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Amanda M. Acevedo, PhD (she/her/hers)

Project Scientist
National Cancer Institute

Amanda Acevedo, PhD is a Program Officer at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the Basic Biobehavioral and Psychological Sciences Branch and serves as a Project Scientist for University of Pittsburgh's Mechanistic Research Center through the NIH Back Pain Consortium (BACPAC) initiative.

Dr. Acevedo cultivates a portfolio of grants related to social and psychophysiological influences on cancer control. Dr. Acevedo's program of research focuses on psychosocial factors (e.g., stress, emotion, and cultural norms and expectations regarding emotion expressions) that influence health behaviors, biomarkers, and/or physiological responses to stressors like pain.

Dr. Acevedo earned a PhD in Psychology and Social Behavior with a Health Psychology major and a Quantitative Methods minor from the University of California, Irvine. She is also a proud alumnus of Alverno College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she received a BA in psychology. Prior to joining NCI as a Program Officer, Dr. Acevedo was a Cancer Research Training Award Post-doctoral Fellow at NCI.

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