Sophia Gladding
Assistant Professor
General Internal Medicine
University of Minnesota, USA
United States of America
Biography
Sophie Gladding, PhD, is the Director of Educational Research and Development in the Department of Medicine. After completing an undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan, she received her Ph.D in Education from the University of Minnesota specializing in evaluation and assessment. Following graduate school, she completed a post-doctoral fellowship in medical education at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. She currently collaborates on educational research focusing on educational innovations and assessment and works with the educational leadership in the department in the development and implementation of learner assessments and program evaluation. She is also a member of the Division of Global Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics. The focus of her work in Global Pediatrics is in the development and evaluation of a competency-based curriculum in global child health.
Research Interest
Psychotherapy; Therapeutic alliance; Personality; Mood and anxiety disorders; Weight management; Interpersonal relationships