Mary Alice received her B.S. in Psychology.
B. Sloan Crawford was selected by the American Society of Hematology as a 2025 recipient of the ASH HIP Graduate Award!
May 15, 2025
Sloan's project is titled "SCOPE: Sickle Cell Omega-3 Patient Education".
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USASP 2025 was a success!
May 1, 2025
Our lab had a great time attending the annual US Association for the Study of Pain (USASP) Conference! Excited by the pain community’s engagement with our work and the interest in our insights on omega-3 as a complementary treatment option for pediatric SCD pain.
Congratulations, Dr. Jelaina Shipman-Lacewell!
May 11, 2024
Jelaina received her PhD in Health Psychology.
Congratulations to our recent graduate, Raida Rahman!
May 11, 2024
Raida received her B.S. in Psychology (pre-medicine).
Jelaina Shipman was awarded the Black History in the Making for the Department of Psychology.
February 28, 2024
VCU psychology professor wins NIH award for research into pediatric pain management
February 20, 2024
Cecelia Valrie’s latest interdisciplinary work aims to help young patients with sickle cell disease.
B. Sloan Crawford was awarded Runner-up for the Society of Pediatric Psychology's Marion and Donald Routh Student Research Grant.
February 15, 2024
Sloan's project is titled "Examination of Caregiver Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practice (KAP) Concerning Consumption of Omega-3 in Youth with Sickle Cell Disease."
Congratulations, Dr. Angela Pascale!
May 13, 2023
Angela received her PhD in Health Psychology.
Congratulations to our Recent Graduate, Mary Alice Montgomery!
May 13, 2023
Attending SPPAC 2023 was great!
April 03, 2023
Our lab had a great time attending the Society of Pediatric Psychology Annual Conference (SPPAC)! Happy to be doing the work to study pain and home-based opioid use among youth with Sickle Cell Disease.
iCubed scholar Cecelia Valrie spearheads pediatric sickle cell research project that was awarded a $420K NIH grant
October 19, 2022
The project aims to predict sickle cell pain episodes so that the 20 million people living with the disease can better manage–or hopefully prevent altogether–their pain episodes.
Jelaina Shipman was awarded the NIH/NIMHD Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (F31).
July 30, 2022
Jelaina's project is titled "The Role of Sleep and Community-Level Supports in the Association between Racial Discrimination and Cardiometabolic Health in Black Adolescents."
Congratulations, Dr. Mona Quarless!
May 14, 2022
Mona received her PhD in Health Psychology.
