
Katja Reuter, PhD
CURRENT APPOINTMENTS
Assistant Professor of Medicine
LANGUAGES
English
German
CLINICAL SECTION AFFILIATIONS
Medicine
Hematology and Oncology
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Research to improve the lives of adolescents and young adult (AYA) cancer survivors, including health services research, intervention development, implementation science
- Analysis of real-world evidence and patient-generated health data from digital and social media to identify unmet patient needs
EDUCATION INTERESTS
- Digital literacy training to enhance medical education and clinical/translational research
EDUCATION
Additional Training: Emory University School of Medicine, 2022, Qualitative Research Design
Additional Training: University of California at San Francisco, 2021, Implementation Science
Additional Training: Johns Hopkins University, 2018, Design and Interpretation of Clinical Trials
PhD: Freie University of Berlin, 2006, Neurobiology
MS: Freie University of Berlin, 2002, Biology
PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS
University of Southern California, 2017-2019
RESEARCH ABSTRACT
Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications
- S Venuturupalli, A Kumar, A Bunyan, N Davuluri, N Fortune, K Reuter. Using patient‐reported health data from social media to identify diverse lupus patients and assess their symptom and medication expressions: A feasibility study. Arthritis Care & Research. 2022. doi 10.1002/acr.24868.
- Reuter K, Angyan P, Le N, Buchanan TA. Using Patient-Generated Health Data From Twitter to Identify, Engage, and Recruit Cancer Survivors in Clinical Trials in Los Angeles County: Evaluation of a Feasibility Study. JMIR Form Res 2021;5(11):e29958 doi: 10.2196/29958 PMID: 34842538.
- Reuter K, Liu C, Le N, Angyan P, Finley JM. General Practice and Digital Methods to Recruit Stroke Survivors to a Clinical Mobility Study: Comparative Analysis. J Med Internet Res. 2021 Oct 13;23(10):e28923. doi: 10.2196/28923. PMID: 34643544; PMCID: PMC8552096.
- Reuter K, Deodhar A, Makri S, Zimmer M, Berenbaum F, Nikiphorou E. COVID- 19 pandemic impact on people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases: Insights from patient- generated health data on social media. Rheumatology, Oxford University Press (OUP), 2021,10.1093/rheumatology/keab174/6149307.
- Reuter K, Wilson ML, Moran M, Le N, Angyan P, Majmundar A, Kaiser EM, Unger JB. General audience engagement with antismoking public health messages across multiple social media sites: Comparative Analysis. JMIR Public Health Surveill 2021;7(2):e24429. doi: 10.2196/24429.
- Bunyan A, Venuturupalli S, Reuter K. Expressed symptoms and attitudes toward using Twitter for health care engagement among patients with lupus on social media: Protocol for a mixed methods study. JMIR Res Protoc 2021;10(5):e15716 doi: 10.2196/15716 PMID: 33955845.
- Reuter K, Lee D. Perspectives Toward Seeking Treatment Among Patients With Psoriasis: Protocol for a Twitter Content Analysis. JMIR Res Protoc 2021;10(2):e13731. doi: 10.2196/13731.
- Reuter K, Rocca E. Correspondence on 'Mining social media data to investigate patient perceptions regarding DMARD pharmacotherapy for rheumatoid arthritis'. Ann Rheum Dis. 2021 Feb 16. doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-219776. PubMed PMID: 33593738.
- Majmundar A, Le N, Moran MB, Unger JB, Reuter K. Public Response to a Social Media Tobacco Prevention Campaign: Content Analysis. JMIR Public Health Surveill 2020;6(4):e20649. DOI: 10.2196/20649 PMID: 33284120 PMCID: 7752523/
- Li W, Le N, Lee DJ, Reuter K. Analysis of psoriasis-related posts on Twitter: an abundance of patient-driven advocacy versus a scarcity of dermatologists. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2020 Nov 7:S0190-9622(20)32914-5. doi: 10.1016/j.jaad.2020.11.004.
- Stens O, Weisman MH, Simard J, Reuter K. Insights From Twitter Conversations on Lupus and Reproductive Health: Protocol for a Content Analysis. JMIR Res Protoc 2020;9(8):e15623. DOI: 10.2196/15623 PMID: 32844753 PMCID: 7481870.
- Reuter K. Social media for clinical trial recruitment: How real is the potential? European Medical Journal Innovation. 2020;4[1]:34-39.
