Stacy McAllister

Stacy McAllister earned her PhD in Neuroscience under the mentorship of Dr Karen Berkley at Florida State University. During her graduate career, her primary research focus was investigating peripheral contributors to endometriosis-associated vaginal hyperalgesia (~dyspareunia) in a rat model of endometriosis. As a postdoctoral fellow, to gain a clinical perspective for studying endometriosis, she joined the lab of Dr. Eric Gross at Stanford University where she received a prestigious NIH NICHD Career Development Award.  Currently, as an Assistant Professor at Emory University, her research program targets reactive aldehyde detoxification as a treatment strategy and diagnostic biomarker for endometriosis. Additional collaborative projects are aimed at identifying, developing, and testing potential endometriosis pain therapeutics. To do so, her lab uses rodent endometriosis models, behavioral psychophysics/assessments, biochemical techniques, and patient biospecimens.