Dr. Strong is a co-founder and Director of Research Programs at FPWR, a nonprofit organization that supports research to advance the understanding and treatment of PWS. She received a Ph.D. in Medical Genetics from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and performed postdoctoral studies at the University of Michigan. After her postdoc, she returned to the faculty at UAB, where her laboratory focused on developing gene therapy approaches for cancer, and was a Professor in the Department of Medicine prior to joining FPWR full time. She remains an Adjunct Professor of Genetics at UAB. Theresa has four children, including a son with PWS.