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Speaker: David Spiegel, M.D.
Willson Professor and Associate Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Stanford University School of Medicine
Date: March 9, 2015 - 10:00 a.m. ET to 11:00 a.m. ET
Lipsett Amphitheater at the NIH Clinical Research Center (Building 10)
Event Description
Dr. David Spiegel is the Willson Professor and Associate Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Spiegel has 40 years of clinical and research experience studying psycho-oncology, stress and health, pain control, psychoneuroendocrinology, sleep, and conducting randomized clinical trials involving psychotherapy for cancer patients.
In this lecture, Dr. Spiegel will discuss the randomized controlled trials his lab has conducted demonstrating the efficacy of hypnosis in reducing pain, anxiety, somatic complications, and procedure duration during radiological interventions. Dr. Spiegel will also discuss what hypnosis research has shown for relieving chronic cancer pain and for controlling various neuromuscular disorders.