My research interests lie in the areas of child and family health care in oncology, especially in symptom assessment and management, patient-reported outcomes and biopsychosocial mechanisms underlying symptoms. I am well trained to study gut microbiome, microbiome-gut-brain axis, and analysis of microbiome dataset. My current research is supported by American Nurses Foundation, Southern Nursing Research Society, and Oncology Nursing Society. I am currently holding an NIH K99/R00 (1K99NR017897-01) to explore the the microbiome-gut-brain axis in psychoneurological symptoms in children with solid tumors.