The work of Human Development graduate students Emily Kahoe and Deinera Exner-Cortens is featured on the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research website.
Emily Kahoe Chen is a research assistant with Karl Pillemer with whom she works on two primary projects. The Resident-to-Resident Elder Mistreatment project is an ongoing investigation of resident-to-resident aggression (RRA) in nursing homes. The second project, recently completed, was focused on the dissemination of the Method for Program Adaptation through Community Engagement (M-PACE). M-PACE is an innovative method for the adaptation of evidence-based programs that uses systematic and detailed feedback from program participants to guide adaptation.
Deinera Exner-Cortens has assisted with several projects at the BCTR, including the Nurse Family Partnership study (PI: John Eckenrode) and a project investigating the use of orders of protection by teens in New York State. Deinera's primary project for the past two years has been the Complementary Strengths study (PI: Jennifer Tiffany), where she has assisted with the development of a new measure for assessing youth program participation, and investigated cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships between program participation and adolescent sexual and reproductive health. In the spring of 2012, Deinera will be transitioning to the Cornell Research Program on Self-Injurious Behavior (PI: Janis Whitlock). During her time at the BCTR, Deinera also helped create a translational research database for use by center staff and research associates.