Dissertation Title: Intersectionality, Racial Discrimination and Oral Health Care Utilization Among Black Adults in Baltimore City, Maryland

Advisor: Maghboeba Mosavel, Ph.D.

Dissertation Title: The PROMIS Women Education Program: Promote Cervical Cancer Prevention Methods among Muslim Women in Virginia

Advisor: Vanessa B. Sheppard, Ph.D.

Dissertation Title: "It's just not enough": Examining the experiences of school-based sexual health education and conversation engagement with trusted adults among Black boys in Richmond, VA

Advisor: Kellie E. Carlyle, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.Ed.

Dissertation Title: QVOICES: Queer Voices in Oncology Igniting Change through Empowered Stories of Survivorship

Advisor: Richard F. Brown, Ph.D.

Dissertation Title: A Technology-Based, Mixed Methods Approach to Examining the Psychosocial Determinants of Maternal Health Disparities

Advisor: Sun Jung "Sunny" Kim, Ph.D., M.S., M.A.

Dissertation Title: A Novel Approach to Reducing Adiposity among Young Men

Advisor: Jessica G. LaRose, Ph.D.

Dissertation Title: Food Insecurity Screening and Nutrition Care as a part of Hypertension Management in Primary Care Teams

Advisor: Maria D. Thomson, Ph.D., M.Sc.

Dissertation Title: A Multilevel Mixed Methods Examination of Treatment Nonadherence Among Rural Cancer Survivors

Advisor: Bernard Fuemmeler, Ph.D.

Dissertation Title: A Mixed Methods Approach to Examine Racial Disparities in Adherence to Surveillance Mammography Among Breast Cancer Survivors

Advisor: Vanessa B. Sheppard, Ph.D.

Dissertation Title: Behavior Change Techniques to Promote Smoking Cessation During Pregnancy: A Theory-Based Meta-Analysis

Advisor: Jessica G. LaRose, Ph.D.

Dissertation Title: Changing Landscapes: Perspectives of Young African American Women of Population-Wide Testing for Hereditary Breast Cancer Mutations

Advisor: Maghboeba Mosavel, Ph.D.

Dissertation Title: Examining the role of racial discrimination in obesity treatment disparities among African American emerging adult women

Advisor: Jessica G. LaRose, Ph.D.

Dissertation Title: The intersection of social stress, mental well-being, and sexual health in young black women

Advisor: Jessica G. LaRose, Ph.D.

Dissertation Title: A theoretically-based mixed methods approach to examining mental health disorders and help-seeking behaviors among university-enrolled African American men

Advisor: Kellie E. Carlyle, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.Ed.

Dissertation Title: Motivational interviewing in a team-based wellness clinic: Perceptions and fidelity

Advisor: Maghboeba Mosavel, Ph.D., M.A.

Dissertation Title: Communicating colorectal cancer risk to average risk adults: Examining the impact on risk perceptions and health behavior intentions

Advisor: Maria D. Thomson, Ph.D., M.Sc.

Dissertation Title: Perceived financial burden, self-management behaviors and glycemic control in adults with type 1 diabetes

Advisor: Maria D. Thomson, Ph.D., M.Sc.

Dissertation Title: Designing effective messages to promote future Zika vaccine uptake

Advisor: Kellie E. Carlyle, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.Ed.

Dissertation Title: Information needs and information sources of patients diagnosed with rare cancers

Advisor: Robin K. Matsuyama, Ph.D.

Dissertation Title: Examining the effects of psychosocial stress on the hypertension self-management behaviors of African American women

Advisor: Maghboeba Mosavel, Ph.D., M.A.

Dissertation Title: Cancer Health Literacy and Hospitalization in the First Five Years following a Cancer Diagnosis

Advisor: Robin K. Matsuyama, Ph.D.

Dissertation Title: Development and evaluation of a peer-to-peer intervention to increase self-management among adult in-center hemodialysis patients

Advisor: Maria D. Thomson, Ph.D., M.Sc.

Dissertation Title: Evaluation and comparison of theoretical models' abilities to explain and predict colorectal cancer screening behaviors

Advisor: Robin K. Matsuyama, Ph.D.

Dissertation Title: Impact of e-cigarettes on physician recommendations of tobacco use cessation pharmacotherapy

Advisor: Jennifer Elston Lafata, Ph.D.

Dissertation Title: Barriers and facilitators to infant feeding among low-income African American women

Advisor: Kellie E. Carlyle, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.Ed.

Dissertation Title: Stress management for cancer survivors using a technologically adapted psychosocial intervention: A randomized trial determining the effect of expressive writing on psychoneuroimmunology based outcome

Advisor: Richard F. Brown, Ph.D.

Dissertation Title: Development of a collaborative goal setting measure for patients with diabetes

Advisor: Jennifer Elston Lafata, Ph.D.

Current Position: Director of Clinical Epidemiology and Scientific Publications

Institution: Target RWE Health Evidence Solutions

Dissertation Title: A mixed-method examination of racial differences in females’ perceptions and experiences of sexual objectifications

Advisor: Maghboeba Mosavel, Ph.D. and Kellie Carlyle, Ph.D.

Dissertation Title: Patient perceptions of shared decision making: What does it mean and how does it affect patient outcomes

Advisor: Jennifer Elston Lafata, Ph.D.

Current Position: Assistant Professor

Institution: UTHealth School of Public Health

Dissertation Title: Understanding the public’s attitudes tissue donation: A multi-method approach

Advisor: Laura Siminoff, Ph.D.

Current Position: Chief Data and Analytic Officer

Institution: Defense Logistics Agency