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Release Date: 09/09/2025

Sofia Isabella Lostaunau participated in the Summer Research Opportunity Program

Sofia Isabella Lostaunau, an undergraduate research assistant with the ACCESS for Mental Health Lab, participated in the Summer Research Opportunity Program under the mentorship of Dr. Michael Meinzer.


Release Date: 09/09/2025

New PREMIER T32 postdoctoral fellow - Dr. Ali Zax

The ACCESS lab has the pleasure of welcoming Ali Zax, PhD, who is beginning as a PREMIER T32 postdoctoral fellow through the Department of Medicine! UIC’s T32 fellowship provides postdoctoral fellows who aspire to be independent researchers or team scientists an opportunity to develop their knowledge on translational science. Ali will be assisting Dr.


Release Date: 09/09/2025

Chicago Parks District (CPD) Guided Mindfulness Walk

ACCESS for Mental Health Lab members collaborate with the Chicago Parks District (CPD) for another staff wellness event, this time in the Osaka Garden, where Melanie Tran, MA, Elyse Shenberger, PhD, Margarete Wallner, MD, and Tara Mehta, PhD, led a guided mindfulness walk for CPD staff focused on teaching everyday skills for mental hea


Release Date: 09/09/2025 Source: PubMed

Sports-based youth development staff & youth mental health: Holistic,…

Authors: Tran, M., Kang, S., & Mehta, T. G. from the Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community


Release Date: 06/09/2025

Tara Mehta, PhD, UIC Psychiatry Faculty, presented, with her Chicago Park…

Tara Mehta, PhD, UIC Psychiatry Faculty, presented, with her Chicago Park District colleague Colleen Lammel-Harmon, MPH, RD, Health & Wellness Officer, Chicago Park District, presented an overview of research in the parks describing projects from a 20 year collaboration between Dr. Mehta and the Chicago Park District .


Release Date: 06/09/2025

ACCESS for Mental Health Lab members collaborate with the Chicago Park District…

Melanie Tran, MA. Elyse Shenberger, PhD, Margarete Wallner, MD, and Tara Mehta, PhD are working with the Chicago Park District Wellness Committee members,