Selected Grants
Mindfulness Intervention for Sleep Disturbance and Symptom Management in Hematologic Cancer Patients During and After Inpatient Treatment
ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 20291/2 Self-directed mobile adaptive coping skills intervention to improve psychological distress symptoms among cardiorespiratory failure survivors: the Blueprint RCT
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2029A Patient-Caregiver Behavioral Intervention for Older Adults with Cancer and Mild Cognitive Impairment
ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2022 - 2027Caregiver-assisted pain coping skills training for dementia
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2026Text-messaging Communication Micro-Intervention for Couples Coping with Advanced GI Cancer
FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Cancer Institute · 2023 - 2026Coping with Asthma through Life Management (CALM)
ResearchCo-Mentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2026Couple Communication Skills Training for Advanced Cancer
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2025Feasibility Pilot Trial of Mindfulness in Patients Undergoing Spine Surgery (M-PASS) Using a Mobile Health Application
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health · 2023 - 2025Optimizing a self-directed mobile mindfulness intervention for improving cardiorespiratory failure survivors' psychological distress
Clinical TrialInvestigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 20251/2 Self-directed mobile adaptive coping skills intervention to improve psychological distress symptoms among cardiorespiratory failure survivors: the Blueprint RCT
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2025Addressing Sexual Concerns in Breast Cancer Survivors: RCT of a Novel Couple-Based Intervention
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Fox Chase Cancer Center · 2018 - 2024Home-based Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation to Improve Outcomes and Decrease Costs
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institute on Aging · 2020 - 2024A Dyadic Intervention to Address Distress and Communication in Glioblastoma Patients and their Caregivers
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Glioblastoma Foundation · 2022 - 2024Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Skills Training for Metastatic Lung Cancer Patients
FellowshipMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2024Duke Pain Early-phase Research Clinical Center (PERC)
ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2024Palliative Care Research Cooperative Group (PCRC) Refinement and Expansion
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by University of Colorado - Denver · 2018 - 2023Using Partners to Enhance Long-term Weight Loss
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by University of Wisconsin - Madison · 2018 - 2023Couple Communication in Cancer: A Multi-method Examination
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Arizona State University · 2016 - 2022Translational Research in Surgical Oncology
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2002 - 2022Multiple Co-occurring Symptoms in Patients with Gastrointestinal Cancers
FellowshipSponsor · Awarded by American Cancer Society, Inc. · 2020 - 2021Optimizing a self-directed mobile copying skills training intervention for improving cardiorespiratory failure survivors
Clinical TrialInvestigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2021Caregiver-Assisted Pain Coping Skills Training for Dementia
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Palliative Care Research Center · 2018 - 2020Caregiver-Guided Pain Management Training in Palliative Care
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2014 - 2019Yoga-based Symptom Management for Metastatic Breast Cancer
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2013 - 2018Mobile Mindfulness to Improve Psychological Distress after Critical Illness
Clinical TrialCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2015 - 2017Communication in Oncologist Patient Encounters: A Patient Intervention
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2009 - 2016Feasibility of a Couple-based Intervention for Parents of Children with Cancer
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2012 - 2014Coping Skills Training for Spinal Cord Stimulator Patients
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2008 - 2013Stress and Behavior in Health and Disease
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1989 - 2011Caregiver-Assisting Coping Skills Training for Lung Cancer
ResearchProject Director · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2002 - 2008Partner-Assisted Emotional Disclosure for GI Cancer
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2004 - 2008Prostate Cancer Recovery Enhancement (PROCARE) for African American Men
Clinical TrialCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2007 - 2008External Relationships
- American Cancer Society
- Arizona State University
- Fox Chase Cancer Center
- Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute
- University of Arizona
- University of Wisconsin
- Utah State University
- VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System
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