Interests & Expertise

• Effects of social media on health behaviors & well-being
• Adolescent and young adult tobacco use
• LGBTQ+ tobacco use disparities
• Digital interventions for substance use
• Co-occurring health risk behaviors

Selected Current Projects

• Influence of Social Media on Teen E-Cig Use
  • Uses a mixed-methods approach to examine teens’ experiences with e-cigarette content on social media and its effects
  • Role: Principal Investigator
• Woebot for Substance Use Disorders
  • Aims to develop and evaluate acceptability of a digitally-delivered substance use disorder program
  • Role: Project Fellow

Selected Completed Projects

• ENDS Use in Adolescents
  • Pilot study examining patterns of e-cigarette use in teens over time and the development of dependence symptoms
  • Role: Project fellow
• The Put It Out Project
  • Two pilot clinical trials testing the efficacy of the Put It Out Project, a Facebook smoking cessation intervention tailored to LGBTQ+ young adults
  • Roles: Project fellow, smoking cessation counselor
• Effects of Social and Temporal Comparison on Health-Relevant Self-Perceptions
  • Experimentally tested the effects of social and temporal comparison on young adults’ perceptions of their health and fitness
  • Role: Doctoral candidate (dissertation)