Experts Guide
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Alexandra Brandimore
Instructor of communications sciences and disorders
Behavioral and Community Sciences
Brandimore's research focuses on evaluative techniques and therapeutic paradigms to improve upper airway dysfunction -- primarily dysphagia (disordered swallowing) and dystussia (disordered cough), in persons with neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s disease. Her clinical work focuses on movement disorders where she has evaluated and treated the motor speech, voice, AAC and airway protective needs.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: abrandimore@usf.edu
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Salloum's primary research interest is in the treatment of childhood trauma. She is specifically interested in examining psychosocial interventions for young children, children, adolescentsa and their families, who have been exposed to various traumatic events such as violence, disasters and death.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: asalloum@usf.edu
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DePippo's research focuses on depression, anxiety, addictions, eating disorders and self-esteem/life transitions.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: adepippo@usf.edu
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Gum focuses on improving well-being for older adults and medical patients through applied research in behavioral health services and trauma-informed care in medical and aging service settings.
Area(s) of Expertise
Phone Number: (813) 974-1980
Email: ambergum@usf.edu
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Corbin studies gerontology and social work and can discuss transitions common to aging, including how they may impact how older adults view and navigate the holiday season. She has helped develop the geriatric treatment program at HCA West Tampa Hospital, where she works PRN as a therapist. She has vocational experience within adolescent group homes, the Department of Children and Families and inpatient/outpatient mental health settings.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: amycorbin@usf.edu
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Abella is an anthropologist whose research focuses on mental health services, child welfare systems, parent education, prevention and early intervention services and jail diversion programs.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: aldavids@usf.edu
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Christy studies the interaction of the behavioral health and criminal justice systems and is an expert on Florida's Baker Act and involuntary care for mental health services.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: achristy@usf.edu
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Bush's research focuses on the cognitive neuroscience and neurophysiology of normative aging, mild cognitive impairment and early-stage Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Her expertise includes neurophysiology, electroencephalography, early-stage Alzheimer's Disease, audition and cognition, and cognitive decline detection and treatment.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: aryn@usf.edu
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Beth Boone
Research assistant professor of child and family studies
Behavioral and Community Sciences
Boone is executive director of USF's Center for Autism & Related Disabilities. Her research focuses on autism and intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: boone4@gmail.com
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Bruce Lubotsky Levin
Associate professor of child and family studies
Behavioral and Community Sciences
Levin's research focuses on behavioral health (alcohol, drug use, and mental disorders from a population or public pealth perspective), translational research in adolescent behavioral health, public health and behavioral health services delivery and mental health informatics.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: levin@usf.edu
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Fox is a former FBI agent and Co-Director of the Center for Justice Research & Policy. Her research focuses on the identification of psychological and developmental risk factors for criminal behavior and prolific offending, experimental field research and evidence-based policing and crime prevention strategies.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: bhfox@usf.edu
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Miller's research focuses on physical activity, school-based intervention and nutrition related behavior. He has conducted school-based intervention studies in which elementary school students wore pedometers every day at school and at home to evaluate intervention components (peer competition, goal setting, public posting, feedback) for their effect on overall activity levels.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: bryonmiller@usf.edu
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Howell is an expert in cybercriminal behavior and motivation, darknet markets and stolen data supply chains, digital forensics and incident response, AI-driven threat intelligence systems, cyber-enabled financial fraud and account takeovers and cybersecurity strategy for critical infrastructure.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: cjhowell@usf.edu
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Catherine L. Rogers
Associate professor of communication sciences and disorders
Behavioral and Community Sciences
Rogers' research focuses on the development of proficiency in second-language speech perception and production under a variety of listening and speaking conditions. She also collaborates with colleagues in Audiology on research examining speech perception by listeners with hearing impairment and/or cochlear implants.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: crogers2@usf.edu
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Jaynes' research focuses on the role of employment and labor market perceptions in the decision to offend, factors that influence a hiring manager's decision to employ someone with a criminal record and the decision to accept a guilty plea by individuals charged with a crime.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: jaynes@usf.edu
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Chih-Chin Chou
Director and associate professor, Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling Program
Behavioral and Community Sciences
Chou can discuss advocacy for twice-exceptional students, psychiatric rehabilitation, social support, rehabilitation education, social support, rehabilitation education and positive psychology.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: chouc@usf.edu
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Christina Dillahunt-Aspillaga
Professor of child and family studies
Behavioral and Community Sciences
