Rewards & Other Activities
Grants and Research Awards
Pilot Study: Job, Social Activity, and Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias (ADRD) RGV AD RCMAR
Direct Cost: $65,000 Role: PI 2023-2025
Metabolic Syndrome traits exhibit genotype-by-environment interaction with intergeneration socioeconomic status in the San Antonio Family Heart Study
UTRGV Faculty Seed Research Grants
Direct Cost: $10,000 Role: PI 2023
VCoBE Summer Grant
Vackar College of Business and Entrepreneurship, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Direct Cost: $30,000 Role: PI 2021-2023
Competitions
Rank: 22/305 2024
PREPARE Challenge - Phase 2: Model Arena (AD/ADRD Acoustic Track), DrivenData
Rank: 97/386 2024
PREPARE Challenge - Phase 2: Model Arena (AD/ADRD Social Determinants Track), DrivenData
Teaching Award
VCoBE Faculty Teaching Excellent Award 2024
Vackar College of Business and Entrepreneurship, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Selected Services
Grant Reviewer (R series) 2024
National Institutes of Health
Session Chair 2021-2024
Western Economic Association International
Session Chair 2023
Eastern Economic Association
Ph.D. Committee Services
Zixing Shen (The University of Waterloo)
Deepak More, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor at Le Moyne College, NY)
Thesis Advisors and Committees
Advisor: Juan Moreno-Cruz, Ph.D.
Co-Advisor: Tibor Besedeš, Ph.D.
Committee: Laura Taylor, Ph.D.
Ph.D. Committee: Olga Shemyakina, Ph.D.
Ph.D. Committee: Willie Belton, Ph.D.
Mentors
Mentor: Gladys Maestre, MD, Ph.D.
Mentor: Eron Manusov, MD
Mentor: Jerry Gurwitz, MD
Mentor: Rebeca Wong, Ph.D.
Mentor: Levent Kutlu, Ph.D.
Mentor: Danny Hughes, Ph.D.
Selected Affiliations
Alzheimer's Disease Resource Center for Minority Aging Research - Rio Grande Valley (RGV RCMAR)