Monique R. Pappadis, MEd, PhD, FACRM, is a tenured Associate Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Population Health and Health Disparities at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston. She is a Fellow of the Sealy Center on Aging and currently the Accessing Underserved Populations Lead for the Institute for Translational Sciences. Dr. Pappadis is also an Investigator and the Director of Dissemination and Cultural Humility at TIRR Memorial Hermann’s Brain Injury Research Center in Houston, Texas.
Her research aims to advance health equity and decrease ethnic minority health disparities, particularly among persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI) or stroke, as well as improve care transitions and continuity of care following acute and post-acute care. Her recent work aims to improve screening for elder mistreatment with emphasis on vulnerable, older adults with mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias, as well as the intersection between elder mistreatment and TBI. She has a continued interest in minority aging, gender/sex disparities in rehabilitation, health literacy of patients and caregivers, and psychosocial adjustment to disability.
She serves on a number of national committees and working groups, such as the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, the Academy of Certified Brain Injury Specialists (ACBIS) of the Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA), Pink Concussions, the Moody-Galveston Brain Injury Conference - Social and Health Disparities, the National Institute of Neurological Disorder and Stroke (NINDS), and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). She is recognized nationally for her professional service, contributions to the medical rehabilitation field, and mentorship of scholars in the US and abroad.
Affiliations
- Sealy Center on Aging/Pepper Center
- Center for Addiction Research
- Center for Health Promotion, Performance, and Rehabilitation Research
- The Institute for Translational Sciences