Anna is a master’s student in the Neuropsychology stream of the Clinical Psychology program at York University, supervised by Dr. Joel Katz. She completed her B.Sc. in honours Psychology at York where under the supervision of Dr. Shayna Rosenbaum, she studied autobiographical and spatial memory in healthy aging and in individuals with memory impairment, including hippocampal amnesia and mild cognitive impairment. She also worked on projects that investigated the role of episodic memory processes in social decision-making as a research assistant under Dr. Morris Moscovitch. After graduating, she continued working as a research assistant at Baycrest Health Sciences for a year where she gained experience working with individuals with memory impairment. Her current interests revolve around understanding the relationship between pain and memory, including how autobiographical memory is represented in patients undergoing major surgery and the role that certain memory biases play in the development of chronic postsurgical pain. Anna hopes that studying the cognitive processes involved in chronic pain will help identify new treatment targets important for improving patients’ pain outcomes.
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