Erin Ferguson
Research Data Analyst 3
Human Resources
Chancellor/EVC/FAS

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• Evaluating routine clinical decisions in providing primary care for people living with Alzheimer's Disease or Alzheimer's Related Disorders: using electronic health records to provide timely evidence, NIH, 2024-2027

Publications (21)

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Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase InhibitorsReferral and ConsultationHealthcare DisparitiesPatient-Centered CareTriglyceridesAlzheimer DiseaseCaliforniaCataractSocial WorkProportional Hazards ModelsCognitive DysfunctionHousingCholesterol, HDLPsychiatric NursingDementia

• Can the All of Us sample be reweighted to mirror a nationally representative sample? A comparison of mortality predictors.
  Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) 2026 Wang J, Buto P, Ferguson EL, Chen R, Pederson A, Choi M, Murchland AR, Ackley SF, Blacker D, Hayes-Larson E, Mayeda ER, Glymour MM
• Referral of patients with cognitive impairment to specialty memory care: associations with patient-centered outcomes and specificity of diagnoses.
  American journal of epidemiology 2026 Ferguson EL, Miramontes S, White JS, Possin KL, Chodos A, Xia F, Raphael E, Smith AK, Glymour MM
• Social and Cardiovascular Risk Factors as Predictors of the Progression from Mild Cognitive Impairment to Dementia in a Large EHR Database.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2026 Miramontes S, Ferguson EL, Zimmerman S, Phelps E, Oskotsky B, Oskotsky TT, Capra JA, Tsoy E, Sirota M, Glymour MM
• COVID-19 related brain MRI changes and anticipated long-term dementia risk: A front-door-criterion-inspired approach.
  Annals of epidemiology 2026 Wang J, Ferguson EL, Chen R, Ackley SF, La Joie R, Kornak J, Kelly JD, Estiri H, Hsu J, Blacker D, Glymour MM
• Sociodemographic, health-related, and clinical characteristics and their associations with mortality among All of Us participants compared with the United States general population.
  American journal of epidemiology 2025 Wang J, Ferguson EL, Buto P, Chen R, Pederson A, Choi M, Stokes AC, Blacker D, Glymour MM

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• Diagnostic Reversion in Dementia Care: A Real-World Analysis of Mild Cognitive Impairment Diagnoses Following Dementia in a Large Electronic Medical Record System.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2025 Miramontes S, Khan U, Zimmerman S, Ferguson EL, Mills H, Oskotsky B, Phelps E, Oskotsky TT, Capra AJ, Glymour MM, Sirota M, Tsoy E
• Statin Initiation and Dementia Incidence in a Large Health Care System From 1997 to 2020: A Target Trial Emulation Study.
  Neurology 2025 Zimmerman SC, Choi M, Jiang C, Ferguson EL, Hoffmann TJ, Swinnerton K, Oni-Orisan A, Gilsanz P, Meyers TJ, Choudhary V, Whitmer RA, Risch N, Krauss RM, Schaefer CA, Glymour MM
• Uncertainty in the estimated effects of statin initiation on risk of dementia: using a multiverse analysis to assess sources of variability.
  European journal of epidemiology 2025 Ferguson EL, Zimmerman SC, Jiang C, Choi M, Meyers TJ, Hoffmann TJ, Gilsanz P, Wang J, Oni-Orisan A, Whitmer RA, Risch N, Krauss RM, Patel CJ, Schaefer CA, Glymour MM
• Response to "Comment on 'Independent associations of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglyceride levels with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias' ".
  Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025 Ferguson EL, Hoffmann TJ, Oni-Orisan A, Risch N, Krauss RM, Schaefer CA, Glymour M
• Identifying and Addressing Housing Insecurity in Older Patients: Trends, Referrals, and Inequities in a California Medical System.
  The Gerontologist 2025 Ferguson EL, Mehta S, Miramontes S, Choi M, Kim YJ, Hill-Jarrett TG, Cevallos N, Yang Y, Zimmerman SC, Chen R, Kim MH, Sims KD, Schwartz GL
• Sociodemographic modifiers of effects of statin initiation on dementia incidence: An emulated trial design in a large health care member population with 10+ years of follow-up.
  Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025 Choi M, Zimmerman SC, Jiang C, Wang J, Swinnerton K, Hoffmann TJ, Oni-Orisan A, Ferguson EL, Meyers T, Choudhary V, Whitmer RA, Risch N, Krauss RM, Schaefer CM, Glymour MM, Gilsanz P
• Independent associations of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglyceride levels with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
  Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025 Ferguson EL, Zimmerman SC, Jiang C, Choi M, Meyers TJ, Hoffmann TJ, Gilsanz P, Oni-Orisan A, Wang J, Whitmer RA, Risch N, Krauss RM, Schaefer CA, Glymour MM
• Cholesterol Variability and Dementia Risk: Finding Meaning in the Ups and Downs.
  Neurology 2025 Ferguson EL, Krauss RM, Schaefer CA
• Extracting Housing and Food Insecurity Information From Clinical Notes Using cTAKES.
  Health services research 2025 Kim MH, Miramontes S, Mehta S, Schwartz GL, Kim YJ, Yang Y, Hill-Jarrett TG, Cevallos N, Chen R, Glymour MM, Ferguson EL, Zimmerman SC, Choi M, Sims KD
• The association of cholesterol levels with memory and memory change over a 14-year period in a US national cohort.
  Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2025 Miramontes S, Khan U, Ferguson EL, Sirota M, Glymour MM
• Visual Impairment, Eye Conditions, and Diagnoses of Neurodegeneration and Dementia.
  JAMA network open 2024 Ferguson EL, Thoma M, Buto PT, Wang J, Glymour MM, Hoffmann TJ, Choquet H, Andrews SJ, Yaffe K, Casaletto K, Brenowitz WD
• Comparison of approaches to control for intracranial volume in research on the association of brain volumes with cognitive outcomes.
  Human brain mapping 2024 Wang J, Hill-Jarrett T, Buto P, Pederson A, Sims KD, Zimmerman SC, DeVost MA, Ferguson E, Lacar B, Yang Y, Choi M, Caunca MR, La Joie R, Chen R, Glymour MM, Ackley SF
• Low- and High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol and Dementia Risk Over 17 Years of Follow-up Among Members of a Large Health Care Plan.
  Neurology 2023 Ferguson EL, Zimmerman SC, Jiang C, Choi M, Swinnerton K, Choudhary V, Meyers TJ, Hoffmann TJ, Gilsanz P, Oni-Orisan A, Whitmer RA, Risch N, Krauss RM, Schaefer CA, Glymour MM
• Metformin Cessation and Dementia Incidence.
  JAMA network open 2023 Zimmerman SC, Ferguson EL, Choudhary V, Ranatunga DK, Oni-Orisan A, Hayes-Larson E, Duarte Folle A, Mayeda ER, Whitmer RA, Gilsanz P, Power MC, Schaefer C, Glymour MM, Ackley SF
• Contribution of life course cardiovascular risk factors to racial disparities in dementia incidence.
  Frontiers in dementia 2023 Ferguson EL, Vittinghoff E, Zeki Al Hazzouri A, Allen N, Fitzpatrick A, Yaffe K
• The association between prescription drug monitoring programs and controlled substance prescribing: a cross-sectional study using data from 2019 National Electronic Health Records Survey.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2023 Mehta S, Brown W, Ferguson E, Najera J, Pantell MS