Laura B. Dunn

High Impact

Chair and Professor

Last publication 2026 Last refreshed 2026-05-16

faculty

Psychiatry, College of Medicine

ldunn@uams.edu

59 h-index 309 pubs 12,894 cited

Biography and Research Information

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Laura B. Dunn's research focuses on the intersection of mental health, public health, and patient outcomes, particularly within the context of cancer care and child safety. She has investigated distinct profiles of co-occurring symptoms in patients receiving chemotherapy, examining the associations between stress, resilience, symptom severity, and depressive symptom profiles. Her work also extends to public health concerns, including studies on intimate partner violence and child pedestrian safety, epidemiology, and prevention of child pedestrian injury, as well as child fatality review. Dunn has also explored ethical considerations in the development of clinical machine learning tools through qualitative interviews with physicians and machine learning researchers.

Dunn maintains an active research group and has a substantial publication record, indicated by her h-index of 59 and over 12,800 citations. She collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including Tatiana Wolfe and Clint Kilts. Her scholarly contributions have been recognized with a designation as a high-impact researcher.

Metrics

  • h-index: 59
  • Publications: 309
  • Citations: 12,894

Selected Publications

  • Associations of personality profiles with stress and resilience characteristics among patients undergoing cancer chemotherapy (2026)
  • How to Network and Be a Good Colleague (2025)
  • How to Write Socially (2025)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • 484 A Preliminary Study on the Pharmacodynamics of Oral Cannabis Ingestion in Older Adults (2024)
  • Increases in stress and adverse childhood experiences are associated with the co-occurrence of anxiety and depression in oncology patients (2024)
    4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Becoming an Authentic, Resilient Leader: An Interactive Workshop to Enhance Your Abilities to Lead (2024)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Identification of distinct symptom profiles in patients with gynecologic cancers using a pre-specified symptom cluster (2023)
    6 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Is it worth it? Greater risk aversion with lower life satisfaction among depressed individuals (2023)
    3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Introduction to Our Project: Understanding Ethically Salient Perspectives of Diverse Societal Stakeholders in Innovative Neuroscience Research on Mental Disorders (2023)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Clinical Neuroinnovation: Ethical Frameworks and Emerging Issues (2023)
    2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Qualitative Findings: Diverse Stakeholder Perspectives on Ethical Considerations in Innovative Neuroscience Research Involving Human Volunteers (2023)
  • Risk factors for worse anxiety trajectories among patients undergoing cancer chemotherapy (2022)
    10 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Depression trajectories among women undergoing chemotherapy. (2022)
  • Influence of Dispositional Optimism on Ethically Salient Research Perspectives: A Pilot Study (2022)
    2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Oncology outpatients with worse depression and sleep disturbance profiles are at increased risk for a higher symptom burden and poorer quality of life outcomes (2022)
    13 citations DOI OpenAlex

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