Caitlin Dreisbach, PhD, RN

(Pronouns: She/her)

Assistant Dean, Undergraduate Education
Assistant Professor

Bio

Caitlin Dreisbach, PhD, RN, is the assistant dean for undergraduate education and an assistant professor (tenure-track) at the University of Rochester School of Nursing & Health Sciences. She is also affiliated with the Goergen Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (GIDS-AI) and maintains clinical practice as a registered nurse in high-risk obstetrics (3-1200) at Strong Memorial Hospital.

Dreisbach's research focuses on the development and application of clinical informatics and computational methods to improve clinical assessment and decision-making in reproductive health. Her work integrates electronic health records, medical imaging, and other multimodal health data to develop and validate computational phenotypes and approaches to clinical decision support. Her research spans pregnancy and reproductive transitions across the lifespan, with an emphasis on translating complex health data into actionable information that supports individualized clinical care and improves health outcomes.

Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education, University of Rochester School of Nursing & Health Sciences, Rochester, NY. 2026 - Current

Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track), University of Rochester School of Nursing & Health Sciences, Rochester, NY. 2022 - Current

Affiliated Faculty, University of Rochester Goergen Institute for Data Science, Rochester, NY. 2022 - Current

Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Data Science Institute at Columbia University (Data science), New York, NY. 7/2020 - 6/2022

Pre-doctoral student, University of Virginia (Nursing), Charlottesville, VA. 8/2015 - 5/2020

Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching

University of Rochester School of Nursing & Health Sciences, 2026

Josephine Craytor Nurse Faculty Award

University of Rochester, 2024

Most Promising New Investigator

University of Rochester, 2023

Certificate of Excellence, Top Reviewer of the Year

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2023

Phyllis J. Verhonick Dissertation Award

University of Virginia School of Nursing, 2020

Wood Family Award for Outstanding Service in Data Science

Data Science Institute, University of Virginia, 2018

The Raven Society Member

University of Virginia, 2017

Graduate Teaching Assistant Award

University of Virginia School of Nursing, 2017

Beginning Practitioner of the Year Nomination

University of Virginia Medical Center, 2016

Intramural Research Training Award

National Institute of Nursing Research Summer Genetics Institute (SGI), 2016

Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honor Society, Beta Kappa Chapter

University of Virginia School of Nursing, 2016

BSN Graduation Class speaker

The Johns Hopkins University, School of Nursing, 2013

The Church Home and Hospital Nursing Alumnae Award

The Johns Hopkins University, 2013

Lambda Pi Eta National Communication Honor Society

Cornell University, 2012

Reimagining Reproductive Health Through Data Science: Insights from the All of Us Research Program”

Goergen Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Seminar Series, University of Rochester, 2025

Accelerating Real-World Evidence

CTSI Digital Health Retreat, University of Rochester, 2025

Rochester, New York

Nurses Advancing Reproductive and Sexual Health Research Using the All of Us Researcher Workbench

ANAC Webinar Series, Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC), 2024

Closing Summary for Researchers

All of Us Researcher Convention, All of Us Research Program, 2024

All of Us Research Program: Opportunities For University of Rochester Researchers

University of Rochester Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) Seminar Series, University of Rochester, 2023

Rochester, New York

Improving Clinical Assessment During Pregnancy Using Imaging Analysis

GIDS-AI Seminar Series, University of Rochester, 2022

Rochester, New York

A critical review of social determinants of health in chronic condition symptom cluster research

Koleck, T. A., Patzak, S. A., Dziewulski, G., Shen, L., Lor, M., Conway, A., & Grayson, S. C.

2022 State of the Science Congress on Nursing Research: Social & Structural Determinants of Health, Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science, 2022

Washington, District Of Columbia

Data-Informed Women’s Health: Data Science and the Microbiome

Precision Health (T32) Methodology Summer Boot Camp, University of Texas at Austin, 2022

Informing Symptom Science Using a Citizen Science Application in the COVID-19 Pandemic

South, K. Koleck, T., Barcelona, V., Elhadad, E., Mamykina, O., & Bakken, S.

2021 Annual Symposium, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), 2021

San Diego, California

Clustering and Validation of COVID-19 Symptom Phenotypes for Hispanic/Latina Women

South, K. Koleck, T., Barcelona, V., Elhadad, E., Mamykina, O., & Bakken, S.

2021 ACOG Annual Clinical and Scientific Meeting (ACSM): Personalizing Care: A Way to the Future, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), 2021

Data-informed women's health: from the microbiome to symptom-focused artificial intelligence

Columbia University School of Nursing, Columbia University, 2020

The Uses of Data in Patient Care

Deas, K., & Gabrielle, A.

