Bonnie M. Jerome-D'Emilia

PhD (Health Services Research): Virginia Commonwealth University, 1998

MPH (Health Administration): Columbia University School of Public Health, 1988

BSN: SUNY Downstate College of Nursing, 1982

BS (Biochemistry): Brooklyn College, 1980

Breast cancer screening

Treatment and outcomes

Cancer disparities

Treatment decision making

Women’s health

Diffusion of innovation

Dr. Bonnie Jerome-D'Emilia targets her program of research on breast cancer screening and treatment, with a focus on disparities. Dr. Jerome-D'Emilia has conducted a number of community-based participatory research studies in Camden looking at women’s decision-making in terms of breast cancer screening as well as validating cancer related scales in African American and Hispanic communities. In addition, she has conducted a qualitative study addressing women’s decision-making in breast cancer treatment. Dr. Jerome-D'Emilia is analyzing 10 years of breast cancer data from the New Jersey State Cancer Registry to evaluate the New Jersey Cancer Education and Early Detection Program (NJCEED), and the association between insurance status, delays in diagnosis and treatment, and variations in treatment. She is currently interviewing women for a qualitative study related to NJCEED. She is the recipient of a Provost’s grant and a Rand Institute Fellowship to support this work. She has recently started working with new collaborators on Native American women and breast cancer screening and will be preparing a grant proposal to look at cancer disparities in Navajo women in New Mexico.

Dr. Jerome-D'Emilia has advanced degrees in Public Health and Health Services Research and teaches both undergraduate and graduate nursing students.

Soon after starting at Rutgers University–Camden, Dr. Jerome-D'Emilia created the RN-to-BS in Nursing program, introduced online education into the Rutgers School of Nursing–Camden, and developed the first off-site program at Atlantic Cape Community College. She developed Conceptual Foundations and the Community and Leadership clinical courses and has taught all three. She developed the Doctor of Nursing Practice Health Policy course as well as the general education Health Policy course. Recently, she has taught both policy courses as well as the theory section of the Community Health Nursing and Global Health Theory course.

Podcast: Women with Mental IllnessTalk About the Barriers to Breast Cancer Screening

Chapters in Books or Monographs

Jerome-D’Emilia, B. & Jackson, K., (2016) Patient-engaged and Community Participatory Research in Bloch, J., Clark, M, & Courtney, M. (eds.), Practice-Based Clinical Inquiry in Nursing: Looking Beyond Traditional Methods for PhD and DNP Research. Springer Publishing Company, LLC. 

Jerome-D’Emilia, B. The U.S. Health and Public Health Care Systems. In Stanhope, M. and Lancaster, J. (eds.), (2013) Foundations of Nursing in the Community, 4th edition. St. Louis: Mosby.

Articles in Refereed Journals (*databased)

Marmor, S., Jerome-D’Emilia, B., Begun, J.W. et al. Cancer Causes Control (2019), Trends in lobular carcinoma in situ management: endocrine therapy use in California and New Jersey, Cancer Causes & Control, 30: 129. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10552-019-1126-4

*Jerome-D’Emilia, B., Kushary, D., Suplee, P. (2019). Rising Rates of Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy as a Treatment for Early Stage Breast Cancer. Cancer Nursing, doi: 10.1097/NCC.0000000000000564. 

*Jerome-D’Emilia, B., Kushary, D., Burrell, S., Suplee, P., & Hansen, K. (2018). Breast Cancer Stage at Diagnosis in a New Jersey Cancer Education and Early Detection Site. American Journal of Clinical Oncology, doi: 10.1097/COC.0000000000000425.

*Jerome-D’Emilia, B., Suplee, P.D., & Burrell, S. (2016) Primary Care Expectations in an Underserved Population. Journal of Community and Public Health Nursing, 2: 145.

*Jerome-D’Emilia, B & D’Emilia, J. (2016). Hypofractionated Whole Breast Irradiation for Early Stage Breast Cancer in a Large Community-based Physician Practice. Journal of Radiation Oncology, 5(4), 417–425.

Suplee, P.D., Jerome-D’Emilia, B. & Boiler, J.L.K. (2016) Women’s Educational Needs and Perceptions about Survivorship Following Bilateral Mastectomy. Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, 20(4), 411-418.

*Gardner, M. R., Suplee, P. D., & Jerome-D'Emilia, B. (2016). Survey of Nursing Faculty Preparation for Teaching about Autism Spectrum Disorders. Nurse Educator, 41(4), 212-216.

