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Last published 2024
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M. Barton Laws

High Impact

Assistant Professor

Faculty Researcher

22 h-index 74 pubs 2,623 cited

  • Humans
  • Female
  • Physician-Patient Relations
  • Male
  • Adult
  • HIV Infections
  • Middle Aged
  • Communication
  • Aged
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Interviews as Topic
  • Medication Adherence
  • Drug Monitoring
  • Young Adult
  • Assessment of Medication Adherence

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

M. Barton Laws investigates behavioral and health outcomes, with a focus on communication and interventions within healthcare settings. Their work includes examining the prevalence of serious mental illness in nursing homes and the impact of integrated behavioral health interventions. Recent publications explore changes in nursing home populations, the role of communication during motivational interviewing for individuals with HIV, and the quality of behavior change counseling in routine HIV care.

Further research extends to the changing patterns of viral infection severity in pediatric asthma cohorts and the application of causal inference to protein sequences. Laws has also studied the experiences of new mothers living with HIV in South Africa regarding work re-entry. With an h-index of 22 and over 2,600 citations across 74 publications, Laws is recognized as a highly cited researcher. Key collaborators at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences include Bobby L. Boyanton, Shahwar Yousuf, Dana Frederick, and Ashton Ingold.

Metrics

  • h-index: 22
  • Publications: 74
  • Citations: 2,623

Selected Publications

  • From lockdown to recovery: changing patterns of viral infection severity in a pediatric cohort with asthma (2025)

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