Speaker

Beth Darnall, PhD, is Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She frequently speaks on the following topics:

• The science of ‘whole-person’ pain care
• Scalable behavioral pain therapeutics (digital and brief treatments for acute and chronic pain)
• Opioid stewardship and patient protections from forced opioid reduction and associated iatrogenic harms
• Integration of behavioral medicine for pain in primary care and surgical care pathways

Key speaking engagements

• 2022 International Speaker, Swiss Pain Congress (Dec)
• 2022 Keynote speaker, Dutch Pain Society annual meeting (Dec)
• 2021 Keynote speaker, Danish Pain Society annual meeting (March)
• 2020 Speaker, NIH Pain Consortium (June 2020)
• 2020 Keynote speaker, New Zealand Pain Society (March)
• 2019 Keynote speaker, Australian Pain Society. Gold Coast, AUS
• 2019 Invited testimony to the FDA on iatrogenic harms from forced opioid tapering and the need for patient-centered protections
• 2018 National Institutes of Health. Applying psychological science for pain relief and opioid reduction across the continuum of care
• 2018 Congressional Briefing on the Opioid Response Act of 2018
• 2018 World Economic Forum. Davos, Switzerland. The Psychology of Pain Relief