As a clinical psychologist, my primary research aims are to: understand patients’ cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and physical reactions to cancer and its treatment; understand how psychological factors contribute to cancer symptoms, side-effects, treatment experiences; understand factors influencing adherence to cancer care; todevelop and test psychotherapeutic and mind-body interventions to help cancer patients manage symptoms, side-effects, and emotional distress at across all phases of the cancer continuum – from diagnosis through metastatic disease; and to train providers in sensitive practice and evidence-based approaches to improve cancer care. My current research projects focus on training frontline cancer care providers to deliver care more sensitively to survivors of sexual violence, and to use evidence-based hypnosis to help individuals manage cancer pain. I am particularly interested in the use of qualitative research approaches to understand patients’ lived experiences of cancer and its treatment.

The Integrative Behavioral Medicine Program