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senior editor Elisa Wouk Almino. Heffernan collaborated to roll out the project at
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Heffernan's social practice PPE Portrait project collaborated with the
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Heffernan is collaborating with researchers to establish PPE Portraits as best practice for patients whose healthcare workers are masked, publishing in the
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Reidy, Jennifer; Brown-Johnson, Cati; McCool, Nancy; Steadman, Shawna; Heffernan, Mary B.; Nagpal, Vandana (November 1, 2020).
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