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Berg-Cross, L., Mwendwa, D. T., Crump, S. L., & Griffith, R.  (2007). Graduate school practica in primary care settings: Building identity and competencies.  The Register Report.  Washington, D.C: The National Register.


Sims, R.C., Madhere, S., Callender, C., & Campbell, A. (2008).  Patterns of relationships between cardiovascular risk factors and cognitive function in African Americans, Ethnicity and Disease, 18, 471-476.


Sims, R.C., Madhere, S., Clark, E., Gordon, S., Abayomi, K.A., Callender, C.O., & Campbell, A.L. (2008).  Relationships between blood pressure, triglycerides, and verbal learning in African Americans, Journal of the National Medical Association, 100, 1193-1198.


Sims, R.C., Gordon, S., Garcia, W., Clark, E., Monye, D., Callender, C., & Campbell, A. (2008).  Perceived stress and eating behaviors in a community-based sample of African Americans.  Eating Behaviors, 9,137-142.

 

Sims, R.C., Madhere, S., Callender, C., & Campbell, A. (2008). Patterns of relationships between cardiovascular risk factors and cognitive function in African Americans. Ethnicity and Disease, 18, 471-476.

 

Whitfield, K.E., Allaire, J.C., Gamaldo, A., Aiken Morgan, A.T., Sims, R., & Edwards, C. (2008). Blood pressure and memory in older African Americans. Ethnicity and Disease, 18, 181-186.

 

Sims, R.C., Allaire, J. C., Gamaldo, A.A., Edwards, C.L., & Whitfield, K.E. (2009). An examination of dedifferentiation in cognition among African-American older adults. Journal of Cross-cultural Gerontology, 24(2) 193-208.

 

Allaire, J.C., Gamaldo, A., Ayotte, B.J., Sims, R.C., & Whitfield, K. (2009). Mild cognitive impairment and objective instrumental everyday functioning: The Everyday Cognition Battery Memory Test. Journal of the American Geriatric Society, 57, 120-125.


Sims, R.C., Mwendwa, D.T., Ali, M.A., Thomas, J., Callender, C.O., & Campbell, A.L. (2010). Depressive symptomatology: Relations to C-reactive protein in African American men. The Journal of Best Practices in Health Professions Diversity: Research, Education and Policy, 3, 43-57.


Aiken-Morgan, A.T., Sims, R.C. & Whitfield, K.E. (2010). Cardiovascular health and education as sources of individual variability in cognitive aging among African Americans. Journal of Aging and Health, 477-503.


Gamaldo, A.G., Allaire, J.C., Sims, R.C., & Whitfield, K.E. (2010). Assessing mild cognitive impairment among older African Americans. Journal of the American Geriatric Society, 25, 748-755.

 

Whitfield, K.E., Jonassaint, C., Brandon, D., Stanton, M., Sims, R.C., Bennett, G., Salva, J., & Edwards, C.L. (2010). Does coping mediate the relationship between personality and health in African Americans? Journal of the National Medical Association, 102, 95-100.


Sims, R.C., Levy-Massey, S., Mwendwa, D.T., Callender, C.O., & Campbell, A.L. (2011). The influence of functional social support on executive functioning in middle-aged African Americans. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 18, 1-18 .


Mwendwa, D.T., Sims, R.C., Thomas, J., Madhere, S., Keen II, L.D., Callender, C.O.,& Campbell, A.L. (In press).  The Influence of coping with perceived racism and stress on lipid levels in African Americans, Journal of the National Medical Association.


Mwendwa, D.T., Gholson, G., Sims, R.C., Levy, S.A., Ali, M., Harrell, J., Callender, C.O., & Campbell, A.L. (In press). Coping with perceived racism: A significant factor in the development of obesity in African American women? Journal of the National Medical Association.


Sims, R.C., Whitfield, K.E., Ayotte, B.A., Gamaldo, A.A., Edwards, C.L., & Allaire, J.C. (In press). Subjective memory in older African Americans. Experimental Aging Research.

 

Sims, R.C., Hosey, M., Levy, S., Whitfield, K.E., Katzel, L.I., & Waldstein, S.R. (Under review). The influence of distinct functions of social support on cognitive function in older men and women. The Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences.


Skinner, J., Sims, R.C., Allaire, J.C., Campbell, A.L., & Whitfield, K.E. (Under review).Cognitive correlates of subjective and objective IADL functioning in a community sample of African-American elders. Journal of the American Geriatric Society.


Mwendwa, D.T., Ali, M., Sims, R.C., Madhere, S., Gholson, G., Levy, S.A.,Chiles, S., Callender, C.O., & Campbell, A.L. (Under review). Empirically derived components of the Cook-Medley Scale and inflammation in African Americans. Psychosomatic Medicine.