JDP Students Awarded Health Professional Research Preceptorships

JDP students Rina Fox and Sarah Mills have been awarded Health Professional Research Preceptorships from the Rheumatology Research Foundation.  For each student, this includes a scholarship ($3500) and guaranteed travel reimbursement (up to $1000) to attend the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) conference next fall and present their work, as well as receive an award.

Sarah D. Mills, MS,  is a third year pre-doctoral trainee in the SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, specializing in Behavioral Medicine. She works in the research laboratories of Dr. Vanessa Malcarne and Dr. Elizabeth Klonoff. Her research interests include ethnic minority health disparities, psychometrics, and coping with chronic illness.

Rina S. Fox, MS,  is a fourth year pre-doctoral trainee in the SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, specializing in Behavioral Medicine.  She works in the Chronic Illness Research Laboratory at SDSU under the mentorship of Dr. Vanessa Malcarne.  Her primary research interests include cultural health disparities, psychometrics, and the chronic illness spectrum, from prevention through post-diagnostic quality of life.