Roxana Delgado, PhD, MS
Health Scientist and Epidemiologist
Dr. Delgado is a Professor at UT Health San Antonio and Co-founder of the TBI Warrior® Foundation. With over a decade of experience in military medicine research, her research focuses on the epidemiology of health and wellbeing in military and veteran carers, with emphasis in predictors and the long-term trajectory of disease and illness. Dr. Delgado’s work includes characteristics of caregiving and suicide ideation, especially associated with carers of wounded, ill, and injured service members and veterans. Her professional experience was inspired by her firsthand caregiving experience as the wife of a combat-wounded Purple Heart Recipient Veteran. She is an Elizabeth Dole Foundation Fellow Alumna, and co-author of “The Carers Companion”.