Scholar Profile

Eileen French’s passion for supporting adolescent and young adult athletes led her to the research that comprised her PhD thesis on identifying risk factors for problem behaviors such as substance abuse, using secondary analyses of large databases. Hailing from the Chicagoland area, Eileen grew up playing sports and continues to be a life-long athlete participating in local, national and international Ultimate Frisbee competitions. Her education background includes degrees from Yale University (BA in History of Medicine) and University of Pennsylvania (BSN and MS). Eileen worked clinically in the fields of Neurology and Neurosurgery as an adult inpatient RN, and now works in the ambulatory world as the Nurse Manager of the MS Division in the Penn Neurology department.