Sarah Woods, Ph.D. Titles and Appointments Vice Chair of Research Associate Professor Endowed Title Stanley Gilbert, M.D., Professorship in Family Medicine Schools Medical School Departments Family and Community Medicine You have reached the Academic Profile. For more information on the doctor and patient care, please visit the clinical profile. Education Graduate School University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry (2007), Marriage and Family Therapy Graduate School Florida State University (2012), Marriage and Family Therapy Research Interest Families and health Family-based interventions for primary care Integrated behavioral healthcare Psychophysiological stress mechanisms linking relationships and health Publications Featured Publications Types of family support persons and links to self-efficacy and disease severity among underserved Latino/a primary care patients with type 2 diabetes. Hiefner AR, Woods SB, Fam Syst Health 2026 Jul Reply to Yeh and Chen. Roberson PNE, Brady KP, Thakur B, Booker S, Sola-Odeseye Z, Wood BL, Woods SB, Pain 2026 Feb 167 2 493-494 Psychosomatic in the USA: A Systemic Biopsychosocial Approach in Practice Wittink, M., Wood, B.L., Woods, S., Bobeda, E., McDaniel, S.H. 2026 439-460 Family emotional climate, depressive symptoms, and pain prevalence: Testing mediation pathways among midlife and older Black Americans. Woods SB, Thakur B, Booker S, Wood B, Roberson PNE, J Psychosom Res 2025 Dec 202 112509 Family support as a pain protective factor for African American older adults: latent class analyses across 2 national longitudinal data sets. Roberson PNE, Brady KP, Thakur B, Booker S, Sola-Odeseye Z, Wood BL, Woods S, Pain 2025 Nov 166 11 2588-2595 Age-appropriate needs-based care in an onco-primary care survivorship program for survivors of childhood, adolescent and young adult, and adult cancers. Eary R, Betts AC, Hughes A, Lawrence S, Shliakhtsitsava K, Thakur B, Ho E, Balasubramanian BA, Woods S, Shay LA, Hall B, J Cancer Surviv 2025 Nov A Community-Based Participatory Approach to Evaluating and Adapting an Innovative Family-Based Hypertension Self-Management Intervention for African American Primary Care Patients. Woods SB, Roberson PNE, Pryor JB, Obregon SD, Nesbitt S, Udezi V, J Racial Ethn Health Disparities 2025 Jul Pain Phenotype Trajectories and Links to Family Relationship Quality Among Black Older Adults. Woods SB, Roberson PNE, Thakur B, Sola-Odeseye Z, Udezi V, Wood B, Booker S, J Pain 2025 Jun 105484 Transitioning to telemental health: Sociodemographic predictors of integrated behavioral health care utilization pre- and peri-COVID. Hiefner AR, Smith ML, Woods SB, Fam Syst Health 2025 Apr I just need a little support: Marital support and strain links to A1C for people with diabetes Roberson PNE, Woods SB, Mitchell E, Tasman J Personal Relationship 2025 32 1 e12586 Results 1-10 of 53 1 2 3 4 5 Next Last Books Featured Books Case Studies in Couple and Family Therapy: Through the Lens of Early Career Professionals Connie Cornwell, Sarah Woods (Ed.) (2020). Routledge Honors & Awards Excellence in the MediaAmerican Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (2017) Special Recognition AwardTexas Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (2017) Dissertation AwardAmerican Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (2013)
