Rate My Professor Sara Rhoads

Dr. Rhoads specializes in telehealth and digital health innovations to enhance healthcare access for rural and underserved populations, particularly in maternal and infant care. As principal investigator, she obtained a nearly $3 million Health Resources and Services Administration Advanced Nursing Education Workforce grant in 2019, renewed for $2.6 million in 2023, to support 19 advanced practice nursing students annually in nurse midwifery, family nurse practitioner, and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner programs serving the Delta region of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas. She earned the 2017 Edge Runner designation from the American Academy of Nursing for redesigning the Angel Eye web-camera system to enable parental virtual presence with neonates in intensive care. Her key publications include "Rethinking Nursing Education and Curriculum Using a Racial Equity Lens" (2022), "Using mHealth in postpartum women with pre-eclampsia: Lessons learned from a qualitative study" (2020, International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics), "High-risk obstetrical call center: a model for regions with limited access to care" (2017), and "Web Camera Use of Mothers and Fathers When Viewing Their Hospitalized Neonate" (2015). Dr. Rhoads advanced UTHSC's designation as a telehealth training site, developed digital health curricula, and led mobile health unit initiatives.