Education

MS-University of Southern California PhD-University of Southern California

Background

Dr. Jeanine Yonashiro-Cho is Assistant Professor within the Department of Family Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. She completed her undergraduate, Master of Science, and doctoral degrees at the University of Southern California. Her KL2 research will investigate the caregiving practices and cultural beliefs of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) dementia caregivers (many living in cultural enclaves in urban settings), applying these findings to inform the cultural adaptation of an existing caregiver activation and support intervention for use among AAPI dementia caregivers, and assessing intervention efficacy and feasibility through a randomized controlled trial.

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