Teaching Interests
- Complementary and alternative medicine
- Mindfulness as a stress and pain management intervention
Research Activities
Interests:
- Aging
- Cancer
- Diabetes
- Health behavior
- Health-care delivery
- Minority health
- Obesity
- Rural health
- Substance abuse
- Mind-body medicine
- Complementary and alternative therapies
Activities:
- Oversees the program's mission to enhance public health and improve the safety and effectiveness of health care through the promotion and implementation of research, education, and clinical services in complementary and alternative therapies and integrative medicine
- Director of the UNC Mindfulness-based Stress and Pain Management Program
- Co-director of UNC’s NIH T-32 CAM Research Fellowship Program
- Research psychologist
Staff/Administrative Duties
For the Department of Health Behavior:
- Adviser on special projects
- Classroom and continuing education lectures
- Student research supervision
- Informal research advice and technical assistance
- Practicum preceptor
Education
- PhD, Psychology, Duke University, 1984
- MA, Psychology, Duke University, 1979
