Research Associate
University of Utah
Gabriella Tolentino, PT, PhD, is a Research Associate at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. Her research focuses on migraine, neck pain, and sensory sensitivity factors, with an emphasis on understanding how sensory amplification contributes to disease progression. She works with multimodal data, including psychophysical testing, physiological measures, and patient-reported outcomes, within an NIH-funded study on migraine chronification. Dr. Tolentino has contributed to peer-reviewed publications and received awards for her work in headache and pain research. Her primary interests include musculoskeletal pain, and the interaction between sensory and clinical features of migraine. She is committed to advancing clinically meaningful biomarkers to improve diagnosis and personalized management of migraine.