Publications by authors named "Austin Kollefrath"

Importance: The psychological morbidity experienced by physicians, advanced practice practitioners (APPs), and nurses from working during the COVID-19 pandemic includes burnout, depression, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Objective: To investigate whether psilocybin therapy could improve symptoms of depression, burnout, and PTSD in US clinicians who developed these symptoms from frontline clinical work during the pandemic.

Design, Setting, And Participants: This double-blind randomized clinical trial enrolled participants from February to December 2022.

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Objective: Despite substantial LGBT cancer health disparities, there are no LGBT cultural competency trainings tailored for oncologists. Here we describe the systematic development of a web-based, oncology-focused LGBT cultural competency training.

Methods: A literature review regarding LGBT cancer outcomes and competency training was conducted to identify potential training content.

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In recent years, regenerative medicine has directed its interests onto the use of stem cells to heal human tissues. One specific class of cells that has been used in this field of research is mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). Because of difficulties with the usage of whole stem cells, researchers have turned to an alternative, the secretome of the MSCs.

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