T32 Cohort Year 5
Dongmi Kim, BSN, RN
Research Interest: Women's health, Minority health, Asian American, Chronic Disease Management, specifically identifying social determinants of health among middle-aged Women to prevent and manage risk factors for Chronic Kidney Disease.
Bora Sun, BSN, MSB
Research Interest: Explore how modifiable Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) factors influence Cancer-Related Cognitive Impairment (CRCI) outcomes and develop personalized/tailored interventions to improve health outcomes and enhance health equity in cancer care.
Darla Grimes, MSN, APRN, FNP-C
Research Interest: Systemic lupus erythematosus and resilience; specifically, the identification of modifiable barriers and facilitators in order to minimize disease exacerbations and increase self-efficacy in underserved and marginalized populations.
T32 Cohort Year 4
Emily West, BA, MA
Research Interest: Geriatric health promotion, with a specific focus on mitigating the adverse effects associated with driving cessation.
Namuun Clifford, MSN, RN, FNP-C
Research Interest: Precision health research, digital health technologies, and machine learning to prevent and manage cardiovascular diseases in underserved and marginalized populations.
T32 Cohort Year 3
Shenell Woods, BSN, RN
Research Interest: Chronic disease management, disease prevention, and health promotion; specifically, how time pressure influences people’s engagement in lifestyle behaviors.
Adetimilehin Ariyo, RN
Research Interest: Understand the barriers and facilitators in health care access in Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) patient population and the effect of self-care management strategies on health outcomes in this population, such as reduction in the occurrence of vaso-occlusive crises and impact on quality of life.
Valerie Sant, AGCNS, MSN, RN
Research Interest: Improving precise health outcomes in cardiology nursing using new technology.
T32 Cohort Year 2
Tonychris Nnaka, PhD MPH, RN, CPH
Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth | Department of Biomedical Data Science
Research Interest: Cardiovascular Disease Management and Digital Intervention
Kayla Longoria, PhD, MA, RN
Post-Doctoral Fellowship: School of Nursing at University of California, San Francisco | Physiological Nursing
Research Interest: Perinatal mental health disparities; comprehensive phenotyping of perinatal depression risk; omics related methodologies.
T32 Cohort Year 1
Emily Croce, PhD, CPNP-PC, RN
Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Jointly appointed within The Steve Hicks School of Social Work and Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin. NHLBI-funded T32 focused on promoting health equity in cardiovascular and pulmonary disease in the behavioral, population, and implementation sciences.
Research Interest: Racial and ethnic health disparities in Black and Hispanic/Latinx children with atopic dermatitis (AD/eczema), asthma, and allergies; and how environmental and psychosocial exposures contribute to these disparities.
Kristen Sinay, MSN, RN, LCCE, LNCC, C-EFM
Research Interest: Menstrual health management. specifically, nurses’ educational preparation, continuing competency, and comfort with menstruation health management in primary care settings and schools.
Eliana Gill, BSN, RN
Post-Doctoral Fellowship: University of Washington at the School of Nursing focused on Biology to Society
Research Interest: Symptom burden and clustering patterns during acute pulmonary exacerbations in people with cystic fibrosis