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Esther M. Sternberg, M.D.
Current position:
Director, Integrative Neural Immune Program,
Chief, Section on Neuroendocrine Immunology and Behavior
Medical Officer, Senior Scientist
National Institute of Mental Health,
National Institutes of Health |
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Dr. Sternberg received
her M.D. degree and trained in Rheumatology at McGill University, Montreal,
Canada, did post-doctoral training and was on the faculty at Washington
University, St. Louis, MO, before joining the National Institutes Health in
1986. Currently Director of the Integrative Neural Immune Program, NIMH/NIH
and Co-chair of the NIH Intramural Program on Research in Women�s Health, both
multi-Institute Intramural research programs designed to foster
interdisciplinary research at NIH, Dr. Sternberg is also Chief of the Section
on Neuroendocrine Immunology and Behavior at the National Institute of Mental
Health.
Dr. Sternberg is internationally recognized for her discoveries in the area of central nervous system -
immune system interactions, i.e. the role of the brain's stress response in susceptibility to arthritis
and other diseases, including depression. Currently she is taking these principles into areas of
biodefense research, focusing on neuroendocrine mechanisms of action of anthrax lethal toxin.
She has written numerous original scientific articles, textbook chapters and review articles, published
in leading scientific journals including Nature, Medicine, Science, New England Journal of Medicine,
The Scientific America,Journal of Clinical Investigation and the Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences; is a reviewer and editorial board member for many scientific journals;
has edited several books, including Neuroimmunomodulation: Perspectives at the New Millennium
. (The New York Academy of Sciences, 2000), and Neuroendocrine and Neural Regulation of
Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disease: Molecular, Systems, and Clinical Insights. (The New York
Academy of Sciences, 2003), and authored the popular book: "The Balance Within: The
Science Connecting Health and Emotions.' (W.H. Freeman & Co., 2000, paperback 2001, Holt). In
recognition of her work, Dr. Sternberg has been awarded the Public Health Service's Superior Service Award;
Arthritis Foundation William R. Felts Award for Excellence in Rheumatology Research; United States
Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Service Staff Recognition Award; FDA Commissioner's
Special Citation for her work on the pathogenesis of the L-tryptophan eosinophilia myalgia syndrome; NIMH
Director's Merit Award for leadership in developing interdisciplinary programs; has been elected to the
American Society for Clinical Investigation and to a Committee of the National Academy of Sciences'
Institute of Medicine; has testified before Congress and has been advisor to the World Health Organization;
is on the National Library of Medicine's Literature Selection Technical Review and Exhibition Program
Advisory Committees. Frequently invited to lecture nationally and internationally, including several lecture
series at the Smithsonian Institution, Dr. Sternberg has also chaired numerous national and international
scientific conferences; is immediate past-President of the International Society for Neuroimmunomodulation;
and co-directed a concurrent NLM exhibition and video on "Emotions and Disease". These activities
have had an important galvanizing influence in establishing the field of neural immune interactions and
laying the groundwork for developing collaborative networks in the related interdisciplinary field of
women's health.
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