Dillahunt-Aspillaga's research interests include employment for persons with disabilities, family and community support, caregiving and community re-integration for civilians and veterans with traumatic brain injury. She is a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor, Certified Vocational Evaluator, Certified Life Care Planner, International Certified Vocational Evaluator and Certified Brain Injury Specialist Trainer.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: cdillahuntas@usf.edu
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Connie Walker-Egea
Assistant research professor, child and family studies
Behavioral and Community Sciences
Walker-Egea's research and experience focus on data collection using quantitative and qualitative methods, data analysis and designing survey and research instruments. She is a registered dietitian and a licensed dietitian-nutritionist.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: cwalkere@usf.edu
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Courtney Whitt
Executive director, Florida Center for Behavioral Health Workforce
Behavioral and Community Sciences
Whitt is a licensed psychologist and executive director of the Florida Center for Behavioral Health Workforce at the University of South Florida. In October 2025, the center launched the state’s first interactive dashboard that projects behavioral health workforce supply and demand through 2035. Whitt is an expert in behavioral health workforce and integrated primary care psychology and policy.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: cwhitt@usf.edu
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Minnick is a social work and public health researcher, educator and community interventionist who specializes in developing environmental strategies, community coalitions and public partnerships to address substance misuse.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: dminnick@usf.edu
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Rhodes' primary research focuses on the effects of policing on the community, specifically the mental health of Black Americans who experienced or witnessed a police encounter and the impact of social work in policing. She can discuss police and community relations, psychological distress among Black/African Americans and police and social work.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: dasharhodes@usf.edu
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Chiriboga's work includes a statewide study of mental and physical health disparities in Florida, the effectiveness of family-centered interventions for Medicaid beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias and a three-state study of barriers to health and health care posed by limited English proficiency among older Korean immigrants.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: dchiriboga@usf.edu
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Dobbs researches palliative, hospice and end-of-life care, and palliative care education in assisted living with a specific focus on providers of persons living with dementia.
Area(s) of Expertise
Phone Number: (813) 974-5767
Email: ddobbs@usf.edu
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Cohen is an expert on lethal violence, family caregiving, Alzheimer's Disease, dementia, aging and mental health, elder abuse and murder-suicide.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: cohen@usf.edu
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Burruss studies policing, homeland security and victimization in cyberspace. His research examines the structure and function of criminal justice agencies and the evolving landscape of cybercrime. He studies the causes and consequences of online offending and victimization, and how law enforcement and cybersecurity professionals respond to digital threats. He is affiliated with Cyber Florida, the state’s center for cybersecurity, and serves as a Faculty Fellow with both the Global and National Security Institute and Rapid7. He is the founding director of CIBR Lab — the Cybercrime Interdisciplinary Behavioral Research Laboratory — which trains students in research on cybercrime and cybersecurity.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: gburruss@usf.edu
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Rahill's research focuses on reducing health and mental health disparities for Haitians, HIV, disasters, trauma and sexual violence.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: GJRahill@usf.edu
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Wilson's primary research interests include cochlear implants and diagnostics. She performs Auditory Processing Disorder testing, evaluations hearing for children and adults and works with hearing aids.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: hgospodinsky@usf.edu
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Howard Goldstein
Professor of communications sciences and disorders
Behavioral and Community Sciences
Goldstein's research focuses on developing and evaluating interventions to teach functional social, language and literacy skills to individuals with a variety of disabilities.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: hgoldstein@usf.edu
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Carrion's research focuses on end of life care, cancer and health decisions among the Latinos in the United States and indigenous communities in Northeast India.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: icarrion@usf.edu
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Jacob Gray
Assistant research professor of child and family studies
Behavioral and Community Sciences
Gray's research focuses on educational data analysis, psychometrics, and statistical modeling for early literacy, reading and math assessment and educational achievement.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: jacobgray@usf.edu
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Jane Smart
Associate professor of communication sciences and disorders
Behavioral and Community Sciences
Smart's research interests include speech perception, pediatric aural and language habilitation, phonology, vocabulary acquisition and Cued Speech.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: jbsmart@usf.edu
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Francisco has been involved in supporting educational interpreters in the Deaf Education field for more than 15 years.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: jmfrancisco@usf.edu
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Zarcone studies autism and developmental disabilities. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Child and Family Studies and Co-Director of the Florida Center for Inclusive Communities, a University Center of Excellence in Developmental Disabilities. Before USF, Zarcone held positions at the National Autism Center at the May Institute, Johns Hopkins University Medical School and the Kennedy Krieger Institute.
