Principal Investigator
Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi
Position title: Assistant Professor - UW-Madison School of Nursing
Email: algilmore@wisc.edu
My personal interests center around understanding, promoting, and protecting wellbeing, personhood, and meaning in the lives of persons with dementia – as they and their caregivers define it. My research program is broadly shaped by this deep-rooted interest and generally aims to understand, document, and address approaches to care delivery that hinder or effectively optimize meaningful patient and caregiver outcomes. Largely, this research operates at the intersections of care delivery, equity, and ethics and employs a range of methodologies and data sources. Another major interest of mine is the role non-cognitive (i.e. neuropsychiatric) symptoms and their management play in disease experiences and progression. I am most proud of the students and staff I have had the privilege to work with and learn from, and of the things they are doing to build knowledge and create change here and now.
My sincere hope is that our research and outreach efforts will contribute to improvements in approaches to care and research for those impacted by dementia.
Our Team
Clark Benson
Position title: Assistant Lab Manager
Interests: designing interventions for acute psychiatric patients
Stephanie Brandsma
Position title: Brain Health Community Registry Project Coordinator
Interests: aging, chronic illness, and social welfare
Britta Chelgren
Position title: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Interests: health disparities and clinical care delivery
Quinton D. Cotton
Position title: PhD Student
Interests: caregiving, stress and crisis, health equity, and African American families and communities
Alison Coulson
Position title: Research Specialist
Interests: hospice and palliative care for vulnerable populations
Ashley Delaurelle
Position title: Undergraduate Research Trainee
Interests: global health, nursing, dementia research
Jess Fehland
Position title: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Interests: communication sciences and disorders
Lilli Kay
Position title: Brain Health, Wellness, and Fitness Program Intern
Interests: mental health, aging, and historical trauma
Jessi Kendall
Position title: Outreach Specialist
Interests: communities empowering themselves to achieve health equity
Rioghna Pittock
Position title: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Interests: neurobiology, neuroimmunology
Morgan Schmit
Position title: Research Assitant
Interests: cognitive degeneration in the aging population
Maya Staehler
Position title: Undergraduate Research Trainee
Interests: care for vulnerable populations, epidemiology, and the interplay of religion and health
Ann Wieben
Position title: PhD Student
Interests: predictive model incorporation into nursing decision support systems