Annmarie Caño is a Professor of psychology and, currently, the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Gonzage University in Washington (U.S.A.). Her research in clinical health psychology focuses on emotion regulation and intimacy processes in couples facing physical and mental health problems with the long-term goal of developing interventions aimed at improving couples' individual and relationship health and well-being. She is particularly interested in emotional validation and empathic responses to self-disclosures as relationship processes that may contribute to better pain adjustment and mental health. To this end, she has conducted studies in pain clinic, community, and analogue samples using multiple methods (i.e., questionnaires, interviews, observation, experiments) to assess interpersonal, cognitive-behavioral, and affective dimensions of the pain experience. She has also collaborated with colleagues to study these processes in parents and their children with health problems (i.e., children with poor metabolic control, children with chronic pain). Building on her basic research findings, she developed and tested a mindfulness and acceptance intervention aimed at emotion regulation processes in couples with chronic pain. She has over 70 publications and has served as PI on grants from NIMH, NICHD, and NCCIH. In recognition of her research contributions, she was elected in 2016 as a fellow of the American Psychological Association in Divisions 38 (Society for Health Psychology) and 43 (Society for Couple and Family Psychology). She has also served the field as associate editor at both Health Psychology and Journal of Family Psychology, and currently sits on the editorial boards of American Psychologist and Journal of Pain.