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Sarah Woods, Ph.D.

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

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  • 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

    Star 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
  • Books

    Featured 

    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 Media
      American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (2017)
    • Special Recognition Award
      Texas Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (2017)
    • Dissertation Award
      American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (2013)