Juyoung Park

Dr. Juyoung Park's research focuses on technology-based nonpharmacological interventions for older adults with chronic pain and cognitive impairment. Her work integrates transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), mindfulness-based meditation, and movement-based therapies such as chair yoga to improve pain, mobility, and neuropsychiatric outcomes in individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD) and osteoarthritis. She also investigates objective pain assessment using multimodal approaches that combine functional brain imaging, EEG, eye tracking, and wearable sensors to capture neurophysiologic pain responses.  She has served as Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator on NIH- and John A. Hartford Foundation-funded clinical trials, cross-sectional, and cohort studies addressing nonpharmacological pain management, pain modulation, and social determinants of cognitive aging. Her current projects include R01s testing home-based tDCS and mindfulness therapy for knee osteoarthritis pain, a longitudinal study examining environmental and social factors in cognitive decline, an R03 data-integration models for ADRD research, and an Arizona Biomedical Research Centre grant developing multimodal pain-assessment systems.  Dr. Park leads multidisciplinary research advancing technology-based solutions that integrate behavioral science and neurophysiology. A Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and a USASP Leadership Academy scholar, Dr. Park bridges gerontology, neuroscience, and digital health to advance equitable, scalable care for aging populations.