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Cynthia
D. Myers, Ph.D., L.M.T. Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, at the David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA |
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Contact Information UCLA Pediatric
Pain Program
Dr. Myers is a clinical psychologist on the research faculty of the Pediatric Pain Program in the Department of Pediatrics at UCLA. She completed her psychology doctorate at the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology at the University of Florida in 1999 with a concentration in medical psychology, and simultaneously completed a doctoral concentration in Women's Studies through the Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Research at the University of Florida. Her dissertation research was on sex and gender-related factors in experimental pain responding. She completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Florida, College of Dentistry, with a research and clinical focus on psychosocial factors in chronic pain. Cynthia is also a licensed massage therapist, having completed massage certification training in 1982 at the Boulder School of Massage Therapy in Boulder, Colorado, and certification from the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork in 1995. Her research and clinical interests include psychosocial factors in chronic pain, complementary and alternative medicine, and integrative mind-body medicine for chronic pain. She is a member of the American Pain Society, the International Association for the Study of Pain, and the American Massage Therapy Association.
Selected References Myers CD, Riley III JL, Robinson ME. Psychosocial contributions to sex-correlated differences in pain. Clin J Pain 2003;19:225-32. Myers, CD, White, BA, Heft, MW. Review of complementary and alternative medicine use for persistent facial pain. J Am Dent Assoc 2002;133:1189-96. Myers CD, Robinson ME, Riley III JL, Sheffield D. (2001) Sex, gender, and blood pressure: contributions to experimental pain report. Psychosomatic Medicine 2001;63:545-50.
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