Scholar Projects

2018 - 2019

• Depression recognition and treatment among older primary care Chinese patients with language barriers. Maria Esteli Garcia, MD, MPH, MAS.
• Supporting Spanish-speaking Family Dementia Caregivers with Adapted Stress Reduction and Perspective Taking Techniques. Liliana Andrea Ramirez Gomez, MD.
• The Differential Impact of Race on Oncologic Outcomes in Elderly Patients with Bladder Cancer: A Population-based Study. Samuel L. Washington III, MD.

2017 - 2018 

• Exploring the association between minority stress and the physical, mental and social health of older sexual and gender minorities. Jason Flatt, PhD, MPH.
• Resiliency in Latinas: Investigating the relationship between oxytocin and cortisol among Latinas with breast cancer receiving a CBSM intervention. Cathy Samayoa, PhD.
• Improving Pain Management among Low-Income, Minority Elders: Broadening Treatment Options in the Primary Care Safety Net. Maria T. Chao, DrPH, MPA.
• Healthcare Providers’ Communication Style & Patterns with African American Men diagnosed with Prostate Cancer in a Public Hospital: A Quantitative Analysis. Nynikka Palmer, DrPH, MPH.

 

2016 - 2017

• Identifying Risk and Protective Factors for Dementia in Older Sexual and Gender Minorities. Jason D. Flatt, PhD, MPH.
• Investigating the Effects of a Stress Management Intervention Program on Biological Markers of Stress in Latinas with Breast Cancer. Cathy Samayoa, PhD.
• Developing mHealth Capabilities for Healthy Aging among HIV-Positive Men who have Sex with Men of Color. Judy Yourong Tan, PhD, MA.
• Reducing Disparities in Access to Dance Therapy for Diverse Populations Diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Maria Ventura, PhD.
• Rethinking Cancer Survivorship Care: Understanding the Role of Primary Care Providers. Niharika Dixit, MD.
• Reweighting for highly selected samples: can incorporating health data into weights improve generalizability of health disparities estimates? Elizabeth Rose Mayeda, PhD, MPH.
• Can Promotores be trained to deliver a program to reduce depression symptoms in lower socioeconomic status (SES) aging Latinos in the San Francisco Bay Area? Rosa Maria A. Sternberg, PhD, RN.

 

2015 - 2016

• Prostate Cancer Treatment Disparities: An Examination of Patient-Physician Communication among African American Prostate Cancer Patients in the Safety Net. Nynikka R.A. Palmer, DrPH, MPH.
• Smoker’s age: How it affects nicotine and toxicant exposure and the relationships between cigarettes per day, dependence, and metabolism on smoke intake. Gideon St. Helen, PhD.
• Spanish Translation and Adaptation of a Trauma Cognitions Measure for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Validation in Latinos across the Adult Lifespan. Christine Valdez, PhD.
• Development of a tobacco control intervention for older African American homeless adults. Maya Vijayaraghavan, MD MAS.

 

2014 - 2015

• A Community Partnership For Increasing Ehealth Literacy In Low-Income & Minority Older Adults. Diego E. Castaneda, DrPH, MPH and Grace C. Niu, PhD.
• Group Acupuncture for Painful Diabetic Neuropathy Among Older Minority Patients with Limited English Proficiency. Maria T. Chao, DrPH, MPA.
• Racial/ethnic differences in dementia incidence and survival among older adults. Elizabeth Rose Mayeda, PhD, MPH.
• The Role of Unhealthy Behaviors in the Relationship between Biomarkers of Stress and Depressive Symptomatology. Erik Rodriquez, PhD, MPH.
• Testing the Feasibility and Utility of Using Mobile Applications to Treat Depression. Joaquin A. Anguera, PhD.

 

2013 - 2014

• Race/ethnicity, life course socioeconomic factors, and cognitive performance among non-Hispanic white and African American young to middle-aged adults: findings from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study. Adina Zeki Al Hazzouri, MS, PhD.
• Inflammatory markers and incident breast cancer in older African-American and white women: the Health, Aging and Body Composition study. Dejana Braithwaite, PhD.
• MicroRNA Expression Associated with Type-2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in South Asians. Elena Flowers, RN, PhD, MAS.
• Dietary Behaviors of Older Filipino Adults with Cardiovascular Disease. Jane Jih, MD, MPH.
• Developing Tools for Biomonitoring of Premature Aging in a Diverse Sample of Breast Cancer Survivors. Julio Ramirez, PhD.

