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Complete List of Publications and Presentations

2023 

  • Mikuls, T., Merickel, J., Gwon, Y., Sayles, H., Petro, A., Cannella, A., Snow, M., Feely, M., England, B., Michaud, K., & Rizzo, M. (2023). Vehicle control as a measure of real-world driving performance in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Care & Research, 75(2), 252-259. https://doi.org/10.1002/acr.24769 
  • Aboah, A., Adu-Gyamfi, Y., Velipasalar, G., Merickel, J., Rizzo, M., & Sharma, A. (2023). Driver maneuver detection and analysis using time series segmentation and classification. Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems, 149(3), 04022157. https://doi.org/10.1061/JTEPBS.TEENG-7312 
  • Chang, J., Wu, R., Zhang, Y., Rizzo, M. & Merickel, J. (2023). Indexing the prediction utility of real-world sleep to discriminate early Alzheimer’s disease. Poster presented to the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) 2023 Annual Meeting, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 
  • Hasan, Z., Basulto, G., Tan, K., Chang, J., Sarkar, S., Sharma, A., Hallmark, S., Rizzo, M., &  
  • Merickel, J. (2023). Roadway weather challenges illuminate real-world driving biomarkers of dementia risk. Poster presented to the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) 2023 Annual Meeting, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 
  • Chang, J., Bhatti, D., Uc, E., Rizzo, M. & Merickel, J. (2023). Actigraphy shows feasibility as a biomarker of dopaminergic medication use and motor fluctuations in Parkinson’s disease. Poster presented to World Congress on Parkinson’s Disease and Related Disorders 2023 Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. 
  • Chang, J., Wu, R., Zhang, Y., Rizzo, M. & Merickel, J. (2023). Real-world driving digital data reliably index MCI over time. Poster presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s (AAN) 2023 Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. 

2022 

  • Barnwal, A., Chakraborty, P., Sharma, A., Riera-Garcia, L., Ozcan, K., Davami, S., Sarkar, S., Rizzo, M., & Merickel, J. (2022). Sugar and stops in drivers with insulin-dependent type 1 diabetes. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 173, 106692. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2022.106692 
  • Merickel, J. & Rizzo, M. (2022). Brain on the road. In Marcotte, T., Schmitter-Edgecombe, M., & Grant, I. (Eds.), Neuropsychology of everyday functioning, 2nd edition (pp. 223-262). Guilford Publications, Inc. 
  • Chang, J., Mikuls, T., Michaud, K., Rizzo, M.., & Merickel, J. (2022). Naturalistic Driving Metrics for Predicting Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Status. Talk presented to The Eye, The Brain & The Auto 10th World Research Congress on Vision and Driving and the Impact of Autonomous Vehicle Technology on Healthcare, Dearborn, MI. 
  • Chang, J., Poulsen, R., Bhatti, D., Rizzo, M.,& Merickel, J. (2022). Turning real-world data into actionable evidence for healthcare interventions in neurodegeneration. Poster presented to the Gerontological Society of America’s (GSA) 2022 Annual Scientific Meeting, Indianapolis, IN.  
  • Chang, J., Bhatti, D., Mieth, T., Tartaglia, A., Rizzo, M., Bertoni, J., & Merickel, J. (2022). Real-world, digital sleep biomarkers capture Parkinson’s disease impact. Poster presented to World Congress on Parkinson’s Disease and Related Disorders 2022 Annual Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic. 
  • Chang, J., Bhatti, D., Mieth, T., Tartaglia, A., Rizzo, M., Bertoni, J., & Merickel, J. (2022). Real-world sleep dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease predicts cognitive dysfunction. Poster presented to the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) 2022 Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. 
  • Basulto-Elias, G., Hallmark, S., Sharma, A., Rizzo, M., & Merickel, J. (2022). Older driver visual and cognitive impairment on intersection behavior. Poster presented at the 7th International Conference on Traffic and Transport Psychology (ICTTP), Gothenburg, Sweden.  
  • Chang, J., Bhatti, D., Rizzo, M., & Merickel, J. (2022). Real-world digital driving profiles in Parkinson’s disease index motor and non-motor clinical symptoms. Poster presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s (AAN) 2022 Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. 
  • Merickel, J., Wu, R., Chang, J., Rizzo, M., & Zhang, Y. (2022). Digital driving metrics index early mobility declines in patients at risk for Alzheimer’s disease. Poster presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s (AAN) 2022 Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. 
  • Basulto, G., Barnwal, A., Sharma, A., Merickel, J., Rizzo, M., & Hallmark, S. (2022). Assessing the impact of older driver visual and cognitive impairment on intersection stopping behavior. Poster presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s (AAN) 2022 Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. 
  • Merickel J., Vlock, E., & Rizzo, M. (2022, March). Alzheimer's and Parkinson's: The search for scientific understanding. Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (Olli), University of Nebraska – Lincoln/Virtual Meeting, Omaha, NE.  
  • Merickel J., Rizzo, M., & Murman, D. (2022, May). Brain Health. American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) Nebraska Tele-Town Hall, Virtual Meeting/Omaha, NE. 

