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Maya N. Clark-Cutaia

Maya N. Clark-Cutaia, PhD, RN, ACNP-BC

Evelyn Lauder Associate Dean for Nurse Practitioner Programs and Professor

Dr. Maya Clark-Cutaia is the inaugural Evelyn Lauder Associate Dean for Nurse Practitioner Programs and Professor at the Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing.

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Dr. Maya Clark-Cutaia is the inaugural Evelyn Lauder Associate Dean for Nurse Practitioner Programs and Professor at the Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing. She is a nurse scientist and health equity researcher focusing on the syndemic aspects of chronic illness.

Dr. Clark-Cutaia is interested in the impact of racism, discrimination, and social determinants of health on the risks of high symptom burden and adverse clinical outcomes. She is particularly interested in minoritized individuals living with end stage kidney disease, who have been largely overlooked and are understudied. She has developed an interdisciplinary program of research focused on disparate outcomes in chronic kidney disease utilizing qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methodologies. Her research is in the community, of the community, and conducted by the community of invididuals it is meant to serve.

Dr. Clark-Cutaia has a clinical background as an acute care nurse practitioner and U.S. Air Force flight nurse and community health nurse. She feels that her clinical experience and lived experience as an underrepresented minority and disabled veteran gives her a unique lens. In addition to her role at Hunter, she continues to practice as a nurse practitioner in the fields of urology, general surgery, and colorectal surgery.

Educational Background

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow; Research on Vulnerable Women, Children, and Families. University of Pennsylvania, 2014
  • PhD, Nursing, University of Pittsburgh, 2012
  • MS, Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, 2006
  • BS, Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, 2003

Honors and Awards

  • 2022 Fellow, New York Academy of Medicine
  • 2022 Awardee, Nephrology Nurse Researcher Award
  • 2021 Awardee, Researcher of the Year, Greater New York Black Nurses Association
  • 2021 Scholar, PRIDE Summer Institute in Cardiovascular Disease Comorbidities, Genetics and Epidemiology
  • 2021 Scholar, Dear Pandemic Visiting Scholar
  • 2020 Scholar, NIH-funded Health Care Systems Research Network (HCSRN) and Older Americans Independence Centers (OAICs) AGING Initiative Multiple Chronic Conditions (MCCs)
  • 2020 Awardee, Outstanding Young Alumni Award, University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing
  • 2019 Awardee, National Black Nurses Association 40 Under 40 Award
  • 2011 Inductee, Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society, Eta Chapter, Xi Chapter
  • 2011 Fellow & Scholar, ThinkSwiss Fellowship & Scholarship, Universitaet Basel Pflegewissenschaft - Nursing Science (INS) Summer Program
  • 2010 Fellow, Jewish Healthcare Patient Safety Fellowship
  • 2003 Awardee, Sojourner Truth Award (Perseverance Despite Adversity)
  • 2003 Awardee, Nursing Award for Special Achievement

Research

Dr. Clark-Cutaia is interested in the impact of racism, discrimination, and social determinants of health on the risks of high symptom burden and adverse clinical outcomes. She is particularly interested in minoritized individuals living with end stage kidney disease, who have been largely overlooked and are understudied. She has developed an interdisciplinary program of research focused on disparate outcomes in chronic kidney disease utilizing qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methodologies. Her research is in the community, of the community, and conducted by the community of invididuals it is meant to serve.

Grants and Publications

  • 2022: PI, Understanding the Impact of Sodium Intake and Optimized Nutrition on Clinical Outcomes in a Diverse Sample of Individuals Living with End Stage Kidney Disease. Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, 2022-2025, $500,000.
  • 2021: PI, Understanding the Impact of Sodium Consumption on Cardiovascular and Renal Health in the CRIC Study: A Secondary Data Analysis. Programs to Increase Diversity Among Individuals Engaged in Health-Related Research (PRIDE) (R25 HL105400), NIH-NHLBI, 2021-2023, $23,300.
  • 2018: Pilot Funding Awardee, Symptom Clusters and Phenotype Characterization in End Stage Kidney Disease. Pilot Funding Awardee (P30 AG059302), Center for Improving Care Delivery for the Aging (CICADA), NIH-NIA, 2018-2023, $10,000.
  • 2021: Co-I, COVID-19 Vaccination Uptake in Hemodialysis. Kidney X Competition, American Society of Nephrology, 2021-2022, $20,000.
  • 2015: Pilot Funding Awardee, Stakeholder Perspectives of Factors Contributing to Rehospitalization in Hemodialysis Patients. NewCourtland, 2015-2017, $9,350.
  • 2015: PI, Health Disparities Loan Repayment Program (Renewal), NIH-NIMHD, 2015-2017, $28,078.
  • 2014: PI, Sodium-Restricted Diets and Symptoms in End Stage Renal Disease: An RCT. K23 Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (K23 NR015058), NIH-NINR, 2014-2017, $399,792.
  • 2014: PI, Sodium-Restricted Diets and Symptoms in End Stage Renal Disease: An RCT. University of Pennsylvania Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, 2014-2016, $249,245.
  • 2013: PI, Health Disparities Loan Repayment Program, NIH-NIMHD, 2013-2015, $46,211.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

