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
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
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.
Jean-Marie Bruzzese, PhD
- Professor of Applied Developmental Psychology (in Nursing)
Research Areas of Focus: Understanding and reducing health disparities in children and adolescents
Maureen George, PhD, RN, AE-C, FAAN
- Professor of Nursing
Research Areas of Focus: community-based participatory research, health inequities, health beliefs, behavioral interventions
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
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
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
Lauren Bochicchio, PhD, MSW
- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Research Areas of Focus: Mechanisms Linking Childhood Sexual Abuse and Hazardous Drinking Among Sexual Minority
Yashika Sharma, RN, MSN
- PhD Student
Research Areas of Focus: Impact of Minority Stress on Substance Use and Mental Health of SGM People
Sarah Zollweg, BA, RN, BSN
- PhD Student
Research Areas of Focus: Structural Influences on Sexual Minority Women’s Substance Use and Mental Health
Sarah Leonard, MSN, RN
- PhD Student
Research Area of Focus: Intersectional discrimination as an underlying cause of SGM mental health disparities
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
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