2021 

  • Wang, S., Sharma, A., Dawson, J., Rizzo, M., & Merickel, J. (2021). Visual and cognitive impairments differentially affect speed limit compliance in older drivers. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 69(5), 1300-1308. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.17008. PMCID: PMC8274407 
  • Barnwal, A., Merickel, J., Rizzo, M., Riera-Garcia, L., Sharma, A., & Sarkar, S. (2021). ndsintxn: An R package for extracting information from naturalistic driving data to support driver behavior analyses at intersections. Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Future Active Safety Technology (FAST-zero). 
  • Venkatachalapathy, A., Raj, A., Merickel, J., & Sharma, A. (2021). Implementing a comprehensive cloud-based platform for naturalistic driving studies. Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Future Active Safety Technology (FAST-zero). 
  • Merickel, J., Wu, R. , Rizzo, M., & Zhang, Y. (2021). Driver speed profiles index warning signs of MCI. Talk presented at the Gerontological Society of America’s (GSA) 2021 Annual Scientific Meeting, Phoenix, AZ. 
  • Barnwal, A., Merickel, J., Rizzo, M., Riera-Garcia, L., Sharma, A., & Sarkar, S. (2021). ndsintxn: An R package for extracting information from naturalistic driving data to support driver behavior analyses at intersections. Talk presented at the 6th International Symposium on Future Active Safety Technology (FAST-zero). 
  • Venkatachalapathy, A., Raj, A., Sharma, A., & Merickel, J. (2021). Implementing a comprehensive cloud-based platform for naturalistic driving studies. Talk presented at the 6th International Symposium on Future Active Safety Technology (FAST-zero). 

2020 

  • Zhou, D., Mikuls, T., Schmidt, C., England, B., Bergman, D., Rizzo, M., & Merickel, J., Michaud, K. (2020). Driving ability and safety in rheumatoid arthritis: A systematic review. Arthritis Care & Research, 73(4), 489-497. https://doi.org/10.1002/acr.24137 
  • Ozcan K., Sharma A., Knickerbocker S., Merickel J., Hawkins N., & Rizzo M. (2020. Road weather condition estimation using fixed and mobile based cameras. In Arai K., Kapoor S. (Eds.), Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing - CVC 2019: Advances in Computer Vision, 943(pp. 192-204). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17795-9_14 
  • Riera, L., Ozcan, K., Merickel, J., Rizzo, M., Sarkar, S., & Sharma, A. (2020). Detecting and tracking unsafe lane departure events for predicting driver safety in challenging naturalistic driving data. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) Symposium on Intelligent Vehicles (IV), 238-245, https://doi.org/10.1109/IV47402.2020.9304536 
  • Drincic, A., Desouza, C., Rizzo, M., & Merickel, J. (2020). Digital health technologies, diabetes, and driving (meet your new backseat driver). In Klonoff, D. C., Kerr, D., Mulvaney, S. (Eds.), Diabetes digital health (pp. 219-230). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-817485-2.00016-X 
  • Michaud, K., Merickel, J., Gwon, Y., Sayles, H., Kampschnieder, H., Hiebert, R., Petro, A., England, B., Rizzo, M., & Mikuls, T. (2020). A Prospective Cohort Study of Vehicle Control as a Measure of Driving Performance in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis. Poster presented at the 2020 American College of Rheumatology’s (ACR) Annual Meeting, Virtual Meeting. 
  • Merickel J. & Rizzo, M. (2020, October). Advancing healthcare with digital monitoring in transportation. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) International Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV2020), Virtual Meeting/Melbourne, Australia. 

