Dolores Wolongevicz

Dr. Dolores Wolongevicz is Associate Professor of Practice in Public Health and the Director of the Health Professions Education Program. Her most recent degree is a PhD in medical nutrition sciences, from Boston University School of Medicine. She is a registered dietitian and a licensed dietitian/nutritionist. She teaches community-based research and Health Equity Project courses in the MPH program, helping graduate students with their final major project for the program. Her areas of expertise include research design, statistical methods, nutritional epidemiology and health professions education. Her research interests align with her expertise and focuses on technology-driven lifestyle tools and interventions to enhance prevention and treatment of non-communicable chronic diseases in adults, particularly among veterans, as well as unraveling the complex relationship between the social determinants of health and obesity and cardiovascular disease to identify sensible interventions and policy changes to improve health outcomes at the individual and population level.

Dr. Wolongevicz is also co-chair of the Simmons University IRB.

Area of Expertise:
Nutrition & Health Promotion
Nutritional Epidemiology
Research Design
Statistical Methods
Health Professions Education
Human Subjects Protections

Education

PhD, Medical Nutrition Sciences, from Boston University School of Medicine
MS, Nutrition and Health Promotion, from Simmons College
Dietetic Internship, post-baccalaureate, from Simmons College
BS, Nutrition, from Simmons College

License/Certifications

Registered Dietitian

Licensed Dietitian/Nutritionist, Massachusetts

Courses

MHEO 435 Community-Based Research MHEO 473 Public Health Project Planning I
MHEO 494 Public Health Project Planning II
MHEO 495 Health Equity Change Project I
MHEO 496 Health Equity Change Project II
MHEO 490 Public Health Project Planning I & II (accelerated)

As needed:

HPED 521: Learning Theory & Practice
HPED 531: Teaching Methods, Course Design, and Assessment
HPED 540: Curriculum Development, Program Design, and Evaluation
HPED 541: Education Application & Immersion Experience

NURP 655: Biostatistics

Community Engagement

Dr. Wolongevicz is a reviewer for the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. She is also a member of multiple community advocacy groups in her hometown.

Research/Special Projects

Dr. Wolongevicz specializes in mentoring student research in health professions education, public health and nutrition at the Master's and Doctoral level.

Examples of recent PhD research which she has overseen includes:

(Chair) Experiences of Nursing Assistants during Undergraduate Nursing Education

(Chair) Newly Licensed Nurses’ Perceptions of Learning Experiences

(Chair) Impact of Dissection Modality on Psychomotor Skills

(Chair) Exploring the Use of Population Descriptors in Genetic Counseling Supervision

(Chair) The Impact of Departmental Culture on BIPOC Student Experience

(Chair) An Educational Intervention Research Study with Dietetic Interns: Food Insecurity Among Older Adults

(Chair) Knowledge and Attitudes about Physical Therapy in Underrepresented High School Students Following a College Campus Career Education Experience

(Chair) An exploration of student self-assessment alignment with clinical instructor assessment scores on the Physical Therapy Clinical Performance Instrument
(Chair) Faculty-to-Student Incivility, Stress, and Academic Achievement in Nursing Education

(Chair) Achieving Team Coherence Through Heart Rate Variability Coherence Techniques

(Chair) Perceptions of pediatric emergency department nurses concerning the adequacy of their educational experiences in preparing them to respond to an active shooter in the workplace

(Chair) Exploring the Educational Experiences of Female Health Workers Leading Humanitarian Responses

(Chair) The Experiences of Medical Dosimetry Preceptors

(Chair) Exploring Interprofessional Collaboration Practice between Social Workers and Other ‎Healthcare Practitioners Within the West Bank, Palestine

(Chair) Cognitive Test Anxiety Among Health Professions Students

(Chair) A Phenomenological Study of the Lived Experiences of Premedical Advisors Advising Undergraduate Students about Gap Year Options

(Chair) Exploring the Mentoring Experiences Among Pediatric Physicians-Mentors in an Academic Medical Center

(2nd Reader) Healthcare Providers' Attitudes, Behaviors, and Knowledge of Women with Perinatal Substance Use Disorder

(2nd Reader)The Reluctant Educator: Medical Laboratory Science Practitioners’ Construction of Clinical Preceptor Identity

(Advisor) A Descriptive Analysis of Primary Care Providers' Educational Preparedness and Attitudes Towards Women with Chronic Pelvic Pain

(Advisor) The Perceptions of Masters Social Work Providers Concerning What They Were Taught in Their Master of Social Work Programs About Cultural Competency

(Advisor) Understanding Compassion in Health Professions Education from the Perspective of Providers with Educator and Lived Patient Experience

Publications/Presentations

Peer Reviewed Manuscripts:
Millen BE, Wolongevicz DM, de Jesus JM, Nonas CA, Lichtenstein AH. 2013 American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology Guideline on lifestyle management to reduce cardiovascular risk: practice opportunities for registered dietitian nutritionists. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2014;114:1723-1729. doi: 10.1016/j.jand.2014.07.037.

Millen BE, Wolongevicz DM, Nonas CA, Lichtenstein AH. 2013 American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology/the Obesity Society Guideline for the management of overweight and obesity in adults: implications and new opportunities for registered dietitian nutritionists. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2014;114:1730-1735. doi: 10.1016/j.jand.2014.07.033.

Wolongevicz D, Brown L, Millen BE. Nutrient database development: a historical perspective from the Framingham Nutrition Studies. J Am Diet Assoc. 2010;110:898-903.

Wolongevicz D, Zhu L, Pencina MJ, Kimokoti RW, Newby PK, D’Agostino RB, Millen BE. Diet quality predicts development of overweight or obesity in women: the Framingham Nutrition Studies. Br J Nutr. 2010;103:1223-1229.

Wolongevicz D, Zhu L, Pencina MJ, Kimokoti RW, Newby PK, D’Agostino RB, Millen BE. An Obesity Dietary Quality Index Predicts Abdominal Obesity in Women: Potential Opportunity for New Prevention and Treatment Paradigms. J Obes. 2010. doi:10.1155/2010/945987

McKenna DA, Herbold NH, Wolongevicz DM, Hendricks KM. Intake of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids among college-age women. Top Clin Nutr. 2004;19(2):107-116.

Books & Book Chapters

(In Process) Millen BE and Wolongevicz DM. (tentative title) The Millennium Diet.

Brown LS, Wolongevicz DM, Giampa S. Nutritional Epidemiology: An Introduction. In Edelstein S, ed. Nutrition in Public Health: A Handbook for Developing Programs and Services. 3rd ed. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning; 2010: 3-13.

Professional Newsletters

Dolores Wolongevicz. Women in Transition to Menopause: Key Nutrition and Health Considerations (Part 1). Women’s Health Report. A quarterly publication of the Women’s Heath Dietetic Practice Group. Issue 2-3. June 2013: 1-6.

Dolores Wolongevicz. Women in Transition to Menopause: Key Nutrition and Health Considerations (Part 2). Women’s Health Report. A quarterly publication of the Women’s Heath Dietetic Practice Group. Issue 2-3. June 2013: 7-11.

Professional Affiliations & Memberships

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (formerly the American Dietetic Association)

The Massachusetts Dietetic Association
The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Practice Groups (DPGs):
Public Health/Community Nutrition
Nutrition Informatics
Nutrition Education for the Public
Nutrition Educators of Health Professionals
Healthy Aging
Research
Weight Management
Cardiovascular Health and Well-being
Women’s Health
Dietitian’s in Integrative and Functional Medicine
Vegetarian Nutrition