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Mind Body Symposium

Presented By

Nour Foundation NGO Section of U.N. DESA Université de Montréal
Esther M. Sternberg, M.D.
Esther M. Sternberg, M.D.

Dr. Esther M. Sternberg received her M.D. and Rheumatology training at McGill University in Montreal, Canada and was on the faculty at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, before joining the National Institutes of Health in 1986. Currently Chief of the Section on Neuroendocrine Immunology and Behavior at the National Institute of Mental Health, Dr. Sternberg is also Director of the Integrative Neural Immune Program, NIMH/NIH and Co-Chair of the NIH Intramural Program on Research in Women's Health. She is internationally recognized for her discoveries in brain-immune interactions and the brain's stress response on health: the science of the mind-body interaction. She has published numerous scientific articles, reviews, and textbook chapters in leading journals and has authored the popular books, The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions (W.H. Freeman & Co., 2000) and Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being (Belknap Press, 2009).

She has received numerous awards including the Public Health Service Superior Service Award, the Arthritis Foundation William R. Felts Award, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services PHS Staff Recognition Award, the FDA Commissioner's Special Citation, and the NIMH Director's Merit Award. She has been elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation and has testified before Congress. In addition, Dr. Sternberg was a World Health Organization Advisor and a member of the National Library of Medicine's Literature Selection Technical Review (Medline) Committee. An invited delegate and speaker at Fortune Magazine’s Most Powerful Women Summit, Dr. Sternberg lectures and chairs conferences nationally and internationally, including at the Smithsonian Institution and the Nobel Forum at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, and was featured in the PBS Television Special "The New Medicine."

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Nour Foundation

Founded in 1985, the Nour Foundation is a public charitable and nongovernmental organization in special consultative status to the United Nations. The Foundation explores universal principles and values underlying various disciplines through an integrative approach that seeks to cultivate greater understanding, tolerance, and unity among human beings.

NGO Section of U.N. DESA

The NGO Section of the U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs contributes to the creation of interface structures between the UN and private organizations at all levels.

Université de Montréal

Founded in 1878, the Université de Montréal today has 13 faculties and together with its two affiliated schools, HEC Montréal and École Polytechnique, constitutes the largest center of higher education and research in Québec.