Amanda Botticello, PhD, MPH, is associate director in the Center for Outcomes and Assessment Research and director of the Social Determinants of Health and Disability Outcomes Research Laboratory at Kessler Foundation. Dr. Botticello is also vice chair of research education at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and a research professor in the school’s Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. She is the project director/principal investigator of the Foundation’s multisite, collaborative Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems project entitled, “The Context of Living with Spinal Cord Injury: A Program of Collaborative Research Advancing the Science of Environmental Factors and Disability.” She is a co-investigator for the Northern New Jersey Spinal Cord System, part of a national network of federally funded Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems. Dr. Botticello has led a collection and analysis of the NNJSCIS database since 2007.

Her professional background includes serving as methodology associate editor for the Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine since 2015. Dr. Botticello has served as principal and co-investigator on projects funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute on Disability Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research, the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation, and the Reitman Foundation.  She trained in social epidemiology and biostatistics in the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she received her PhD.