Professor
Emory University
Dr. Sarah Blanton is a Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and the Director of the DISCOvER (Digital Scholarship Enhancing Rehabilitation) Lab. She graduated from the University of Virginia in 1987 with a BA degree in biology, from Emory University in 1992 with her master’s in physical therapy, and received her clinical doctorate in physical therapy in 2003. As the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation (JHR), Dr. Blanton has developed an international peer-reviewed publication that serves as a platform to foster interdisciplinary dialogue among healthcare providers, humanists, and the disability community. Her research focuses on family-centered care models and digital health interventions in stroke rehabilitation. Ranked as one of the top 50 NIH-funded Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation researchers by the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research (2024), she currently has a $2.7M NIH R01-funded clinical trial evaluating the impact of family carepartners on stroke recovery.
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