I am a full-time researcher at Hillside Psychiatric Center, a newer tertiary mental health facility of Interior Health Authority, British Columbia, Canada. I received my PhD degree in cognitive psychology from State University of New York at Bingham
...MoreI am a full-time researcher at Hillside Psychiatric Center, a newer tertiary mental health facility of Interior Health Authority, British Columbia, Canada. I received my PhD degree in cognitive psychology from State University of New York at Binghamton in 2007. My research interests include understanding psychiatric characteristics and care needs of patients who require tertiary services, evaluating existing program outcomes, providing information for evidence based decisions, etc. With my research background in cognitive psychology, I am especially interested in examining cognitive impairments in patients with mental illness such as dementia, schizophrenia, and traumatic brain injuries. I have started to apply experimental procedures to explore the various cognitive impairments in people with severe mental disorders. For example, I developed a pilot research project using experimental procedure to investigate an attentional effect, inhibition of return (IOR), in older patients with schizophrenia. This project was funded by British Columbia Network for Aging Research (BCNAR) 2008 seed grant.
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Aging and Social Change
