Letitia Graves

Assistant Professor, University of Texas Medical Branch, School of Nursing

Dr. Graves is an Assistant Professor on the tenure-track at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), School of Nursing (SON). She has taught across curriculums including undergraduate and graduate nursing students, and in her current academic role, she is a course coordinator for the Nursing Science I & II courses for predoctoral PhD nursing students. She also holds a joint appointment with the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center as a Research Health Scientist. Her research is focused on investigating how symptom science can be used to help explain, predict, and manage symptoms and multimorbidity following spinal cord injury (SCI) primarily in the Veteran population. In 2021, she was selected for the inaugural VA Office of Research DEI scholars’ program where she received funding to conduct a pilot study that expanded analysis of genomic biomarkers of recurrent pressure injury in Veterans with SCI to include environmental and lifestyle risks or epigenetic impacts on recurrent pressure injury. This work continues to be expanded to include other co-morbid secondary health conditions that are highly relevant to Veterans living with SCI including disturbed sleep, fatigue, and depression.