R. Jerome Dixon

Publications

Doctoral student in Integrative Life Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University. Applied data science across pharmacogenomics, explainable machine learning, pediatric heart transplantation, and surgical simulation.

Pharmacogenomics & claims analytics

Virginia Commonwealth University

CH1 · journal pending

Explainable AI and Pharmacogenomics for Opioid and Polypharmacy Risk: A Systematic Review

Dixon RJ, Price ET.

DOI pending
CH2 · journal pending

Low cost big data framework for scalable claims analytics

Dixon RJ, Price ET.

DOI pending
Clinical and Translational Science · 2026

Temporal Drivers of Opioid-Related ED Visits: An Ensemble Machine Learning Study With Consensus-Based Feature Attribution

Dixon RJ, Price ET.

doi.org/10.1111/cts.70690
Clinical and Translational Science · 2026

A Serverless Pharmacogenomic Risk Dashboard: Translating Ensemble Models and Model-Based Scenario Rules to Clinical Decision Support

Dixon RJ, Price ET.

doi.org/10.1111/cts.70697
Clinical and Translational Science · accepted 19 Aug 2026

A SHAP-Informed Formal Feature Attribution Framework for Drug–Drug Interaction Risk in Large-Scale Claims Data

Dixon RJ, Price ET.

doi.org/10.1111/cts.70718

Surgical simulation & virtual reality

VCU · Old Dominion University

Digital · 2026

Leveraging Virtual Reality and Haptics to Teach Surgical Skills: A Usability Study on Retropubic Midurethral Slings

Siff L, Watson GS, Dixon J, Feldman M, Bost F, Giabbanelli PJ.

doi.org/10.3390/digital6010018
Urogynecology · 2026

What Makes an Expert Surgeon? Novel Metrics for Evaluating Skills in Simulation

Siff L, Dixon J, Watson G, Bost LF, Giabbanelli PJ, Feldman M.

doi.org/10.1097/spv.0000000000001791
Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology · 2026

SlingVR: A Virtual Reality Surgical Training System for Haptic-based “Blind” Surgical Procedures

Siff L, Dixon J, Bost FL, Feldman M.

doi.org/10.1016/j.jmig.2026.01.064

Pediatric heart transplantation

University of Virginia School of Data Science

Pediatric Transplantation · 2026

Donation After Circulatory Death in Pediatric Heart Transplantation

Grorud SD, Porter MD, Rajab TK, Dixon RJ, McCulloch M, Haregu F.

doi.org/10.1111/petr.70329
Pediatric Transplantation · 2025

Machine Learning for Predicting Waitlist Mortality in Pediatric Heart Transplantation

Haregu F, Dixon RJ, McCulloch M, Porter M.

doi.org/10.1111/petr.70095
Pediatric Transplantation · 2024

Pediatric Donor Heart Utilization Variability among Organ Procurement Organizations

Haregu F, Dixon RJ, Porter M, McCulloch M.

doi.org/10.1111/petr.14747