Research Interests:

• The effects of integrating genetic counseling with a prenatal and post partum counseling in minority populations
• The collection and analysis response of minority populations to a birthing and infancy center in Lowell
• The development of computer software to correlate educational access to health care

Previous Research:

• Assessment of people's knowledge of, and access to genetic counseling in the Merrimack Valley area

Current Research:

• Currently serving as co-investigator, genetic counselor, genetics consultant, and anatomy and physiology educator for the Lowell Southeast Asian Birthing and Infancy (SABAI) project. This grant is federally funded by the Department of Health and Human Services. Also funded by the Massachusetts Health Research Institute, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and the Lowell Community Health Center. Over the first six years, the grant money totaled 1.3 million dollars. A center has been established to provide the Lowell Southeast Asian community with prenatal, perinatal, genetic, medical and other health care services.
• In conjunction with the directors of the SABAI project, now involved in the writing of a third 3-year grant, to total about one million dollars. As a result, a thalassemia screening program, which is already in its embryonic stages, will be established, for which I will continue to serve in the role of genetic counselor and genetics educator.