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Dr. Juyoung Park, PhD, MSW, is a Professor in the College of Nursing, University of Arizona (UA ). She also serves as Associate Director of the Brain Digital Technology Laboratory within the UA College of Nursing. Recognized as a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of American Health Science Section, Dr. Park earned a doctorate in Social Work from the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Her areas of expertise focus on nonpharmacological chronic pain management.

As a geriatric social work faculty, she has conducted survey or intervention studies for older adults who were socially isolated, lacked social support and social network, and were depressed due to physical limitation associated with chronic pain or ADRD. She has conducted studies on family caregivers’ burden, pre-loss grief, and depression and social support in order to reduce caregiver burden and improve psychological well-being.

Dr. Park has inte¬grated social work perspectives into nonpharmacological chronic pain management for older adults by conducting innovative research, identifying effective and safe interventions, and providing a framework to develop a practice model of nonpharmacological pain management targeted to older adults, their caregivers, and health care providers in the field of aging. Her research ranges from opioid medica¬tion misuse to telehealth-based mind-body interventions (e.g., online chair yoga) and home-based remotely supervised transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) as a nonpharmacologi¬cal approach for older adults with chronic pain. Her research agenda on nonpharmacologi¬cal interventions has expanded to explore their effects on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias to reduce use of psychotropic medications for managing behavioral and psychological symp¬toms of dementia and improve cognitive function and chronic pain.

Dr. Park has been the PI or CO-I on research funded by National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, the National Institute on Aging, John A. Harford Foundation, and U.S. Bone and Joint Initiative. She has authored or co-authored numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals and had presented at many national and international scientific conferences.