Maria Pacella-LaBarbara, PhD, is an assistant professor in the University of Pittsburgh Department of Emergency Medicine and affiliate faculty at the CHAllenges in Managing and Preventing Pain (CHAMPP) Clinical Research Center. Dr. Pacella-LaBarbara is a Health Psychologist with extensive experience working with acutely injured patients and investigating secondary interventions post-injury to improve both mental and physical health outcomes.
Her work involves high-risk injured populations, varied study designs (e.g., randomized controlled trials, prospective cohorts, meta-analytic techniques) and innovative methods (e.g., mobile health interventions; experience sampling methodology). This work is geared towards developing a program of research that advances acute integrated healthcare to improve recovery after injury.
Dr. Pacella-LaBarbara completed her undergraduate degree at Saint Vincent College and earned her master's and doctoral degrees at Kent State University. She completed her fellowship in HIV prevention at the Medical College of Wisconsin before joining the University of Pittsburgh as faculty.
Affiliations
Department of Emergency Medicine
CHAllenges in Managing and Preventing Pain Clinical Research Center
Education & Training
Fellowship in HIV Prevention - Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
PhD - Kent State University, Kent, OH
MA - Kent State University, Kent, OH
BA - Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, PA
