好色先生

College of Health, Human Services & Nursing
Department of Occupational Therapy
Lecturer
310-243-2726

cnagao1@csudh.edu

EDUCATION

Master of Science, Occupational Therapy

好色先生, Dominguez Hills

Bachelor of Science, Psychobiology

Minor in Applied Developmental Psychology

University of California, Los Angeles

BIO

CSUDH OT Alum, Ciara Nagao, joined our faculty team in Spring 2025. She graduated in 2021 with C15, and she works in the hospital as an acute care occupational therapist.聽 You may see Ciara on campus guest lecturing in the classroom or helping out at departmental events.

PUBLICATION

Huang, Y. H., Nagao, C. A., Santos, K. M. B., & Werchowsky, M. I. (2022). Impact of Culture, Spirituality, and Mental Health Attitudes on Intergenerational Asian-American Caregivers: A Pilot Study. The American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 76(2), 7602205030.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

The Experiences of Occupational Therapists Working with High-Needs, High-Risk Youth

• Responsible for all aspects of participant recruitment, participant interview, interview transcriptions and thematic coding for this phenomenological study of the lived experiences of OTs servicing High-needs, high-risk youth
• Presented the findings of this research at CSUDH Student
  Research Day and was awarded 1st place for our category
• Presented again to a round-table of established professionals at
  the University and was selected as one of ten teams to represent
  the school at the Statewide Research Competition
• During quarantine orders, recorded an oral presentation of our
  research and presented in virtual live Q&A time with judges at
  CSU Statewide Research Competition, competing against
  graduate students from across 23 California State Universities, in
  which we were awarded 2nd place for our category

PRESENTATIONS

WFOT Conference - Paris, France 2022
Oral Presentation
聽 Factors that Correlate with and Predict Caregiver Burden in Intergenerational Asian American Caregivers