  • Li, Y., Menon, G., Kim, B., Bae, S., Quint, E. E., Clark-Cutaia, M. N., Wu, W., Thompson, V. L., Crews, D. C., Purnell, T. S., Thorpe, R. J., Jr, Szanton, S. L., Segev, D. L., & McAdams DeMarco, M. A. (2024). Neighborhood segregation and access to live donor kidney transplantation. JAMA Internal Medicine, 184(4), 402-413. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.8184
  • Bass, M. B., & Clark-Cutaia, M. N. (2024). Response to Research for Practice column "Considering References". Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, 39(2), 177-178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jopan.2023.12.011
  • Chen, Y., Li, Y., Liu, Y., Kim, B., Ruck, J. M., Clark-Cutaia, M. N., Mathur, A., Purnell, T. S., Thorpe, R. J., Jr, Crews, D. C., Szanton, S. L., Segev, D. L., & McAdams-DeMarco, M. (2024). Residential racial and ethnic segregation and post-kidney transplant dementia, allograft loss, and mortality. American Journal of Kidney Diseases, S0272-6386(24)00627-9. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1053/j.ajkd.2024.01.518
  • Li, Y., Menon, G., Wu, W., Musunuru, A., Chen, Y., Quint, E. E., Clark-Cutaia, M. N., Zeiser, L. B., Segev, D. L., & McAdams-DeMarco, M. A. (2023). Evolving trends in kidney transplant outcomes among older adults: A comparative analysis before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Transplantation Direct, 9(12), e1520. https://doi.org/10.1097/TXD.0000000000001520
  • Kelly-Hellyer, E., Sigueza, A. L., Pestritto, M., & Clark-Cutaia, M. N. (2023). The analgesic properties of a music intervention in the post anesthesia care unit. Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, 38(5), 763-767. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jopan.2022.12.007
  • Viggiano, J., Coutinho, D., Clark-Cutaia, M. N., & Martinez, D. (2023). Effects of a high salt diet on blood pressure dipping and the implications on hypertension. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 17, 1212208. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2023.1212208
  • Sandal, S., Ahn, J. B., Chen, Y., Massie, A. B., Clark-Cutaia, M. N., Wu, W., Cantarovich, M., Segev, D. L., & McAdams-DeMarco, M. A. (2023). Trends in the survival benefit of repeat kidney transplantation over the past 3 decades. American Journal of Transplantation, 23(5), 666-672. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajt.2023.01.008
  • Lunyera, J., Davenport, C. A., Ephraim, P., Mohottige, D., Bhavsar, N. A., Clark-Cutaia, M. N., Cabacungan, A., DePasquale, N., Peskoe, S., & Boulware, L. E. (2023). Association of perceived neighborhood health with hypertension self-care. JAMA Network Open, 6(2), e2255626. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.55626
  • David, D., Weir, M. L., Enwerem, N., Schulman-Green, D., Okunji, P. O., Travers, J. L., & Clark-Cutaia, M. N. (2022). National Institutes of Health diversity supplements: Perspectives from administrative insiders. Nursing Outlook, 70(6), 827-836. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.outlook.2022.08.006
  • Travers, J. L., David, D., Weir, M., Clark-Cutaia, M. N., Enwerem, N., Okunji, P. O., & Schulman-Green, D. (2022). Demystifying the National Institutes of Health diversity supplement: Mentee and mentor experiences and recommendations. Nursing Outlook, 70(6), 856-865. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.outlook.2022.07.007
  • Rivera, E., Clark-Cutaia, M. N., Schrauben, S. J., Townsend, R. R., Lash, J. P., Hannan, M., Jaar, B. G., Rincon-Choles, H., Kansal, S., He, J., Chen, J., & Hirschman, K. B. (2022). Treatment adherence in CKD and support from health care providers: A qualitative study. Kidney medicine, 4(11), 100545. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xkme.2022.100545