Tom Tom Cities Rising Summit, Tom Tom Summit, 2020

Charlottesville, Virginia

Maternal Microbiome & the Environment: What is our role as nurses and scientists?

University of Calgary Seminar Series, University of Calgary, 2020

Dreisbach, C., Koleck, T.A., & Erickson, E.N. (2026). Large-Scale Health Data Are Here: Fragmented Data and Measurement still Holds Women’s Health Back. Journal of Women's Health. PMID: 41856977 DOI: 10.1177/15409996261433446

Dreisbach, C. (2026). Addressing Gaps in Reproductive Health Data That Affect Practice, Policy, and Research. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing. DOI: 10.1016/j.jogn.2026.01.006

Deng, Z., Koleck, T.A., Zhang, C., Higgins, P.D., & Dreisbach, C. (2025). AOUSDOHtools: An R Package for Social Determinants of Health Survey data in the All of Us Research Program. Journal of Open Source Software. DOI: 10.21105/joss.09306

George, A., Maisa, A., Dreisbach, C., & Suba, S. (2025). A Pilot Report on Extracting Symptom Onset Date and Time From Clinical Notes in Patients Presenting With Chest Pain. CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing. PMID: 41432044 DOI: 10.1097/CIN.0000000000001406

Nuzzo M., Erickson E.N., Groth S.W., Yu Y., Koleck T., Li H., Martinez K., Zaman A., & Dreisbach C. (2025). Genetic variation associated with side effects of hormonal contraception exposure: a narrative review.. Frontiers in Reproductive Health. PMID: 41323407 PMCID: PMC12660243 DOI: 10.3389/frph.2025.1720994

Dzikowicz, D.J., Aktas, M., Wang, J., & Dreisbach, C. (2025). An evaluation of funded National Institutes of Health grants in nursing science and artificial intelligence. Nursing Outlook. DOI: 10.1016/j.outlook.2025.102529

Chi, J., Rouphail Y., Hillis, E., Ma, N., Nguyen, A., Wang, J., Hofford, M., Gupta, A., Lyons, P.G., Wilcox, A., Lai, A.M., Payne, P.R.O., Kollef, M.H., Dreisbach, C., & Michelson, A.P. (2025). EchoLLM: extracting echocardiogram entities with light-weight, open-source large language models.. JAMIA. PMID: 40809469 PMCID: PMC12349756 DOI: 10.1093/jamiaopen/ooaf092

Sanjeevi, N., Dreisbach, C., Peddada, S., Siega-Riz, A.M., Fouladi, F., & Nansel, T. (2025). Prospective associations of breastfeeding parents’ postpartum dietary intake with infant gut microbiome at 6 months in the Pregnancy Eating Attributes Study. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. DOI: 10.1016/j.jand.2025.07.005

Underhill, M.L., Li, X., Shah, J., & Dreisbach, C. (2025). Low frequency of structured documentation for cancer genetic testing in a large electronic health record dataset: A brief report using All of Us Research data.. Journal of Genetic Counseling. PMID: 40110613 PMCID: PMC11923727 DOI: 10.1002/jgc4.2011

Dreisbach, C., Yu, Y., & Groth, S. (2025). Call to Action to Quantify Non-Severe and Severe Maternal Morbidity. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing. DOI: 10.1016/j.jogn.2025.01.004

Meng, Y., Thornburg, L.L., Dreisbach, C., Orzolek, C., Kautz, A., Murphy, H.R., Rivera-Núñez, Z., Wang, C., Miller, R.K., O’Connor, T.G., & Barrett, E.S. (2025). The role of prenatal maternal sex steroid hormones in weight and adiposity at birth and growth trajectories during infancy. International Journal of Obesity. PMID: 40097707 DOI: 10.1038/s41366-025-01743-3

Li, X., Dreisbach, C., Gustafson,C., Patel Murali, K., & Koleck, T.A. (2024). Prevalence of Multiple Chronic Conditions Among Adults in the All of Us Research Program: An Exploratory Analysis (Preprint). JMIR Formative Research. DOI: 10.2196/69138

Li, X., Dreisbach, C., Gustafson, C.M., Murali, K.P., & Koleck, T.A. (2024). Estimated prevalence of multiple chronic conditions throughout adulthood using data from the All of Us Research Program. medRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2024.10.17.24315661

