Monique Pappadis, Ph.D. is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Population Health and Health Disparities, School of Public and Population Health at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) and an Investigator at the TIRR Memorial Hermann Brain Injury Research Center. She is a Pilot Core Leader-in-Training and Fellow of UTMB's Claude D. Pepper Center and a Scholar of the Translational Research Scholars Program through the Institute for Translational Sciences.