Marcella Boynton, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and a Biostatistician at North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute (NC TraCS). In this role, she supports biomedical and behavioral researchers as they conduct studies focused on improving healthcare delivery and patient outcomes—providing guidance and statistics services to translational scientists as they work through the complicated process of designing, implementing, and statistically analyzing their studies. Dr. Boynton also supports the educational efforts at NC TraCS by teaching seminars and helping to develop educational programming geared toward the translational science workforce.
Marla Broadfoot, NC TraCS science writer, recently spoke with Dr. Boynton about how psychometrics can inform clinical and translational science, her research on stressors that negatively affect health outcomes for marginalized groups, and how she mentors junior faculty in innovative research and quantitative methods…
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