Area(s) of Expertise
Phone Number: (516) 941-6057
Email: jzarcone@usf.edu
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Galea's research focuses on increasing access to evidence-based mental health services globally.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: jeromegalea@usf.edu
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Grosholz's research focuses on carceral studies, particularly in the areas of prison and reentry programming, recidivism and health, as well as on white extremism, specifically the white power music scene.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: jgrosholz@usf.edu
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Jillian Heilman
Assistant professor of instruction, rehabilitation and mental health counseling
Behavioral and Community Sciences
Heilman's research focuses on rehabilitation counseling and pediatric disabilities, psychosocial impact of disability, disability advocacy and disability awareness.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: jheilman1@usf.edu
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Reid is an expert in human trafficking, sexual violence and child maltreatment. She is director of the USF Human Trafficking Risk to Resilience Research Lab.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: jareid2@usf.edu
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Cochran's research interests include micro-social theories of criminal behavior, macro-social theories of crime and crime control, assessments of issues regarding the legitimacy of capital punishment and quantitative data collection and analysis.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: cochran@usf.edu
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Douglas is an audiologist who can discuss tinnitus, misophonia management, hyperacusis, hearing loss, vestibular evaluations, hearing technology and pediatric audiology.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: jondouglas@usf.edu
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Joseph Walton
Professor of communications sciences and disorders and aging studies
Behavioral and Community Sciences
Walton is an expert in auditory physiology, aging and hearing loss and neural plasticity. His research focuses on identifying neurons within the auditory pathway specialized for extracting rapid acoustic events, elucidating age-related changes in neural processing of complex auditory signals presented in degraded acoustic environments and neural plasticity following exposure to an enriched auditory environment in a mouse model of congenital hearing loss.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: jwalton1@usf.edu
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Kathleen M. Heide
Distinguished university professor of Criminology
Behavioral and Community Sciences
Heide is an internationally recognized consultant on adolescent homicide, parricide and family violence. She has evaluated and consulted with attorneys regarding homicide offenders, specifically those who killed parents. As a licensed mental health counselor, she specializes in treating survivors of trauma, including police officers/first responders, adolescents and young adults, adult children of alcoholics and other high stress families, survivors of childhood abuse, sexual abuse and sexual assault.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: kheide@usf.edu
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Kathryn Califf
Assistant clinical instructor of Language/Phonology
Behavioral and Community Sciences
Califf's research interests include early intervention, augmentative alternative communication, pediatric traumatic brain injury, autism spectrum disorder, gestalt language processing and complex language needs.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: kcaliff@usf.edu
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Kelli Gorajec
Assistant instructor of Communcation Sciences and Disorders
Behavioral and Community Sciences
Gorajec's areas of clinical specialty include adult neurogenic communication disorders with a primary interest in traumatic brain injury, post-concussion and neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson’s Disease and ALS.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: kelligorajec@usf.edu
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Rigg's research focuses on addiction and improving health outcomes for individuals with substance use disorders. He can discuss addiction training for behavioral healthcare providers, improving treatment outcomes for methadone patients and their families, preventing overdoses in Black and rural communities, the role of nutrition in addiction recovery and reducing stigma surrounding medications for opioid use disorder.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: rigg@usf.edu
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Kimberly Johnson
Research associate professor of Behavioral Health Science and Practice
Behavioral and Community Sciences
Johnson's research focuses on quality improvement and implementation science in behavioral health. Her research has also involved using technology to improve efficiency and effectiveness in patient care and to improve the adoption and utilization of evidence based treatments.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: kjohnson33@usf.edu
