About me
Dr. Fran Querdasi is in the first year of her T32 postdoctoral fellowship in the UW Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine / Seattle Children’s Research Institute, under the mentorship of Dr. Tonya Palermo. She completed a bachelor’s degree in psychology at Pomona College, and a PhD in developmental and health psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Fran’s current research focuses on understanding how adolescents’ and young adults’ complex social environments interact with psychological and biological factors to shape pain outcomes. Fran also studies how risk for chronic pain is transmitted from parents to offspring, with the ultimate goal of empowering parents with chronic pain to break the cycle of pain transmission across generations. Overall, Fran aims to inform accessible, targeted interventions to optimize the treatment and prevention of chronic pain in youth. Â