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Karen A. Bonuck, Ph.D.
- Professor, Department of Family and Social Medicine
- Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women's Health
- Professor, Department of Pediatrics (Developmental Medicine)
Area of research
- -Promoting healthy sleep & screening for sleep problems in young children -Co-occurrence of sleep, language and related disorders -Inclusion of adults with developmental disabilities (DD) in research. -Early childhood feeding
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Location
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus 1300 Morris Park Avenue Block 418 Bronx, NY 10461
Research Profiles
Professional Interests
My research NIH, MCHB,and foundation funded research has yielded »100 peer-review manuscripts. My research spans RCTs of early childhood feeding and sleep as well as cohort studies, mixed-methods, environmental scan and scoping review methodologies. I have led R01 trials of breastfeeding promotion interventions and healthy sleep in Head Start.
In 2016, I joined the Rose F Kennedy University Center of Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) in 2016 as its Co-Director, shifting my focus to disability research and advocacy. This includes: co-occurrence of sleep, language and related disorders and COVID-related programs and research with persons with DDs. I advocate for Long Covid to be treated as a mass disabling event in blog and medical news posts, and analyzed its US disability burden.
I am currently the PI for “Disability as a Diversity Variable: Reducing Researcher Roadblocks (D2/R3),” funded through the Einstein-Montefiore Institute for Clinical and Translational Research grant [NCATS: 1UM1TR004400 (PIs: Marla Keller MD & Mimi Kim ScD)]. This project is particularly timely, given the NIH’s designation of persons with disabilities as a health disparities population with health disparities in Fall 2023. D2/R3 is a mixed-methods, PWDD-engaged study of researcher-level perceived barriers and capacity to conduct disability-inclusive research.
In addition to my scholarly work and advocacy, I teach in the LEND core curriculum and Einstein College of Medicine’s new multi-year Impact course.
Active / Recent Projects
Bonuck K (PI of ICTR Project E); 1UM1TR004400 (PIs: Keller & Kim) National Center for Advancing Translational Science (2023-2030). Disablity as Diversity: Reducing Researcher Roadblocks
Bonuck (PI; J Siegel Co-PI); 90DDUC0095 2023-2028; DHHS Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (2003-2008) University Center of Excellence on Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD)
Bonuck (PI; J Siegel Co-PI) DOH01-RTATC-2019 New York State Department of Health Regional Support Centers for the Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN)
Bonuck (PI; J Siegel Co-PI) DDP01-T00021GG-1100200. (2021-2023) New York State Developmental Disabilities Planning Council Engage & Educate: Equipping NY State’s Disability Community with Science-Based Information on Vaccines
Bonuck (PI) R01HD082129 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (2015-2020) Increasing Sleep Health Literacy in Head Start: A Social-Ecological Approach.
Selected Publications
PAST 5 YEARS (see all: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_NZsuWsAAAAJ&hl=en)
Bonuck K, Gao Q, Congdon S, Kim R. Long COVID Disability Burden in US Adults: YLDs and NIH Funding Relative to Other Conditions. Preprint in medRxiv. Janaury 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.01.09.24301057
Siegel J, McGrath K, Muniz E, Siasoco V, Chandan P, Noonan E, Bonuck K. Infusing Intellectual and Developmental Disability Training into Medical School Curriculum: A Pilot Intervention. MedEd Online. 2023; 28 (1)
Mann M, Harary D, Louis S, Wang T, Bonuck K, Isasi CR, Charron MJ, Fuloria M. Association of parent-child interactions with parental psychological distress and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Pediatrics. 2023 Jun 23;11:115021
Whitney K, Felt B, Collins-Anderson A, Bonuck K. The Feasibility of Screening for Sleep Problems in Early Childhood Education Programs. Behavioral Sleep Medicine. 2023; Feb 7: 1-11.
Steele M, Steele H, Bonuck K, Meissner P, Murphy A. Self-Reported Data Are Not Sufficient in a RCT comparing preventive interventions to one another both aimed at Improving the mother-toddler relationship. Current Research in Psychology and Behavioral Science. 2023 9 May
Bonuck K, Iadarola S, Gao Q, Siegel JF. COVID-19 Vaccines for Children with Developmental Disabilities: Survey of New York State Parents' Willingness and Concerns [published online ahead of print, 2022 Sep 2]. J Dev Behav Pediatr. 2022; 43 (9): 521-528
Bonuck K, Collins-Anderson A, Schechter CB, Felt BT, Chervin RD. Effects of a Sleep Health Education Program for Children and Parents on Child Sleep Duration and Difficulties: A Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2022;5(7):e2223692.
Sanders J, Sturley R, Pilar R, Asato M, Sillau S, Aravamuthan B, Cervenka M, Hammond M, Bonuck K, Siegel J, Siasoco V, Margolis B. Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Behavioral Health of People with Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities. Psychiatric Services. June 23, 2022
Bonuck K, McGrath K, Shafer V, Battino R, Valicenti-McDermott, Sussman. Scoping Review of Language Disorders Research: Bilingualism, School-Age, and Related Difficulties. Academic Pediatrics. December 8, 2021 (online)
Iadarola, S., Siegel, J. F., Gao, Q., McGrath, K, Bonuck K. COVID-19 Vaccine Perceptions in New York State’s Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Community. Disability and Health Journal. 2021; Jul 31;101178. doi: 10.1016/j.dhjo.2021.101178
Brezel E, Hallas-Muchow L, Shipchandler A, Hall-Lande J, Bonuck K. Parents Beliefs Regarding Shared Reading with Infants. Developmental Disabilities Network Journal. 2021; Fall 2 (1): 55-60
Bonuck K, Battino R, Barresi I, McGrath K. Sleep Problem Screening of Young Children by Speech-Language Pathologists: A Mixed-Methods Feasibility Study. Autism & Developmental Language Impairment. 2021; August (6):1-12
McGrath K, Bonuck K, Mann M. Exploratory spatial analysis of autism rates in New York school districts: role of sociodemographic and language differences. J Neurodev Disord. 2020 Dec 16;12(1):35. doi: 10.1186/s11689-020-09338-x. PMID: 33327937; PMCID: PMC7745507
Bonuck K, McGrath K, Gao Q. National Parent Survey 2017: Worries, hopes, and child well-being. J Community Psychol. 2020 Nov;48(8):2532-2551. doi: 10.1002/jcop.22434. Epub 2020 Aug 25. PMID: 32840885
Karasz A SM, DeSilva N, Khurshid A, Bonuck K, Ramachandran U. Contextual Influences on Child Feeding in Two South Asian Immigrant Groups. International Journal of Child Health and Nutrition. 2020;9(2).
Bonuck K, Hill L. Special Education Disparities Are Social Determinants of Health: A Role For Medical-Legal Partnerships. Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action. 2020; 14 (2) Summer
Bonuck K, Collins-Anderson A, Ashkinaze J, Karasz A, Schwartz A. Environmental Scan of Sleep Health in Early Childhood Programs. Behavioral Sleep Medicine; 2019; July 18: 1-13
Steele H, Murphy A, Bonuck K, Meissner P, Steele M. Randomized controlled trial report on the effectiveness of Group Attachment-Based Intervention (GABI Ó): Improvement in the parent-child relationship not seen in the control group. Development and Psychopathology. 2019; Feb: 203-217