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. Myaskovsky has more than 28 years of experience as a researcher, educator, and mentor. With multidisciplinary training in social psychology, organizational behavior, and clinical epidemiology, she has pursued a research career focused on bringing social and behavioral science to bear on the field of health services research. Her state- and federally-funded research focuses on the social determinants of health and using a multi-method and multi-disciplinary approach to identify and understand disparities in healthcare processes and outcomes; and to develop interventions to reduce health disparities in people with kidney disease and other chronic conditions. In addition, she is dedicated to teaching, mentoring, and developing the next generation of under-represented trainees 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). In 2023, she received the AST Advancing Equity in Organ Transplantation Award, and in 2024, she received the Senior Investigator Award from Academy Health’s Health Equity Interest Group. She has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed publications in a diverse array of high impact journals, and has taught courses in psychology, healthcare disparities, research design, medical writing, and grant writing.
Areas of specialty are:
1. Healthcare disparities research
2. Health services research/Implementation science
3. Kidney disease and kidney transplantation
4. Patient adherence
5. Organ Donation
6. Clinical and translational science
The CHEK-D is committed to significantly and positively impacting research, education and outreach activities to increase healthcare equity and reduce disparities by partnering with dedicated faculty, staff and community leaders.