2019 

  • Merickel, J., High, R., Dawson, J., & Rizzo, M. (2019). Real-world risk exposure in older drivers with cognitive and visual dysfunction. Traffic Injury Prevention, 20(sup2), S110-S115. https://doi.org10.1080/15389588.2019.1688794. PMCID: PMC7035173 
  • Chakraborty, P., Merickel, J., Shah, V., Sharma, A., Hegde, C., Desouza, C., Drincic, A., Gunaratne, P., & Rizzo, M. (2019). Quantifying vehicle control from physiology in type 1 diabetes. Traffic Injury Prevention, 20(sup2), S26-S31. https://doi.org/10.1080/15389588.2019.1665176 
  • Merickel, J., Robin, H., Smith, L., Wichman, C., Frankel, E., Smits, K., Drincic, A., Desouza, C., Gunaratne, P., Ebe, K., & Rizzo, M. (2019). Driving safety and real-time glucose monitoring in insulin-dependent diabetes. International Journal of Automotive Engineering, 10(1), 34-40. https://doi.org/10.20485/jsaeijae.10.1_34. PMCID: PMC8297408 
  • Shah, V., Merickel, J., Chakraborty, P., Hegde, C., Sharma, A., Gunaratne, P., Drincic, A., Desouza, C., & Rizzo, M. (2019). Quantifying driver speed behavior from real-time physiology in type 1 diabetes. Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Future Active Safety Technology (FAST-zero), Blacksburg, VA. 
  • Lowndes, B., Frankel, E., Kampschnieder, H., Merickel, J., Garvin, K., & Rizzo, M. (2019). Task analysis for measuring mobility and recovery following right-sided TKA: Toward determining driver readiness. Proceedings of the 10th International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design, 175-181. 
  • Merickel, J., High, R., Dawson, J., & Rizzo, M. (2019). Real-time effects of age-related cognitive dysfunction on driver vehicle control. Proceedings of the 10th International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design, 50-56. 
  • Merickel, J. (2019). Driving risk assessment for type-1 diabetes population. Talk presented at the 2019 Mid-Continent Transportation Research Symposium, Ames, IA. 
  • Merickel, J., High, R., Dawson, J., & Rizzo, M. (2019). Linking age-related cognitive and visual decline to momentary vehicle control. Talk presented at the 2019 Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine’s (AAAM) 63rd Annual Scientific Conference, Madrid, Spain. 
  • Barnwal, A., Merickel, J., Riera-Garcia, L., Ozcan, K., Sarkar, S., Sharma, A., & Rizzo, M. (2019). Linking age-related decline to driver behavior at signalized intersections. Talk presented at the 2019 Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine’s (AAAM) 63rd Annual Scientific Conference, Madrid, Spain. 
  • Chakraborty, P., Merickel, J., Shah, V., Sharma, A., Hegde, C., Desouza, C., Drincic, A., Gunaratne, P., & Rizzo, M. (2019). Predicting risk from physiology in drivers with type 1 diabetes. Talk presented at the 2019 Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine’s (AAAM) 63rd Annual Scientific Conference, Madrid, Spain.  
  • Shah, V., Merickel, J., Chakraborty, P., Hegde, C., Sharma, A., Gunaratne, P., Drincic, A., Desouza, C., & Rizzo, M. (2019). Quantifying driver speed behavior from real-time physiology in type 1 diabetes. Talk presented at the 5th International Symposium on Future Active Safety Technology (FAST-zero), Blacksburg, VA. 
  • Merickel, J., Shah, V., Charkraborty, P., Sharma, A., Hegde, C., Gunaratne, P., Drincic, A., Desouza, C., & Rizzo, M. (2019). Impact of physiology and environment on vehicle control behavior in drivers with type 1 diabetes. Talk presented at 5th International Symposium on Future Active Safety Technology (FAST-zero), Blacksburg, VA.  
  • Merickel, J., High, R., Dawson, J., & Rizzo, M. (2019). Older driver braking and accelerating behavior during times of day with increased crash risk. Talk presented at 5th International Symposium on Future Active Safety Technology (FAST-zero), Blacksburg, VA. 
  • Merickel, J., Frankel, E., & Rizzo, M. (2019). Quantification of real-world life space from instrumented vehicles in drivers with cognitive aging. Poster presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s (AAN) 2019 Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. 
  • Lowndes, B., Frankel, E., Kampschnieder, H., Merickel, J., Garvin, K., & Rizzo, M. (2019). Task analysis for measuring mobility and recovery following right-sided TKA: Toward determining driver readiness. Talk presented at the 2019 International Driving Symposium’s (DA) 10th Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, NM. 
  • Merickel, J., High, R., Dawson, J., & Rizzo, M. (2019). Real-time effects of age-related cognitive dysfunction on driver vehicle control. Talk presented at the 2019 International Driving Symposium’s (DA) 10th Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, NM. 
  • Frankel, E., Kampschnieder, H., Merickel, J., Rizzo, M., Garvin, K., & Lowndes, B. (2019). Measuring mobility recovery following right-sided TKA: The first step in a neuroergonomics¬¬ approach. Poster presented at the 2019 International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care (HFES), Chicago, IL. 
  • Kampschnieder, H., Frankel, E., Merickel, J., Rizzo, M., Bhatti, D., & Lowndes, B. (2019). An application of task analysis to compare task performance and mobility of participants with Parkinson’s disease to healthy controls. Poster presented at the 2019 International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care (HFES), Chicago, IL. 
  • Ozcan, K., Sharma, A., Knickerbocker, S., Hawkins, N., Merickel, J., & Rizzo, M. (2019). Road weather condition estimation using fixed and mobile based cameras. Talk presented at the Computer Vision Conference’s (CVC) 2019 Meeting, Las Vegas, NV. 
  • Merickel J. & Rizzo, M. (2019, April). My car the doctor: Using driving sensing to monitor cognitive change in aging and neurodegenerative impairments. The National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Aging’s Applying Digital Technology for Early Diagnosis and Monitoring of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias Workshop – Session “Monitoring Physiological, Psychological, and Behavior Changes”, Washington, DC. 

