Dr. Sarah B. Floyd is a health services researcher specializing in treatment variation and comparative effectiveness in musculoskeletal medicine. Her work focuses on improving healthcare quality and health system performance through real-world data and applied clinical informatics.

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She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Florida and previously served as a Junior Service Fellow at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). From 2016–2020, she completed postdoctoral training and served as a Research Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina and the Center for Effectiveness Research in Orthopaedics (CERortho).

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Dr. Floyd’s research centers on generating personalized comparative-effectiveness evidence and developing rapid-learning clinical decision-support tools that deliver individualized, evidence-based insights during clinical encounters. Her long-term goal is to enhance treatment decision-making and improve patient outcomes by integrating data, informatics, and clinical expertise.

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She is the Principal Investigator on federally funded research using natural language processing and multimodal machine learning to measure orthopaedic treatment success and serves as a co-investigator on multiple federal awards. Dr. Floyd maintains active research partnerships with Prisma Health, the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), and Shriners Hospitals for Children.