Meet Our Members

Leadership

  • Tonya M Palermo, PhD

    Tonya M Palermo, PhD

    Director, Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development

    Dr. Palermo has been in Seattle since 2010 where she directs the Pediatric Pain & Sleep Innovations Lab. The focus of her research is on behavioral, psychosocial and family factors that affect pain experiences, the interrelationship of sleep and pain, and innovative psychological treatments for managing and preventing chronic pain. Currently, Dr. Palermo serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Pain. Dr. Palermo has developed and evaluated several internet and mobile applications to deliver cognitive-behavioral interventions for chronic pain, has published over 290 articles, and has published two books on cognitive-behavioral therapy. She is active in training clinician-scientists at the postdoctoral and faculty level and directs the T32 postdoctoral training program in anesthesiology research at the University of Washington.

  • Sheela Sathyanarayana, MD, MPH

    Sheela Sathyanarayana, MD, MPH

    Associate Director, Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development

    Dr. Sheela Sathyanarayana, associate director of the Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development, serves as the PI for The Infant Development and Environment Study (TIDES), a multi-center cohort study of phthalate exposures in pregnancy and health outcomes in children. She is also MPI of the ECHO-MEND, which, as part of the national NIH ECHO program will examine endocrine-disrupting chemicals in relation to child neurobehavior. She has served as the chair for the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee and served on the National Academies of Sciences Committee on Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and Low Dose Toxicity. She was also a member of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals that advises EPA on risk assessments related to the Toxic Substances Control Act. She is the Medical Director of the Newborn Nursery and performs consults through the UW Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit.