Rebecca Menza, RN, PhD, ACNP
Assistant Professor
Institute for Health & Aging
School of Nursing

Education & Training

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• PhD Nursing University of California 06/2022
• MS Nursing (ACNP) University of California 06/2006
• BS Nursing University of Vermont 06/1994

Interests

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• music based interventions
• Heart Rate Variability
• critical care
• post intensive care syndrome
• sleep
• complementary integrative health
• trauma informed care
• trauma surgery
• Social Drivers of Health
• Health Equity
• Humanism
• philosophy
• disorders of consciousness
• Language Discordance
• delirium

Publications (19)

Top publication keywords:
Receptors, Adrenergic, beta-1Health Care RationingDuodenal UlcerDonor SelectionAnalgesics, OpioidTrauma CentersCommunication BarriersLung TransplantationWounds and InjuriesTissue DonorsHeart TransplantationBrain DeathGraft SurvivalGastrointestinal HemorrhagePolymorphism, Genetic

• Corrigendum to Surviving traumatic injury, only to die of acute drug poisoning: Should trauma centers be a path for intervention? [Surgery 170 (2021) pp 1249-54].
  Surgery 2023 Bongiovanni T, Hernandez S, Ledesma Y, Menza R, Wick E, Steinman M, Mackersie R, Stein DM, Coffin PO
• The Association of Limited English Proficiency With Morbidity and Mortality After Trauma.
  The Journal of surgical research 2022 Castro MRH, Schwartz H, Hernandez S, Calthorpe L, Fernández A, Stein D, Mackersie RC, Menza R, Bongiovanni T
• Association of Race/Ethnicity With Substance Use Testing After Trauma: A Cross-Sectional Study.
  The Journal of surgical research 2022 Hernandez S, Menza R, Schwartz H, Ledesma Y, Stein DM, Mackersie R, Bongiovanni T
• Limited English Proficiency Associated With Suboptimal Pain Assessment in Hospitalized Trauma Patients.
  The Journal of surgical research 2022 Schwartz H, Menza R, Lindquist K, Mackersie R, Fernández A, Stein D, Bongiovanni T
• Inequity in discharge pain management for trauma patients with limited English proficiency.
  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 2021 Schwartz HEM, Matthay ZA, Menza R, Fernández A, Mackersie R, Stein DM, Bongiovanni T

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• Surviving traumatic injury, only to die of acute drug poisoning: Should trauma centers be a path for intervention?
  Surgery 2021 Bongiovanni T, Hernandez S, Ledesma Y, Menza R, Wick E, Steinman M, Mackersie R, Stein DM, Coffin PO
• A case of unexplained duodenal ulcer and massive gastrointestinal bleed.
  Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry 2020 Luo YR, Goodnough R, Menza R, Badea A, Luu HY, Kornblith LZ, Lynch KL
• Comment on "Consider Culture, Provider Characteristics Associated With Outpatient Opioid Prescribing After Surgery".
  Annals of surgery 2019 Bongiovanni T, Menza R, Wick EC
• Assessment of Heart Transplant Waitlist Time and Pre- and Post-transplant Failure: A Mixed Methods Approach.
  Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) 2016 Goldstein BA, Thomas L, Zaroff JG, Nguyen J, Menza R, Khush KK
• National decline in donor heart utilization with regional variability: 1995-2010.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2015 Khush KK, Zaroff JG, Nguyen J, Menza R, Goldstein BA
• Donor predictors of allograft use and recipient outcomes after heart transplantation.
  Circulation. Heart failure 2013 Khush KK, Menza R, Nguyen J, Zaroff JG, Goldstein BA
• Beta-adrenergic receptor polymorphisms and cardiac graft function in potential organ donors.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2012 Khush KK, Pawlikowska L, Menza RL, Goldstein BA, Hayden V, Nguyen J, Kim H, Poon A, Sapru A, Matthay MA, Kwok PY, Young WL, Baxter-Lowe LA, Zaroff JG
• Electrocardiographic characteristics of potential organ donors and associations with cardiac allograft use.
  Circulation. Heart failure 2012 Khush KK, Menza R, Nguyen J, Goldstein BA, Zaroff JG, Drew BJ
• The 4G/4G genotype of the PAI-1 (serpine-1) 4G/5G polymorphism is associated with decreased lung allograft utilization.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2012 Sapru A, Zaroff JG, Pawlikowska L, Liu KD, Khush KK, Baxter-Lowe LA, Hayden V, Menza RL, Convery M, Lo V, Poon A, Kim H, Young WL, Kukreja J, Matthay MA, DOGMATIC Study Investigators
• Screening for mental illness in a trauma center: rooting out a risk factor for unintentional injury.
  The Journal of trauma 2011 Dicker RA, Mah J, Lopez D, Tran C, Reidy R, Moore M, Kreniske P, Crane I, Knudson MM, Li M, Menza R, Shuway M, Alvidrez J
• Single-nucleotide polymorphisms in the β-adrenergic receptor genes are associated with lung allograft utilization.
  The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation 2011 Sapru A, Pawlikowska L, Liu KD, Khush KK, Ann-Baxter-Lowe L, Hayden V, Menza RL, Convery M, Poon A, Landeck M, Zaroff JG, Matthay MA, DOGMATIC Study Investigators
• Donor cardiac troponin I levels do not predict recipient survival after cardiac transplantation.
  The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation 2007 Khush KK, Menza RL, Babcock WD, Zaroff JG
• Report of the ISHLT Working Group on Primary Lung Graft Dysfunction part III: donor-related risk factors and markers.
  The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation 2005 de Perrot M, Bonser RS, Dark J, Kelly RF, McGiffin D, Menza R, Pajaro O, Schueler S, Verleden GM, ISHLT Working Group on Primary Lung Graft Dysfunction
• Aggressive management of lung donors classified as unacceptable: excellent recipient survival one year after transplantation.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2002 Straznicka M, Follette DM, Eisner MD, Roberts PF, Menza RL, Babcock WD