Dr. Alexis Gallardo Foreman is a Nurse Practitioner and Assistant Professor of Pulmonology, Allergy, Sleep, and Critical Care Medicine at Boston Medical Center/Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine. Her work has focused on hospital-wide efforts focused on reducing readmissions of patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) through the creation of educational resources for inhaler teaching and nicotine replacement therapies for patients at the bedside and post-discharge. A member of the Pulmonary Sleep team, she collaborates with Dr. Eric Heckman, to help treat patients with Chronic Respiratory Failure and other sleep disordered breathing. She is also a trained Tobacco Cessation Specialist and co-Director of the Tobacco Treatment Program, a hospital-wide program that provides bedside and outpatient smoking cessation counseling with the mission of addressing disparities in lung cancer screening.
Dr. Gallardo Foreman recently obtained her Doctorate in Nursing with her scholarly practice project focused on creating a culturally sensitive survey to assess a patient with long COVID and their interest in participating in an in-person or online Pulmonary Rehabilitation program. She received her Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctorate Nursing degrees from Regis College. She also holds a Master's in Intercultural Relations from Lesley University and has a background in writing training programs to promote cultural awareness among healthcare providers. She is a member of the Boston University Medical Group and Pulmonary Department’s Diversity and Inclusion committees and an active member of the Advanced Practice Providers Department of Medicine workgroup. She is a member of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and a member of the Massachusetts Coalition of Nurse Practitioners.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility
My nursing career started later in life as I became a Nurse, then a Nurse Practitioner in my early 30s. I have always worked in the realm of diversity and equity among marginalized communities, but it wasn’t until I worked alongside physicians who were writing cultural training programs for providers that I understood the dire need for providers from underrepresented groups. I have found my nursing career to be one of great reward and fulfillment but also a great responsibility. For the past 10 years of practice, I have devoted my training to caring for patients from marginalized communities with little access to resources like food, housing, transportation, dependent care, and education. I have used my shared culture to encourage upward mobility among patients who look like me. I’ve sought resources to push patient care forward by creating programs to help patients improve their diabetes through exercise and dietary wellness programs that are designed and influenced by patient culture. I’ve created teach-back programs to help patients better understand their disease process and how to effectively use inhalers and medications in multiple languages and various media offerings. Since COVID, the stakes for patient care have escalated and the providers in the field have burnt out or left the field. The need to teach up the next wave of providers is paramount. I recently obtained my Doctor of Nursing degree and have made it my mission to share my knowledge and experience with the next generation of Nurses and Nurse Practitioners. My research entitled, A Pilot Study To Assess Association Of Social Determinants Of Health (SDOH) On Choice Of Participation In An Online Or In-person COVID Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program At A Large Safety Net Hospital In New England, highlights the need to address barriers of access to "long COVID" therapy.
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Flores A, Wiener RS, Hon S, Wakeman C, Howard J, Virani N, Mattus B, Foreman AG, Singh J, Rosen L, Bulekova K, Kathuria H. Sustainability of an Opt-Out Electronic-Health Record-Based Tobacco Treatment Consult Service at a Large Safety-Net Hospital: A 6-Year Analysis. Nicotine Tob Res. 2024 Jul 22; 26(8):1081-1088.View Related Profiles. PMID: 38320328
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Shusterman S, Villarreal-Calderon R, Gunawan A, Gallardo Foreman A, O'Donnell C, Wakeman C, Javeed H, Keteyian J, Howard J, Bulekova K, de Silva S, Campbell T, Lasser K, Kathuria H. A Financial Incentives Program to Promote Smoking Cessation Among Recently Hospitalized Individuals: Feasibility and Acceptability Study. JMIR Form Res. 2023 May 29; 7:e44979.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37247216; PMCID: PMC10262029; DOI: 10.2196/44979;
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Kathuria H, Gunawan A, Spring M, Aijaz S, Cobb V, Fitzgerald C, Wakeman C, Howard J, Clancy M, Foreman AG, Truong V, Wong C, Steiling K, Lasser KE, Bulekova K, Wiener RS. Hospitalization as an opportunity to engage underserved individuals in shared decision-making for lung cancer screening: results from two randomized pilot trials. Cancer Causes Control. 2022 Nov; 33(11):1373-1380.View Related Profiles. PMID: 35997854; DOI: 10.1007/s10552-022-01620-8;
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Kearney L, Wiener RS, Dahodwala M, Fix GM, Hicks J, Little F, Howard J, Foreman AG, Wakeman C, O'Donnell C, Bulekova K, Drainoni ML, Kathuria H. A mixed methods study to inform and evaluate a longitudinal nurse practitioner/community health worker intervention to address social determinants of health and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease self-management. BMC Pulm Med. 2022 Mar 01; 22(1):74.View Related Profiles. PMID: 35232414; PMCID: PMC8889692; DOI: 10.1186/s12890-022-01863-w;
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| 2022 | 2 |
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| 2024 | 1 |