Biofeedback Society of California Conference and Meetings

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Dean Radin, PhD, is Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) and Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Psychology at Sonoma State University (Rohnert Park, CA). His original career track as a concert violinist shifted into science after earning a BSEE degree in electrical engineering, with honors in physics, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and then an MS in electrical engineering and a PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. For a decade he worked on advanced telecommunications R&D at AT&T Bell Laboratories and GTE Laboratories. For over two decades he has been engaged in consciousness research. Before joining the research staff at IONS in 2001, he held appointments at Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, University of Nevada, and three Silicon Valley think-tanks, including SRI International, where he worked on a classified program investigating psychic phenomena for the US government.

Dr. Sherman received his doctorate in psychobiology from New York University in 1973. He has over 30 years experience teaching and performing research and clinical work in behavioral medicine and related fields. Richard has taught at all levels of adult education, including undergraduate, graduate and medical residency. He has also developed and taught continuing education courses for clinical professionals in both on-site and distance-based formats.
Richard is best known for his work on elucidating mechanisms and treatments for phantom limb pain, temporal relationships between changes in muscle tension and pain, and environmental studies on mechanisms and behavioral treatments for urinary incontinence. He has written numerous articles on these subjects as well as authoring and co-authoring several books. His most recent book is Pain Assessment and Intervention From a Psychophysiological Perspective, AAPB, 2004.

Bob Grove. PhD, is the Founder of Behavior Medicine Unit, Laval University Medical School; Co-Director of Clinical Psycho-physiology Department, VA. He is in Private Practice and a Medical Unit Consultant for United States, Europe and Japan (1982 - present); Senior Fellow, BCIA; and Co-Founder, ISNR, a brain-behavior organization. He developed Dysphagia Assessment and Stroke Rehab version in 1995; is Ex-President and current Board Member of Biofeedback Society of California. Currently he is consultant at Loma Linda Dental School and Co-principal at J&J Engineering.""I have worked with almost every major disability, developing practical biofeedback tools along the way.” Go to www.physiopilot.com to download new software, check out research, articles, downloads, etc.

Erik Peper, Ph.D. is an international authority on biofeedback and self-regulation. He is Professor and Co-Director of the Institute for Holistic Healing Studies, Department of Health Education. He is President of the Biofeedback Foundation of Europe (2005) and past President of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback. He holds Senior Fellow certification from the Biofeedback Certification Institute of America. He received the 2004 California Governor's Safety Award for his work on Healthy Computing. He has served as behavioral scientist (sport psychologist) for the United States Rhythmic Gymnastic team. He is also an author of numerous scientific articles and books. His most recent co-authored books include Healthy Computing with Muscle Biofeedback, Make Health Happen: Training Yourself to Create Wellness and De Computermens (Dutch). He is also the co-producer of weekly Healthy Computing Email Tips. His research interests focus on psychophysiology of healing, voluntary self-regulation, holistic health, healthy computing, respiratory psychophysiology and optimizing health with biofedback.You can also see their website at http://www.sfsu.edu/~ihhs