Larry Monocello
T32 Postdoctoral Research Scholar
monocello@wustl.edu
Nancy Jacquelyn Pérez-Flores
T32 Postdoctoral Research Scholar
pnancy@wustl.edu
Dr. Nancy Jacquelyn Pérez-Flores was born and raised on the southwest side of Chicago, IL. She earned her Bachelor of Social Work in 2018 and her Master of Social Work in 2019 from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign School of Social Work. In 2024, she completed her PhD in Social Work at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. During her doctoral training, Dr. Pérez-Flores completed a three-year National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) T32 Predoctoral Fellowship in mental health services research (T32MH019960: PI Leopoldo J. Cabassa) at the Center for Mental Health Services Research. She was also awarded the NIMH Mental Health Research Dissertation Grant to Enhance Workforce Diversity (1R36MH134563-01) to support her dissertation project. Currently, Dr. Pérez-Flores is a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) T32 Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the Department of Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine. Her research focuses on understanding and addressing behavioral health disparities among minoritized racial/ethnic populations, particularly within the Latinx population. She is especially interested in adapting and designing digital tools to create culturally and linguistically tailored, evidence-based interventions that improve access to behavioral health services. Dr. Pérez-Flores enjoys cooking, reading poetry, and spending quality time with her family and friends