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Overview

Geraldine Padilla is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco, in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Medicine, with notable work in Molecular Biology, Surgery, Neurology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and General Health Professions.

Their recent research output spans several key topics including RNA Research and Splicing, Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes, Body Contouring and Surgery, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research, Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes, RNA modifications and cancer, and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms.

Key recent publications by Padilla include:

  • Defining RNA oligonucleotides that reverse deleterious phase transitions of RNA-binding proteins with prion-like domains, 2023, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Spanish-language bariatric surgery patient education materials fail to meet healthcare literacy standards of readability, 2023, Surgical Endoscopy
  • Bovine Pericardial Strips / Peri-Strips Dry (BPS/PSD) Buttressing Versus No-Reinforcement, Oversewing/Suturing (OS/S), and Seamguard Buttressing (SGB) in Sleeve Gastrectomy. A Meta-Analysis of Comparative Studies., 2023, Research Square (Research Square)
  • Exploring the Effect of RNA Binding on TDP-43 Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation, 2022, The FASEB Journal
  • Identifying Therapeutic Inhibitors of TDP43 Phase-Separation, 2022, The FASEB Journal

Padilla frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Abdul-Rahman F. Diab, Joseph Sujka, Christopher DuCoin, Salvatore Docimo, and Jack D. Rubien. These collaborations have resulted in multiple publications, indicating ongoing research partnerships.

The most common venues for Padilla's publications are Surgical Endoscopy and The FASEB Journal, both accounting for multiple papers. Other venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Research Square (Research Square), and the International Journal of Arts Humanities & Social Science.

Best Publications

  • Understanding the breast cancer experience of women: A qualitative study of African American, Asian American, Latina and Caucasian cancer survivors

    Kimlin Tam Ashing-Giwa;Geraldine Padilla;Judith Tejero;Janet Kraemer

  • Quality of life index for patients with cancer.

    Geraldine V. Padilla;Cary Presant;Marcia M. Grant;Gerald Metter

  • Sleep and delirium in ICU patients: a review of mechanisms and manifestations

    Milagros I. Figueroa-Ramos;Milagros I. Figueroa-Ramos;Carmen Mabel Arroyo-Novoa;Carmen Mabel Arroyo-Novoa;Kathryn A. Lee;Geraldine Padilla

  • Defining the content domain of quality of life for cancer patients with pain.

    Geraldine V. Padilla;Betty Ferrell;Marcia M. Grant;Michelle Rhiner

  • Quality of Life of Long-Term Survivors of Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer

    Linda Sarna;Geraldine Padilla;Carmack Holmes;Donald Tashkin

  • Quality of life in patients with heart failure: Do gender differences exist?

    Mary S. Riedinger;Mary S. Riedinger;Kathleen A. Dracup;Mary-Lynn Brecht;Geraldine Padilla

  • Understanding the Breast Cancer Experience of Latina Women

    Kimlin T Ashing-Giwa;Geraldine V Padilla;Dianne E Bohórquez;Judith S Tejero

  • Quality of life and the cancer experience: the state-of-the-knowledge.

    King Cr;Haberman M;Berry Dl;Bush N

  • Quality of life as a cancer nursing outcome variable.

    G V Padilla;M M Grant

  • The Experience of Pain and Perceptions of Quality of Life: Validation of a Conceptual Model

    Betty Ferrell;Marcia Grant;Geraldine Padilla;Sunil Vemuri

  • Examining predictive models of HRQOL in a population-based, multiethnic sample of women with breast carcinoma

    Kimlin T. Ashing-Giwa;Kimlin T. Ashing-Giwa;Judith S. Tejero;Judith S. Tejero;Jinsook Kim;Geraldine V. Padilla

  • Health-related quality of life and culture.

    Marjorie Kagawa-Singer;Geraldine V. Padilla;Kimlin Ashing-Giwa

  • Uncertainty in illness theory: a replication of the mediating effects of mastery and coping.

    Merle H. Mishel;Geraldine Padilla;Marcia Grant;Dianna S. Sorenson

  • Breast cancer survivorship in a multiethnic sample: challenges in recruitment and measurement.

    Kimlin T. Ashing-Giwa;Kimlin T. Ashing-Giwa;Geraldine V. Padilla;Judith S. Tejero;Jinsook Kim

  • The impact of cervical cancer and dysplasia: a qualitative, multiethnic study.

    Kimlin T. Ashing-Giwa;Kimlin T. Ashing-Giwa;Marjorie Kagawa-Singer;Geraldine V. Padilla;Judith S. Tejero

  • Uncertainty, appraisal and quality of life.

    G. V. Padilla;M. H. Mishel;M. M. Grant

  • Assessment of quality of life with a single instrument.

    Marcia Grant;Marcia Grant;Geraldine V. Padilla;Geraldine V. Padilla;Betty R. Ferrell;Betty R. Ferrell;Michelle Rhiner;Michelle Rhiner

  • Quality of life and meaning of illness of women with lung cancer.

    Linda Sarna;Jean K. Brown;Mary E. Cooley;Roma D. Williams

  • Nursing research into quality of life.

    G. V. Padilla;M. M. Grant;B. Ferrell

  • Cervical cancer survivorship in a population based sample

    Kimlin T. Ashing-Giwa;Judith S. Tejero;Jinsook Kim;Geraldine V. Padilla

  • Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Therapies to Control Symptoms in Women Living With Lung Cancer

    Marjorie Wells;Linda Sarna;Mary E. Cooley;Jean K. Brown

  • Maintaining hope in transition: a theoretical framework to guide interventions for people with heart failure.

    Patricia M. Davidson;Kathleen Dracup;Jane Phillips;Geraldine Padilla

Frequent Co-Authors

Christine Miaskowski
Christine Miaskowski University of California, San Francisco
Patricia A. Ganz
Patricia A. Ganz University of California, Los Angeles
Gerhard Hellemann
Gerhard Hellemann University of California, Los Angeles

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