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David Spiegel, MD

Jack, Lulu and Sam Willson Professor and Associate Chair of Psychiatrty & Behavioral Sciences
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford

Dr. David Spiegel is Willson Professor and Associate Chair of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Director of the Center on Stress and Health, and Medical Director of the Center for Integrative Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he has been a member of the academic faculty since 1975, and was Chair of the Faulty Senate from 2010-2011. Dr. Spiegel has 50 years of clinical and research experience studying psycho-oncology, stress and health, pain control, psychoneuroendocrinology, sleep, hypnosis, dissociation and trauma trreatment. He has conducted randomized clinical trials involving the use of hypnosis, breathwork, and psychotherapy. He has published thirteen books, 445 scientific journal articles, and 175 book chapters on hypnosis, psychosocial oncology, stress physiology, trauma, and psychotherapy. I has worked throughout his career to integrate psychiatric principles into the understanding and treatment of oncological illness, to build our neurobiological understanding of hypnosis, and to apply it to the treatment of pain, stress, dissociative disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, insomnia and smoking habituation. His research involes fMRI, psycho-oncology, and TMS has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute on Aging, the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Fetzer Institute, the Dana Foundation for Brain Sciences, and the Nathan S. Cummings Foundation. He was a member of the work groups on stressor, trauma-related and dissociative disorders for the DSM-IV and DSM-5. He was asked to deliver an address on hypnosis at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2018. He is Past President of the American College of Psychiatrists and the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

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