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Kristin Kosyluk
Associate professor of Behavioral Health Science and Practice
Behavioral and Community Sciences
Kosyluk's research focuses on understanding and addressing stigma among various populations, including people living with mental illness and addiction, and people living with HIV.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: kkosyluk@usf.edu
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Lana Yampolskaya
Director, College of Behavioral and Community Sciences Research and Data Center
Behavioral and Community Sciences
Yampolskaya's research focuses on child welfare, children's mental health, child maltreatment, advanced research methodology and innovative statistical methods.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: yampol@usf.edu
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Kern's research focuses on policy with educational practice, reduction of aggressive behaviors in schools and implementation of multi-tiered systems of support. She practiced law for over ten years before studying special education.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: lak2@usf.edu
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Laura Rodríguez López
Assistant professor of Child and Family Studies
Behavioral and Community Sciences
Rodríguez's research interests focus on education, program evaluation, improvement science and workforce development, with a particular emphasis on disability studies.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: lrodri11@usf.edu
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Baxley has experience as a crisis response therapist working with children and families in their homes who have faced allegations of abuse and neglect. She also has extensive experience working with the Veterans Health Administration as a marriage and family therapist.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: lbaxley@usf.edu
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Worthey's clinical work and research focus on rehabilitation counseling, youth with disabilities, animal-assisted interventions, disability advocacy and accommodations.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: lworthey@usf.edu
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Callejas is an applied anthropologist with expertise in qualitative methodologies and community-engaged research. She can discuss behavioral health needs and program development, implementation and evaluation for children, youth, young adults and families who experience persistent disparities.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: callejas@usf.edu
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Peterson's primary research interest is long-term care policy and practice and communication concerning decision-making, disaster planning and advance care planning for older adults.
Area(s) of Expertise
Phone Number: (941) 773-4172
Email: ljpeterson@usf.edu
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Hall's research focuses on understanding how systems of power, oppression and trauma interact within the criminal justice system, and how these dynamics contribute to crime and societal harm. She is particularly focused on how trauma influences criminal behavior, how interactions with the criminal justice system affect justice-involved individuals and the ways police and correctional staff respond to trauma.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: lorihall@usf.edu
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Rogovin's research focuses on social work macro practice, social policy, policy development, women's issues and case management for older adults with dementia.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: lrogovin@usf.edu
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Boggess' research focuses on communities and crime, race and crime, housing and the geographic distribution of crime.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: lboggess@usf.edu
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Young's research focuses on addiction, drug courts, homelessness and alternatives to incarceration for non-violent drug offenders.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: syoung1@usf.edu
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Lawental's research focuses on substance use disorders, women's health, mental health and reproductive health.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: mlawental@usf.edu
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Joshi's research focuses on violence against women and children. She is co-founder and director of the USF School of Social Work Interdisciplinary Lab, which offers interdisciplinary training to students in social work, public health, biomedical sciences, psychology and other fields. Her funded research has focused on topics including immigrant South Asian women survivors of intimate partner violence and mental health for pregnant Haitian teens.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: manishaj@usf.edu
