David Spiegel is an American psychiatrist and the Wilson Professor and Associate Chair of Psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he is known for his research into psycho-oncology; the neurobiology of therapeutic hypnosis,[1][2] and the role of the mind-brain-body connection in cancer outcomes and management among other topics.
[3][4][5] He directs the Stanford Center on Stress and Health[6] and is a recognized authority on hypnosis's clinical utility and neuroscience.
[10] Following his undergraduate medical training, Spiegel completed his psychiatry residency at Massachusetts Mental Health Center and Cambridge Health Alliance in 1974 in addition to a fellowship in community psychiatry the same year.
[citation needed] Spiegel is author of more than 480 journal articles, 170 book chapters.
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