2018 

  • Bishop, M. O., Dawson, J. D., Merickel, J., & Rizzo, M. (2018). Reducing accelerometer data in instrumented vehicles. 2018 Joint Statistical Meetings Proceedings, 2420-2427. 
  • Hein, N., Wichman, C., Smith, L., Merickel, J., Drincic, A., Rizzo, M., & Desouza, C. (2018). Methods to improve glucose variability estimates in patients with insulin dependent T1DM. 2018 Joint Statistical Meetings Proceedings, 2007-2027.  
  • Zhou, D. J., Mikuls, T. R., Schmidt, C., England, B., Bergman, D. A., Rizzo, M., Merickel, J., & Michaud, K. (2018). Driving performance and safety in rheumatoid arthritis: A systematic review. Poster presented at the American College of Rheumatology and Association of Rheumatology Health Professional’s (ACR/ARP) 2018 Annual Meeting, Chicago, Il. 
  • Phatak, V., Merickel, J., Frankel, E., Dawson, J., & Rizzo, M. (2018). Subjective report of driving and objective real-world driving habits in older adults. Poster presented at the Gerontological Society of America’s (GSA) 2018 Annual Scientific Meeting, Boston, MA. 
  • Wang, S., Sharma, A., Merickel, J., & Rizzo, M. (2018). Assessing the impact of roadway characteristics on older drivers using naturalistic driving data. Talk presented at the Gerontological Society of America’s (GSA) 2018 Annual Scientific Meeting, Boston, MA. 
  • Liu, C., Merickel., J., Sharma, A., & Rizzo, M. (2018). Naturalistic driving data indexes travel patterns and exposure in at-risk older drivers. Poster presented at the American Neurological Association’s (ANA) 143rd Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA. 
  • Bishop, M. O., Dawson, J. D., Merickel, J., & Rizzo, M. (2018). Reducing accelerometer data in instrumented vehicles. Talk presented at the 2018 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), Vancouver, Canada. 
  • High, R., Merickel, J., & Rizzo, M. (2018). Computing rate models in driving studies. Poster presented at the Great Plains Institutional Development Award for Clinical Translational Research (GP IDeA-CTR) Big Data Methodology Workshop, Omaha, NE. 
  • Hein, N., Wichman, C., Smith, L., Merickel, J., Drincic, A., Rizzo, M., & Desouza, C. (2018). Development of robust measurement of glucose variability in patients with diabetes. Talk presented at the 2018 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), Vancouver, Canada.  
  • Phatak, V., Merickel, J., Frankel, E., Dawson, J., & Rizzo, M. (2018). Comparisons between older driver self-report of driving and objective real-world driving. Poster presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS) 2018 Annual Meeting, Austin, TX. 

