Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

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Prior to joining the BMRL, I completed my doctoral training in Experimental Health Psychology at Ohio University and a postdoctoral position at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Salivary Bioscience Research at the University of California, Irvine. Broadly, my work has focused on acute and chronic stress, noninvasive interventions, lifestyles medicine, salivary assay methodology, and working with chronically ill and healthy individuals. My research interests include: chronic pain, non-invasive interventions (e.g., lifestyle modification, MBSR), acute and chronic stress, cellular aging, health disparities (e.g., SES), psychoneuroimmunology, and translating findings into clinical application.