I am interested examining specific mechanisms impact the relationship between early exposure adversity (i.e., poverty) and long-term physical and psychological health outcomes in adolescence.
For my first dissertation chapter, I examined the underlying mechanisms of self-regulation and how it impacts the relationship between early exposure to poverty and adolescent allostatic load using existing longitudinal data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD).
I recruited patients from the Emergency department as a research associate at the Yale School of Medicine for a hyperkalemia management clinical trial. I also worked on several studies examining the effects of traumatic health events, such as heart surgery, on cognition. Additionally, I helped design, implement, and conduct an intervention to examine if exercise can improve cognitive outcomes in cardiac patients.
I recently completed my Master of Science degree at Brown University in the Behavioral and Social Health Sciencess. For my thesis work, I analyzed data from a sibling-comparison study of children whose mothers changed smoking behavior between pregnancies using hierarchical linear models with SAS, finding that deficits in inhibitory control are due to a spectrum of co-occurring environmental risk factors beyond smoking during pregnancy.
Github repository examining the effects of Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy on the child's inhibitory control
From 2016-2020, I coordinated data collection, recruited participants, and maintained participant databases for a randomized controlled trial for smoking cessation using positive psychotherapy at the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown University School of Public Health.
ClinicalTrials.gov