Messages from Certificate Students, Alums and Faculty

Stacy Walz, PhD, T2TR certificate program alum, Department Chair and Assistant Professor, Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Arkansas State University–Jonesboro

"I would recommend this program to other students, particularly if they are doing implementation research, or as I call it, research where you might actually realize changes and improvements in outcomes in your lifetime! It forced me to explore research methods and concepts that I would not have sought out on my own. Turns out there are a lot of things in this world you didn't realize you didn't know until you learn them!"

Jia Pu, PhD candidate, Joseph Wiederholt Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellow in Social & Administrative Sciences in Pharmacy

"I augment my dissertation quantitative analysis by interviews with health care providers and patients, in order to achieve a better understanding from the target population's perspective. Thanks to the T2TR training I received, I'm aware of the gap between data analysis results and what happened in the real settings, and the importance of working together with the stakeholders."

Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi, PhD student and 2011-2013 John A. Hartford Scholar in Academic Geriatric Nursing

"I have learned the importance of building and, perhaps more importantly, maintaining relationships with various research and community partners and the integral role these long-standing relationships will play in my program of research. The training I received in T2TR has provided me with the knowledge and skills I need to build effective, lasting research partnerships."

Pascale Carayon, Procter & Gamble Bascom Professor in Total Quality in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Director of the Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement

"For the certificate advisor it is interesting to work with students in other departments or disciplines and to discuss how my own discipline (human factors engineering) can contribute to a range of T2TR problems."

Note: A program objective is to match each student with an adviser from a discipline other than their own, to expose students to a variety of perspectives.