Bethany Pester, PhD

Bethany Pester, PhD

  • Biography

    Bethany Pester is an acting assistant professor and pain psychologist in the UW Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine. She earned her PhD in clinical psychology from Wayne State University and completed a predoctoral clinical internship at the Charleston Consortium Internship Program with a focus on behavioral medicine. She recently completed a 2-year postdoctoral research fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, where she developed, conducted, and tested various nonpharmacological interventions for chronic pain and post-surgical pain. During her training, she collaborated with interdisciplinary teams within the Harvard Medical System, Medical University of South Carolina, and academic medical centers across Michigan to study biopsychosocial approaches to understand, treat, and prevent chronic pain. For example, some of her research explored the influence of romantic partners and social media on pain treatment outcomes. Bethany aspires to lead interdisciplinary teams to effectively and compassionately assess and treat people with acute and chronic pain and to advance research to better understand these complex conditions and translate discoveries into effective personalized treatments for children, adolescents, and adults.

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