Juyoung Park

Juyoung Park

Professor
Member of the Graduate Faculty
BDTL Associate Director

PO Box 210203
Tucson, Arizona 85721

Juyoung Park, PhDProfessor, NursingProfessor, BIO5 InstituteDr. Juyoung Park is a Professor and Associate Director of the Brain Digital Technology Laboratory within the College of Nursing. She earned her PhD in 2009 from the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Prior to joining her current institution, she served as a Professor and Chair of the Healthy Aging Academy at Florida Atlantic University's School of Social Work. Before pursuing her doctoral studies, she worked as a clinical social worker at the South Carolina Department of Mental Health.Dr. Park’s expertise lies in chronic pain and nonpharmacological pain management for older adults with chronic conditions, including Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). Her research also explores technology-based interventions for remotely supervised home-based care for older adults with chronic conditions and their caregivers.She was honored as a Hartford Faculty Scholar in 2011 and received funding from the John A. Hartford Foundation (2011-2013) for research work on nonpharmacological pain management among racially and ethnically diverse older adults. She was recognized in the U.S. Bone & Joint Initiative’s Young Investigators Initiative Program in 2014. Since 2017, she has been a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) in the Health Sciences Section.Dr. Park’s current research interests focus on remotely supervised home-based brain stimulation approaches, including transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and nonpharmacological pain management for older adults with chronic conditions, including Alzheimer’s disease, related dementias, and osteoarthritis. Her work also explores brain stimulation approaches, such as tDCS and diverse therapeutic designs, including complementary and mind-body alternative medicine techniques such as online chair yoga and qigong.As a Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) on several intramural, foundation, and NIH-funded grants (National Institute on Aging and National Center for Complementary Integrative Health), Dr. Park has led projects involving human subject protection, data safety and management, and budget oversight. She has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and has presented her research extensively at national and international conferences.

Degree(s)

  • Ph.D. Social Work, University of Maryland, Baltimore, 2009
  • M.S.W. Social Work, University of South Carolina, 2001
  • B.A. Interdisciplinary Studies, University of South Carolina, 1999