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Biological Mechanisms of Psychosocial Effects on Disease First State-of-the-Science Meeting

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Ronald Glaser, Ph.D.
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Dr. Ronald Glaser is a Professor of Molecular Virology, Immunology, and Medical Genetics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. He is Director of The Ohio State University Behavioral Medicine Research Institute, where he also is the Associate Vice President for Research. Dr. Glaser has published 255 articles and book chapters in the area of viral oncology and in the area of stress and immune function (most in collaboration with Janice Kiecolt-Glaser). He is presently serving on the editorial boards of the professional journals Brain, Behavior and Immunity; Journal of Behavioral Medicine; The International Journal of Behavioral Medicine; and the Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research. His research is supported by several grants at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including a MERIT award from the National Institute of Mental Health (on which he is a co-Principal Investigator). Dr. Glaser also is the Director of a Program Project Grant from the National Institute on Aging, and the Director of one of five NIH-designated Mind/Body Centers. He is a fellow of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, was named Distinguished Scholar by The Ohio State University, and holds the Gilbert and Kathryn Mitchell Endowed Chair in Medicine. With Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, he co-edited the Handbook of Human Stress and Immunity (Academic Press, 1994), and with Jim Jones, co-edited a book titled Human Herpesvirus Infections (Marcel Dekker, 1994).

March 2002

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