Li, X. , Dreisbach, C., Gustafson, C.M., Murali, K.P., & Koleck, T.A. (2024). Estimated prevalence of multiple chronic conditions throughout adulthood using data from theAll of UsResearch Program. medRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2024.10.17.24315661

Dreisbach, C., Nansel, T., Peddada, S., Nicholson, W., Siega-Riz, A.M. (2024). Dietary sugar and saturated fat consumption associated with changes in the gastrointestinal microbiome during pregnancy. The Journal of Nutrition. PMID: 39307280 DOI: 10.1016/j.tjnut.2024.09.016

Koleck, T., Dreisbach, C., Zhang, C., Grayson, S., Lor, M., Deng, Z., Conway, A., Higgins, P., & Bakken, S. (2024). User Guide for Social Determinants of Health Survey Data in the All of Us Research Program. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocae214

Kells, M., Dreisbach, C., Flannery, M., & Ramsdale, E. (2024). Implications of ChatGPT and Generative Language Models for Nursing Science and PhD Education. EdArXiv Preprints. DOI: 10.35542/osf.io/6m4et

Bakken, S., Caitlin Dreisbach, Kisselev, S., & Turchioe, M.R. (2024). Advancing Data Science Competencies for Nursing PhD Students. IOS Press. PMID: 39049312 DOI: 10.3233/SHTI240202

Dreisbach, C., Karunanidhi, A.P., Shimazaki, Y., Rana, N., Thornburg, L., Wang, L., Groth, S., & Hollenbach, S. (2023). Using Simulated Data to Predict Birthweight from Prenatal Ultrasound Images. 2023 IEEE Western New York Image and Signal Processing Workshop, WNYISPW 2023. DOI: 10.1109/WNYISPW60588.2023.10349465

Dreisbach, C., Prescott, S., Siega-Riz, A.M., McCulloch, J., Habermeyer, L., Dudley, D., Trinchieri, G., Kelsey, C., & Alhusen, J. (2023). Composition of the maternal gastrointestinal microbiome as a predictor of neonatal birth weight. Pediatric Research. PMID: 37029236 DOI: 10.1038/s41390-023-02584-4

Hobensack, M., Dreisbach, C., Topaz, M., Elhadad, N., Mamykina, O., & Bakken, S.B. (2023). Older Adult Engagement With Symptom Reporting in a COVID-19 Citizen Science Application. Journal of Gerontological Nursing. DOI: 10.3928/00989134-20230309-02

Idnay, B., Fang, Y., Dreisbach, C., Marder, K., Weng, C., & Schnall, R. (2023). Clinical research staff perceptions on a natural language processing-driven tool for eligibility prescreening: An iterative usability assessment. International Journal of Medical Informatics. PMID: 36638583 PMCID: PMC9912278 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2023.104985

Le, J., Alhusen, J., & Dreisbach, C. (2023). Screening for Partner Postpartum Depression: A Systematic Review. MCN: The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing. PMID: 36744867 DOI: 10.1097/NMC.0000000000000907

Bernstein, S., Frederick, A., Abbu, S., Condo DiCioccio, H., Thomas, A., & Dreisbach, C. (2023). Reflections on the 2021 MCN Editorial Fellowship. MCN: The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing. PMID: 36469891 DOI: 10.1097/NMC.0000000000000872

Dreisbach, C., Wright, M.L., Walker, R.K., Byon, H.D., & Keim-Malpass, J. (2022). Nursing science as a federally-recognized STEM degree: A call to action for the United States with global implications. International Journal of Nursing Studies Advances. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnsa.2022.100084

Dreisbach, C., Alhusen, J., Prescott, S., Dudley, D., Trinchieri, G., & Siega-Riz, A.M. (2022). Metagenomic characterization of the maternal prenatal gastrointestinal microbiome by pregravid BMI. Obesity. PMID: 36562201 DOI: 10.1002/oby.23659

Dreisbach, C., Prescott, S., Alhusen, J., Dudley, D., Trinchieri, G., & Siega-Riz, A.M. (2022). Association between microbial composition, diversity, and function of the maternal gastrointestinal microbiome with impaired glucose tolerance on the glucose challenge test. PLOS One. PMID: 36584051 PMCID: PMC9803092 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0271261

Bakken, S., & Dreisbach, C. (2022). Informatics and data science perspective on Future of Nursing 2020–2030: Charting a pathway to health equity. Nursing Outlook. PMID: 36446542 DOI: 10.1016/j.outlook.2022.04.004

