Training and Professional Experiences

In the Department of Psychiatry (2022-present), I work in a few different roles including:

(a) as a biostatistician to manage data from various observational and clinical trials funded by organizations like NIMH,

(b) as an instructor teaching a research methods class and a bases of behavior class in the clinical psychology PhD program,

(c) as a consultant to aid medical residents during a research rotation and on completing scholarly research projects, and

(d) as a collaborator working with other faculty on data-related needs.

As an Adjunct Instructor of Psychology, I teach 1-2 courses per regular academic semester in the Tarrant County College District. I worked at TCC during the 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 school years and taught classes such as General Psychology and Lifespan Growth and Development. As well, I helped develop curricula for Statistical Methods in Psychology and Biological Psychology.

Post-undergrad, I moved to Fort Worth, TX to complete my graduate work in experimental psychology at Texas Christian University from 2016-2021. I completed my MS in the cognitive area in Dr. Tim Barth's Ethics and Moral Reasoning Lab. Then, I completed my PhD in the neuroscience area in Dr. Tracy Centanni's Genetics of Auditory and Visual Perception and Plasticity Lab. My dissertation was titled, Non-Invasive Vagus Nerve Stimulation Improves Language and Comprehension: Empirical Evidence and a Review of Reading Skills.

I attended Saint Louis University from 2012-2016 and completed a major in Neuroscience and minors in Health Care Ethics and Medical Humanities.

My time at SLU opened my eyes to research, as I worked on projects in Dr. Jeremiah Weinstock's WAGER Lab and Dr. Brenda Kirchhoff's Brain and Cognition Lab. My capstone project, Comparison between Computerized and Paper-and-Pencil Neuropsychological Screening Assessments was supervised by Dr. Tony Buchanan in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Stress Lab.