Faculty and Staff Profile

Sarah Floyd

Educational Background

PhD Health Services Research
University of Florida 2016

MPH Epidemiology
University of Georgia 2012

BSHP Health Promotion
University of Georgia 2010

Courses Taught

HLTH 2030: Overview of Health Care Systems
HLTH8120: Clinical and Translational Science

Profile

I am a health services researcher with research interests surrounding treatment variation and treatment effectiveness in musculoskeletal medicine. I also am interested in health care quality and health system performance. I was a Junior Service Fellow at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in the summer of 2013 and earned my Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 2016. I served as a postdoctoral fellow and research assistant professor at the University of South Carolina and the Center for Effectiveness Research in Orthopaedics (CERortho) from 2016-2020. My current research is focused on generating personalized comparative effectiveness evidence and using “practice-based evidence” to develop rapid learning or clinical decision support tools which can summarize personalized evidence during the clinical encounter. My long-term research goal is to discover ways in which we can deliver the best evidence to physicians to inform treatment decisions and improve clinical practice and patient outcomes. I enjoy leading research projects within the health system and working collaboratively with clinicians and other researchers.

Research Interests

Comparative effectiveness research, practice-based evidence for clinical practice improvement, health system performance, orthopaedic/musculoskeletal medicine, personalized treatment evidence, clinical decision support