Dr. Sara Bybee is an Assistant Professor of Research of the Health Systems and Community Based Care Division at the University of Utah College of Nursing. She received her master’s of social work from Portland State University and her PhD in nursing from the University of Utah where she received extramural funding to examine posttraumatic growth experienced by sexual and gender minority (SGM) and non-SGM couples facing cancer. Dr. Bybee received NIH pre-doctoral funding through the T32 Interdisciplinary Training in Cancer, Caregiving, and End-of-Life Care program. Dr. Bybee then completed a postdoctoral fellowship through the Utah Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) STARS TL1 training program where she focused on assessing and addressing unmet social needs in medical settings. Prior to her research career, Dr. Bybee worked as a licensed clinical social worker in various medical settings including at Primary Children’s Center for Safe and Healthy Families, the Primary Children’s Emergency Department, and Huntsman Cancer Institute. She currently leads an Alzheimer’s Association funded project adapting an end-of-life planning guide for Spanish-speaking Hispanic/Latinx persons living with dementia and their care partners. Dr. Bybee’s long-term goal is to lead a program of research into the structural determinants of health that disproportionately affect historically marginalized populations in the context of chronic illness.
Health Systems and Community Based Care Division, University of Utah College of Nursing.