2017 

  • Merickel, J., Robin, H., Smith, L., Wichman, C., Frankel, E., Smits, K., Drincic, A., Desouza, C., Gunaratne, P., Ebe, K., & Rizzo, M. (2017). At-risk driving behavior in drivers with diabetes: A neuroergonomics approach. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society’s 2017 Annual Meeting, 61(1), 1881-1885. 
  • Merickel, J., Robin, H., Smith, L., Frankel, E., Smits, K., Drincic, A., Desouza, C., Gunaratne, P., Ebe, K., & Rizzo, M. (2017). Ecological momentary sensor data indexes cognition and behavior in-the-wild in drivers with insulin-dependent diabetes. Poster presented at the American Neurological Association’s (ANA) 142nd Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.  
  • Merickel, J., Robin, H., Smith, L., Wichman, C., Frankel, E., Smits, K., Drincic, A., Desouza, C., Gunaratne, P., Ebe, K., & Rizzo, M. (2017). At-risk driving behavior in drivers with diabetes: A neuroergonomics approach. Talk presented at the 2017 Human Factors and Ergonomics Society’s (HFES) Annual Meeting, Austin, TX.  
  • Merickel, J., Robin, H., Smith, L., Wichman, C., Frankel, E., Smits, K., Drincic, A., Desouza, C., Gunaratne, P., Ebe, K., & Rizzo, M. (2017). Driving safety and real-time glucose monitoring in insulin-dependent diabetes. Talk presented at the 4th International Symposium on Future Active Safety Technology (FAST-zero), Nara, Japan.  
  • Merickel, J., Robin, H., Smith, L., Wichman, C., Frankel, E., Smits, K., Drincic, A., Desouza, C., Gunaratne, P., Ebe, K., & Rizzo, M. (2017). Linking real-time blood glucose to driver risk in diabetes. Poster presented at the American Diabetes Association's (ADA) 77th Scientific Session, San Diego, CA.  
  • Merickel, J. (2017, October). Drugged driving. Nebraska Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) documentary, Omaha, NE. https://www.pbs.org/video/drugged-driving-pcc9tg/ 
  • Merickel J. & Rizzo, M. (2017, October). Ecological momentary sensor data indexes cognition and behavior in-the-wild in drivers with insulin-dependent diabetes. The American Neurological Association’s 141st Scientific Data Blitz Session, San Diego, CA. 
  • Merickel J. (2017, March). Driver behavior in drivers with insulin-dependent diabetes. The University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Department of Internal Medicine - Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism’s Research Conference, Omaha, NE. 
  • Merickel J. (2017, April). Combining vehicle and physiologic sensors to quantify risk in drivers with diabetes. The Center for Research in Human Movement Variability’s Seminar Series, Omaha, NE.