I led a team of students to participate in Operation UNITED which is a grassroots effort by the Detroit Office of the FBI and the Detroit Police Department to identify homicide victims from cases that have gone cold. These individuals are exhumed and...

Stress can have negative detrimental physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual consequences for nursing staff. Organizations have a responsibility to provide low-risk, evidence based, integrative techniques to help reduce stress and compassio...

Patients in the intensive care unit, need more timely access to palliative and hospice care. The aim of this project was to increase the appropriate and early timeliness of palliative and hospice care consultations in the intensive care unit. Educati...

Implement a multicomponent approach to evidence-based delirium interventions for adult patients in non-critical care units at risk for and experiencing delirium. -Encourage accountability -Encourage appropriate use of interventions -Encourage colla...

Delirium is one of the top contributors to patient falls in the hospital. Project was to implement a delirium education, use of an appropriate delirium screening tool, and targeted interventions to help in earlier delirium recognition and decrease in...

The number of lumbar spinal fusion patients increases each year nationwide. The amount of opioid pain medication used can affect the outcomes, patient satisfaction, and quality of recovery. In this project, emphasis was placed on implementing and usi...

Background and Significance: Low levels of health literacy can have a detrimental effect on a patient’s ability to navigate the complex healthcare system. Healthcare systems and providers must work to make healthcare more accessible to all the popula...

Background and Review of Literature: A Healthy Work Environment (HWE) has broad implications impacting wellness and retention of team members, recruitment, quality and safety of care delivered, and the overall organizational culture. A review of the ...

SS2021 MC384: Metropolitan Societies. This course had 23 students and was taught remotely; it was taught as a student-led civic engagement project, supported by a grant (though none of the money was spent in this course, but a follow up over the summ...

This project examines how women workers and employers have navigated the informal economic sector, especially in the industries of household and personal services, as well as work/family balance, in the Lansing-East Lansing metropolitan region and as...

FS2021 MC 498: 16 students taught in person. I have been teaching my course on Lansing since 2015, though I allow students to do projects on Flint and Detroit if students want to do a project based on these cities. The course focuses on theories and ...

This community-partnered study will scale a community, provider, and system-level implementation intervention to reduce African American maternal morbidity and mortality disparities in two Michigan counties (Genesee and Kent). We will test the interv...

The SPIRIT Trial is a randomized controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and mechanisms of the Safety Plan intervention in reducing suicide events among 800 individuals in the year after jail release.

Conducted effective outreach and engagement strategies in light of COVID-19 by working in conjunction with partnering agencies. Distribution of Flint Registry handouts and materials by partnering and collaborating with community partners as they se...

The Flint Registry is a project designed to support individuals who were impacted by an environmental injustice and exposed to a lead in water crisis. The project connects individuals who were exposed to services and resources to mitigate the impact ...

Costume Design for musical with Meadow Brook Theatre; first full production post-COVID for the institution; research into clothing styles from the early 1960s through late 1970s in the American south; production ran September 8-October 3;

Working with ACCESS in Dearborn to understand the Arab ethnicity’s relationship to whiteness and advocate for its categorization as a racially separate minority group.

I am the Evaluator on a large SAMHSA funded grant designed to expand access to medication assisted treatment for opioid use disorder in the northwest region of Michigan's lower peninsula.

This project was designed to evaluate feasibility and effects of meal delivery after hospital discharge on hospital readmission and patient satisfaction and quality of life.

I was the project evaluator on a service (not research grant), evaluating a program that expanded treatment options for people with opioid use disorder.

Advisory board member for a community group involved in several important issues. I serve because of my expertise in nutrition programming. https://www.groundworkcenter.org/

Biweekly journal club with zoo veterinarians in Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana. In addition to discussion of recent veterinary journal publications, there were also case and policy discussions.

Direct student providing free legal services and trainings/education

Curated a free monthly concert series presented by the East Lansing Public Library.

One of my summer classes partnered with Communities in Schools to support their summer programs, specifically with their Reading Buddies program.