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I am a postdoctoral scholar at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. I obtained my PhD in Psychology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. My research focuses on examining real-life difficult decisions and finding ways to help people make more effective decisions for themselves. My health research examines high-stakes medical and genomics decisions. Specifically, I have studied how parents and healthcare providers make tracheostomy placement (a life-sustaining technique) decisions for critically ill children and developed interventions for improving their decision making process. I have also assessed psychological implications of requesting and receiving secondary genomic information with limited to no medical actionability, and examined the use of a simple intervention to help parents make genetic testing decisions for their child.

I have the fortune to work with many great people. I have been mentored by experts in decision making and health research, including Professors Irwin Levin, J. Frank Yates, Brian Zikmund-Fisher, Patricia Deldin, and Christine Rini.