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Dissertation Title: Beyond Efficacy, Toxicity, and Cost: Patients Define Cancer Care Value in the United States
Dissertation Committee: Co-chairs: Dr. Corey Shdaimah and Dr. Bruce DeForge Members: Dr. Jennifer Swanberg, Dr. Christine Callahan, and Dr. Eleanor Perfetto

Dissertation Title: Health Savings Account Effects on Health and Debt
Dissertation Committee: Terry Shaw (Chair); Jodi Frey, Bruce DeForge, Paul Sacco, Jason Purnell

Dissertation Title: Examination of Social Exclusion as a Construct and Its Impact on Mortality and Survival Time among Older Adults
Dissertation Committee: Dr. John G. Cagle, Dr. Bruce DeForge (Co-Chairs), Dr. Charlotte Bright, Dr. Amanda Lehning, Dr. Christine Mair

Dissertation Title: The interrelationships of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), alcohol use in adulthood, and intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration among Black men in the United States
Dissertation Committee: Charlotte Lyn Bright, PhD (Chair), Paul Sacco, PhD; Melissa Smith, PhD; Laura Ting, PhD; Christopher Murphy, PhD

Dissertation title: Relationship Between Caregiver Social Support, Depressive Symptoms, and Child Asthma Outcomes in Low-Income, Urban, African American Families
Dissertation committee: Dr. Melissa Bellin & Dr. Sarah Dababnah (co-chairs), Dr. Paul Sacco, Dr. Brenda Jones Harden, and Dr. Mary Elizabeth Bollinger

Dissertation Title: Neighborhood Disorder and Mental Health Among a Sample of Baltimore City Residents: The Influence of Urban Parks, Social Cohesion and Social Control
Dissertation Committee: Megan Meyer & Amanda Lehning (Co-Chairs), Jay Unick, Terry Shaw, Christine Mair

Dissertation Title: Community-level and individual-level predictors of variation in rates of homelessness among youth transitioning out of foster care
Dissertation Committee: Dr. Charlotte Bright (Chair), Dr. Bethany Lee, Dr. Jay Unick, Associate Professor, Dr. Tammy White, Dr. Melissa Brodowski,
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