 

2012 - 2013

• Differences in Long-Term Care (LTC) between Medicare Only and Dual Eligible Elders. Arpita Chattopadhyay, PhD.
• Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS) of Gene-Environment (GxE) Interactions for Breast Cancer in U.S. Latinas. Laura Fejerman, PhD, M.Sc.
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for Low Socioeconomic status (SES) Latinas in the San Francisco Bay Area. Rosa Maria A. Sternberg, PhD, RN.
• Translating an Evidenced-Based Fall Prevention Intervention to Asian Elders. Thu T. Quach, PhD, MPH and Susan M. Huang, MD.

 

2011 - 2012

• Socioeconomic factors, metabolic and inflammatory biomarkers in relation to dementia and cognitive decline among older Mexican Americans. Adina Zeki Al Hazzouri, PhD, MS.
• Racial and Ethnic Differences in long-term Care between Medicare Only and Dually-Eligible Elders. Arpita Chattopadhyay, PhD.
• Evaluation of Technology Usability and Validity among Minority Women Completing the Athena Breast Health Questionnaire. Cristina Thorsen, MD, MPH.

 

2010 - 2011

• Understanding Barriers to Metabolic Screening of Minorities with Severe Mental Illness: A Survey Study of Primary Care Physicians. Christina Mangurian, MD.
• Exploratory Study of Organizational, Community, and Geographic Factors Affecting Mammography Access and Use Among Older Limited English-Speaking Chinese Women. Kim Nguyen, ScD.
• Medication Management in Aging Minority Populations. Nancy Nkansah, PharmD.
• Understanding Integrated Care Delivery for Older Minorities: Creating a Framework and Exploring New Definitions. Kara Odom-Walker, MD, MPH, MSHS.

 

2009 - 2010

• Racial and Ethnic Difference in Health Services Utilization Among Older Adults at the End of Life: Explanatory Factors. Alex Smith, MD, MS, MPH.
• Medication Communication among Vulnerable Cardiology Patients: An Analysis of the VMI Study. Urmimala Sarkar, MD, MPH.
• Race and Ethnic Disparity in Mental Health and Physical Injury among Personal Assistance Service Workers. Rani Eversley, PhD.
• Tailoring a mobile phone based physical activity intervention to overweight/obese ethnic/minority women using a mixed method. Yoshimi Fukuoka, PhD, RN.

 

2008 - 2009

• Are there Disparities in Access to Care for Elderly Trauma Patients, and what are the Effects of these Disparities on Outcomes? A Look at California Minority and Non-Minority Elderly Trauma Patients, 1999-2006. Renee Hsia, MD, MSc.
• Elder Mistreatment among Chinese and Korean immigrants: An Exploration of Definitions and Experiences in a Community Setting. Yeonshim Lee, PhD, MSW.
• Impact of Shared Decision-making in Minority Populations with Heart Disease. Grace A. Lin, MD, MAS.

 

2007 - 2008

• Day-to-day Impact of Vaginal Aging (DIVA). Alison Huang, PhD.
• Development of a Spanish Cognitive Screening Battery for Dementia. Katya Rascovsky, PhD.
• Using Measures of Racism in Health-Related Research on Older African Americans. Angela Thrasher, PhD.

 

2006 - 2007

• Problem-Solving Therapy for Depression in Chinese American Elderly. Joyce Chu, PhD.
• Aging, Cognitive Decline and Health Behaviors: An Analysis of Ethnic Differences. Sukyung Chung, PhD.
• Health Literacy among Hemodialysis Patients and its Association with Placement on Renal Transplant Wait-List. Vanessa Grubbs, MD, MPH.
• Factors Influencing Preventive Cancer Screening Among Diverse Women. Sue Kim, PhD, MPH.

 

2005 - 2006

• Measuring Acculturation and Diet Among Older South Asians: Focus Group for the CHAAT Study. Alka Kanaya, MD.
• Care Practices and Patient Preferences for Dialysis Among Elderly Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease and End-Stage Renal Disease. Manjula Kurella, MD, MPH.
• The Changing Orientation Toward Cancer Preventive Care in Two Generations of Filipina Immigrants. Aimee Afable-Munsuz, PhD, MPH.

 

2004 - 2005

• Development of a Life Course Events Measurement Tool. Irene Yen, PhD, MPH.
• Video Medical Interpretation in Limited English Proficiency patients in a Cardiology Clinic. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD.
• Health Status of South Asians in California. Kala M. Mehta, DSc.
• Use and outcomes of anticoagulation among frail elders with atrial fibrillation. Margaret Fang, MD, MPH.

