Current Postdoctoral Fellows
Current Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Bailey received her PhD in Population Health Sciences from the University of Utah. After graduating, she worked as a research scientist contracted to the VA, researching epilepsy and traumatic brain injury in veterans. Dr. Bailey’s research focuses on health systems, health geography, and health policy. She is especially interested in mental health, but has applied her research skills in diverse areas, including health care decision making, early childhood care, vaccine uptake, chronic conditions and employment, and substance use disorders. Her current postdoctoral work focuses on health services research and health economics, primarily related to suicide, dementia and weight loss, and implementation research.
Dr. Carson-Marino earned his PharmD and MS from the University of Florida's College of Pharmacy and College of Medicine, respectively. His research interests center on prescription medication use and health outcomes, with a focus on priority areas for pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacoeconomics. Dr. Carson-Marino's current research uses real-world evidence to examine the use of prescription drugs and medical devices in cardiovascular and diabetes care, and how socioeconomic and behavioral determinants contribute to disparities in medication use and patients' beliefs and decisions.
Dr. Erickson received her PhD from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and completed her dissertation research at the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Erickson has conducted projects related to pesticide exposures and cancer risk, as well as work related to aspirin use and risk of non-small cell lung cancer. Dr. Erickson's current work focuses on projects within the ColoCare study, including related to body composition and gene expression.
Dr. Caleb Farley is a licensed pediatric psychologist who earned his PhD from Utah State University and completed a clinical residency at Boys Town through the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has served in clinical, leadership, and academic roles within mental health care and university settings. His research has focused on rating scale validity, applied behavior science, and psychological flexibility. His current interests are dissemination and implementation science to expand innovative care systems for vulnerable youth.
Dr. Jiang received his PhD in Statistics from the University of Texas at Dallas. His research interests include nonparametric curve estimation as well as missing and modified data analysis. Dr. Jiang has also conducted interdisciplinary projects on topological data analysis and geometric deep learning. The current work of his postdoctoral research focuses on the analysis of electronic health records data such as risk prediction, model evaluation, causal inference and dynamic treatment regime.
Dr. Resendiz received her PhD in Health Services Research in Pharmacy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2026. Her research focused on co-designing a patient education tool to support Spanish-speaking patients with chronic disease(s), in rural Wisconsin, with the management of their medications. She has also worked on projects to improve medication safety for older adults, the adaptation of interventions for underserved groups, and promoting psychological safety on interdisciplinary teams. Dr. Resendiz’s research interests include health disparities, underserved populations, community-engagement, participatory design, implementation science, and promoting health equity.
Shiyao (Jennifer) Xu, PhD, earned her doctorate in Biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2025. Her research spans causal inference, semiparametric estimation, benefit–risk analysis, survival analysis of large-scale health data, and statistical methods for addressing missing data. As a postdoctoral researcher, she continues to develop causal inference methods, focusing on missing data, unmeasured confounding in observational studies, and the integration of randomized clinical trial and observational data.