Faculty Directory
Patricia Underwood
Assistant Professor of the Practice
Patricia Underwood
Ph.D., FNP-BC, RN, CDCES
Contact
Maloney Hall 373A
Telephone: 617-552-1846
Email: patricia.underwood@bc.edu
Education
- B.S.N., University of Pennsylvania
- M.S., Nurse Practitioner, Boston College
- Ph.D., Boston College
Research Interests
Identifying biomedical and genetic markers associated with hypertension and diabetes; developing and evaluating nurse-led interventions to improve health outcomes for surgical patients with poorly controlled diabetes
Expertise
- Diabetes
- expertise
Selected Publications
Underwood, P., Hibben, J., Gibson, J., DiNardo, M. (2021). Virtual Visits and the Use of Continuous Glucose Monitoring for Diabetes Care in the Era of COVID-19, Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, accepted- awaiting publication.
Czarnowski, K., Silver, C., Wood, B., Underwood, P., & Patel, D. (2019). Retrospective Analysis of Liraglutide as Add-On Therapy in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Quantifying the Changes in Insulin Requirements. Fed Pract, 36(2), 83-87.
Garg, R., Schuman, B., Bader, A., Hurwitz, S., Turchin, A., Underwood, P., . . . Lortie, M. (2018). Effect of Preoperative Diabetes Management on Glycemic Control and Clinical Outcomes After Elective Surgery. Ann Surg, 267(5), 858-862.
Garg, R., Hurwitz, S., Rein, R., Schuman, B., Underwood, P., & Bhandari, S. (2017). Effect of follow-up by a hospital diabetes care team on diabetes control at one year after discharge from the hospital. Diabetes Res Clin Pract, 133, 78-84.
Garg, R., Metzger, C., Rein, R., Lortie, M., Underwood, P., Hurwitz, S., . . . Schuman, B. (2016). Nurse practitioner-mediated intervention for preoperative control of diabetes in elective surgery patients. J Am Assoc Nurse Pract, 28(10), 528-533.
Underwood, P., Seiden, J., Carbone, K., Chamarthi, B., Turchin, A., Bader, A. M., & Garg, R. (2015). Early Identification of Individuals with Poorly Controlled Diabetes Undergoing Elective Surgery: Improving A1C Testing in the Preoperative Period. Endocr Pract, 21(3), 231-236.
Baudrand, R., Goodarzi, M. O., Vaidya, A., Underwood, P. C., Williams, J. S., Jeunemaitre, X., . . . Pojoga, L. H. (2015). A prevalent caveolin-1 gene variant is associated with the metabolic syndrome in Caucasians and Hispanics. Metabolism, 64(12), 1674-1681.
Wysocki, K., Underwood, P. C., & Kelly-Weeder, S. (2015). An essential piece of nursing's future: The continued development of the nurse practitioner as expert clinician and scientist. J Am Assoc Nurse Pract, 27(4), 178-180.
Underwood, P., Askari, R., Hurwitz, S., Chamarthi, B., & Garg, R. (2014). Preoperative A1C and clinical outcomes in patients with diabetes undergoing major noncardiac surgical procedures. Diabetes Care, 37(3), 611-616. https://doi.org/10.2337/dc13-1929