Kendra D Sims, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
Boston University School of Public Health
Epidemiology


Pronouns: she/her/hers



Social epidemiology, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders, public policy macrosimulations, epidemiologic methods, health disparities, structural determinants of health


Community Empowerment, Vascular Risk, and ADRD Disparities: Translating Research to Public Policy
09/01/2023 - 08/31/2025 (PI)
NIH/National Institute on Aging
5K99AG083121-02



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  1. Sims KD, Glymour MM, Ncube CN, Willis MD. Invited commentary: improving spatial exposure data for everyone-life-course social context and ascertaining residential history. Am J Epidemiol. 2025 Mar 04; 194(3):573-577.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39098825
     
  2. 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. Extracting Housing and Food Insecurity Information From Clinical Notes Using cTAKES. Health Serv Res. 2025 Jan 28; e14440.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39871689
     
  3. Sims KD, Wei PC, Penko JM, Hennessy S, Coxson PG, Mukand NH, Bellows BK, Kazi DS, Zhang Y, Boylan R, Moran AE, Bibbins-Domingo K. Projected Impact of Nonpharmacologic Management of Stage 1 Hypertension Among Lower-Risk US Adults. Hypertension. 2024 Aug; 81(8):1758-1765. PMID: 38881463; PMCID: PMC11254541; DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.124.22704;
     
  4. Adkins-Jackson PB, Kim B, Higgins Tejera C, Ford TN, Gobaud AN, Sherman-Wilkins KJ, Turney IC, Avila-Rieger JF, Sims KD, Okoye SM, Belsky DW, Hill-Jarrett TG, Samuel L, Solomon G, Cleeve JH, Gee G, Thorpe RJ, Crews DC, Hardeman RR, Bailey ZD, Szanton SL, Manly JJ. "Hang Ups, Let Downs, Bad Breaks, Setbacks": Impact of Structural Socioeconomic Racism and Resilience on Cognitive Change Over Time for Persons Racialized as Black. Health Equity. 2024; 8(1):254-268. PMID: 38665381; PMCID: PMC11043623; DOI: 10.1089/heq.2023.0151;
     
  5. Jimenez MP, Gause EL, Sims KD, Hayes-Larson E, Morris EP, Fletcher E, Manly J, Gilsanz P, Soh Y, Corrada M, Whitmer RA, Glymour MM. Racial and ethnic differences in the association between depressive symptoms and cognitive outcomes in older adults: Findings from KHANDLE and STAR. Alzheimers Dement. 2024 May; 20(5):3147-3156.View Related Profiles. PMID: 38477489; PMCID: PMC11095484; DOI: 10.1002/alz.13768;
     
  6. 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. Comparison of approaches to control for intracranial volume in research on the association of brain volumes with cognitive outcomes. Hum Brain Mapp. 2024 Mar; 45(4):e26633.View Related Profiles. PMID: 38433682; PMCID: PMC10910271; DOI: 10.1002/hbm.26633;
     
  7. Hill-Jarrett TG, Choi M, Buto PT, Miramontes S, Thomas MD, Yang Y, Kim MH, Sims KD, Glymour MM. Associations of Everyday and Lifetime Experiences of Discrimination With Willingness to Undergo Alzheimer Disease Predictive Testing. Neurology. 2024 Feb 27; 102(4):e208005.View Related Profiles. PMID: 38266219; PMCID: PMC11383877; DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000208005;
     
  8. Sims KD, Wei PC, Penko JM, Hennessy S, Coxson PG, Mukand NH, Bellows BK, Kazi DS, Zhang Y, Boylan R, Moran AE, Bibbins-Domingo K. Projected Impact of Nonpharmacologic Management of Stage 1 Hypertension Among Lower-Risk US Adults. medRxiv. 2023 Dec 29. PMID: 38234772; PMCID: PMC10793531; DOI: 10.1101/2023.12.26.23300563;
     
  9. Wang J, Sims KD, Ackley SF, Chen R, Kobayashi LC, Hayes-Larson E, Mayeda ER, Buto P, Zimmerman SC, Graff RE, Glymour MM. Association of cancer history with structural brain aging markers of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias risk. Alzheimers Dement. 2024 Feb; 20(2):880-889.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37811979; PMCID: PMC10916958; DOI: 10.1002/alz.13497;
     
  10. Sims KD, Willis MD, Hystad PW, Batty GD, Bibbins-Domingo K, Smit E, Odden MC. Neighborhood Characteristics and Elevated Blood Pressure in Older Adults. JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Sep 05; 6(9):e2335534.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37747730; PMCID: PMC10520741; DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.35534;
     
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