James S. Gordon, MD, is founder and director of the Center
for Mind-Body Medicine
(CMBM) and a clinical professor in the Departments of
Psychiatry and Family Medicine at the Georgetown University
School of Medicine. Gordon recently served as chairperson
of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative
Medicine Policy. He also served as the first chairperson
of the Program Advisory Council of the National Institutes
of Health’s Office of Alternative Medicine.
Gordon has devoted more than 35 years to the exploration
and practice of mind-body medicine. A Harvard Medical School
graduate, he was a research psychiatrist at the National
Institute of Mental Health for 10 years, where he developed
the first national program for runaway and homeless youth,
edited the first comprehensive studies of alternative and
holistic medicine, directed the Special Study on Alternative
Services for President Jimmy Carter’s Commission
on Mental Health, and created a nationwide preceptorship
program for medical students.
He created and directs the groundbreaking Healing the
Wounds of War program that provides comprehensive healing
for traumatized children, families, and professionals living
in areas touched by conflict, terrorism, or natural disaster,
as well as for firefighters, their widows, families, and
children in coping with the effects of the September 11
disaster. Gordon has also created important professional
programs for physicians, medical students, and other health
professionals; and for people with cancer, depression,
and other chronic illnesses. He integrates relaxation therapies,
hypnosis, meditation, acupuncture, nutrition, herbalism,
musculoskeletal manipulation, dance, yoga and physical
exercise in his own practice of medicine and psychiatry.
A prolific writer, Gordon’s books include Comprehensive
Cancer Care: Integrating Alternative, Complementary and Conventional
Therapies and Manifesto for a New Medicine: Your
Guide to Healing Partnerships and the Wise Use of Alternative
Therapies, and the forthcoming Unstuck: Your Guide
to the Seven-Stage Journey Out of Depression. He has
written or edited nine other books, including the award-winning Health
for the Whole Person, and more than 120 articles in
professional journals and general magazines and newspapers,
including Atlantic Monthly, Washington Post, and New
York Times. Gordon’s work has also been featured
on Good Morning America, The Today Show, CNN, CBS Sunday
Morning, FOX News and National Public Radio, and
he helped develop and write the educational materials to
supplement the public television series “Healing and
the Mind with Bill Moyers.” |
