Lab Alumni

Laney worked with the LSTH lab from 2020-2022. During her time she served as the project coordinator for LSTH 1.0 where she accrued and interviewed participants, managed data, and collaborated on both the primary outcomes publication along with the cost-effectiveness analysis. Additionally, Laney collaborated on the Health Disparities supplement, a project that focused on addressing patient- and provider-level barriers to lung cancer screening and tobacco cessation. Laney currently is a first year medical student at South Alabama College of Medicine in Mobile, AL where she hopes to become a surgeon and continue her involvement in preventative research. 

Ellie worked with the LSTH lab from 2018-2021. She was involved in participant recruitment, data management, and data analysis as well as providing tobacco cessation counseling for the LSTH study. She also worked on study startup and material creation for the EQUAL study. Since leaving the lab, Ellie has completed one year of a PhD in Clinical Psychology at UTSouthwestern Medical Center in Dallas and is currently working at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix as a Clinical Research Specialist.    

Marisa worked with the LSTH lab as a tobacco treatment specialist from 2019-2021 providing MI-informed counseling to LSTH 1.0 study participants in both intervention and control arms. She helped with study coordination across sites and data management and analysis. She was also involved with the STAR program and the DC DOH grant. Marisa is currently a research program manager and director in the department of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University for a NIH-funded study utilizing health IT to reduce disparities in risks for sleep-related infant deaths.