South, K., Bakken, S., Koleck, T., Barcelona, V., Elhadad, N., & Dreisbach, C. (2022). Women’s Experiences of Symptoms of Suspected or Confirmed COVID-19 Illness During the Pandemic. Nursing for Women's Health. PMID: 36265561 PMCID: PMC9575040 DOI: 10.1016/j.nwh.2022.09.005

Grayson, S.C., Patzak, S.A., Dziewulski, G., Shen, L., Dreisbach, C., Lor, M., Conway, A., & Koleck, T.A. (2022). Moving beyond Table 1: A critical review of the literature addressing social determinants of health in chronic condition symptom cluster research. Nursing Inquiry. PMID: 36283980 DOI: 10.1111/nin.12519

Dreisbach, C., Grayson, S., Leggio, K., Conway, A., & Koleck, T. (2022). Predictors of unrelieved symptoms in All of Us Research Program participants with chronic conditions. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. PMID: 36096320 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2022.08.018

Prescott, S., Schminkey, D., Abukhalaf, D., DeGuzman, P., & Dreisbach, C. (2022). A framework to guide research and practice response to emerging infectious diseases: Genomic-to-global considerations.. Public health nursing (Boston, Mass). PMID: 36128924 DOI: 10.1111/phn.13133

Ford, S., Merchant, R., Pavuloori, A., Williams, R., Dreisbach, C., Saunders, A., Wernz, C., & Michel, J. (2022). Patient Phenotypes to Identify Resource Allocation and Usage in Primary Care. 2022 Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS). DOI: 10.1109/sieds55548.2022.9799406

Dreisbach, C., Morgan, H., Cochran, C., Gyamfi, A., Henderson, W.A., & Prescott, S. (2022). Metabolic and Microbial Changes Associated With Diet and Obesity During Pregnancy: What Can We Learn From Animal Studies?. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 11. PMID: 35118010 PMCID: PMC8804207 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2021.795924

Idnay, B., Dreisbach, C., Weng, C., & Schnall, R. (2021). A systematic review on natural language processing systems for eligibility prescreening in clinical research. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. PMID: 34725689 PMCID: PMC8714283 DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocab228

Barcelona, V., Montalvo-Ortiz, J.L., Wright, M.L., Nagamatsu, S.T., Dreisbach, C., Crusto, C.A., Sun, Y.V., & Taylor, J.Y. (2021). DNA methylation changes in African American women with a history of preterm birth from the InterGEN study. BMC Genomic Data. PMID: 34482817 PMCID: PMC8418749 DOI: 10.1186/s12863-021-00988-x

Prescott, S., Dreisbach, C., Baumgartel, K., Koerner, R., Gyamfi, A., Canellas, M., St. Fleur, A., Henderson, W.A., & Trinchieri, G. (2021). Impact of Intrapartum Antibiotic Prophylaxis on Offspring Microbiota. Frontiers in Pediatrics. PMID: 34956974 PMCID: PMC8703107 DOI: 10.3389/fped.2021.754013

Dreisbach, C. (2021). Reimagining and Contextualizing Fetal Weight Estimation. MCN: The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing. PMID: 34653039 DOI: 10.1097/NMC.0000000000000764

Rohan, A., Adams, E.D., Dreisbach, C., & Frederick, A. (2021). Toward Evidence-Based Practice. MCN: The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing, 46 (6), 364-366. DOI: 10.1097/nmc.0000000000000770

Fleming, M., Dondeti, P., Dreisbach, C., & Poliak, A. (2021). Fine-Tuning Transformers for Identifying Self-Reporting Potential Cases and Symptoms of COVID-19 in Tweets. EdArXiv Preprints. DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2104.05501

Kelsey, C. M., Prescott, S., McCulloch, J. A., Trinchieri, G., Valladares, T. L., Dreisbach, C., Alhusen, J., & Grossmann, T. (2021). Gut microbiota composition is associated with newborn functional brain connectivity and behavioral temperament. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. PMID: 33157257 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2020.11.003

Dreisbach, C., & Koleck, T.A. (2020). The State of Data Science in Genomic Nursing. Biological Research For Nursing. PMID: 32266827 PMCID: PMC7492779 DOI: 10.1177/1099800420915991

Dreisbach, C. (2020). The Influence of Maternal Obesity on Microbial Function and Impaired Glucose Tolerance during Pregnancy. Association of Womens Health, Obstetric & Neonatal. DOI: 10.18130/v3-pg7b-e298