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Maria Adelaida Restrepo
Professor of Behavioral and Community Sciences
Behavioral and Community Sciences
Restrepo's research focuses on identifying the best language assessment and intervention practices for bilingual children at risk of academic difficulties.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: marestrepo@usf.edu
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Carlo's research focuses on bilingualism and literacy development in children, cross-language transfer of reading skills and educational interventions that support first- and second-language development.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: mariacarlo@usf.edu
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Stern's research focuses on pediatric obesity, pediatric and adolescent cancer, chronic illness, transition to survivorship and communication between cancer patients and health care providers.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: mstern1@usf.edu
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Santos' research focuses on crime trends in Latin America and Brazil, global homicide decline, and international criminal justice and crime policy and their effects. He is a frequent consultant for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, developing comparative data and analysis.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: rennosantos@usf.edu
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Foster's research focuses on achievement in children from historically marginalized backgrounds. He can discuss early learning, assessment and intervention, as well as how child, home and classroom factors influence STEM learning.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: mefoster@usf.edu
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Moore's research focuses on the assessment and treatment of stress and the long-term effects of cancer treatment with the goal of improving long-term outcomes for cancer patients and their families.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: moorem2@usf.edu
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Arnold's research focuses on hearing health policy and aging, hearing health care access and utilization and hearing loss and cognition. Her current NIH-funded projects include language accessibility of health education materials, Hispanic/LatinX hearing health and best practices hearing intervention as a possible factor to mediate the trajectory of dementia.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: mlarnold@usf.edu
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Michelle Kapolowicz
Assistant professor of Behavioral and Community Sciences
Behavioral and Community Sciences
Kapolowicz is an expert in auditory neuroscience, speech perception, tinnitus and cochlear implants. She is principal investigator of USF's Speech Perception and Auditory Neuroscience Lab.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: kapolowicz@usf.edu
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Park's research focuses on minority aging, Alzheimer's Disease, social isolation and mental health.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: nanpark@usf.edu
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Natalie Mikkelson
Assistant instructor of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Behavioral and Community Sciences
Mikkelson is an expert in speech language pathology in early intervention, routines-based intervention and caregiver coaching. She is the Language/Phonology Team Lead in the USF Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: nmikkelson@usf.edu
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Nik Lampe
Assistant professor of Behavioral Health Science and Practice
Behavioral and Community Sciences
Lampe's research focuses on Alzheimer's Disease and dementia care and caregiving, aging and behavioral health disparities of LGBTQIA+ aging populations.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: nlampe@usf.edu
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Miltenberger's research focuses on applied behavior analysis, behavioral skills training, child safety skills, health and fitness, sports performance, gun injury prevention, abduction prevention and poison prevention.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: miltenbe@usf.edu
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Dembo's research focuses on juvenile justice, youth drug use, delinquency, HIV/STD/STI issues, mental health issues and youth trauma.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: rdemdo@usf.edu
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Weinberg's research focuses on positive psychology, couple and marital therapy, neurobiology, love and relationships, family dynamics and family therapy.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: weinberg@usf.edu
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Roger Boothroyd
Emeritus professor of Behavioral Health Science and Practice
Behavioral and Community Sciences
Boothroyd's research focuses on managed behavioral healthcare, survey research, welfare reform and research ethics.
