Consulting Services

Grant Consultation

• Background:  Trained as a scientist-practitioner with over 20 years of experience as an NIH-funded independent researcher with NIH funding 

• Services: Study design, grant writing, grant review, clinical interventionist

• Expertise: 

  • Patient reported outcomes

  • Digital tools for symptom management and quality of life during and after treatment

  • Intervention design: behavioral and psychological clinical trial interventions

  • Health disparities in patient care

  • Psychological functioning as pertains to adjustment to diagnosis, response to treatment, concerns about recurrence, survivorship, and death

Grant Writing

• 20 years of NIH grant experience (total 35 study sessions)

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• Served on recurring NIH study sections (3 times per year)

  • 4 years, Biobehavioral Medicine and Health Outcomes (BMHO)

  • 4 years, F Fellowships: Risk, Prevention, and Health Behavior (Chair 1 year)

  • 2 years, F Fellowships: Risk, Health, and Healthcare (Chair 2 years)

• Ad hoc study section chair (3)

• Ad hoc reviewer (6)

• Editorial Board, Medical Decision-Making (2015-Present)

Study Design

• Behavioral study methodology and  design including intervention designs

• Advanced statistical training in multi-level modeling, intensive longitudinal data, and dyadic data (APIM)

• Psychometrics and measurement of outcomes

Digital Tools Advisory

• Smartphone app consultation

• Idea discovery process

• Director of Digital Innovation in Oncology Research (DIOR) Hub to support and promote the use of patient-centered digital tools in research and clinical practice

• Development of MyPatientPal smartphone app to measure daily patient-reported outcomes (e.g., CTCAE symptoms), QOL, and medication use for patients undergoing treatment for cancer. Features include reporting by patient or caregiver, 7-day and 30-day charts, and priovider dashboard for real-time access by providers to communication about symptoms and  effective symptom management 

Psychotherapy

• Background: 20 years of experience as the primary licensed clinical psychologist in an NCI designated Comprehensive Cancer Center 

• Services: Telehealth for individuals, couples, and families affected by cancer

• Issues: Decision-making

• Training: 

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy within a trauma-based framework to treat family violence (couples therapy, parent-child conflict) and PTSD (family violence, combat-related) (PhD: Clinical Psychology, University of Georgia)

  • Health Psychology (Externship: Atlanta VAMC, Clinical internship: Health University of Wisconsin-Madison)

  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Interpersonal Therapy (Clinical internship: Health University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Psycho-oncology (2-year NIMH T32 Post-doctoral fellowship, University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center)

• Experience with working with Black, LGBTQ+, and MENA communities

Mentoring

Mentoring experience with over 25 trainees including:

• K01 and ACS career training award

• Dissertation committees

• Students obtaining higher degrees (PhD, MD)

• Clinical supervision for licensure

• Clinical supervision

• Licensure

• Residents and Fellows – Psychiatry and Palliative

Expert Witness

• Psychological functioning as pertains to adjustment to diagnosis, response to treatment, concerns about recurrence, survivorship, and death

• Quality of life

• Treatment-related symptom management