Sarah Woods, Ph.D. Titles and Appointments Vice Chair of Research Associate Professor Endowed Title Stanley Gilbert, M.D., Professorship in Family Medicine School Medical School Department 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 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 Family support as a pain protective factor for African American older adults: Latent class analyses across two national longitudinal datasets Roberson PNE, Brady KP, Thakur B, Booker S, Sola-Odeseye Z, Wood BL, Woods SB PAIN 2025 Relationship quality and educational attainment links to development of cardiometabolic morbidity and multimorbidity across middle adulthood. Roberson PNE, Woods S, Tasman J, Hiefner A, Fam Process 2024 Nov Longitudinal Associations of Family Relationship Quality with Chronic Pain Incidence and Persistence Among Aging African Americans. Woods SB, Roberson PNE, Booker Q, Wood B, Booker S, J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 2024 May Family Support and Type 2 Diabetes Self-management Behaviors in Underserved Latino/a/x Patients. Hiefner AR, Raman S, Woods SB, Ann Behav Med 2024 May Overcoming patient pain together: Breast cancer patients and caregivers' pre-treatment psychosocial distress linked to patients' pain interference during the first year of treatment. Roberson PNE, Tasman JG, Woods SB, Cortez G, Somers TJ, Lloyd J, J Pain 2024 Feb "A cuff is not enough": A community-based participatory research approach to soliciting perspectives of African Americans with hypertension and their family members on self-management intervention features. Woods SB, Udezi V, Roberson PNE, Arnold EM, Nesbitt S, Hiefner A, Fam Process 2023 Sep Results 1-10 of 47 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)
