Joyce Yi-Frazier

Dr. Joyce Yi-Frazier, PhD, is a senior clinical research scientist in the Center for Clinical and Translational Research at Seattle Children’s Research Institute. She completed her PhD in health psychology at the University of Washington and obtained her bachelor’s degree from Cornell University. Yi-Frazier has a long history of research in stress and resilience in association with chronic/serious illness. She was one of the first to publish on resilience in the diabetes population and has also studied resilience in relation to stress in caregivers, elite athletes and obese youth. Joyce Yi-Frazier leads Seattle Children's Palliative Care and Resilience Research Program with Dr Abby Rosenberg.