Jerome-D'Emilia, B., Suplee, P. D., & D'Emilia, I. (2015). Why Women Are Choosing Bilateral Mastectomy. Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, 19(6), 764-768.

*Jerome-D’Emilia, B., Suplee, P.D. & Akincigil, A. (2015). Validation of the Spanish version of the Mammography Specific Self-Efficacy Scale. Oncology Nursing Forum; 42(3); E279-86

Jerome-D’Emilia, B., Suplee, P. D., Boiler, J. L., & D’Emilia, J. C. (2015). A Woman’s Decision to Choose Bilateral Mastectomy. Cancer nursing, 38(6), 426-435.

*Suplee, P.D., Jerome-D’Emilia, B., & Burrell, S. (2015) Healthy Eating Challenges of Hispanic Women Living in an Urban Neighborhood. Healthcare International, 13(4).

*Jerome-D’Emilia, B. & Suplee, P.D. (2015). Mammogram use and self-efficacy in an urban minority population. Public Health Nursing; 32(4); 287–297.

*Jerome-D’Emilia, B. & Chittams, J.  (2015). Validation of the cultural cancer screening scale for mammogram utilization in a sample of African American women. Cancer Nursing, 38 (2), 83-88.

*Jerome-D’Emilia, B. (2015). A systematic review of barriers and facilitators to mammography in          

 Hispanic women. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 26(1), 73-82.

*Suplee, P.D., Gardner, M. & Jerome-D’Emilia, B. (2014). Nursing faculty preparedness for clinical experiences. Journal of Nursing Education, 53(3), S38-41.

*Jerome-D’Emilia, B., Suplee, P.D. & Gardner, M. (2014) Understanding access to care and health needs of Hispanic women from an urban community. Journal of Hispanic Healthcare International, 12(2), 71-80.

*Abraham, J.M., Jerome-D’Emilia, B. & Begun, J.W. (2013).  The diffusion of magnet hospital recognition. Journal of Nursing Administration, 43(10 SUPPL.), S19-S27.

2016-2017 ($4,000)
Rutgers University Walter Rand Institute for Public Affairs, Rand Institute Faculty Fellowship: Breast cancer treatment and outcome in southern New Jersey counties. PI: Jerome-D’Emilia, B.

2016-2017 ($14,400)
Rutgers University–Camden, cross-disciplinary grant from the Provost's Fund for Research: Insurance Status and Breast Cancer in New Jersey. PI: Jerome-D’Emilia, B., Co-I: Suplee, P., Co-I: Kushary, Debashis

2016-2017 ($2,000)
Rutgers School of Nursing–Camden grant: How do Women who are Uninsured or Receive Medicaid Insurance Make their Decision to Have a Bilateral Mastectomy for Unilateral Breast Cancer?  PI: Patricia D. Suplee Ph.D., RNC-OB, CO-PI: Bonnie Jerome D’Emilia Ph.D., MPH, RN.

2013-2014 ($9,801)
Rutgers School of Nursing–Camden Summer Research Development Program: Expectations for primary care. PI: Jerome-D’Emilia, B.

2016-2017 ($300)
Sigma Theta Tau, Eta Mu Chapter, research grant: Poverty, insurance status and the breast cancer experience in New Jersey. PI: Jerome-D’Emilia, B.

2014-2015. ($4,800)
American Society of Breast Surgeons Foundation: Variation in treatment for breast cancer: What factors are influencing patient choice? PI: Jerome-D’Emilia, B.

2014-2015 ($300)
Sigma Theta Tau, Eta Mu Chapter, research grant: Translation and validation of the Spanish version of the Mammography Specific Self-Efficacy Scale. PI: Jerome-D’Emilia, B.

2012-2013. ($500)
Sigma Theta Tau, Eta Mu Chapter, research grant: Gaining insight into self-efficacy of women from an urban community. PI: Jerome-D’Emilia, B. Co-I: Velez, V.

Fellowships

2016 to 2017 — Rand Institute Faculty Fellowship, Walter Rand Institute for Public Affairs, Rutgers University—Camden

2015 to 2016 — Institute for Research on Women, Seminar on Poverty Fellowship, Rutgers University

2011 to 2012 — Civic Engagement Fellowship, Rutgers University—Camden

2007 to 2008 — Nurse Fellow in Philanthropy and Policy, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Rutgers Center for State Health Policy

Professional Awards and Honors

2012 — Outstanding Nurse Educator, Rutgers School of Nursing—Camden

2004 — Innovative Teaching Award, University of Virginia School of Nursing