Area(s) of Expertise
Phone Number: (813) 974-1915
Email: boothroy@usf.edu
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Peters' research focuses on treatment of mental and substance use disorders among offenders, mental and substance abuse disorders, treatment alternatives to incarceration and drug court.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: rhp@usf.edu
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Ruby Joseph
Research associate, Child and Family Behavioral Health
Behavioral and Community Sciences
Joseph's primary interests are in research, evaluation and implementation of programs that benefit low-income, underserved children and families in high-needs communities. Her research focuses on the mental, educational and social development of children and youth.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: raj@usf.edu
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Deryol is an expert in computer forensics whose research focuses on victimization, environmental criminology and crime prevention at both micro and macro levels.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: deryolr@usf.edu
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Henry's research focuses on marital distress, use of technology to develop training tools for beginning therapists and new ways of conducting web-based self-directed marital therapy.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: rghenry@usf.edu
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Stone's research interests include family violence, juvenile delinquency/juvenile justice, youth development, women and crime, human trafficking, public policy and program evaluation.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: sandrastone@usf.edu
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Wagers is a former law enforcement officer and director of the BRIGHT (Bridging Information and Resource Gaps in Human Trafficking project through the USF Trafficking in Persons Lab. She can discuss human trafficking and domestic violence.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: swagers@usf.edu
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Fogel's research focuses on homelessness and vulnerable populations, poverty, social work education and capital punishment.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: sfogel@usf.edu
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O's research focuses on victimology, school crime, crime prevention, crime hot spot forecasting and the relationship between land use and crime. She also can discuss cyber delinquency, and the links between marijuana dispensaries and adult crime and youth offending.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: soohyuno@usf.edu
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Marhefka research in the area of behavioral health science and practices focuses on HIV, behavioral interventions and implementation science.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: smarhefk@usf.edu
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Steven Surrency
Professor of instruction, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Behavioral and Community Sciences
Surrency's research focuses on interpretation theory, linguistics, cultural issues in interpretation, deaf and hard-of-hearing populations, legal interpretation and speech pathology.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: surrency@usf.edu
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Supraja Anand
Associate professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Behavioral and Community Sciences
Anand's research focuses on speech motor control, Parkinson's Disease, acoustic analysis of speech, perception of voice quality and voice.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: suprajaanand@usf.edu
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Tammy Jorgensen Smith
Associate professor of child and family studies
Behavioral and Community Sciences
Smith's research focuses on development, testing and implementation of innovative transition and employment service models and programs for people with complex disabilities.
Area(s) of Expertise
Phone Number: (813) 974-0973
Email: smithtj@usf.edu
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Tessa Hastings
Assistant professor of instruction, Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling Program
Behavioral and Community Sciences
Hasting's research interests include play therapy, transpersonal counseling, near death experiences, resiliency, trauma-informed care, animal-assisted therapy and school counseling.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: hastingst@usf.edu
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Hyslip is a former U.S. Secret Service special agent who can discuss cybersecurity, cybercrime, financial cybercrime, digital espionage, computer hacking, cyberfraud, digital forensics, malware and DDoS attacks.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: thyslip@usf.edu
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Jordan is the State Director of the Florida Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters Training and Technical Assistance Center at the USF. The Florida HIPPY T&TAC is responsible for the administration of all HIPPY sites across Florida, collectively serving more than 2,000 families each year. She is an expert in home-based early childhood intervention, child-parent interactions and school readiness.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: payne12@usf.edu
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Lynn is chair of the USF Face-to-Face Masters in Social Work program and co-editor of the Journal of HIV/AIDS and Social Services. Her research and teaching interests include simulation-based learning, technology in social work education, interprofessional training, integrated models of care, and HIV-related health and social services.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: vlynn@usf.edu
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Buckles is director of the Addictions & Substance Abuse Counseling Graduate Certificate Program, which enables professionals in mental health, rehabilitation counseling, counselor education, social work, psychology, and other human service fields to enhance their knowledge and skills in marriage and family therapy. Her research focuses on life care plans for adopted children with disabilities, domestic violence and substance misuse.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: vbuckles@usf.edu
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Haley's research focuses on stress, coping and adaptation in older adults and their family members and caregivers. More recently his focus has examined the impact of social isolation and loneliness as risk factors for poor mental and physical health, particularly after stressful events such as spousal bereavement and stroke.
Area(s) of Expertise
Phone Number: (813) 974-9739
Email: whaley@usf.edu
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Lee's current research examines place management theory, police effectiveness, spatio-temporal patterns of crime hot spots, crime hot spot forecasting, measures of crime concentration and machine learning models for recidivism forecasting. In 2017, he received a national award from the National Institute of Justice as winner of the Real-Time Crime Forecasting Challenge.
Area(s) of Expertise
Email: lee224@usf.edu