Our Team

Executive Director

  • Tonda Hughes, PhD, RN, FAAN

    • Henrik H. Bendixen Professor of International Nursing (in Psychiatry); Associate Dean of Global Health

    Research Areas of Focus: Sexual Minority Women’s Health, Alcohol Use/Abuse, Violence and Victimization

Co-Director

  • Walter Bockting, PhD

    • Professor of Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry and Nursing)

    Research Areas of Focus: Identity Development Across the Lifespan, Transgender Health, SGM Aging

Core Members

  • Billy Caceres, PhD, RN, AGPCNP-BC, FAAN

    • Assistant Professor

    Research Areas of Focus: Psychosocial Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease in SGM Populations Across the Lifespan

  • Kasey Jackman, PhD, RN, PMHNP-BC

    • Assistant Professor

    Research Areas of Focus: Prevention and Treatment of Mental Health Disparities Among SGM People

    Hear Dr. Jackman speak about his work with LGBTQ patients

  • Jeremy D. Kidd, MD, MPH

    • Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry

    Research Areas of Focus: Clinical Research, Culturally Adapted Psychosocial Interventions, Alcohol Use, Opioid Use, Transgender Health, Medical Education 

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  • Ronica Mukerjee, DNP, FNP-BC, MsA, LAc, PMHNP(c), AAHIVS

    • Assistant Professor

    Research and Clinical Areas of Focus: border-police-prison abolition; racial, economic, and health care justice in LGBTQIA+, refugee, and migrant communities, for people with substance use disorders, and for people living with HIV.

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  • Jean-Marie Bruzzese, PhD

    • Professor of Applied Developmental Psychology (in Nursing)

    Research Areas of Focus: Understanding and reducing health disparities in children and adolescents

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  • Maureen George, PhD, RN, AE-C, FAAN

    • Professor of Nursing

    Research Areas of Focus: community-based participatory research, health inequities, health beliefs, behavioral interventions

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  • Corina Lelutiu-Weinberger, PhD, MPhil, BA

    • Associate Professor of Health Sciences Research (in Nursing)

    Research Areas of Focus: racial, ethnic, sexual and gender minority health equity; stigma and discrimination; mental health; substance and alcohol use; HIV/AIDS continuum of prevention and care; global health; multi-level intervention research; mobile health technologies; implementation science  

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  • Phoenix A Matthews, PhD, MS, BS, LCP

    • Professor of Behavioral Sciences (in Nursing)

    Research Areas of Focus: Health Inequities, Cancer Prevention and Control, Tobacco Cessation, Sexual and Gender Minority Health, Racial and Ethnic Minorities,  Culturally Targeted Health Promotion Interventions

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Fellows

  • Joseph Belloir, MSC, PMHNP-BC

    • PhD Student

    Research Areas of Focus: SGM Mental Health, Relationship Between Traumatic/Adverse Experiences and Sleep Disturbances in Transgender and Nonbinary Individuals

    Learn more about Joseph Belloir's research

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  • Lauren Bochicchio, PhD, MSW

    • Postdoctoral Research Scientist

    Research Areas of Focus: Mechanisms Linking Childhood Sexual Abuse and Hazardous Drinking Among Sexual Minority

    Learn more about Lauren Bochicchio's research

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  • Yashika Sharma, RN, MSN

    • PhD Student

    Research Areas of Focus: Impact of Minority Stress on Substance Use and Mental Health of SGM People

    Learn more about Yashika Sharma's research

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  • Sarah Zollweg, BA, RN, BSN

    • PhD Student

    Research Areas of Focus: Structural Influences on Sexual Minority Women’s Substance Use and Mental Health

    Learn more about Sarah Zollweg's research

  • Sarah Leonard, MSN, RN

    • PhD Student

    Research Area of Focus: Intersectional discrimination as an underlying cause of SGM mental health disparities

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  • Tyler Gaedecke, BSN, RN

    • PhD Student

    Research Areas of Focus: Supporting transgender and non-binary health by improving nursing practice, policy, and care delivery

  • David Lopez Veneros

    • PhD Student

    Research Areas of Focus: stress management, cardiovascular health, and health disparities among sexual and gender minority people

Staff

  • Lizzie Chadbourne, MPH

    • Project Manager
    Lizzie Chadbourne, MPH

Former CSGMHR Pre and Postdoctoral Fellows

  • Cindy Veldhuis, PhD

    • Former Postdoctoral Fellow

    Research Areas of Focus: Role of Intimate Relationships in Sexual Minority Women's Alcohol Use

    Current position: Assistant Professor, Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing, Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University

  • April Ancheta, PhD, RN, BSN

    • Former Predoctoral Fellow

    Research Areas of Focus: SGM Adolescent Health, Bullying and Obesity-Related Health Disparaties

    Current position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National Clinician Scholars Program at Penn and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute

  • Kodiak Soled, PhD, RN, MSN

    • Former Predoctoral Fellow

    Research Areas of Focus: Social Support Experiences Among SGM+ Childbearing Individuals

    Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School Department of Population Medicine