Our lab has specific expertise in the following areas:

For patients and investigators
Patient-oriented clinical research methods
- Epidemiology
- Clinical trial design
- Qualitative and mixed-methods study design, execution, and analysis
- Science of behavior change
- Patient-reported outcome (PRO) measurement, development, and validation
- Survey design and administration
- Longitudinal cohort recruitment and retention
Measurement of physiologic age
- Neurocognitive testing
- Physical function and fraility assessments
For providers
Serious illness communication training
- Vital talk-certified educational modules and interactive exercises for providers


For health systems and communities
Implementation science
- Translating research into practice at the health system level
Community engagement
- Participant recruitment from community sites
- Engagement with community health centers
- Research dissemination into the community