Past lectures

Tonya M. Palermo, Ph.D.

Professor and Vice Chair of Research, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

University of Washington School of Medicine

Associate Director, Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development

Seattle Children’s Research Institute

Seattle, Washington

Margaret Kuklinski, Ph.D.

Endowed Associate Professor of Prevention in Social Work

Director, Social Development Research Group

Acting Director, Center for Communities That Care

University of Washington School of Social Work

Seattle, Washington

Elissa Epel, Ph.D.

Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Psychiatry

Director, Aging, Metabolism, and Emotions Center

Director, Consortium for Obesity Assessment, Study, and Treatment (COAST)

University of California, San Francisco

San Francisco, CA

Michelle Y. Martin, Ph.D.

Co-Director, Tennessee Clinical and Translational Science Institute

Professor, Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine

Founding Director, Center for Innovation in Health Equity Research: A Community Cancer Alliance for Transformative Change

University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Christopher R. McCurdy, Ph.D., F.A.A.P.S.

Frank A. Duckworth Eminent Scholar Chair in Drug Research and Development

Professor, Medicinal Chemistry

Director, University of Florida Translational Drug Development Core

College of Pharmacy, University of Florida

Gainesville, FL

Sean D. Young, Ph.D., M.S.

Executive Director, University of California Institute for Prediction Technology

Associate Professor, Departments of Emergency Medicine and Informatics

University of California, Irvine

Alicia Heapy, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Yale School of Medicine

Eric Garland, Ph.D., L.C.S.W.

Distinguished Endowed Chair in Research

Professor

Associate Dean for Research

University of Utah

Helen Burgess, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Psychiatry

Co-Director, Sleep and Circadian Research Laboratory

The University of Michigan

Sean F. Brady, Ph.D.

Tri-Institutional Professor and Evnin Professor Head

Laboratory of Genetically Encoded Small Molecules

The Rockefeller University

Isaac Chiu, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Immunology
Department of Immunology

Harvard Medical School

Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello, Ph.D.

Henry Rutgers Professor of Microbiome and Health

Departments of Biochemistry and Microbiology, and Anthropology

Interim Director, NJ Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 

Gregory N. Bratman, Ph.D.

Inaugural Holder of the Doug Walker Endowed Faculty Fellowship

Assistant Professor of Nature, Health, and Recreation

School of Environmental and Forest Sciences

University of Washington

Mary Jo Larson, Ph.D., M.P.A.

Senior Scientist, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management

Brandeis University

Erin E. Krebs, M.D., M.P.H.

Associate Professor of Medicine

University of Minnesota Medical School

Dr. Alexander Chesler, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator

Section on Sensory Cells and Circuits Intramural Lab

National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health

Alan I. Leshner, Ph.D.

Chief Executive Officer Emeritus

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Roger Linington, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia and Canada Research Chair in High-Throughput Screening and Chemical Biology

Karen Seal, Ph.D.

Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry

University of California, San Francisco

Abigail Gewirtz, Ph.D., L.P.

Professor, Department of Family Social Science and Institute of Child Development Director, Institute for Translational Research in Children's Mental Health

University of Minnesota

Roger Chou, M.D.

Professor in the Department of Medicine and Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology

Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine

Peter Wayne, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital,

Research Director of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine 

Susmita Kashikar-Zuck, Ph.D.

Professor of Pediatrics, Endowed Research Director of Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

Christina Smolke, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering, Associate Chair of Education; W.M. Keck Foundation Faculty Scholar

Stanford University

David Ginty, Ph.D.

Edward R. and Anne G. Lefler Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

John F. Cryan, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair, Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience

University College in Ireland

Thomas Best, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor and Pomerene Chair in Primary Care in the Division of Sports Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, and Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering

Ohio State University

Steven Cole, Ph.D.

Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences

University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine

Gervasio Lamas, M.D., F.A.C.C., F.A.H.A., F.E.S.C.

Chairman of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center and Chief of the Columbia University Division of Cardiology at Mount Sinai Medical Center

Professor of Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Co-director of the Mount Sinai Heart Institute

Pieter Dorrestein, Ph.D.

Professor of Pharmacology, Chemistry and Biochemistry in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California, San Diego

Director of the Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center and Co-director of the Institute for Metabolomics Medicine at University of California, San Diego

David Spiegel, M.D.

Willson Professor and Associate Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Stanford University School of Medicine