University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

May 2016-June 2018
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Fellow in the National Cancer Institute's R25 Cancer Prevention Research Training Program (R25CA057730, PI: Shine Chang PhD)

Mentors: Dr. Karen Basen-Engquist and Dr. Susan Clark Gilchrist

R25 Project: High-intensity interval training for women at heightened risk of breast cancer

Research focus: Manipulating exercise prescription to alter biomarkers linked with increased cancer risk among women at high risk of developing breast cancer.

Training focus: behavioral science, behavioral interventions, exercise intervention in a clinical cancer prevention setting, the link between obesity and cancer (psychosocial factors, pathophysiology)