Dreisbach, C., Prescott, S., & Alhusen, J. (2020). Influence of Maternal Prepregnancy Obesity and Excessive Gestational Weight Gain on Maternal and Child Gastrointestinal Microbiome Composition: A Systematic Review. Biological Research For Nursing, 109980041988061. PMID: 31597472 PMCID: PMC7140212 DOI: 10.1177/1099800419880615

Crowder, J., Burnett, C., Laughon, K., & Dreisbach, C. (2019). Elder Abuse in American Indian Communities: An Integrative Review. Journal of Forensic Nursing. PMID: 31764529 DOI: 10.1097/JFN.0000000000000259

Tallon, E., & Dreisbach, C. (2019). Using Data Science to Understand Complexity and Quantify Heterogeneity in the Onset and Progression of Chronic Disease. Biological Research For Nursing. PMID: 31345047 DOI: 10.1177/1099800419863161

Dreisbach, C., Koleck, T.A., Bourne, P.E., & Bakken, S. (2019). A systematic review of natural language processing and text mining of symptoms from electronic patient-authored text data. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 125, 37-46. PMID: 30914179 PMCID: PMC6438188 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2019.02.008

Koleck, T.A., Dreisbach, C., Bourne, P.E., & Bakken, S. (2019). Natural language processing of symptoms documented in free-text narratives of electronic health records: a systematic review. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 26 (4), 364-379. PMID: 30726935 PMCID: PMC6657282 DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocy173

Turrentine, F.E., Dreisbach, C., St Ivany, A.R., Hanks, J.B., & Schroen, A.T. (2019). Influence of Gender on Surgical Residency Applicants’ Recommendation Letters. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 228 (4), 356-365e3. PMID: 30630084 DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2018.12.020

Kelsey, C., Dreisbach, C., Alhusen, Jeanne, A., & Grossmann, T. (2019). A primer on investigating the role of the microbiome in brain and cognitive development. Developmental Psychobiology, 61 (3), 341-349. PMID: 30315569 DOI: 10.1002/dev.21778

Turner, A.W., Wong, D., Khan, M.D., Dreisbach, C., Palmore, M., & Miller, C.L. (2019). Multi-Omics Approaches to Study Long Non-coding RNA Function in Atherosclerosis. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 6. PMID: 30838214 PMCID: PMC6389617 DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2019.00009

Harrison, E., Dreisbach, C., Basit, N., & Keim-Malpass, J. (2018). An Application of Data Mining Techniques to Explore Congressional Lobbying Records for Patterns in Pediatric Special Interest Expenditures Prior to the Affordable Care Act. Frontiers in Big Data, 1. PMID: 33693319 PMCID: PMC7931899 DOI: 10.3389/fdata.2018.00003

Turner, A.W., Wong, D., Dreisbach, C., & Miller, C.L. (2018). GWAS Reveal Targets in Vessel Wall Pathways to Treat Coronary Artery Disease. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 5. PMID: 29988570 PMCID: PMC6026658 DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2018.00072

Nobles, A.L., Dreisbach, C., Keil-Malpass, J., & Barnes, L.E. (2018). "Is this a STD? Please help!": Online Information Seeking for Sexually Transmitted Diseases on Reddit.. Proceedings of the ... International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media. International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media. PMID: 30984474 PMCID: PMC6460917

Wall, M., Dreisbach, C., Zaidi, A., Flower, A., & Overall, C. (2018). Using autoencoders and text mining to characterize single cell populations in the hippocampus and cortex. 2018 Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS). DOI: 10.1109/sieds.2018.8374718

Trowbridge, E.R., Dreisbach, C., Sarosiek, B.M., Dunbar, C.P., Evans, S.L., Hahn, L.A., & Hullfish, K.L. (2018). Review of enhanced recovery programs in benign gynecologic surgery. International Urogynecology Journal, 29 (1), 3-11. PMID: 28871417 DOI: 10.1007/s00192-017-3442-0

Alhusen, J.L., Geller, R., Dreisbach, C., Constantoulakis, L., & Siega-Riz, A.M. (2017). Intimate Partner Violence and Gestational Weight Gain in a Population-Based Sample of Perinatal Women. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing. PMID: 28294945 PMCID: PMC5423819 DOI: 10.1016/j.jogn.2016.12.003

Niederdeppe, J., Roh, S., & Dreisbach, C. (2016). How Narrative Focus and a Statistical Map Shape Health Policy Support Among State Legislators. Health Communication, 31 (2), 242-255. PMID: 26086340 DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2014.998913