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Felicia Skelton, MD (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas

Felicia Skelton, MD, MS is an investigator at the Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety (IQuESt) at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center and a staff physician in the spinal cord injury (SCI) care line at the DeBakey VA as the primary physician for the SCI home-based primary care program. She holds an academic appointment of associate professor in the H. Ben Taub department of physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM). Dr. Skelton completed medical school at Baylor College of Medicine, residency in rehabilitation medicine at the University of Washington, where she served as chief resident, clinical fellowship in spinal cord injury medicine at BCM, and a VA health services research and development (HSR&D) post-doctoral fellowship through IQuESt.
Dr. Skelton is building a research portfolio that seeks to optimize primary care delivery to persons with SCI through designing and implementing patient safety, clinician decision support, and access to care interventions. She recently completed a VA HSR&D Career Development Award aimed to develop best practices on urine testing and treatment after SCI and is currently funded from NIH NCMRR to further develop this work. Her current funding includes grants from the VA Office of Rural Health, National Science Foundation, VA Rehabilitation Research and Development and the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation.
In addition to her clinical and research endeavors, Dr. Skelton is passionate about education, including speaking on reducing health disparities by recruiting, training, hiring, and promoting women and underrepresented minorities into medicine, so that the workforce better reflects the population it serves. She was awarded a BCM Woman of Excellence Award in 2019, the BCM Department of PM&R Research Excellence Award in 2017, 2019 and 2022 and the IQuESt mentor of the year award in 2021.

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