Not pictured: Sarah Grief
Congratulations to our class of 2023! Seven outstanding new PhD graduates walked at the University of Florida Summer Doctoral Commencement on August 11 2023. Below is a little information about their dissertations and mentorship. Thank you to our graduating colleagues for sharing part of their journeys with us, and we look forward to witnessing the next parts of their professional adventures.
Catherine Dion
Major: Psychology-Clinical and Health Psychology
Dissertation: Contributions of Cardiovascular Burden, Peripheral Inflammation, and Depth of Anesthesia Variability on the
Perioperative Cognitive Trajectory of Older Adults Receiving Total Knee Arthroplasty
Dissertation Chair: C. E. Price
Erin Gabrielle Ferguson
Major: Psychology-Clinical and Health Psychology
Dissertation: Impact of Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness on Demand for Alcohol and Cannabis among Co-Users
Dissertation Chair: J. Boissoneault
Dissertation Co-chair: M. E. Robinson
Sarah Greif
Major: Psychology-Clinical and Health Psychology
Dissertation: The Relationship between Aerobic Exercise, Mature Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor, and Neuropsychological Functioning Following Structured Exercise in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.
Dissertation Chair: K. Driscoll
Cheshire Hardcastle
Major: Psychology-Clinical and Health Psychology
Dissertation: Association of Speed-of-Processing Performance and Training with Higher-Order Resting State Networks in
Healthy Older Adults
Dissertation Chair: A. J. Woods
Francesca V. Lopez
Major: Psychology-Clinical and Health Psychology
Dissertation: Neurocognitive Correlates of Mitochondrial Function
Dissertation Chair: D. Bowers
Andrea Mejia Kurasz
Major: Psychology-Clinical and Health Psychology
Dissertation: Investigating Bilingualism as a Proxy of Cognitive Reserve and Its Underlying Compensatory Mechanism across the Cognitive Aging Spectrum
Dissertation Chair: G. E. Smith
Erin Leigh Moorman
Major: Psychology-Clinical and Health Psychology
Dissertation: A Longitudinal Evaluation of Factors Contributing to Sleep Ouality and Fatigue in Pediatric Inflammatory
Bowel Disease
Dissertation Chair: D. Janicke
Brad P. Taylor
Major: Psychology-Clinical and Health Psychology
Dissertation: Feasibility and Effectiveness of a Telehealth-Delivered Inductive Reasoning Training Program for Older Adults
Dissertation Chair: M. Marsiske
Video footage of the Clinical & Health Psychology portion of the graduation ceremony may be found at this link: https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/j8YPkDvkQviVF0A6PM9fKg.Wdmqb8iGQH8pWYzDI–jxK