Faculty Advisor: Sue Gardner

Funding: Pre-Doctoral Traineeship - NIH/NINR T32 NR011147, the Dr. Rita and David Frantz Nursing Scholarship, the Myrtle Aydelotte Doctoral Education Fund in Nursing

Hometown: Des Moines, Iowa

I am investigating novel tissue biomarkers of pain and symptom severity in fibromyalgia in hopes of clarifying underlying mechanisms of disease, improving clinical diagnosis, and defining treatment endpoints.