Dr. Jodi Grace is an Associate Professor of Psychology at St. Thomas University in Miami Gardens, Florida. She received her BA in Psychology from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, her MA in Experimental Psychology from Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida.

She teaches a wide variety of undergraduate psychology classes at St. Thomas University including Social Psychology, Health Psychology, Multicultural Issues in Psychology, and the Psychology of Persuasion. Her research interests focus on psychological reasons for medical delay and avoidance. Specifically, she explores how identity concerns (i.e., fears over how one may be viewed by others) may prevent individuals from seeking appropriate medical attention. She has investigated identity concerns in medical settings such as delayed testing for diseases stigmatized by society, medical avoidance for embarrassing medical test procedures, and deception in the medical interview to present the identity of a “good” patient.