Training & Background

Dr. Darnall received her doctoral training at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and completed her clinical residency at the Southern Arizona Veterans Affairs Health Care System. She completed a two-year post-doctoral research fellowship at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation with a joint appointment in the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Clinically, she provided psychological services to patients with catastrophic burn at Johns Hopkins Bayview Regional Burn Unit and to patients with spinal cord injury or amputation at the Johns Hopkins Good Samaritan Hospital Comprehensive Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit. Her desire to specialize in the management of chronic pain was inspired by her clinical experiences and by her own personal experience with chronic pain.

She is a member of the International Association for the Study of Pain, the American Pain Society, is on the Board of Directors for the Oregon Pain Society. She is an advisory Board Member for End the Pain Project and is a member of the Leadership Circle of 'For Grace', a non-profit organization dedicated to the equal and ethical treatment of women with pain. She is a recognized member of the National Register for Health Care Providers in Psychology.