Ride University

Dr. Sharon Sonenblum is committed to improving patient outcomes and enhancing the lives of individuals with disabilities by integrating data-driven insights into clinical practice and fostering engineering innovation. She joined the Center for Data Science at Emory University after spending 20 years at Georgia Institute of Technology, bringing her unique ability to collaborate between researchers and clinicians to the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing. Her research program spans pressure injury prevention, detection, and etiology, and wheelchair seating and mobility. She conducts influential studies on the impact of real-world behavior on pressure injury development and technology's role in behavior modification. She also employs advanced approaches to investigate how tissues respond to loading considering differences across diverse skin tones. Dr. Sonenblum is an alumnus of the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel's board of directors and a member of the Prophylactic Dressing Standards Initiative. She holds a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, an ScM in Bioengineering and an ScB in Mechanical Engineering from Brown University.