 

2003-2004

• An Exploration of Elderly African Americans' Experiences with Pharmacists and Pharmacy Care Services. Sharon L. Youmans, PharmD.
• Race/Ethnicity and Drug Adherence in CHF Patients. Jie Huang, PhD.
• Characterization of Elderly Asians with Cognitive Deficits. Craig E. Hou, MD.
• Comparison of Fatalistic Attitudes Between Latino Men and Women. Rene Salazar, MD.
• Out-of-Pocket Medication Expenditures in Chronic Heart Failure. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD.
• The prevalence of herbal medication use in older Chinese Adults. Alexander Li, MD.
• Testing the Feasibility of Using Racially-Specific Genetic markers to Correct for Genetic Confounding in Case-Control Genetic Association Studies in Racially Diverse Populations. Esteban Gonzalez Burchard, MD.
• Use of the pedometer as a tool to increase lifestyle physical activity in older African American and Filipina Women, Part II. Leslie A. Pruitt, PhD.

 

2002 - 2003

• Life course Measure of socioeconomic Status and Health in Older Diverse Populations. Sandra Moody-Ayers, MD.
• Development of a Life Course Events Measurement Tool. Irene Yen, PhD, MPH.
• The Effects of Interpersonal Processes of Care on Adherence and Self-Efficacy for Managing Chronic Conditions in Diverse Patients. Anna Nápoles-Springer, PhD, MPH.

 

2001 - 2002

• Representation of Diverse Ethnic, Gender, and Age Groups in Published NIMH-funded Clinical Trials: The Effects of NIH Guidelines on Recruitment and Analysis in the Past 5 years. Winnie Mak, PhD and Jennifer Alvidrez, PhD.
• Health Literacy and Self Care Practices Among Elderly Black and Latina Women. R. Jan Gates, PhD.
• Prevalence and Correlates of Anxiety symptoms in black and White elders. Kala M. Mehta, DSc.
• The Meaning of Social Support and General Well-Being in Elderly Asian Immigrants. Part II: Psychometric and Conceptual Analysis. Sabrina T. Wong, PhD, RN and Grace Yoo, PhD.
• Survey of Physicians on Cancer Prevention. Anna Nápoles-Springer, PhD, MPH.
• Use of the Pedometer as a Tool to Increase Lifestyle Physical Activity in Older African-American and Filipina Women. Audie Atienza, PhD and Leslie A. Pruitt, PhD.

 

2000 - 2001

• The Meaning of Social Support and General Well-Being in Elderly Asian Immigrants. Sabrina T. Wong, PhD, RN and Grace Yoo, PhD.
• Community-based Education to Improve the Deliver of Adult Immunizations in Racial and Ethnic Minority Communities. Nicholas A. Daniels, MD, MPH.
• Quality of Care and Barriers to Care for Elderly Non-English Speaking Chinese-Americans. Tung Nguyen, MD.

 

1999 - 2000

• Health Practices, Beliefs and Experiences of Older Americans of Mixed Race. Cathy J. Tashiro, PhD.
• Race and Thyroid Dysfunction. Alka Kanaya, MD.
• Assessing Barriers to Colon Cancer Screening Among Vietnamese Americans. Bang H. Nguyen, DrPh, MPP.
• Promoting Entry into Psychotherapy: The Effects of Pre-treatment Orientation for Older Low-income African-American Medical Patients. Jennifer Alvidrez, PhD.

 

1998 - 1999

• Does Race Influence the Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease in the Elderly: Data from a Non-profit HMO. Alicia Fernández, MD.
• Family Medicine and Domestic Violence. Michael A. Rodríguez, MD, MPH.
• Cervical Cancer Screening Outcomes in Low Income Women in the United States. George F. Sawaya, MD.
• Health and Functioning in Minority Grandparent Caregivers. Cynthia Castro, PhD.

 

1997-1998

• Factors Influencing Adherence with Antidepressant Medications in Minority Elderly. Patricia A. Areán, PhD and Heather Uncaphor, PhD.
• Perceived Benefits and Barriers to Physical Activity in Older White and Latina Women. Teresa Juarbe, PhD, RN.
• Does Management by Cardiologists Improve Congestive Heart Failure Outcomes? Mark Alexander, PhD.