People
We believe that our science is better with a diverse team. We embrace and encourage our lab members’ differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our lab members who they are.
Our Team
David Lydon-Staley, M.F.A., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Communication
Thandi Lyew
Doctoral Student
Nidah Mohammed
Doctoral Student
Ben Muzekari
Doctoral Candidate
Collin Kather
Doctoral StudentLab Alumni
The AHA! Lab's former research assistants and postdoctoral fellows
2024-2025 Research Assistants
Priya Bhavikatti, Gabriella Jean, Erika Kurre
2020-2025 Graduate Student
Xinyi Wang is a postdoctoral researcher in the Health Communication & Equity Lab at Penn
2023-2024 Research Assistants
Brian Corry, Zsazsa Lafitaga, Cat Seiberlich
2020-2024 Research Coordinator
Asia Vincent is now a clinical research coordinator in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Penn.
2022-2023 Research Assistants
Nadia Aimufua, Valerie Rubens, Farah Sayed
2021-2022 Research Assistants
Liliane Azabe, Sudeep Bhargava, Shea Fergus, Sofia Gular, Anooshey Ikhlas, Arina Paniukhina, Anika Prakash, Lila Smith
2020-2021 Research Assistants
Madison Burnard, Jaydin Clark, Zoe Lebowitz, Kayla McLymont
2020-2022 Postdoctoral Fellow
Amanda McGowan (Postdoctoral Fellow 2020-2022) is an Assistant Professor at Concordia University.
Interested in joining the lab?
Please get in touch if you are an undergraduate student looking for research experience or if you would like to join our lab as a graduate student.