Research Interests
My research interests include: prevention of obesity and diabetes, prevention of diabetes related complications, health professions education, and mentoring.
Selected Grants
Promoting Evidence-Based Chronic Kidney Disease Care among Hispanics/Latinos with Type 2 Diabetes (K23)
ResearchAdvisor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2026 - 2031Behavior and Physiology in Aging
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institute on Aging · 2015 - 20302/3 CTSA K12 Program at Duke University
ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences · 2025 - 2030PROMOTE and TEACH
Clinical TrialCo Investigator · Awarded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development · 2024 - 2029Medical Scientist Training Program
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPreceptor · Awarded by National Institute of General Medical Sciences · 2022 - 2027Peer group psychosocial mentoring and mechanisms of change contributing to personal gains and objective career outcomes for racially underrepresented early career biomedical researchers
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2019 - 2025Improving Adherence to Adjuvant Endocrine Therapy in Breast Cancer Patients
ResearchClinical Associate · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2016 - 2022A Transition of Care Model from Hospital to Community for Hispanic/Latino Adult Patients with Diabetes
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Albert Einstein College of Medicine · 2019 - 2022A Self-Management Intervention for Women with Breast Cancer and Diabetes
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by American Cancer Society, Inc. · 2016 - 2020Patient and Provider Interventions for Managing Osteoarthritis in Primary Care
ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2010 - 2016Cellphone Intervention Trial for Young Adults (CITY)
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2009 - 2015External Relationships
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine Diabetes Translational Research
- Amylyx
- Intensive course in diabetes, endocrinology and cardiometabolic disease Davidson-Mestman
- North Carolina Diabetes Advisory Council (NC DAC)
- Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) -Project ECHO
- Pontifica Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra
- Project access of durham county
- Sociedad Dominicana de Endocrinologia Y nutrition- Curso Intensivo Davidson-Dominicana 2026
- The Endocrine Society
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