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Faculty:
Sarah Everhart Skeels
Sarah Everhart Skeels, MPH
University of Virginia
The George Washington University School of Public Health
Part-time Lecturer
Sarah is thrilled to be joining the BSOT at Tufts, teaching courses as a
part-time lecturer. She has a B.S. in Exercise Physiology from the University of
Virginia and a Master's Degree in Public Health from the George Washington
University School of Public Health, with a focus on health promotion/disease
prevention and disability.
Sarah has extensive experience in developing and
implementing health promotion and empowerment programs for with people with
spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis and related neurological impairments in
non-profit community-based settings. She is very interested in research that
explores adaptation to disability, community re-integration, peer mentoring and
outcome assessment.
Sarah is on the Board of Directors of numerous non-profit
organizations that provide sports and recreational opportunities for children
and adults with disabilities and believes that these activities encourage full
community participation and successful adaptation to disability. Sarah serves on
the RI Governor's Commission for People with Disabilities, teaches a course in
Disability, Community and Health at Brown University and is a Consultant with
both the Boston Medical Center SCI Model System and Health and Disability
Research Institute at Boston University.
In her non-professional life, Sarah is
a member of the U.S. Disabled Sailing Team, an adaptive snow ski instructor,
avid cyclist and most importantly, a mom.
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