Liza Creel, PhD

Research Interests

I am a health services researcher with expertise in health policy research and economic analyses. My research is in the areas of maternal and child health, organizational collaboration within the healthcare and social service systems, and policy evaluation as it relates to impacts on cost, quality, and access. I currently serve as PI and Co-I on several studies, including a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation supported grant to examine cross-sector alignment among organizations serving pregnant and parenting women in recovery.

Publications

• Studts CR, Jacobs JA, Bush ML, Lowman J, Westgate PM, Creel LM. Behavioral Parent Training for Families With Young Deaf or Hard of Hearing Children Followed in Hearing Health Care. J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2022 Oct 17;65(10):3646-3660. PubMed PMID: 35985319
• Starr NC, Creel L, Harryman C, Gupta N. Cost Utility Analysis of Costal Cartilage Autografts and Human Cadaveric Allografts in Rhinoplasty. Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol. 2022 Oct;131(10):1123-1129. PubMed PMID: 34779266
• Studts CR, Jacobs JA, Bush ML, Lowman J, Creel LM, Westgate PM. Study Protocol: Type 1 Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Trial of a Behavioral Parent Training Intervention for Parents of Young Children Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. Am J Speech Lang Pathol. 2022 May 10;31(3):1163-1178. PubMed PMID: 35316091
• Lohr WD, Jawad K, Feygin Y, Le J, Creel L, Pasquenza N, Williams PG, Jones VF, Myers J, Davis DW. Antipsychotic Medications for Low-Income Preschoolers: Long Duration and Psychotropic Medication Polypharmacy. Psychiatr Serv. 2022 May;73(5):510-517. PubMed PMID: 34470507
• White KB, Resmondo ZN, Jennings JC, Creel LM, Kelly Pryor BN. A social network analysis of interorganisational collaboration: Efforts to improve social connectedness. Health Soc Care Community. 2022 Nov;30(6):e6067-e6079. PubMed PMID: 36181388
• Studts CR, Jacobs JA, Bush ML, Lowman J, Westgate PM, Creel LM. Behavioral Parent Training for Families With Young Deaf or Hard of Hearing Children Followed in Hearing Health Care. J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2022 Oct 17;65(10):3646-3660. PubMed PMID: 35985319
• Wattles BA, Vidwan NK, Feygin Y, Jawad KS, Creel LM, Smith MJ. Antibiotic prescribing to Kentucky Medicaid children, 2012-2017: Prescribing is higher in rural areas. J Rural Health. 2022 Mar;38(2):427-432. PubMed PMID: 33978987
• Le J, Jawad K, Feygin Y, Lohr WD, Creel L, Jones VF, Schultz KV, Stevenson MD, Kong M, Davis DW. Examination of U.S. national rates of emergency department visits and hospitalizations for depression and suicidal behaviors after the release of the 13 Reasons Why Netflix series by demographic characteristics. J Affect Disord. 2022 Aug 15;311:508-514. PubMed PMID: 35636515
• Bush M, Hatfield M, Schuh M, Balasuriya B, Mahairas A, Jacobs J, Studts C, Westgate P, Schoenberg N, Shinn J, Creel L. Communities Helping the Hearing of Infants by Reaching Parents (CHHIRP) through patient navigation: a hybrid implementation effectiveness stepped wedge trial protocol. BMJ Open. 2022 Apr 19;12(4):e054548. PubMed PMID: 35440449
• Vu GT, Little BB, Esterhay RJ, Jennings JA, Creel L, Gettleman L. Oral health-related quality of life in US adults with type 2 diabetes. J Public Health Dent. 2022 Jan;82(1):79-87. PubMed PMID: 34859441
• Le J, Jawad K, Feygin Y, Lohr WD, Creel L, Jones VF, Schultz KV, Stevenson MD, Kong M, Davis DW. Examination of U.S. national rates of emergency department visits and hospitalizations for depression and suicidal behaviors after the release of the 13 Reasons Why Netflix series by demographic characteristics. J Affect Disord. 2022 Aug 15;311:508-514. PubMed PMID: 35636515
