Sandra J. Picot, Ph.D., R.N., FAAN
Associate Professor of Nursing
Affiliate Associate Professor of Gerontology
University of Maryland School of Nursing

Sandra J. Picot received both her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Nursing from the University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA), and received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
Included among her research activities has been a National Institute of Nursing Research and The Cleveland Foundation-funded project on the longitudinal cardiovascular responses of African American women caregivers of dependent older adults in community settings and a comparison group of African American women noncaregivers of independent older adults in the community. She has been also a principal investigator of a pilot study examining relationships among anger, salivary cortisol, and ambulatory blood pressure responses of African American women caregivers of older adults and noncaregivers in Baltimore. With funding from G-GEAR and Merck Pharmaceuticals, she, a faculty member and a doctoral student in the School of Pharmacy conducted a secondary analysis of data to examine the use and adherence of antihypertensive medications by African American women caregivers and noncaregivers. 
Because of her expertise in incorporating culture into the entire research process, she has served as a consultant to OPRR, FDA, Eisai and Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, National Medical Association, Association of Black Cardiologists, and the Center on Innovation in Health Disparities Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC.
She has authored articles, encyclopedia entries, and a book chapter on caregiving, sampling rare population elements, and integrating culture into recruitment and retention of under-represented ethnic minorities. Dr. Picot is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and was one of twelve nurses nationally invited to showcase her research to congressional representatives and their staff in 1998.