Designed personalized plans crafted around shared goals, clarifying expectations and coordinating resources among older adults and their families.Guided discussions identifying and prioritizing the meaningful relationships and activities necessary to maintain the older adult’s connections and sense of self. Assembled inventory of personal, family, and social resources available to meet individualized goals and priorities.Redesigned personal spaces to meet older adults’ current functional needs and preferences to improve safety, centralize supplies, and streamline care.Strategized caregiver roles, highlighting opportunities to support the older adult in person and long distance to maximize involvement and reduce caregiver burnout.Areas of focus include aging in place, longterm care, dementia care, decisions about driving and transportation, and effective communication strategies.

Developed and implemented innovative driving rehabilitation research with a team of healthcare professionals continuously funded by the Missouri Department of Transportation for five years. Served as Associate Director of Neurorehabilitation Driving Simulation Lab, managing STISIM driving simulator training for rehabilitation occupational therapists, physicians, and researchers for the purpose of individualized driving fitness evaluation.Prepared comprehensive reports, professional presentations, workshops, and manuscripts to communicate and contextualize results and recommendations with colleagues and partners. Created brief, high-quality, plain-language educational videos to engage healthcare professionals using a framework to assess basic driving skills, along with practical tips to enhance on-road safety.Educated diverse stakeholders involved in decision-making about older and potentially impaired drivers, including older adults, government employees, healthcare professionals, and students.Mentored four medical students on research design and analyses.Identified potential projects and collaborated with a range of partners (state agencies, healthcare professionals, and gerontological experts) to design original research and submit for funding.

Created interview protocol and conducted interviews with stakeholders related to older drivers, which informed the development of an 18-page paper-and-pencil survey focused on transportation contexts of middle-aged and older adultsCoordinated mass mailing of 1300+ survey packets, as well as data collection and management of the completed surveys returned (67% response rate)Analyzed data for dissertation and professional presentations

Consulted with individual graduate student instructors (GSIs) from all university departments to encourage teaching excellence, including teaching philosophies, student ratings, small group instructional diagnosis, videotaped classes, and personalized feedback and brainstormingDeveloped and facilitated workshops and practice teaching sessions with groups of new and experienced graduate student instructors:-Inclusive Teaching Practices (Workshop Facilitator, August 2014)-Teaching with Everyday Technology (Workshop Co-Facilitator, August 2014)-Leading Problem Solving Sessions (Workshop Co-Facilitator, August 2013)

Planned and facilitated workshops on using technology for teachingConsulted with graduate student instructors about using technology in the classroomDeveloped and facilitated workshops with groups of new and experienced graduate student instructors:-Saving Trees, Saving Time, and Promoting Learning (Workshop Co-Facilitator, May 2015)-Let’s Make a Screencast: Hands-On Practice with Feedback (Workshop Co-Facilitator, May 2015)-Next Steps with IT (Workshop Co-Facilitator, October 2014)-Teaching with Everyday Technology (Workshop Co-Facilitator, August 2014)-Checking for Understanding and Assessing Using Technology (Online Workshop Co-Developer, March 2014)-Next Steps with IT (Workshop Co-Facilitator, October 2013)

Winter Semester 2014HBHE 651: Program Development in Health Education Masters Level Course, 3 creditsPrimary Instructor: Dr. Gary HarperFall Semester 2013HBHE 600: Psychosocial Factors in Health-Related BehaviorMasters Level Course, 3 creditsPrimary Instructor: Dr. Minal PatelWinter Semester 2013HBHE 651: Program Development in Health Education Masters Level Course, 3 creditsPrimary Instructor: Dr. Gary HarperFall Semester 2012HBHE 600: Psychosocial Factors in Health-Related BehaviorMasters Level Course, 3 creditsPrimary Instructor: Dr. Jose Bauermeister

Project Title: Older Adults’ Health Within the Community Context: A Literature ReviewPrincipal Investigator: Dr. Ruth E. DunkleSummarized empirical literature related to community and caregiving characteristics associated with older adults’ health, including policy recommendations pertaining to regulations and support from the Affordable Care Act (ACA)Commissioned through Presbyterian Village of Michigan (PVM) and the Luella Hannon Foundation to inform the creation of a value proposition and evidence-based approaches to maximizing older adults abilities to stay engaged and active in their communities of choice

Project Title: Indicators for Successful and Sustainable Aging in Place ProjectPrincipal Investigator: Dr. Amanda LehningCombined empirical support and existing checklists for community-level indicators that facilitate or hinder residents aging in place with practical experience and advice from interviews with diverse stakeholders who worked with older adults in fields such as local government, academic research, digital health, and non-profit organizationsCreated theoretical models to represent the dynamic relationships and overlaps between community-level indicators of aging in place

Project Title: Literature Review and Theoretical Critique of Acculturation and Early Childbearing in Mexican-American AdolescentsPrincipal Investigator: Dr. Dawn M. RichardsonCollected, curated, and summarized recent literature to update drafted review in order to revise aims and sharpen theoretical critiques

Project Title: Driving Cessation & Caregiving Continuum: Adult Daughter/Father Dynamic Principal Investigator: Dr. Cathleen M ConnellDeveloped and reviewed select personal interview protocols and web survey for research team use in conducting dyadic interviews with adult daughters of current older driversOrganized data collection and management process, developed thematic representation of qualitative data, and co-authored resulting manuscript

Project Title: Mobility and Life Space in AgingProject Director: Dr. Thomas M. MeuserOrganized overall project communication, recruitment necessary documentation, data collection, transcription, and data entry for the three-stage, mixed methods research projectArranged three exploratory focus groups, as well as a fourth meeting with focus group participants to describe findings and pilot test the instrument

Project Title: UMSL Life Review Project Project Director: Dr. Thomas M. MeuserCreated and curated library of video clips on various topics in aging (death and dying, retirement, health, social network, etc.) from life review interviews with older adults for educational and presentation use by University faculty and affiliatesEdited life review interviews with older adults into keepsake DVDs

Project Title: Evidence-Based Revision & Pilot Validation of New Physician Statement Form Principal Investigator: Dr. Thomas M. MeuserDeveloped new Missouri state form for physicians to evaluate drivers reported as medically at-risk for unsafe driving through a detailed review of best practices in similar forms in US states and Canadian province, data from past review of Missouri’s Voluntary Reporting Law, needs of Driver License Bureau staff, and best practices from other jurisdictions.