Category: Spotlights

Kristi Louthan is the de Tornyay Center’s Germaine Krysan Undergraduate Scholar. An ABSN student, her research project looks at lifestyle factors and dementia in Asian American older adults. Her faculty mentor is Basia Belza. All interviews have been edited for length and clarity. Find all scholar spotlight interviews here.   What research or practice areas are you interested in? What I really love and am passionate about is kinesiology, so the movement of the body, and actually trying to fix…

Isadora Yi, BSN, MN, RN, is one of the de Tornyay Center’s Healthy Aging Doctoral Scholars. A DNP student, her project is creating a dementia care toolkit. Her faculty mentor is Hilaire Thompson. All interviews have been edited for length and clarity. Find all scholar spotlight interviews here.   When did you realize you wanted to work in gerontology? I’ve always enjoyed working with my older patients but didn’t realize that this was my niche until I did a clinical…

  Boeun Kim, BSN, MSN, RN, is one of the de Tornyay Center’s 2019-2020 Healthy Aging Doctoral Scholars. A fourth year PhD student, her project looks at cognitive health and the walkable neighborhood. Her faculty mentor is Basia Belza. All interviews have been edited for length and clarity. Find all scholar spotlight interviews here.   Why did you choose nursing? When I was 10 years old, I lost my grandfather. He was injured in a car accident and had severe…