Jenil Patel

Assistant Professor

Last publication 2025 Last refreshed 2026-04-25

faculty

17 h-index 75 pubs 9,835 cited

Biography and Research Information

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Jenil Patel's research focuses on public health topics, including meta-analyses of COVID-19 related conditions and disparities in healthcare access. Recent publications investigate inflammatory and cardiac markers in multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) associated with COVID-19, as well as neurological manifestations of the virus. Patel has also examined trends in mental health treatment accessibility for Spanish speakers and sex differences in comorbidities within Sjögren's disease. Further work explores the relationship between cleaning tasks, products, and asthma development among healthcare professionals, and metabolomics signatures in pregnancies affected by congenital heart defects. Additionally, Patel has analyzed gender disparities in COVID-19 symptomology among adults in Arkansas.

Patel's scholarship metrics include an h-index of 17 and over 9,600 citations across 76 publications. Key collaborators at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences include Wendy N. Nembhard, Emine Bircan, Maria D. Politis, and George Pro, with whom Patel has co-authored multiple publications.

Metrics

  • h-index: 17
  • Publications: 75
  • Citations: 9,835

Selected Publications

  • Comorbidities and Healthcare Utilization Among Young Adults With Congenital Heart Defects by Down Syndrome Status—Congenital Heart Survey to Recognize Outcomes, Needs, and <scp>wellbeinG</scp>, 2016–2019 (2025)
    3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Fever and antibiotic use in maternal urinary tract infections during pregnancy and risk of congenital heart defects: Findings from the National Birth Defects Prevention Study (2023)
    5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Gender disparities in symptomology of COVID-19 among adults in Arkansas (2023)
    10 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Social determinants of health and COVID-19: An evaluation of racial and ethnic disparities in attitudes, practices, and mental health (2023)
    7 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Maternal exposure to heparin products and risk of birth defects in the National Birth Defects Prevention Study (2022)
  • Prevalence and Clustering of Congenital Heart Defects Among Boys With Hypospadias (2022)
    8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Racial disparities in symptomatology and outcomes of COVID-19 among adults of Arkansas (2022)
    10 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Downward National Trends in Mental Health Treatment Offered in Spanish: State Differences by Proportion of Hispanic Residents (2022)
    36 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Metabolomics Signatures and Subsequent Maternal Health among Mothers with a Congenital Heart Defect-Affected Pregnancy (2022)
    12 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Second-Generation Antipsychotics in Management of Acute Pediatric Bipolar Depression: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (2021)
    6 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Identifying community needs of the Hispanic faith community to develop a research agenda (2021)
    5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • The inflammatory markers of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS‐C) and adolescents associated with COVID‐19: A meta‐analysis (2021)
    129 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Paternal genetic variants and risk of obstructive heart defects: A parent-of-origin approach (2021)
    4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • The Inflammatory Markers of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in children (MIS-C) and Adolescents During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Meta-Analysis (2021)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • A Comprehensive Systematic Review of CSF analysis that defines Neurological Manifestations of COVID-19 (2021)
    46 citations DOI OpenAlex

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