Letitia Graves

PhD, RN
Assistant Professor, The University Of Texas Medical Branch, School Of Nursing
Research Health Scientist, Louis Stakes Cleveland, VA MC

Dr. Letitia Y. Graves is an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. She also holds a dual appointment as a Research Health Scientist and inaugural member of the 2021 VHA DEI Scholar cohort, at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center.

Dr. Graves earned her PhD, from the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, with a minor in Healthcare Genetics. She was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Future of Nursing Scholars and the inaugural RWJF/NINR joint postdoctoral fellow, completing her postdoctoral fellowship in the Symptom Science Center and Symptoms Biology Unit at the National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institutes of Health. Her research interests include Veteran health and symptom science with a specific focus on symptoms in individuals after spinal cord injury, epigenetics, and aging. She is also interested in advancing nursing science through inter-and-intra-professional collaborations as a means of strengthening research translation from bench to bedside. Prior to forging a career in research, Dr. Graves was a Registered Nurse in the Spinal Cord Injury Care line at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center.