Research Interests
Developing and implementing psychosocial interventions for older adults in oncology or palliative care, and for their caregivers.
Clinical and Research Foci:
Teaching/Lecture Presentations Foci:
Clinical and Research Foci:
- Mental Health & Dyadic Behavioral Interventions for Geriatric Palliative Care Populations
- Communication and Coping Skills Training
- Palliative Care Provider Training in Distress Coping Skills
Teaching/Lecture Presentations Foci:
- Role of Psychology in Palliative Care
- Psychological and Physical Resilience in Geriatric Palliative Care
- Enhancing illness acceptance and adaptation to serious, life-limiting illness
- Ageism and Intersectionality
Selected Grants
Duke/UNC ADAR Program
Inst. Training Prgm or CMECo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2029A Randomized Controlled Trial of BETTER, A Transitional Care Intervention, for Diverse Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury and Their Families
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Nursing Research · 2023 - 2028A Patient-Caregiver Behavioral Intervention for Older Adults with Cancer and Mild Cognitive Impairment
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2022 - 2027Caregiver-assisted pain coping skills training for dementia
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2026Towards a trauma-informed intensive care unit
ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Inc. · 2023 - 2026A Dyadic Intervention to Address Distress and Communication in Glioblastoma Patients and their Caregivers
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Glioblastoma Foundation · 2022 - 2024Remote Patient Monitoring of Family Caregivers of Patients with Alzheimer's Disease
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Prepped Health · 2021 - 2023Resilience Measurement, Prediction, and its Role in Older Adults with Late Stage Lung Cancer
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Wake Forest University School Of Medicine · 2020 - 2022Fellowships, Gifts, and Supported Research
Resilience Measurement, Prediction, and its Role in Older Adults with Late Stage Lung Cancer ·
2021
- 2022
Awarded by: Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Self-System Therapy for Older Adults with Advanced Lung Cancer (SST-LC) ·
2019
- 2021
Pilot Awardee, Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by: Duke Roybal Center Awarded by National Institute on Aging
Pilot that is part of the Duke Roybal Center grant # P30 NIA 12734132 (HSS#260959)
A Quantitative and Qualitative Exploration of Distress Symptoms in Lung Cancer ·
August 30, 2018
- September 30, 2019
Pilot Awardee, Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by: Pilot Study Program Awarded by the Durham VA HSR&D Center of Innovation (COIN) LIP18-002
Couple Communication in Cancer: A Multi-method Examination ·
2018
- 2021
PI to the NCI diversity supplement of the R01 ·
Awarded by: Arizona State University
George Maddox Fellowship ·
2015
- 2017
Awarded by: Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development
External Relationships
- Harvard Medical School and Dana Farber Cancer Institute
- University of Southern California
- VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System
- Wake Forest University School of Medicine
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