Sandy Callen Tierney, PhD, MSSW (she/her/hers)

Fitchburg, Wisconsin, United States

Sandy holds a Master's Degree in Social Work, a PhD in Counseling Psychology and was a depression researcher before her daughter’s birth. Raising a child with special health care needs ignited her passion for improving the lives of families like hers. She uses her lived experience, insights shared by other parents, and training as a LEND Family Discipline Fellow to bring the family voice to her advocacy, education, research and training efforts. Currently, she provides opportunities for developing professionals to learn from families, works with a team to share the stories of caregivers of children with medical complexity (CMC) with medical students and residents, is conducting research on the experience of caregivers of CMC, and is a member of the Family Engagement Research Blueprint Team at Gillette Children’s. She is a parent advisor on the WI Children’s Long-Term Support Council, Waisman Center’s Constituent Advisory Committee, and has served on Gillette Children’s Parent Advisory Council.

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

Presentation(s):

• Is There One Stand-alone Quality of Life Outcome Measure Capable of Capturing Intervention Changes for Children and Teens with Non-ambulatory Cerebral Palsy? 1606

  Friday, November 1, 2024
  1:15 PM – 2:15 PM