Education

Education and Training:

Certificate in Advanced Clinical Dementia Practice                                       

December 2015

School of Social Work, University of Michigan

 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

July 2009 to June 2012

Center for the Study of Complementary and Alternative Therapies, School of Nursing, University of Virginia

Clinical research using non-pharmacological therapies

 

Doctorate of Philosophy

May 2009

Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Dissertation:

Effects of Manganese Exposure and Iron Deficiency on the Biology of GABA and Norepinephrine

 

Bachelor of Science

May 1999

Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

University Honors and Honors in Biology

Honors Thesis:

Trends in Gastroenteritis at New Hanover Regional Medical Center from 1996 to 1999

 

Certification:

Certified Healing Touch Practitioner, Healing Beyond Borders

December 2014 to December 2019