Briannah received her bachelor’s degree from Penn State in biobehavioral health in May 2019. She is currently a clinical data coordinator at BC Cancer.

Awards:

• Fall 2015 – Dean’s List

Presentations:

Ghallon, D., Tsang, B., Trager, B., Sell, N., & Turrisi, R. (2018, April). Effects of maternal permissiveness and student drinking on mother-student communication. Poster presented at the Penn State Undergraduate Exhibition, University Park, PA.

Tsang, B., Ghallon, D., Trager, B., Sell, N., Hultgren, B., & Turrisi, R. (2017, April). Parental permissiveness and peer drinking norms as predictors of risky drinking behaviors among college sophomores. Poster presented at the Penn State Undergraduate Exhibition, University Park, PA.

Christine received her bachelor’s degree in science from Penn State with honors in biobehavioral health from the Schreyer Honors College in May of 2017. She received her M.D. in 2021 from the University of Central Florida College of Medicine. Dr. Scaglione is currently a pediatrics resident physician at Cornell.

Senior Honors Thesis (Chair: Turrisi): Examining the relationship between technological savviness in melanoma patients and self efficacy in using information from tablet-based interventions for self-skin examinations. (2016-2017)

Scaglione Honors Thesis

Awards:

• Fall 2013-Spring 2017, Eight consecutive semesters on Dean’s List
• August 2013-May 2017, Schreyer Honor’s College Academic Excellence Scholarship
• September 2014-May 2017, Alpha Epsilon Delta Preprofessional Health Honor Society
• 2016, Phi Beta Kappa Academic Honors Society
• 2014, Pennsylvania Space Grant Research Wiser Scholar

Presentations:

Scaglione, C. (2017, April). The relationship between technological savviness and self-efficacy in performing self-skin examinations in melanoma patients after receiving a tablet-based intervention. Poster presented at the Penn State Undergraduate Exhibition, University Park, PA.

Livezey, K., & Scaglione, C. (2016, April). Examining the relationship between perceived student drinking habits and communication skills: Maternal-child relations. Poster presented at the Penn State Undergraduate Exhibition, University Park, PA.

 

Dr. Erlikh received her bachelor’s degree in science from Penn State and honors in biobehavioral health from Schreyer’s Honors College in May of 2016. She received her M.D. in 2020 from the Penn State Hershey College of Medicine. Dr. Erlikh is currently a physical medicine and rehabilitation chief resident at Indiana University School of Medicine.

Senior Honors Thesis (Chair: Turrisi): Does the position of the homemaker in the patient/partner dyad affect efficiency of self-skin examinations and further prevention of melanoma? (2015-2016)
Erlikh Honors Thesis

Presentations:

Erlikh, S., Turrisi, R., Hultgren, B., Mallett, K., Martini, M., & Robinson, J. (2016, April). Relationship between occupation of partners in a dyad and frequency of self-skin examination. Poster presented at the Penn State Undergraduate Exhibition, University Park, PA.

Brustle, J., Erlikh, S., Henry, J., Hultgren, B., Turrisi, R., & Robinson, J. (2015, April). How melanoma knowledge longitudinally impacts confidence and frequency of self-skin exams. Poster presented at the Penn State Undergraduate Exhibition, University Park, PA.

Julie received her bachelor’s degree in statistics from Penn State in May 2016. She is currently a Lead Data Science Associate at Fannie Mae.

Awards: 

• Spring 2013-Fall 2014, Four consecutive semesters on Dean’s List
• 2015, Mu Sigma Rho, National Honorary Society for Statistics

Presentations:

Brustle, J., Tusar, R., Hultgren, B., Sell, N., & Turrisi, R. (2016, April). The influence of maternal communication on alcohol-related consequences in college students. Poster presented at the Penn State Undergraduate Exhibition, University Park, PA.

Brustle, J., Erlikh, S., Henry, J., Hultgren, B., Turrisi, R., & Robinson, J. (2015, April). How melanoma knowledge longitudinally impacts confidence and frequency of self-skin exams. Poster presented at the Penn State Undergraduate Exhibition, University Park, PA.

Lindsay received her bachelor’s degree in biobehavioral health with a minor in neuroscience from Penn State in May 2016 and her master’s degree in physician assistant studies from DeSales University in 2019. She is currently a primary care physician assistant at Jefferson Health.

Awards: 

• Fall 2012-Spring 2015, Four consecutive semesters on Dean’s List
• Spring 2013-Spring 2015, Health and Human Development Honor’s Society

Presentations:

Hummell, L., Chandler, L., Livezey, K., Hultgren, B., Sell, N., Scaglione, N., & Turrisi, R. (2015, April). Examining predictors of college students’ perceived effectiveness of contextual protective behaviors in reducing alcohol-related sexual assault. Poster presented at the Penn State Undergraduate Exhibition, University Park, PA.

Scaglione, N. M., Sell, N. M., Hultgren, B. A., Turrisi, R., & Hummell, L. (2014, June). Examining the influence of interpersonal protective behaviors on the relationship between drinking and sexual consequences. Poster presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism, Bellevue, WA.