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On today's podcast, Amy talks with Stephanie Sohl, Ph.D. Stephanie is a health psychologist and an Assistant Professor at the Wake Forest School of Medicine. Her research focuses on the mind-body relationship and cancer survivorship. Specifically, she aims to strengthen the evidence base for scalable mind-body approaches such as yoga and integrative health coaching that aims to empower patients with strategies for achieving optimal health. 

Her work is innovative because she adapts mind-body approaches that may be efficacious so they can be integrated into and enhance conventional care. For example, her current Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01) supports an investigation of a brief yoga intervention targeted to reduce fatigue that's taught in a clinical setting during chemotherapy for colorectal cancer. 

Amy and Stephanie talk about her journey and how she got started, the research studies she has participated in, Stephanie’s career goals, how she became a yoga researcher, and much more.

They talk about the following:

• How Stephanie was able to combine being a researcher and a yogi
• Stephanie’s personal experience and how she got started 
• What it takes to become a Yoga Therapy Researcher
• Where yoga therapists and yoga teachers fit into the research paradigm
• Using yoga therapist and yoga teachers for protocol development
• The research grants Stephanie has received and how she accomplished this
• Stephanie’s first research studies and how they grew into where they are today
• The value of relationships in research and academics
• Stephanie’s thoughts on telemedicine/ telehealth, especially for rural populations
• Stephanie’s goals, and hopes for the future of telehealth and online learning

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To learn more about Stephanie

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-sohl-35232b78/