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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
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  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Marie R. Griffin is affiliated with Vanderbilt University Medical Center in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within the medical field, primarily focusing on epidemiology, public health, environmental and occupational health, pediatrics, perinatology, child health, endocrinology, diabetes, metabolism, and surgery.

Their work addresses key topics including prenatal substance exposure effects, cervical cancer and HPV research, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, diabetes treatment and management, pneumonia and respiratory infections, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, and opioid use disorder treatment.

Frequent co-authors of Marie R. Griffin include:

  • Carlos G. Grijalva
  • Edward F. Mitchel
  • Manideepthi Pemmaraju
  • Sarah S. Osmundson
  • Andrew Wiese

They have published repeatedly in several venues, with notable frequency in:

  • The Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety
  • International Studies in Catholic Education
  • American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Diabetes Care

Among their recent published papers are the following:

  • Hospitalization for Lactic Acidosis Among Patients With Reduced Kidney Function Treated With Metformin or Sulfonylureas, 2020, Diabetes Care
  • Population-based Assessment of Patient and Provider Characteristics Influencing Pediatric Outpatient Antibiotic Use in a High Antibiotic-Prescribing State, 2020, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
  • Data and Safety Monitoring of COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Trials, 2021, The Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Opioid Prescribing After Childbirth and Risk for Serious Opioid-Related Events: A Cohort Study, 2020, Annals of Internal Medicine
  • Hospitalization for Heart Failure Among Patients With Diabetes Mellitus and Reduced Kidney Function Treated With Metformin Versus Sulfonylureas: A Retrospective Cohort Study, 2021, Journal of the American Heart Association

Marie R. Griffin's research contributions are concentrated within the broader field of medicine, with 71 publications in total, including a significant focus on 17 papers in epidemiology, 11 in public health and occupational health, 10 in pediatrics and child health, 6 in endocrinology and diabetes, and 5 in surgery.

They have received recognition as a member of the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Diagnosis and Treatment of Adults with Community-acquired Pneumonia. An Official Clinical Practice Guideline of the American Thoracic Society and Infectious Diseases Society of America

    Joshua P. Metlay;Grant W. Waterer;Ann C. Long;Antonio Anzueto

  • A vaccine to prevent herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia in older adults.

    M. N. Oxman;M. N. Oxman;M. J. Levin;G. R. Johnson;K. E. Schmader

  • The burden of respiratory syncytial virus infection in young children.

    Caroline Breese Hall;Geoffrey A. Weinberg;Marika K. Iwane;Aaron K. Blumkin

  • Thiazolidinedione Use, Fluid Retention, and Congestive Heart Failure: a consensus statement from the American Heart Association and American Diabetes Association Response to Nesto

    Tom A. Elasy;Marie Griffin

  • Guidelines for the medical management of osteoarthritis

    Marc C. Hochberg;Roy D. Altman;Kenneth D. Brandt;Bruce M. Clark

  • The effect of influenza on hospitalizations, outpatient visits, and courses of antibiotics in children.

    Kathleen Maletic Neuzil;Beverly G. Mellen;Peter F. Wright;Edward F. Mitchel

  • Variability in risk of gastrointestinal complications with individual non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs: results of a collaborative meta-analysis.

    David Henry;Lynette L.Y. Lim;Luis A. Garcia Rodriguez;Susanne Perez Gutthann

  • Psychotropic drug use and the risk of hip fracture

    W A. Ray;M R. Griffin;W. Schaffner;D K. Baugh

  • The Underrecognized Burden of Influenza in Young Children

    Katherine A. Poehling;Kathryn M. Edwards;Geoffrey A. Weinberg;Peter Szilagyi

  • Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use and increased risk for peptic ulcer disease in elderly persons.

    Marie R. Griffin;Joyce M. Piper;James R. Daugherty;Mary Snowden

  • Impact of Influenza on Acute Cardiopulmonary Hospitalizations in Pregnant Women

    Kathleen Maletic Neuzil;George W. Reed;Edward F. Mitchel;Lone Simonsen

  • Rates of hospitalization for respiratory syncytial virus infection among children in medicaid.

    Thomas G. Boyce;Beverly G. Mellen;Edward F. Mitchel;Peter F. Wright

  • Decline in pneumonia admissions after routine childhood immunisation with pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in the USA: a time-series analysis

    Carlos G Grijalva;J Pekka Nuorti;Patrick G Arbogast;Stacey W Martin

  • Corticosteroid Use and Peptic Ulcer Disease: Role of Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs

    Joyce M. Piper;Wayne A. Ray;James R. Daugherty;Marie R. Griffin

  • Concurrent Use of Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs and Oral Anticoagulants Places Elderly Persons at High Risk for Hemorrhagic Peptic Ulcer Disease

    Ronald I. Shorr;Wayne A. Ray;James R. Daugherty;Marie R. Griffin

  • Population-Based Surveillance for Hospitalizations Associated With Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Influenza Virus, and Parainfluenza Viruses Among Young Children

    Marika K Iwane;Kathryn M Edwards;Peter G Szilagyi;Frances J Walker

  • Benzodiazepines of long and short elimination half-life and the risk of hip fracture.

    Wayne A. Ray;Marie R. Griffin;Winanne Downey

  • COX-2 selective non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and risk of serious coronary heart disease.

    Wayne A Ray;Wayne A Ray;C Michael Stein;James R Daugherty;Kathi Hall

  • U.S. Hospitalizations for Pneumonia after a Decade of Pneumococcal Vaccination

    Marie R. Griffin;Yuwei Zhu;Matthew R. Moore;Cynthia G. Whitney

  • Burden of Interpandemic Influenza in Children Younger than 5 Years: A 25-Year Prospective Study

    Kathleen M. Neuzil;Yuwei Zhu;Marie R. Griffin;Kathryn M. Edwards

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlos G. Grijalva
Carlos G. Grijalva Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Kathryn M. Edwards
Kathryn M. Edwards Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Wayne A. Ray
Wayne A. Ray Vanderbilt University
John V. Williams
John V. Williams University of Pittsburgh
Peter G. Szilagyi
Peter G. Szilagyi University of California, Los Angeles
Caroline B. Hall
Caroline B. Hall University of Rochester
Geoffrey A. Weinberg
Geoffrey A. Weinberg University of Rochester
Tina V. Hartert
Tina V. Hartert Vanderbilt University Medical Center
C. Michael Stein
C. Michael Stein Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Kathleen M. Neuzil
Kathleen M. Neuzil University of Maryland, Baltimore

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