- Duke – Associate Professor at Duke School of Nursing; Associate Director of the National Clinical Scholars Program; Co-Director of Duke’s CTSI Special Populations Core
- Addictions Research – developing and testing innovative tobacco cessation interventions
- NIH Funding – community-informed cessation interventions
- First text-based smokeless tobacco cessation intervention to ever be tested in a randomized controlled trial; informs smokeless tobacco legislative, funding, and public health matters; resulted in funding for NIH National Cancer Institute to test the intervention
- Completed two-year NIH-funded post-doctoral fellowship