  • Rivera, E., Levoy, K., Clark-Cutaia, M. N., Schrauben, S., Townsend, R. R., Rahman, M., Lash, J., Saunders, M., Frazier, R., Rincon-Choles, H., & Hirschman, K. B. (2022). Content validity assessment of the revised Illness Perception Questionnaire in CKD using qualitative methods. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(14), 8654. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19148654
  • Clark-Cutaia, M. N., Rivera, E., Iroegbu, C., Arneson, G., Deng, R., & Anastasi, J. K. (2022). Exploring the evidence: Symptom burden in chronic kidney disease. Nephrology Nursing Journal, 49(3), 227-255. https://doi.org/10.37526/1526-744X.2022.49.3.227
  • Squires, A., Clark-Cutaia, M. N., Henderson, M. D., Arneson, G., & Resnik, P. (2022). "Should I stay or should I go?" Nurses' perspectives about working during the Covid-19 pandemic's first wave in the United States: A summative content analysis combined with topic modeling. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 131, 104256. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2022.104256
  • Clark-Cutaia, M. N., Rivera, E., Henstenberg, J. A., Grunin, L., & Yu, G. (2021). Adult health behaviors associated with chronic kidney disease: 2003-2006 NHANES data. Journal of Nephrology & Renal Therapy, 7, 061. https://dx.doi.org/10.24966/NRT-7313/100061
  • Clark-Cutaia, M. N., & Townsend, R. R. (2021). Therapeutic options to improve cardiovascular outcomes with long-term hemodialysis. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: CJASN, 16(4), 511-513. https://doi.org/10.2215/CJN.02010221
  • Clark-Cutaia, M. N., Rivera, E., Iroegbu, C., & Squires, A. (2021). Disparities in chronic kidney disease-the state of the evidence. Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension, 30(2), 208-214. https://doi.org/10.1097/MNH.0000000000000688
  • Clark-Cutaia, M. N., Jarrín, O. F., Thomas-Hawkins, C., & Hirschman, K. B. (2020). The perfect storm: Stakeholder perspectives on factors contributing to hospital admissions for patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis. Nephrology Nursing Journal, 47(1), 11-20.
  • Clark-Cutaia, M. N., Sevick, M. A., Thurheimer-Cacciotti, J., Hoffman, L. A., Snetselaar, L., Burke, L. E., & Zickmund, S. L. (2019). Perceived barriers to adherence to hemodialysis dietary recommendations. Clinical Nursing Research, 28(8), 1009-1029. https://doi.org/10.1177/1054773818773364
  • Clark-Cutaia, M. N., Reisinger, N., Anache, M. R., Ramos, K., Sommers, M. S., Townsend, R. R., Yu, G., & Fargo, J. (2019). Feasibility of assessing sodium-associated body fluid composition in end-stage renal disease. Nursing Research, 68(3), 246-252. https://doi.org/10.1097/NNR.0000000000000320
  • Clark-Cutaia, M. N. , Lioudis, M., & Townsend, R. (2016). Clinical behavior of a V84L mutation Pheochromocytoma. Journal of Clinical Case Reports, 6(4), 765. https://doi.org/10.4172/2165-7920.1000765
  • Clark-Cutaia, M. N., Sommers, M. S., Anderson, E., & Townsend, R. R. (2016). Design of a randomized controlled clinical trial assessing dietary sodium restriction and hemodialysis-related symptom profiles. Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications, 3, 70-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conctc.2016.04.002
  • Clark-Cutaia, M. N., Ren, D., Hoffman, L. A., Burke, L. E., & Sevick, M. A. (2014). Adherence to hemodialysis dietary sodium recommendations: Influence of patient characteristics, self-efficacy, and perceived barriers. Journal of Renal Nutrition, 24(2), 92-99. https://doi.org/10.1053/j.jrn.2013.11.007
  • Clark-Cutaia, M. N., Ren, D., Hoffman, L. A., Snetselaar, L., & Sevick, M. A. (2013). Psychometric validation of the Self-Efficacy for Restricting Dietary Salt in Hemodialysis Scale. Topics in Clinical Nutrition, 28(4), 384-391. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.TIN.0000437407.76867.65
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School of Nursing
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(212) 481-4348
maya.clark-cutaia@hunter.cuny.edu

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