Assistant Professor - Public Health
Public Health
Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine
Sandra Garcia-Davis is a trained epidemiologist and biostatistician specializing in
health services research. She’s a part of multiple funded projects at the Miami VA
Geriatrics Research and Education Clinical Center (GRECC) and the South Florida VA
Foundation and leads analyses with the Geriatrics and Extended Care Data Analysis
Center.
Garcia-Davis graduated from the University of Miami with a Ph.D. in Epidemiology,
and holds an M.P.H. degree with a concentration in biostatistics and epidemiology
from the University of South Florida. Most notably, she has worked with the Elizabeth
Dole Center of Excellence for Veteran and Caregiver Research to help develop the HERO
CARE survey, a multicenter survey aimed at identifying the needs and unmet needs of
veterans and caregivers, supplemented with data from VA electronic health records
and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.