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Keynote Speaker

Richard Lane, MD, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience
University of Arizona

Dr. Richard Lane will speak about the neuroscience of emotion in the keynote address at the 2009 ADAA Annual Conference.

He has served as President of the American Psychosomatic Society, received the Mani Bhaumik award from the UCLA Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunolgy “for advancing the understanding of the brain and the conscious mind in healing through visionary research, books, and education,” and recently completed a four-year term as a regular member of the “Biobehavioral Mechanisms of Emotion, Stress and Health” NIH study section.

Dr. Lane is also a member of the editorial board of three professional journals and was senior editor of Cognitive Neuroscience of Emotion, published in 2000 by Oxford University Press. As a specialist in consultation-liaison psychiatry, he is a Fellow of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, elected member of the American College of Psychiatrists, elected member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, and is listed among the Best Doctors in America.

Dr. Lane’s core academic interest is in understanding the mechanisms by which emotion contributes to the progression of physical disease. He has been at the University of Arizona since 1990 and rose to the rank of Professor in 2000.