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    Shreela Palit, PhD

    Clinical Psychologist
    Provider Profile

    ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Children's Health, Jacksonville 807 Children's Way Jacksonville, FL 32207

    Biography

    Dr. Shreela Palit is a Clinical Psychologist and Assistant Research Scientist in the Center for Healthcare Delivery Science (CHDS) at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Children's Health and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science in Jacksonville, Florida. Dr. Palit obtained her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma after completing her clinical residency in Behavioral Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, Washington. She then completed her postdoctoral training at the University of Florida prior to beginning her faculty appointment at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. Dr. Palit's research interests include investigation of biopsychosocial determinants of pain across the lifespan. Her lab is currently examining factors that contribute to resilience in adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with chronic pain as they navigate the transition to adulthood. Dr. Palit plans to extend her work to the development of novel psychological intervention or prevention strategies to improve pain management and quality of life in AYAs.

    Fellowship

    • University of Florida, 2021

    Education

    • PhD - University of Tulsa, 2018

    • Virtual Reality Respiratory Biofeedback in an Outpatient Pediatric Pain Rehabilitation Program: A Pilot Study (Preprint); Unknown Source; (2024).

    • The Relationship Between Experienced Discrimination and Pronociceptive Processes in Native Americans: Results From the Oklahoma Study of Native American Pain Risk; Journal of Pain; (2022).

    • The Association Between Adverse Life Events, Psychological Stress, and Pain-Promoting Affect and Cognitions in Native Americans: Results from the Oklahoma Study of Native American Pain Risk; Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities; (2022).

    • Exploration of the trait-activation model of pain catastrophizing in Native Americans: Results from the Oklahoma Study of Native American pain risk (OK-SNAP); Scandinavian Journal of Pain; (2022).

    • Applying the NIA Health Disparities Research Framework to Identify Needs and Opportunities in Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain Research; Journal of Pain; (2022).

    • A qualitative analysis of pain meaning: results from the Oklahoma Study of Native American Pain Risk (OK-SNAP); Ethnicity and Health; (2022).

    • Are Cardiometabolic Markers of Allostatic Load Associated With Pronociceptive Processes in Native Americans?: A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis From the Oklahoma Study of Native American Pain Risk; Journal of Pain; (2021).

    • Adaptability and Resilience in Aging Adults (ARIAA): protocol for a pilot and feasibility study in chronic low back pain; Pilot and Feasibility Studies; (2021).

    • Topical Review: Examining Multidomain Pain Resilience in Late Adolescents and Young Adults; Journal of Pediatric Psychology; (2021).

    • The Imperative for Racial Equality in Pain Science: A Way Forward; Journal of Pain; (2021).

    • Managing osteoarthritis pain with smart technology: A narrative review; Rheumatology Advances in Practice; (2021).

    • Race differences in resilience among older adults with chronic low back pain; Journal of Pain Research; (2021).

    • Modified Biofeedback (Conditioned Biofeedback) Promotes Antinociception by Increasing the Nociceptive Flexion Reflex Threshold and Reducing Temporal Summation of Pain: A Controlled Trial; Journal of Pain; (2020).

    • Examining configural, metric, and scalar invariance of the pain catastrophizing scale in native american and non-hispanic white adults in the oklahoma study of native american pain risk (Ok-SNAP); Journal of Pain Research; (2020).

    • Corrigendum: Multisystem Resiliency as a Predictor of Physical and Psychological Functioning in Older Adults With Chronic Low Back Pain (Front. Psychol, (2019), 10, (1932), 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01932); Frontiers in Psychology; (2020).

    • Assessing peripheral fibers, pain sensitivity, central sensitization, and descending inhibition in Native Americans: main findings from the Oklahoma Study of Native American Pain Risk; Pain; (2020).

    • Adaptability and Resilience in Aging Adults (ARIAA): A Pilot and Feasibility Study in Chronic Low Back Pain; ResearchSquare; (2020).

    • Pain resilience moderates the influence of negative pain beliefs on movement-evoked pain in older adults; Journal of Behavioral Medicine; (2020).

    • Pain-related anxiety promotes pronociceptive processes in Native Americans: Bootstrapped mediation analyses from the Oklahoma Study of Native American Pain Risk; Pain Reports; (2020).

    • The Effect of Pain Catastrophizing on Endogenous Inhibition of Pain and Spinal Nociception in Native Americans: Results from the Oklahoma Study of Native American Pain Risk; Annals of Behavioral Medicine; (2020).

    • Sensory, Affective, and Catastrophizing Reactions to Multiple Stimulus Modalities: Results from the Oklahoma Study of Native American Pain Risk; Journal of Pain; (2019).

    • Race/Ethnicity Does Not Moderate the Relationship Between Adverse Life Experiences and Temporal Summation of the Nociceptive Flexion Reflex and Pain: Results From the Oklahoma Study of Native American Pain Risk; Journal of Pain; (2019).

    • Multisystem resiliency as a predictor of physical and psychological functioning in older adults with chronic low back pain; Frontiers in Psychology; (2019).

    • Anger Inhibition and Pain Modulation; Annals of Behavioral Medicine; (2019).

    • Conditioned Pain Modulation in Sexual Assault Survivors; Journal of Pain; (2019).

    • The Influence of Placebo Analgesia Manipulations on Pain Report, the Nociceptive Flexion Reflex, and Autonomic Responses to Pain; Journal of Pain; (2018).

    • Emotional Modulation of Pain and Spinal Nociception in Sexual Assault Survivors; Psychosomatic Medicine; (2018).

    • Predictors of Osteoarthritis Pain: the Importance of Resilience; Current Rheumatology Reports; (2017).

    • Behavioral Inhibition and Behavioral Activation are Related to Habituation of Nociceptive Flexion Reflex, but Not Pain Ratings; Journal of Pain; (2017).

    • Gender and Pain; Current Anesthesiology Reports; (2016).

    • Endogenous inhibition of pain and spinal nociception in women with premenstrual dysphoric disorder; Journal of Pain Research; (2016).

    • Nociceptive processing in women with Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD): The role of menstrual phase and sex hormones; Clinical Journal of Pain; (2015).

    • Natural Variation in Testosterone is Associated with Hypoalgesia in Healthy Women; Clinical Journal of Pain; (2015).

    • Affective disturbance associated with premenstrual dysphoric disorder does not disrupt emotional modulation of pain and spinal nociception; Pain; (2014).

    • Exploring pain processing differences in native americans; Health Psychology; (2013).

    • Examining emotional modulation of pain and spinal nociception in Native Americans: A preliminary investigation; International Journal of Psychophysiology; (2013).

    • Emotional modulation of pain and spinal nociception in fibromyalgia; Pain; (2013).

    • Do sex hormones influence emotional modulation of pain and nociception in healthy women?; Biological Psychology; (2013).

    • Using multilevel growth curve modeling to examine emotional modulation of temporal summation of pain (TS-pain) and the nociceptive flexion reflex (TS-NFR); Pain; (2012).

    • Respiration-induced hypoalgesia: Exploration of potential mechanisms; Journal of Pain; (2012).

    • Serotonin transporter gene (5-HTTLPR) polymorphisms are associated with emotional modulation of pain but not emotional modulation of spinal nociception; Biological Psychology; (2011).