- Reuter K, Zhu Y, Angyan P, Le N, Merchant AA, Zimmer M. Public Concern About Monitoring Twitter Users and Their Conversations to Recruit for Clinical Trials: Survey Study. J Med Internet Res 2019;21(10):e15455 DOI: 10.2196/15455 PMID: 31670698.
- Michelson M and Reuter K. The significant cost of systematic reviews and meta-analyses: A call for greater involvement of machine learning to assess the promise of clinical trials. Contemp Clin Trials Commun. 2019 Dec;16:100443. doi: 10.1016/j.conctc.2019.100443.
- Reuter K, Danve A, Deodhar A. Harnessing the power of social media: how can it help in axial spondyloarthritis research? Curr Opin Rheumatol. 2019 Apr 30. doi: 10.1097/BOR.0000000000000614.
- Reuter K, Lee D. Evaluating patients' perspectives on social media: the importance of clearly reporting data search, cleaning and processing. Br J Dermatol. 2019 Mar 9. doi: 10.1111/bjd.17868.
- Reuter K, Angyan P, Le N, MacLennan A, Cole S, Bluthenthal RN, Lane CJ, El-Khoueiry AB, Buchanan TA. Monitoring Twitter Conversations for Targeted Recruitment in Cancer Trials in Los Angeles County: Protocol for a Mixed-Methods Pilot Study. JMIR Res Protoc. 2018 September 25; 7(9):e177. Doi:10.2196/resprot.9762.
- Eder MM, Evans E, Funes M, Hong H, Reuter K, Ahmed S, Calhoun K, Corbie-Smith G, Dave G, DeFino M, Harwood E, Kissack A, Kleinman LC, Wallerstein N. Defining and Measuring Community Engagement and Community-Engaged Research: Clinical and Translational Science Institutional Practices. Prog Community Health Partnersh. 2018;12(2):145-156. doi: 10.1353/cpr.2018.0034.
- Reuter K, Ukpolo F, Ward E, Wilson ML, Angyan P. Trial Promoter: A Web-Based Tool for Boosting the Promotion of Clinical Research Through Social Media. J Med Internet Res 2016;18(6):e144 DOI: 10.2196/jmir.4726 PMID: 27357424 PMCID: 4945821.
- Kahlon M, Yuan L, Daigre J, Meeks E, Nelson K, Piontkowski C, Reuter K, Sak R, Turner B, Weber GM, Chatterjee A. The use and significance of a research networking system. J Med Internet Res. 16(2):e46, 2014. PMID: 24509520, PMCID: PMC3936277.
Selected Abstracts
- Katja Reuter, Andrea T. Duran, Kirali Genao, Emily Callanan, Diane E. Cannone, Nancy Chang, Elsa-Grace Giardina, Jessica Singer, Amy R. Slutzky, Siqin Ye, Nathalie Moise. A use case for designing feasible and equitable multi-level implementation strategies in behavioral cardiology: Promoting depression screening and treatment in cardiac patients. Submitted to Society for Implementation Research Collaboration (SIRC) Conference, September 8-10, 2022, San Diego, California. (Accepted)
- Majmundar A, Le N, Moran M, Unger J, Reuter K. Healthy disagreement as a driver for health promotion dialogue - public response to an automated health communication intervention across multiple social media platforms. 2020 Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco Annual Meeting; New Orleans, LA, USA.
- Reuter K, Unger JB, Kaiser EM, Le N, MacLennan A, Angyan P. A Technical Framework for Rigorous Health Communication Research in the Social Media Era. National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing, and Media, Atlanta, GA, 2018.
- Reuter K, Simpson K, Le N, Bluthenthal RN, Patino CM. Perspectives on Increasing Competency in Using Digital Practices and Approaches to Enhance Clinical Translational Research: A Qualitative Study. Translational Science Conference, Washington, DC, 2018.
- Reuter K, Ukpolo F, Ward E, Wilson ML, Angyan P. Trial Promoter: A web-based tool for boosting the promotion of clinical research through social media. 4th International Clinical Trial Conference, San Antonio, TX, 2017.
Non-peer-reviewed publications
- Katja Reuter, Erin M. Mobley, Joel Milam, Amy R. Slutzky. Barriers to and facilitators of survivorship care and quality of life among (adolescent and young adult) AYA cancer survivors: A systematic review of the recent literature. PROSPERO 2022 CRD42022356778 Available from: https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?ID=CRD42022356778
- Reuter K. The Importance of Improving the Reporting of Social Media-Enabled Recruitment in Clinical Research to Better Evaluate Effectiveness. Invited commentary in Dermatology Times. Jan 4, 2019. Web link: https://bit.ly/2s4OACN.
PUBLICATIONS
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