Vice Chair of Research
Sarah Woods, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and the Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at UT Southwestern. She is a family therapist whose research focuses on explaining how family relationships influence physical health, with a particular emphasis on psychophysiological mechanisms linking family relationship quality to adult health outcomes. The ultimate aim of this research is to inform family-based interventions for use in primary care, especially for patient populations at greatest risk of health disparities.
Dr. Woods is formerly the Director of Behavioral Health in Family and Community Medicine, and actively involved in the behavioral health training of family medicine residents at UTSW, as well as the supervision and training of medical family therapy interns in the department. She is a Clinical Fellow of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, and an AAMFT Approved Supervisor. Dr. Woods serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy and the Journal of Couple & Relationship Therapy, and serves as an Advisory Editor for Family Process.
