Career Development Awardee 2021-2023
Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Division of Adult Psychology & Psychiatry
Project Title: Improving physical activity through values and activity pacing
Dr. Plumb-Vilardaga’s long-term career goal is to mitigate persistent pain through behavioral and physical activity interventions for older adults, particularly for racial groups who bear a disproportionate burden of persistent pain. Her REACH equity project will target modifiable barriers and facilitators for a physical activities intervention for older African Americans with osteoarthritis using culturally-sensitive motivational enhancement through values clarification.