Meet the members of our diverse and collaborative team who are working towards closing the health disparities gap in the care of kidney patients.
Samuel Swift, PhD - Former CHEK-D Postdoctoral Fellow; Current role: Assistant Professor at UNM College of Population Health
C. Graham Ford, PhD - Former CHEK-D Graduate Student Research Assistant; Current role: Staff Psychologist, Durham VA
Hannah Wesselman, PhD - CHEK-D Graduate Student Collaborator; Current role: Senior Account Development Representative, STEMCELL Technologies
Dr. Larissa Myaskovsky is a Tenured Professor and Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. She is the founding Director of the Center for Healthcare Evaluation in Kidney Disease (CHEK-D), and is the inaugural Director of Faculty Research Development for UNM Health Sciences. Dr. Myaskovsky leads the Workforce Development Element for the Southwest Center for Advancing Clinical and Translational Innovations (SW CACTI).
Dr. Myaskovsky has more than 30 years of experience as a researcher, educator, and mentor. With multidisciplinary training in social psychology, organizational behavior, and clinical epidemiology, her research focuses on incorporating social and behavioral science with health services research, and translational and implementation science. Her federal-, state-, and foundationally-funded research focuses on patient, provider and healthcare system factors in health and using a multi-method and multi-disciplinary approach to understand healthcare processes and outcomes. She develops and tests interventions to improve healthcare for people with kidney disease and other chronic conditions. In addition, she is passionate about teaching, mentoring, and developing the next generation of researchers in clinical, translational, and implementation science.
Dr. Myaskovsky is a fellow of the American Society of Transplantation (AST), the American Psychological Association (APA), and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI). She has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications in a wide array of high impact journals, and has taught courses in psychology, healthcare evaluation, research design, medical writing, and grant writing.
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CHEK-D is committed to significantly and positively impacting research, education and outreach activities to improve healthcare by partnering with dedicated faculty, staff and community leaders.
