I am currently a Research Assistant Professor with the Program for Positive Aging and Department of Psychiatry at Michigan Medicine. My work focuses on caregivers for individuals with dementia and how their caregiving styles relate to their health and health services utilization.
I am a graduate of the Human Development and Family Studies doctoral program at the Pennsylvania State University. The program focused on lifespan developmental research, theory, and methodology. My substantive areas of concentration were adult development and aging and family studies and my dissertation focused on late-life depression.
I am also interested in late-life depression and anxiety, prevention/intervention in mental health issues in older adults, cross-cultural aging differences, mental health in long-term care, and the impact of family care on caregivers of individuals with dementia.