Co-Investigator
Men’s Health, Aging, and Metabolism, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Sarah Everhart Skeels has a B.S. in Exercise Physiology from the University of Virginia where she focused on adaptive sport and Kinesiology, and a Master’s Degree in Public Health from George Washington University, where she focused on Health Promotion and Disability. Sarah is involved with numerous research projects that involve people with SCI as a consultant and Co-I at the Men’s Health, Aging, and Metabolism at Brigham and Women's Hospital and with the Department of Physical Therapy University of Toronto; she is a member of the Community Advisory Board with the Spaulding New England Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center; a Lecturer in the Department of Occupational Therapy at Tufts University; and a Senior Teaching Associate in Behavioral and Social Sciences in the School of Public Health and Brown University. Sarah serves on numerous boards of non-profit adaptive sports organizations and serves as a Commissioner on the RI Governor’s Commission for People with Disabilities. Sarah has been living with SCI for 34 years, and is a volunteer adaptive snowsports instructor, a Paralympic-level sailor, an avid outdoorswoman and a Mom.