Dr. Susan Everson-Rose, PhD, MS, MPH, FABMR, FAPS, is a tenured Professor in the Department of Medicine, Associate Director of the Program in Health Disparities Research, and Director of the Health Equity Leadership and Mentoring (HELM) program, a leadership and mentoring program at UMN that promotes academic excellence and career success of early career scholars (post-docs, residents, fellows, assistant professors) whose work focuses on socio-behavioral and clinical factors that contribute to disparate health outcomes. Dr. Everson-Rose is trained in psychophysiology, health disparities, and cardiovascular and social epidemiology and has over 30 years of experience as an NIH-funded investigator. The overarching goal of her research, which is guided by a Social and Structural Determinants of Health framework, is to understand how lived experiences infl uence the patterning of health and disease across diverse patient populations and community samples. Her work has shown how stress, distress, emotions, personality, behavioral, social and economic factors contribute to morbidity and mortality due to cardiovascular diseases and related conditions, greater cognitive decline, cancer-related behavioral and lifestyle risk factors, and worse health outcomes overall. Dr. Everson-Rose has published extensively (>160 peer-reviewed manuscripts that collectively have been cited in the literature >23,000 times) and is nationally and internationally recognized for her expertise on the role of psychosocial factors in chronic disease.
