Cali is a predoctoral research fellow under the mentorship of Dr. Hay and Dr. Hamilton with the Genomics, Risk, and Health Decision-Making Lab. She is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Connecticut and is a graduate research assistant for UConn’s Cancer Survivorship Research Program. Her research interests relate to psychosocial factors and adjustment to chronic illness for both patients and their families. More specifically, Cali is interested in medical decision-making and communication surrounding cancer risk and treatment. Cali defended her dissertation in April 2025, titled “Influence of Health Information Source, Saliency, and Sociodemographic Moderators in Surgical Decision Making and Regret among Early-Stage Breast Cancer Survivors.” Approximately 200 women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer participated in an online survey, indicating the health information sources they used to inform their surgical treatment decisions. Cali will transition from a predoctoral to postdoctoral research fellow in Summer 2025.