Edson Postdoctoral Fellows
Edson College offers a rich interprofessional research, mentoring, and teaching environment with unique and growing transdisciplinary PhD and PhD/ DNP programs and research centers encompassing health promotion and disease prevention; interprofessional practice, education, and research; and healthy and resilient aging. Edson College faculty collaborate across professions, other colleges, and universities and have current or recent funding from NIH, PCORI, the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, HRSA, Department of Defense, the Veterans Administration, the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, and several other local, regional, and national organizations.
Postdoctoral fellows have opportunities to work with faculty fully engaged in a variety of research programs with the ultimate goal of improving the economic, social, and cultural health and vitality of local, state, national, and global communities. Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation is committed to providing individualized mentorship and career development to ensure each candidate is well prepared to succeed in their research career.
Current Postdoctoral Fellows
Grace Derboghossian
Grace Derboghossian is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at Arizona State University's Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation. Her research focuses on promoting healthy lifestyle behaviors among older adults with Alzheimer's disease. She earned her bachelor's degree from the Lebanese American University and both her Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) and PhD from the University of Massachusetts Boston. Grace is a certified Registered Nurse in Massachusetts, New York, and Arizona. She is currently working with the BEAT team, examining how aerobic exercise helps improve cognition among older adults with mild cognitive impairment.
Mentor: Dr. Fang Yu
Cho-Hee Shrader
Cho-Hee Shrader, PhD, she/her series pronouns, is a clinical post-doctoral research scholar in the Edson College of Nursing & Health Innovation. She is also pursuing a full-time Master to Entry Practice (MEPN) MS Nursing program. Her research examines how social networks, social norms, and neighborhoods are intertwined to affect substance use and HIV-related outcomes among sexual and gender minorities- with a focus on achieving health equity among racially minoritized groups. Her current projects examine multilevel (neighborhood, network, individual) influences on substance use and HIV-related outcomes, including sexual behaviors with enhanced vulnerability to HIV. She is also interested in how structural discrimination impacts She recently received a pilot award from the Institute of Social Sciences Research to examine substance use among Latine sexually minoritized men in Phoenix, AZ.