April F. Mohanty

April F. Mohanty, PhD, MPH

Languages spoken: English

Academic Information

Departments Primary - Internal Medicine

Divisions: Epidemiology

April F. Mohanty is an epidemiologist and health services researcher with research interests in improving the quality and equity of cardiovascular healthcare. Her career goals are to reduce health disparities in cardiovascular disease prevention, management, and related outcomes.

Education History

Undergraduate University of Wisconsin-Madison
 BS
Graduate Training University of Washington
 MPH
Doctoral Training University of Washington
 PhD
Postdoctoral Fellowship VA Salt Lake City Health Care System
 Postdoctoral Fellow
Other Training University of Utah
 Certificate

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Gawron LM, Mohanty AF, Kaiser JE, Gundlapalli A (2018). Impact of Deployment on Reproductive Health in U.S. Active-Duty Servicewomen and Veterans. Seminars in reproductive medicine, 36(6), 361-370.
  2. Hussey MR, Suter MK, Mohanty AF, Enquobahrie D (2021). Placental cadmium, placental genetic variations, and birth size. The journal of maternal-fetal & neonatal medicine, 35, 1-9.
  3. Cheng Y, Mohanty AF, Ogunyemi OI, Smith CA, Leroy G, Zeng Q (2020). 2018 Salary Survey of AMIA Members: Factors Associated with Higher Salaries. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2019, 275-284.
  4. Derington CG, Cohen JB, Mohanty AF, Greene TH, Cook J, Ying J, Wei G, Herrick JS, Stevens VW, Jones BE, Wang L, Zheutlin AR, South AM, Hanff TC, Smith SM, Cooper-DeHoff RM, King JB, Alexander GC, Berlowitz DR, Ahmad FS, Penrod MJ, Hess R, Conroy MB, Fang JC, Rubin MA, Beddhu S, Cheung AK, Xian W, Weintraub WS, Bress A (2021). Angiotensin II receptor blocker or angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor use and COVID-19-related outcomes among US Veterans. PloS one, 16(4), e0248080.
  5. Mohanty AF, Levitan EB, Dodson JA, Vardeny O, King JB, LaFleur J, He T, Patterson OV, Alba PR, Russo PA, Choi ME, Bress A (2019). Characteristics and Healthcare Utilization Among Veterans Treated for Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction Who Switched to Sacubitril/Valsartan. Circulation. Heart failure, 12(11), e005691.
  6. Bress AP, Cohen JB, Anstey DE, Conroy MB, Ferdinand KC, Fontil V, Margolis KL, Muntner P, Millar MM, Okuyemi KS, Rakotz MK, Reynolds K, Safford MM, Shimbo D, Stuligross J, Green BB, Mohanty A (2021). Inequities in Hypertension Control in the United States Exposed and Exacerbated by COVID-19 and the Role of Home Blood Pressure and Virtual Health Care During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of the American Heart Association, 10(11), e020997.
  7. Mohanty AF, Levitan EB, King JB, Dodson JA, Vardeny O, Cook J, Herrick JS, He T, Patterson OV, Alba PR, Russo PA, Obi EN, Choi ME, Fang JC, Bress A (2021). Sacubitril/Valsartan Initiation Among Veterans Who Are Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System Inhibitor Naïve With Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction. Journal of the American Heart Association, 10(20), e020474.
  8. Colvin CL, King JB, Oparil S, Wright JT Jr, Ogedegbe G, Mohanty A, Hardy ST, Huang L, Hess R, Muntner P, Bress (2020). Association of Race/Ethnicity-Specific Changes in Antihypertensive Medication Classes Initiated Among Medicare Beneficiaries With the Eighth Joint National Committee Panel Member Report. JAMA network open, 3(11), e2025127.
  9. Steiner M, Everson-Rose SA, Mohanty AF, Rodriguez JE, Conroy MB, Allen ML, Apolinario-Wicoxon A, Okyuemi KS. (2025). Health Equity Leadership and Mentoring (HELM): a health equity-focused early-career development program to promote biomedical workforce diversity. . Journal of clinical and translational science,
  10. Xu Y, Derington CG, Addo DK, He T, Jacobs JA, Mohanty AF, An J, Cushman WC, Ho PM, Bellows BK, Cohen JB, Bress A (2024). Trends in Initial Antihypertensive Medication Prescribing Among >2.8¿Million Veterans Newly Diagnosed With Hypertension, 2000 to 2019. Journal of the American Heart Association, 13(20), e036557.
  11. Pugh MJ, Haun JN, White PJ, Cochran G, Mohanty AF, McAndrew LM, Gordon AJ, Nelson RE, Vanneman ME, Naranjo DE, Benzinger RC, Jones AL, Kean J, Zickmund SL, Fagerlin (2024). Developing Evidence to Support Policy: Protocol for the StrAtegic PoLicy EvIdence-Based Evaluation CeNTer (SALIENT). JMIR research protocols, 13, e59830.
  12. Derington CG, Berchie RO, Mohanty AF, Jacobs JA, Xu Y, King JB, Rethy L, Cushman WC, Zickmund SL, Ho M, Raghavan S, Cohen JB, Bress A (2025). First-Line β-Blocker Use for Hypertension in the Veterans Health Administration. JAMA network open, 8(8), e2529026..

Editorial

  1. Mohanty A (2018). Is it time to get out of the car for physical activity benefits?. Heart (British Cardiac Society), 104(21), 1727-1728.