1. Beth Darnall is American scientist, pain psychologist, author, and Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine where she directs the Stanford Pain Relief Innovations Lab.
10 Facts About Beth Darnall
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Beth Darnall is known for developing and investigating brief and scalable behavioral medicine treatments for acute, post-surgical and chronic pain, leading teams of investigators in the conduct of federally-funded randomized controlled clinical pain treatment trials, research on patient-centered voluntary prescription opioid tapering, advocacy for patient protections during opioid tapering, and vocal opposition of forced opioid tapering practices.
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Beth Darnall is creator of Empowered Relief, a 1-session pain relief skill intervention that has been shown to be non-inferior to 8-session cognitive behavioral therapy for reducing multiple symptoms at 3 months post-treatment.
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Beth Darnall's work has been featured in Scientific American, NPR Radio, BBC Radio, and Nature.
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In 2020 Beth Darnall was appointed a scientific member of the National Institutes of Health Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee by US Health and Human Services Secretary Dr Alex Azar.
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In 2021 Beth Darnall was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Pain Medicine.
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Beth Darnall completed a post-doctoral fellowship in rehabilitation medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 2004.
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Beth Darnall is principal investigator for large NIH and PCORI-funded national and multi-site clinical trials that broadly investigate behavioral medicine strategies for acute and chronic pain, and voluntary patient-centered prescription opioid reduction.
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Beth Darnall coauthored a fourth book with Heath McAnally and Lynn Freeman: Preoperative Optimization of the Chronic Pain Patient.
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Beth Darnall was the 2012 president of the Pain Society of Oregon.