Professor Dr. Jeanine Yonashiro Cho

Biography

Jeanine Yonashiro-Cho, MSG is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. She completed her undergraduate, Master of Science, and doctoral degrees at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on caregiving practices and cultural beliefs among Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) dementia caregivers, many of whom reside in cultural enclaves within urban settings. She applies her findings to inform the cultural adaptation of existing caregiver activation support interventions for AAPI dementia caregivers, and she assesses the efficacy and feasibility of these interventions through randomized controlled trials.

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