Gordon John Glenn Asmundson OC SOM FRSC[1] (born August 29, 1964) is a Canadian psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Regina.
Asmundson is recognized for his research on anxiety, chronic pain, and posttraumatic stress,[2] as well as for his recent work on the psychology of pandemics.
[6] He spent his childhood living on several Canadian military bases with his parents and two older siblings.
[10] In 2002, he began his first academic post at the university of Regina, where he remains today as the head of the Anxiety and Illness Behaviours Laboratory and the Psychology of Pandemics Network maintains a small clinical practice.
In addition to numerous awards received over the course of his career, Asmundson was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2009)[12] – as well as the Canadian Psychological Association Donald O. Hebb Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology as a Science (2014),[13] the Canadian Pain Society Distinguished Career Award (2018),[14] the Saskatchewan Order of Merit (2020) and the Order of Canada as an Officer (2022).