Amanda L. Stone, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Anesthesiology

Dr. Stone is a pediatric psychologist whose research and clinical interests focus on pediatric pain. She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Vanderbilt University, completed her pre-doctoral clinical residency in child clinical psychology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, and a postdoctoral fellowship in pediatric pain at Oregon Health and Science University. Her research program focuses on intergenerational factors associated with pain outcomes and medication use in children in the context of chronic and acute pain. She maintains active research collaborations evaluating the impact of maternal chronic pain on offspring and psychosocial factors influencing pediatric functional abdominal pain outcomes. Dr. Stone is developing a new line of research focused on applying the intergenerational model of pain to children's opioid use following surgery. She is an alumna of the North American Pain School, Pain Research Forum Correspondents Program, and Pain in Child Health (PICH) Research Training Initiative. Dr. Stone is involved in a number of professional societies and serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Pediatric Psychology.