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
Jaclyn Copeland
Undergraduate Research Assistant
She/Her
Interests: health disparities concerning healthcare access/outcomes and anesthesia care
Alison Coulson
Research Program Coordinator
She/Her
Interests: hospice and palliative care for vulnerable populations
Kayla Dillon
Project Assistant
She/Her
Interests: occupational therapy, patient centered research and practices
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
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
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
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
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Anna Gries
BSN, RN
Danielle Harris
BSN, RN
Melissa Hovanes
BS, RN
Uko Inem
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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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Resources & Partners
Connect with Us
We are always seeking to connect with others who share our commitment to promoting high-quality, equitable care and research for diverse groups affected by Alzheimer’s and dementia.
Gilmore-Bykovskyi Lab
Feedback, questions or accessibility issues: brainhealthteam@medicine.wisc.edu