Gary E. Schwartz, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology, Medicine, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Surgery at the University of Arizona, at the main campus in Tucson. In addition to teaching courses on health psychology and mind-body-spirit medicine, he is the director of the Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health (formerly the Human Energy Systems Laboratory).

In September 2002 he received a $1.8 million dollars grant from the National Center on Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the National Institutes of Health to create a Center for Frontier Medicine in Biofield Science at the University of Arizona, which he directed for four years.

Gary collaborates with Canyon Ranch on biofield science and energy healing research and serves as the Director of Development of Energy Healing at Canyon Ranch.

Gary received his Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard University in 1971 and was an assistant professor at Harvard for five years. He later served as a professor of psychology and psychiatry at Yale University, director of the Yale Psychophysiology Center, and co-director of the Yale Behavioral Medicine Clinic, before moving to Arizona in 1988.

He has published more than four hundred and fifty scientific papers, including six papers in the journal Science. Gary has also co-edited eleven academic books, is the author of The Energy Healing Experiments (2007), The G.O.D. Experiments (2006), The Afterlife Experiments (2002), The Truth about Medium (2005), and is co-author of The Living Energy Universe (1999).

Gary is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, the Society for Behavioral Medicine, and the Academy for Behavioral Medicine Research. He received a Young Psychologist Award and an Early Career Award for Distinguished Research from the American Psychological Association. He has served as President of the Biofeedback Society of America and the Health Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association. In 2004 he received a Distinguished Scientist Award for Energy Psychology from the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology, and in 2006 a Distinguished Scientist Award from the United States Psychotronic Association.

Gary served as the founding President from 2004-2006 of the Forever Family Foundation, a non-profit organization that fosters research and education on afterlife science and healing (www.foreverfamilyfoundation.org). He currently serves as chairman of the board.

He is highly experienced in speaking publicly about health psychology, energy healing, and spiritual research, and is in high demand. He has been interviewed on major network television shows including Dateline and Good Morning America, as well as on MSNBC, Nightline, Anderson Cooper 360, and The O'Reilly Factor. His research has been the subject of documentaries and profiles on Discovery, HBO, Arts & Entertainment, Fox and the SciFi Channel, among others.

Gary has been interviewed on hundreds of radio shows, including four evenings on Art Bell's Coast to Coast, and on PBS, CBC and BBC. His work has been described in various magazines and newspapers including USA Today, the London Times, The New York Times, and The LA Times, as well as a feature profile in Biography magazine.

Gary is married to Rhonda Eklund, an artist. The spiral symbol for DRGARYSCHWARTZ.COM comes from one of her early paintings displayed below. Gary's hobbies include walking, reading mysteries, listening (and playing) soft jazz, collecting Native American and African art, and being a student of life.

Painting by Rhonda Eklund

Gary is honored to have three human godchildren - Kim, Scott, and Jason - plus an African white-necked raven godchild named Shade.

Gary and Shade