Robert Ader, Ph.D., M.D. (hc)

Academic and Clinical Appointments

Distinguished University Professor

Curriculum Vitae

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Contact Information

Department of Psychiatry
University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry
300 Crittenden Boulevard
Rochester, NY 14642-8409

Education

Research Focus
and Interests

Psychoneuroimmunology

Placebo phenomena

Professional Overview

Dr. Robert Ader is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He joined the Rochester faculty in 1957 as an Instructor and became a Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology in 1968. From 1969-1999, Dr. Ader held continuing NIMH Research Scientist Awards and, from 1983 until 2002, Dr. Ader was the George L. Engel Professor of Psychosocial Medicine. In 1992, Dr. Ader received an honorary M.D. degree from the University of Trondheim in Norway and, in 2002, an honorary D.Sc. degree from Tulane University. He was Visiting Professor at the Rudolf Magnus Institute for Pharmacology in Utrecht, The Netherlands (1970-71), and  a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford (1992-93).

The author of more than 230 publications, Dr. Ader edited Psychoneuroimmunology  (1981), referred to as the “signature volume of a new field of research, and is senior editor of the second, third and fourth editions (1991, 2001, 2007).  He serves and has served on several Editorial Boards and, from 1986 through 2002, was Editor-in-Chief of Brain, Behavior and Immunity, the first scientific journal in this interdisciplinary field..  Dr. Ader is a past President of the American Psychosomatic Society, the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, and was Founding President of the Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society.

Publications

Ader, R. & Cohen, N.  Behaviorally conditioned immunosuppression.  Psychosom. Med., 1975, 37, 333-340.

Ader, R. & Cohen, N.  Behaviorally conditioned immunosuppression and murine systemic lupus erythematosus. Science, 1982, 215, 1534-1536.

Ader, R.  An historical account of conditioned immunobiologic responses.  In R. Ader, (Ed.), Psychoneuroimmunology.  Academic Press:  New York, 1981 (pp. 321-354).

Ader, R., Kelly, K., Moynihan, J.A., Grota, L.J., & Cohen, N.  Conditioned enhancement of antibody production using antigen as the unconditioned stimulus.  Brain, Behav. Immun., 1993, 7, 334-343.

Ader, R.  Historical perspectives on psychoneuroimmunology.  In H. Friedman, T.W. Klein, & A.L. Friedman (Eds.), Psychoneuroimmunology, stress and infection. CRC Press: Boca Raton, 1995 (pp. 1-21).

Ader, R. The role of conditioning in pharmacotherapy.  In A. Harrington (Ed.), The Placebo: An interdisciplinary exploration.  Harvard Univer. Press: Cambridge, 1997, 138-165.

Ader, R.  Biopsychosocial research: Psychoneuroimmunology. In R.M. Frankel, T.E. Quill & S.H. McDaniel (Eds.), The biopsychosocial model. Univ. Rochester Press: Rochester, 2003 (pp. 95-110).

Ader, R., Dantzer, R., Glaser, R., Heijnen, C., Irwin, M., Padgett, D.,& Sheridan, J. (Eds.), Psychoneuroimmunology, Fourth Edition. Elsevier: New York, 2006.

Pertinent Web Links

The PsychoNeuroImmunology Research Society

UCLA NPI GRAND ROUNDS 2000-2001

RDFunding - Research and Development Information Details of the award

Strong Health

Science News Online