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Distinguished Endowed Chair in Research, Associate Dean for Research and Distinguished Professor
University of Utah
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah
Dr. Eric Garland, PhD, LCSW is Distinguished Endowed Chair in Research, Distinguished Professor, and Associate Dean for Research in the University of Utah College of Social Work and Director of the Center on Mindfulness and Integrative Health Intervention Development (C-MIIND). Dr. Garland is the developer of an innovative mindfulness-based intervention founded on insights derived from neuroscience, called Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE). He has published more than 230 scientific articles and received more than $75 million in research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department of Defense (DOD) develop and test novel mindfulness-based treatments for addiction. In 2019 was appointed by NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins to the NIH HEAL Multi-Disciplinary Working Group comprised of national experts on pain and addiction research to help guide the nation’s $1+ billion HEAL initiative to use science to halt the opioid crisis. His work has been covered in the New York Times, Time, National Public Radio (NPR), and U.S. News and World Report. In addition to being a clinical researcher, Dr. Garland is a licensed psychotherapist and Distinguished Fellow of the National Academies of Practice. with more than 20 years of clinical experience treating addiction. In a recent bibliometric analysis of mindfulness research published over the past 55 years, Dr. Garland was found to be the most prolific author of mindfulness research in the world.
BehaVR, LLC (Other Financial or Material Support, BehaVR has licensed content from Eric Garland to develop a virtual reality treatment for addiction.)
Monday, April 18, 2022
1:00 PM – 2:15 PM ET