About

Thelma Mielenz, PT, PhD, MS

Dr. Mielenz is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology in the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. As a behavioral consequential epidemiologist, her focus is on implementation science integrating innovative methodology for self-management to prolong functional independence as we age. More specifically on: 1) optimizing interventions to promote physical function and prevent falls, 2) clinical and community linkages to deliver these preventive services and 3) patient-reported outcomes. Her more recent research includes a focus on strengthening community-clinic linkages and a translational falls project under the Columbia University Center for Injury Epidemiology and Prevention funded by CDC where she is the Director of the Education Core. She also directs Epidemiology’s Summer Institute at Columbia University. She is the co-PI of the NY site for a large research foundation project titled, Longitudinal Research on Older Adult Drivers or the LongROAD study. She is the past chair the optimization of behavioral and biobehavioral interventions (OBBI) for the Society of Behavioral Medicine. She attended a competitive, week long, NIH sponsored training on OBBI in 2016.