Publications, Media, and Outcomes

Methods Figure from Longitudinal Profiles of HRV in First-Year College Students Using Wearables - Designed and created by Bryn Loftness using Canva.

Graphical abstract for Expecting the Unexpected: Predicting Panic Attacks from Mood, Twitter, and Apple Watch Data Designed and created by Bryn Loftness using Canva.

'Multimodal surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 at a university enables development of a robust outbreak response framework' was selected as the cover feature article in Cell Med Volume 3, Issue 12. Bryn Loftness* (in collaboration with Parvathy Nair and ThoughtCafé) designed the cover art.

Layout of the KID Study study protocol, administration protocol, and two snapshots from the ChAMP app.

Graphical Abstract for 'Multimodal surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 at a university enables development of a robust outbreak response framework'. Artwork for graphical abstract completed by Bryn Loftness using Biorender.com.

'Analyzing the Impact of a Real-life Outbreak Simulator on Pandemic Mitigation: an Epidemiological Modeling Study' was selected as the cover feature article in Cell Patterns Volume 3, Issue 8.

'Transmission from vaccinated individuals in a large SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant outbreak' was selected as the cover feature article in Cell Volume 185, Issue 3.

​2024: 

Publications:

• J. Cherian, B. Loftness, J. Cohen, J. Halvorson-Phelan, E. W. McGinnis and R. S. McGinnis, Multimodal Markers of Transdiagnostic Childhood Mental Health Impairment, 2024 IEEE 20th International Conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN), Chicago, IL, USA, 2024, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/BSN63547.2024.10780528.
• B. C. Loftness, J. Hidalgo, J. Cherian, G. Mascia, R. S. McGinnis and E. W. McGinnis, Longitudinal Profiles of Heart Rate Variability in First-Year College Students Using Wearables, 2024 IEEE 20th International Conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN), Chicago, IL, USA, 2024, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/BSN63547.2024.10780775.
• O'Leary, A., Lahey, T., Lovato, J., Loftness, B. C., Douglas, A., Skelton, J., Cohen, J., Copeland W. E., McGinnis, R. S., McGinnis, E. W*, (2024). Using Wearable Digital Devices to Screen Children for Mental Health Conditions: Ethical Promises and Challenges. Sensors. https://doi.org/10.3390/s24103214
• McGinnis, E. W*, Loftness, B. C., Lunna, S., Berman, I., Bagdon, S., Lewis, G., Arnold, M., Danforth, C. M., Dodds, P. S., Price, M., Copeland, W. L., McGinnis, R. S. (2024). Expecting the Unexpected: Predicting Panic Attacks from Mood, Twitter, and Apple Watch Data. IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology. https://doi.org/10.1109/OJEMB.2024.3354208

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2023: 

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• Cohen J. G.*, Loftness, B. C., Douglas A. S., E. W., & McGinnis, R. S. (2023). Predicting the Presence of Internalizing Disorders and ADHD in Children from Postural Sway Features. 2023 IEEE Body Sensor Networks Conference (BSN). doi pending.
• Loftness, B. C.*, Rizzo, D.M., Halvorson-Phelan, J., O'Leary, A., Lunna, S., Bradshaw, C., Brown, A-J., Cheney, N., McGinnis, E. W., & McGinnis, R. S. (2023). Toward Digital Phenotypes of Early Childhood Mental Health via Unsupervised and Supervised Machine Learning. 2023 45th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC).  https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.24.23286417
• McGinnis, E. W.*, Lunna, S., Berman, I., Loftness, B.C., Bagdon, S., Danforth, C.M., Price, M., Copeland, W.E., McGinnis, R. S. (2023). Discovering Digital Biomarkers of Panic Attack Risk in Consumer Wearables Data. medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.01.23286647
• Loftness, B. C.*, Bernstein, I., McBride, C.A., Cheney, N., McGinnis, E. W., & McGinnis, R. S. (2023). Preterm Preeclampsia Risk Modelling: Examining Hemodynamic, Biochemical, and Biophysical Markers Prior to Pregnancy. 2023 45th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC).  https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.28.23286590
• Loftness, B. C.*, Halvorson-Phelan, J., O'Leary, A., Bradshaw, C., Lunna, S., Berman, I.,  Torous, J., Copeland, W.L., Cheney, N., McGinnis, E. W., & McGinnis, R. S. (2023). The ChAMP App: A Scalable mHealth Technology for Detecting Digital Phenotypes of Early Childhood Mental Health. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. https://doi.org/ 10.1109/JBHI.2023.3337649

​2022: 

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• Meyer, B. M.*, Depetrillo, P., Franco, J., Donahue, N., Fox, S. R., O’Leary, A., Loftness, B. C., Gurchiek, R. D., Buckley, M., Solomon, A. J., Ng, S. K., Cheney, N., Ceruolo, M., & McGinnis, R. S. (2022). How much data is enough? A reliable methodology to examine longterm wearable data acquisition in gait and postural sway. Sensors, 22(18), 6982. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22186982
• Petros, B. A.*, Paull, J. S.*, Tomkins-Tinch, C. H.*, Loftness, B. C.*, DeRuff, K. C., Nair, P., Gionet, G. L., Benz, A., Brock-Fisher, T., Hughes, M., Yurkovetskiy, L., Mulaudzi, S., Leenerman, E., Nyalile, T., Moreno, G. K., Specht, I., Sani, K., Adams, G., Babet, S. V., … Sabeti, P. C. (2022). Multimodal surveillance of SARS-COV-2 at a university enables development of a robust outbreak response framework. Med. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medj.2022.09.003
• Loftness, B. C.*, Halvorson-Phelan, J., O'Leary, A., Cheney, N., McGinnis, E. W., & McGinnis, R. S. (2022). UVM Kid Study: Identifying Multimodal features and Optimizing Wearable Instrumentation to detect child anxiety. 2022 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC). https://doi.org/10.1109/embc48229.2022.9871090
• Specht, I.*, Sani, K., Loftness, B. C., Hoffman, C., Gionet, G., Bronson, A., Marshall, J., Decker, C., Bailey, L., Siyanbade, T., Kemball, M., Pickett, B. E., Hanage, W. P., Brown, T., Sabeti, P. C., & Colubri, A. (2022). Analyzing the impact of a real-life outbreak simulator on pandemic mitigation: An Epidemiological Modeling Study. Patterns, 3(8), 100572. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2022.100572
• Siddle, K. J.*, Krasilnikova, L. A.*, Moreno, G. K.*, Schaffner, S. F.*, Vostok, J., Fitzgerald, N. A., Lemieux, J. E., Barkas, N., Loreth, C., Specht, I., Tomkins-Tinch, C. H., Paull, J. S., Schaeffer, B., Taylor, B. P., Loftness, B., Johnson, H., Schubert, P. L., Shephard, H. M., Doucette, M., … Sabeti, P. C. (2022). Transmission from vaccinated individuals in a large SARS-COV-2 delta variant outbreak. Cell, 185(3). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2021.12.027

​Pre-2021: 

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• Loftness, B.* (2020). Constructing an Accessible Low-Budget Stress Detection BioSensor . Colorado Space Grant Consortium Official Proceedings. Retrieved 2022, from https://spacegrant.colorado.edu/images/Symposium/2020/2020_Papers

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