Site 09 Salisbury Staff Bio
Jared A. Rowland, PhD
LIMBIC-CENC co-Site PI
Jared A. Rowland, PhD is a Research Psychologist and Clinical Neuropsychologist at the W.G. (Bill) Hefner VA Healthcare System in Salisbury North Carolina and an Assistant Professor at the Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. His research examines the health and mental health of service members and veterans following deployment, with a specific focus on the chronic and long-term effects of traumatic brain injury and blast exposure. He is particularly interested in associated changes to brain networks and the connectome as a mechanism leading to long-term problems. As of 2023 Dr. Rowland has published more than 110 scientific articles, 55 conference presentations and given more than 25 lectures and presentations. He has mentored over 20 medical and allied health trainees. Dr. Rowland currently serves as the Director of the Study of Post-Deployment Mental Health with the Mid-Atlantic Mental Illness, Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MA-MIRECC), a multi-site longitudinal study of over 3,800 service members.
Sarah Martindale
LIMBIC-CENC co-Site PI
Sarah L. Martindale, PhD is a Research Scientist at the W. G. (Bill) Hefner VA Healthcare System in Salisbury, North Carolina and an Assistant Professor at Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She is a neuroscientist with advanced training in Neuropsychology. Her research broadly focuses on evaluating biological and behavioral mechanisms that affect both clinical and functional outcomes in Veterans. Dr. Martindale’s primary research interest is to identify how exposure to blasts during military service affects service members and Veterans as they age.