno Rasmussen, Judith Baxter, Fran Dong, Kimberly A. Bautista, Flor Sepulveda, Daniel Felipe-Morales, and Marian Rewers. Parental Anxiety and Accuracy of Risk Perception upon Receipt of Positive Results of Screening for Presymptomatic Type 1 Diabetes: Autoimmunity Screening for Kids (ASK). [abstract]. Diabetes 2021 Jun; 70 (Supplement 1)
  • Haley K. Wise, Cristy Geno Rasmussen, Viral Shah, Kimberly A. Driscoll and Janet K. Snell-Bergeon.Psychosocial Health Assessment by Sex and Age in Adults with Type 1 Diabetes. [abstract].Diabetes 2021 Jun; 70(Supplement 1)
  • Sims EK, Besser REJ, Dayan C, Geno Rasmussen C, Greenbaum C, Griffin KJ, Hagopian W, Knip M, Long AE, Martin F, Mathieu C, Rewers M, Steck AK, Wentworth JM, Rich SS, Kordonouri O, Ziegler AG, Herold KC. Screening for Type 1 Diabetes in the General Population: A Status Report and Perspective. Diabetes. 2022 Apr 1;71(4):610-623. PubMed PMID: 35316839
  • Emily Malecha, Kimberly A. Driscoll, Viral Shah, Janet K. Snell-Bergeon, Cristy Geno Rasmussen. COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Anxiety and Depression Symptoms among Adults with Type 1 Diabetes. [abstract]. Diabetes 2021 Jun; 70 (Supplement 1)
  • Jia X, Gesualdo P, Geno Rasmussen C, Alkanani AA, He L, Dong F, Rewers MJ, Michels AW, Yu L. Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies in Children and Adults with Type 1 Diabetes. Diabetes Technol Ther. 2021 Jul;23(7):517-521. PubMed PMID: 33544017
  • Drake Giese, Gregory L. Kinney, Cristy Geno Rasmussen, Janet K. Snell-Bergeon, Viral Shah.Cannabis Use, Diabetes Self-Management, and Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) in Adults with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D). [abstract]. Diabetes 2021 Jun; 70(Supplement 1)
  • Ling He, Xiaofan Jia, Dongmei Miao, Cristy Geno Rasmussen, Marian Rewers, Liping Yu. A Complete-Panel Islet Autoantibody Multiplex ECL Assay. [abstract]. Diabetes 2021 Jun; 70(Supplement 1)
  • Rewers M, Bonifacio E, Ewald D, Geno Rasmussen C, Jia X, Pyle L, Ziegler AG. SARS-CoV-2 Infections and Presymptomatic Type 1 Diabetes Autoimmunity in Children and Adolescents From Colorado, USA, and Bavaria, Germany. JAMA. 2022 Sep 27;328(12):1252-1255. PubMed PMID: 35930271
  • Steck AK, Dong F, Geno Rasmussen C, Bautista K, Sepulveda F, Baxter J, Yu L, Frohnert BI, Rewers MJ, Rewers M, Barbour A, Bautista K, Baxter J, Felipe-Morales D, Dong F, Dormond-Brooks P, Driscoll K, Frohnert B, Rasmussen CG, Gesualdo P, Hoffman M, Karban R, Sepulveda F, Shorrosh H, Simmons K, Steck A, Taki I, Waugh K, Yu L, Liu E, Gallant M, McQueen RB, Norris JM. CGM Metrics Predict Imminent Progression to Type 1 Diabetes: Autoimmunity Screening for Kids (ASK) Study. Diabetes Care. 2022 Feb 1;45(2):365-371. PubMed PMID: 34880069
  • Xiaofan Jia, Ling He, Dongmei Miao, Kathleen Waugh, Cristy Geno Rasmussen, Fran Dong, Marian Rewers, Liping Yu. High-Affinity ZnT8 Autoantibodies by Electrochemiluminescence Assay Improve the Risk Prediction for Type 1 Diabetes. [abstract]. Diabetes 2021 Jun; 70(Supplement 1)
  • Cristy Geno Rasmussen, Marisa Stahl, Monique Germone, Judith Baxter, Kathleen Waugh, Brigitte Frohnert, Andrea Steck, Edwin Liu, Liping Yu, Jill Norris, Kimber Simmons, Marian Rewers. Challenges of Translating Public Health Research into Clinical Practice: Autoimmunity Screening for Kids (ASK). Colorado Area Health Education Center, Networking, Education, and Research Virtual Conference 2021.
  • Corrado MM, Jia X, Geno Rasmussen C, Pyle L, Yu L, Liu E, Stahl M, Rewers MJ. Previous SARS-CoV-2 Infection Is Not Associated With Increased Celiac Disease Autoimmunity in Children and Adolescents. Am J Gastroenterol. 2023 Sep 1;118(9):1698-1700. PubMed PMID: 37159249
  • Simmons KMW, Frohnert BI, O'Donnell HK, Bautista K, Geno Rasmussen C, Gerard Gonzalez A, Steck AK, Rewers MJ. Historical Insights and Current Perspectives on the Diagnosis and Management of Presymptomatic Type 1 Diabetes. Diabetes Technol Ther. 2023 Nov;25(11):790-799. PubMed PMID: 37695674
  • Frost HM, Geno Rasmussen C, Shorrosh H, Pyle L, Bautista K, Frohnert BI, Stahl M, Simmons K, Steck AK, Jia X, Yu L, Rewers M. Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies Among Healthy Children From Colorado From 2020 to 2021: A Brief Report. J Prim Care Community Health. 2023 Jan-Dec;14:21501319231189147. PubMed PMID: 37501515
  • Conway RB, Gerard Gonzalez A, Shah VN, Geno Rasmussen C, Akturk HK, Pyle L, Forlenza G, Alonso GT, Snell-Bergeon J. Racial Disparities in Diabetes Technology Adoption and Their Association with HbA1c and Diabetic Ketoacidosis. Diabetes Metab Syndr Obes. 2023;16:2295-2310. PubMed PMID: 37551339
  • O'Donnell HK, Rasmussen CG, Dong F, Simmons KM, Steck AK, Frohnert BI, Bautista K, Rewers MJ, Baxter J. Anxiety and Risk Perception in Parents of Children Identified by Population Screening as High Risk for Type 1 Diabetes. Diabetes Care. 2023 Dec 1;46(12):2155-2161. PubMed PMID: 37673098

Practice Locations

Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes Pediatric Clinic - CU Anschutz Medical Campus
1775 Aurora Ct
Suite A140
Aurora, CO 80045
303-724-2323