Joe Dzierzewski
Student Trainee
Phone: (352)284-5821
Email: joedz@ufl.edu or joedzierzewski@gmail.com
Education
- Bachelors of Arts, Magna cum Laude, Major Psychology,
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Spring 2005
- Counseling Psychology PhD Program, University of Florida,
Fall 2005 – Spring 2006
- Clinical and Health Psychology PhD Program, University of
Florida, Summer 2006 – Current
Research Interests
- Sleep disorders/insomnia in late life, subjective
(self-report) and objective (physiological) measures of sleep, and
cognitive-behavioral treatments for disorder sleeping.
- Cognitive aging/age-related cognitive decline and
neuropsychological assessment of cognitive decline.
- Dynamic coupling of sleep, cognition, physical fitness,
affect and self-efficacy.
Student Profile
Joe’s interest in the psychological changes that accompany the aging
process sparked while enrolled in an advanced psychology seminar on
cognitive aging at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In the middle
of this research intensive course Joe witnessed first hand the physical
and psychological deterioration of his grandmother.
Since that moment he has been actively researching psychological aging.
As an undergraduate his researched focused on the accurate retention of
health information and the variables that contribute to this retention.
For this research he received grants from the National Institute of
Health and the National Science Foundation and has been first or second
author on eight posters presented at regional and national conferences.
Now enrolled in the Clinical and Health Psychology PhD program at the
University of Florida with Dr. Christina McCrae as his primary mentor
Joe hopes to continue to do research designed to better understand the
aging process while expanding his scope of knowledge to more applied
principals. His thesis project will examine the unique coupling of
change in sleep, cognition, and affect as a result of increased
physical fitness in older adults.
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