I am a psychology professor, licensed psychologist in Alaska and researcher with the Center for Alaska Native Health Research (CANHR).

I have extensive experience with health services research and interventions in many Alaska Native populations.

I am the Principal Investigator (PI) of a National Institute of Health (NIH) funded preventative intervention project. This project uses a community-based participatory research perspective to address suicide and substance abuse risk among rural Yup’ik Alaska Native adolescents.

I belong to a multi-PI team on an National Science Foundation (NSF) funded study of circumpolar indigenous youth resilience strategies. I am a PI on an NSF subaward study of Alaska Native grandparents raising grandchildren and a member of a multi-PI team exploring stroke/vascular risk factors among Alaska Native adults that is part of an NIH intervention development project for the prevention of stroke among Alaska Native adults.

All of these projects involve health disparities research with small examples from culturally distinct, small population groups.

I have a capacious background in:

• Cultural research methodologies; including qualitative methods
• Cross-cultural measurement & assessments, assessment of outcomes & analysis of change as well as cultural factors in measurement development & validation
• Tribal community based participatory research
• Theory of intervention & intervention model development and statistical modeling
• Intervention design & implementation

When I'm not doing research as a PI or with an elite team of PI's and co-pi's, I then focus my energy on the administrative part of the research as an Associate Director at the Center for Alaska Native Health Research and as the Director of the Experimental Design, Biostatistics, and Data Management Core.

Please see the links below and visit the website's to get a better understanding of the research and its meaning to all involved!