Prof. Emeran Mayer University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Emeran Mayer is a Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Physiology, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Mayer has a longstanding interest in clinical and neurobiology aspects of brain-gut interactions in health and disease. He has published more than... read more110 original articles, numerous review articles and chapters, co-edited two books and organized several interdisciplinary symposia in this area. Dr. Mayer has made seminal contributions to the characterization of physiologic alterations in patients with functional disorders, in particular in the area of visceral pain, stress-induced visceral hyperalgesia and altered brain responses.