Dr. Julie A. Vignato, PhD, RN, RNC-LRN, CNE, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa College of Nursing. Her work examines how pain, depressive symptoms, and preeclampsia contribute to pregnancy-related multimorbidity and mortality, with the goal of developing targeted interventions.

Dr. Vignato leads studies that integrate community-based research and data science methodologies.  Building on her work examining health outcomes from the work of doulas, Dr. Vignato analyzes secondary data, including the use of machine learning from the electronic health records, to develop models that predict preeclampsia from pain and depression.

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