ABOUT ME
I am an NIH/NICHD T32 Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Pediatric Environmental Health Training Program in the Department of Environmental Medicine and Climate Science under the mentorship of Robert Wright, MD, MPH, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. I am also a collaborator with the Microbial Exposomics Lab at the University of Iowa College of Public Health. I received my PhD in human development with an emphasis on cognitive development and quantitative methods from the University of Rochester as a Scandling Scholar. My dissertation investigated the longitudinal effect of obesogenic food environmental factors on body mass index and their association with maladaptive executive functioning among low-income African American adolescents using spatial analyses, latent growth modeling (LGM), and growth mixture modeling (GMM).
I am a dually trained developmental cognitive scientist and environmental epidemiologist specializing in studying neurodevelopmental and neurobehavioral outcomes in children and adolescents. My interdisciplinary research intersects human development, cognitive science, exposure science, human microbiome, biostatistics, and pediatric environmental epidemiology. In my principal investigations, I broadly examine obesogenic and early-life environmental neurotoxic exposures that longitudinally program neurodevelopment, particularly executive functioning. My statistical expertise includes latent variable modeling (e.g., SEM, LGM, and GMM), longitudinal data analysis, exposure mixture analysis (e.g., WQS), and generalized/general linear modeling, emphasizing mediation and moderation analyses.
I am a dually trained developmental cognitive scientist and environmental epidemiologist specializing in studying neurodevelopmental and neurobehavioral outcomes in children and adolescents. My interdisciplinary research intersects human development, cognitive science, exposure science, human microbiome, biostatistics, and pediatric environmental epidemiology. In my principal investigations, I broadly examine obesogenic and early-life environmental neurotoxic exposures that longitudinally program neurodevelopment, particularly executive functioning. My statistical expertise includes latent variable modeling (e.g., SEM, LGM, and GMM), longitudinal data analysis, exposure mixture analysis (e.g., WQS), and generalized/general linear modeling, emphasizing mediation and moderation analyses.