Meet Our Team

Principal Investigator

Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi

Associate Professor and Associate Vice Chair for Research in the BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine

She/Her

My personal interests center around understanding, promoting, and protecting wellbeing, personhood, and meaning in the lives of persons with dementia – as they and their caregivers define it. My research program is broadly shaped by this deep-rooted interest and generally aims to understand, document, and address approaches to care delivery that hinder or effectively optimize meaningful patient and caregiver outcomes. Largely, this research operates at the intersections of care delivery, equity, and ethics and employs a range of methodologies and data sources.

Another major interest of mine is the role non-cognitive (i.e. neuropsychiatric) symptoms and their management play in disease experiences and progression. I am most proud of the students and staff I have had the privilege to work with and learn from, and of the things they are doing to build knowledge and create change.

My sincere hope is that our research and outreach efforts will contribute to improvements in approaches to care and research for those impacted by dementia.

Clark Benson

Lab Manager

He/Him

Interests: designing interventions for acute psychiatric patients

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Jaclyn Copeland

Undergraduate Research Assistant

She/Her

Interests: health disparities concerning healthcare access/outcomes and anesthesia care

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Alison Coulson

Research Program Coordinator

She/Her

Interests: hospice and palliative care for vulnerable populations

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Kayla Dillon

Project Assistant

She/Her

Interests: occupational therapy, patient centered research and practices

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Jess Fehland

Research Specialist

She/Her

Interests: speech language pathology, audiology, person-centered care

Sarahi Garcia

Undergraduate Research Assistant

She/Her

Interests: public health, neurodegenerative disease, health communications and education

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Meghan Haas

Graduate Research Assistant

She/Her

Interests: intellectual and developmental disabilities and aging

Max Hsu

Undergraduate Research Assistant

He/Him

Interests: developmental psychology and the affordability of healthcare

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Haley Kottler

Project Assistant

She/Her

Interests: mathematical frameworks for medical providers to make the best use of available data leveraging tools from applied probability, causal inference, modeling, and machine learning

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Bonnie Nuttkinson

Research Program Coordinator

She/Her

Interests: dementia care, caregiver research, LGBTQ+ older adults

Aria Peng

Undergraduate Research Assistant

She/Her

Interests: environmental effects on the brain and emergency medicine

Kevin Phalphouvong

Undergraduate Research Assistant

He/Him

Interests: critical care, family medicine, care in underrepresented minority groups

Nasteha Sahal

Undergraduate Research Assistant

She/Her

Interests: neurodegenerative disorders and qualitative health expereinces patient-based research.

Alumni

Johanna Balas
BS

Pratiksha Bhagat
MS-ECON

Laura Block
BS,BSN,RN

Stephanie Brandsma
MSW

Michelle Burns
BSN, RN

Britta Chelgren
BSN, RN

Quinton D. Cotton
PhD, MSSA

Ashley DeLaurelle 
BSN

Amy Devine
JD, MSW, BA

Amanda DeWitt
MLS

Olivia Diedrich
BS

 

Amanda Friz
PhD

Haley Fuhr
BS

Aayush Goud
.

Anna Gries
BSN, RN

Danielle Harris
BSN, RN

Melissa Hovanes
BS, RN

Uko Inem
.

Abigail Jacobs
BS, MD Candidate

Yuanyuan Jin
PhD, RN

Rachel Johnson
BS, MD Candidate

Lilli Kay
MSW

Jessie Kendall
BSN, RN

Savannah Kind
BA

Victoria Knoke
MSW, Doctoral Candidate

Dalton Lee
BS

Lydia Lemmenes
BSN, RN

Jordan Madden
BSN, RN

Kelly McGinn
RN, MPH

Kristin Merss
BSN

Shannon Mullen
BS, BSN

Jen Orshak
PhD, BSN, RN

Morgan Peck
BS 

Rioghna Pittock
.

Emily Ploch
BSN

Morgan Schmit
BA

Maggie Schneider
.

Maya Staehler
BSc

Brady Stroik
BSN

Kelly Sweeney
BA

Paria Seyyedmirza
BSN, RN

Devin Truong
.

Laura Vergenz
BSN,RN

Lily Walljasper
BS

Sophia Wellman
.

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