Beth D. Darnall PhD

Dr. Beth Darnall, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, and by courtesy, Psychiatry, and Behavioral Sciences. She is a pain psychologist and scientist. Her primary interests are in developing and investigating brief, low-cost, low-burden, accessible treatments that empower patients and reduce acute and chronic pain and associated burdens. Her ultimate goal is to rapidly scale access to evidence-based behavioral medicine for acute and chronic pain.

Dr. Darnall is a principal investigator of current NIH and PCORI-funded clinical trials that broadly investigate behavioral pain medicine and self-management strategies and voluntary patient-centered prescription opioid reduction. Her single-session, skills-based behavioral medicine class Empowered Relief is the subject of NIH clinical trials and McGill researchers are studying its efficacy in primary care clinics.