Ronald Glaser, Ph.D.

Ronald Glaser is Professor of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine, and Director of the Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research.  He has published over 272 articles and chapters in the area of viral oncology and in the area of stress and immune function (most in collaboration with Janice Kiecolt-Glaser). He is presently serving on the editorial boards of four professional journals including Brain, Behavior and Immunity, Journal of Behavioral Medicine,  International Journal of Behavioral Medicine and Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research. His research is supported by several grants at the National Institutes of Health including Director of a Program Project Grant and a Center Grant. He is an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellow [Press Release], a fellow of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, was named Distinguished Scholar by The Ohio State University and holds the Gilbert and Kathryn Mitchell Endowed Chair in Medicine. He is past-President (2003-2004) of the Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society (PNIRS).  He was a recipient of the PNIRS Norman Cousins Award in 2004.  He is listed in the Institute for Scientific Information ISIHighlyCited.com (among the world's most highly cited authors, a group comprising less than one half of one percent of all publishing researchers). With Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, he co-edited the Handbook of Human Stress and Immunity (Academic Press, 1994) and with Jim Jones, co-edited a book entitled Human Herpesvirus Infections (Marcel Dekker, 1994).