Professor
Emory University
Sarah Blanton is a Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine, Division of Physical Therapy. Dr. Blanton is an NIH-funded researcher, with several grants exploring the integration of family carepartners into the rehabilitation process. Dr. Blanton’s DISCOVER Lab (Digital Scholarship Enhancing Rehabilitation), explores various ways digital scholarship can enhance rehabilitation research, education and clinical practice and promote interdisciplinary collaboration. She is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation (JHR), an international and peer reviewed, multi-media journal using a collaborative model with humanities scholars, rehabilitation professionals, patients and their families to gain a greater understanding of the human experience of disability.