Upcoming CME Keynote Speaker Feature
Bruce McEwen- Unparalleled depth and breadth in Stress Research

The Benson-Henry Institute is honored to welcome Bruce S. McEwen, PhD, as keynote speaker for its CME Course, The New Science of Resiliency and its Clinical Applications, which will be held September 16-19 in collaboration with Harvard Medical School. For more information, please visit http://bensonhenryinstitute.org/professional-training/live-cme.

For more than 40 years, Dr. McEwen has studied the mechanisms and impact of stress on humans. McEwen’s depth of experience in studying stress hormones and the brain is unequaled, and his work has far-reaching implications for understanding the impact of stress on human health in general.

Among his remarkable accomplishments, McEwen has:

* Contributed heavily to a new understanding of how the brain changes in structure and function during development and in adult life.

* Helped draw distinctions between good or adaptable forms of stress and toxic stress.

* Expanded our understanding of allostatic load, a widely used term that explains how stress systems that help the body survive can cause problems when overworked.

* Significantly contributed to understandings of gender differences in stress effects.

* Expanded awareness of how circadian disruption, arising from shift work, jet lag, and sleep deprivation, can affect brain function and behavior.

McEwen is the author or co-author of more than 900 scientific papers, and co-author of two books for the lay public. His is currently the Alfred E. Mirsky Professor and Head of the Harold and  Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology at The Rockefeller University. He is also involved with the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, which investigates how early life stress can be ameliorated to minimize its lifelong consequences.