Hoda J. Badr, Ph.D., is a Professor of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Badr obtained her doctoral degree in Social Psychology and Health and Personal Relationships from the University of Houston and then pursued a postdoctoral fellowship at MD Anderson Cancer Center. During her tenure at Mount Sinai and now at Baylor, Dr. Badr's research mission is to develop and evaluate interventions to help patients and their family members cope with the symptoms and psychological demands of cancer and its treatment. Her research: 1) engages patients, caregivers, and health care and community stakeholders to identify care gaps; 2) assesses factors that influence cancer care implementation and outcomes; and 3) develops interventions to address disparate outcomes of care. Her work spans the entire cancer prevention and control continuum and includes studies of couples coping with pre-neoplastic conditions, patients receiving curative cancer treatment and their informal caregivers, families coping with advanced cancers, and post-treatment cancer survivors. Dr. Badr is nationally and internationally recognized for her work to refine the methods and models used to understand how patients and caregivers navigate and cope with the cancer experience. She is a recipient of several major grant awards from the National Cancer Institute, American Cancer Society, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institute of Nursing Research, and U.S. Department of Defense.