• Studts CR, Jacobs JA, Bush ML, Lowman J, Creel LM, Westgate PM. Study Protocol: Type 1 Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Trial of a Behavioral Parent Training Intervention for Parents of Young Children Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. Am J Speech Lang Pathol. 2022 May 10;31(3):1163-1178. PubMed PMID: 35316091
• Vu GT, Little BB, Esterhay RJ, Jennings JA, Creel L, Gettleman L. Oral health-related quality of life in US adults with type 2 diabetes. J Public Health Dent. 2022 Jan;82(1):79-87. PubMed PMID: 34859441
• Starr NC, Creel L, Harryman C, Gupta N. Cost Utility Analysis of Costal Cartilage Autografts and Human Cadaveric Allografts in Rhinoplasty. Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol. 2022 Oct;131(10):1123-1129. PubMed PMID: 34779266
• Wattles B, Vidwan N, Ghosal S, Feygin Y, Creel L, Myers J, Woods C, Smith M. Cefdinir Use in the Kentucky Medicaid Population: A Priority for Outpatient Antimicrobial Stewardship. J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc. 2021 Mar 26;10(2):157-160. PubMed PMID: 31822897
• Lohr WD, Jawad K, Feygin Y, Le J, Creel L, Pasquenza N, Williams PG, Jones VF, Myers J, Davis DW. Antipsychotic Medications for Low-Income Preschoolers: Long Duration and Psychotropic Medication Polypharmacy. Psychiatr Serv. 2022 May;73(5):510-517. PubMed PMID: 34470507
• Wattles BA, Vidwan NK, Feygin Y, Jawad KS, Creel LM, Smith MJ. Antibiotic prescribing to Kentucky Medicaid children, 2012-2017: Prescribing is higher in rural areas. J Rural Health. 2022 Mar;38(2):427-432. PubMed PMID: 33978987
• Davis DW, Feygin Y, Creel L, Kong M, Jawad K, Sun J, Blum NJ, Lohr WD, Williams PG, Le J, Jones VF, Pasquenza N. Epidemiology of Treatment for Preschoolers on Kentucky Medicaid Diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol. 2020 Sep;30(7):448-455. PubMed PMID: 32614247
• Le J, Feygin Y, Creel L, Lohr WD, Jones VF, Williams PG, Myers JA, Pasquenza N, Davis DW. Trends in diagnosis of bipolar and disruptive mood dysregulation disorders in children and youth. J Affect Disord. 2020 Mar 1;264:242-248. PubMed PMID: 32056757
• Yingling ME, Creel LM, Bell BA. Assessing the Healthy People 2020 Objective to Expand Early Treatment Receipt Among a National Sample of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. J Dev Behav Pediatr. 2020 Jun Jul;41(5):359-365. PubMed PMID: 32168260
• Kaferly J, Orsi-Hunt R, Hosokawa P, Sevick C, Creel LM, Mathieu S, Mark Gritz R. Health Differs by Foster Care Eligibility: A Nine-Year Retrospective Observational Study Among Medicaid-Enrolled Children. Acad Pediatr. 2023 Dec 22. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 38142889
• Ghaffari A, Wells R, Creel L, Siañez M. A relational perspective on care coordination. Health Care Manage Rev. 2020 Apr Jun;45(2):96-105. PubMed PMID: 30045099
• Creel LM, Feygin YB, Shipley M, Davis DW, Cole Hall T, Downs C, Hoskins S, Pasquenza N, Duncan SD. A case study on variations in network structure and cross-sector alignment in two local systems serving pregnant and parenting women in recovery. Health Serv Res. 2024 Feb;59 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):e14251. PubMed PMID: 37848179
• Blair LK, Howard J, Peiper NC, Little BB, Taylor KC, Baumgartner R, Creel L, DuPre NC. Residence in urban or rural counties in relation to opioid overdose mortality among Kentucky hospitalizations before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Int J Drug Policy. 2023 Sep;119:104122. PubMed PMID: 37473677
• Wattles BA, Feygin Y, Jawad KS, Stevenson MD, Vidwan NK, Blatt DB, Davis DW, Creel LM, Porter JM, Jones VF, Smith MJ. Use of the Child Opportunity Index to Examine Racial Variations in Outpatient Antibiotic Prescribing to Children. J Pediatr. 2023 Oct;261:113572. PubMed PMID: 37343705

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