President of the non-profit Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research, and Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees. Dr. Beck is the only psychiatrist to receive research awards from the American Psychological Association and the American Psychiatric Association. He is author and co-author of more than 375 articles and 13 books.

Physician board-certified in internal medicine. He is licensed to practice medicine in Massachusetts and California. He is a member of the American Medical Association, and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. Dr. Chopra is co-founder of the Chopra Center located in Carlsbad, California; with a branch in New York City. He teaches an update in Internal Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Chopra has written more than 50 books. They range broadly across spiritual and health topics; including bestsellers on aging, the Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, the existence of God, arguments for the afterlife and world peace. He also has written novels and edited collections of spiritual poetry from India and Persia.

Retired family therapist living in Boca Raton, Florida. He has been Research Professor of Psychiatry, New York University. Professor of Child Psychiatry and Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania and Director Emeritus, Family Therapy Training Center of the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic. Dr. Minuchin lectures nationally and internationally and is author of seven books and numerous papers and articles.

Robert Sapolsky, PhD, is a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, a professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University, and a research associate with the Institute of Primate Research at the National Museum of Kenya. In 2008, National Geographic and PBS aired an hour-long special on stress featuring Dr. Sapolsky and his research on the subject. In addition to A Primate’s Memoir, which won the 2001 Bay Area Book Reviewers Award in nonfiction, Robert Sapolsky has written three other books, including The Trouble with Testosterone, Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers, and Monkeyluv and Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals.

His articles have appeared in publications such a Discover and The New Yorker. Dr. Sapolsky was awarded Rockefeller University’s Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science for 2008. The New York Times called him “One of the finest natural history writers around.”

Director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, where he also holds the Lovell-Jones Endowed Chair in Integrative Rheumatology and is Clinical Professor of medicine and Professor of Public Health. The Center is the leading effort in the world to develop a comprehensive curriculum in integrative medicine. Graduates serve as directors of integrative medicine programs around the United States, and through its Fellowship, the Center is now training doctors and nurse practitioners around the world.

Dr. Weil is author of many scientific and popular articles, and of ten books. Oxford University Press is currently producing the Weil Integrative Medicine Library, a series of volumes for clinicians in various medical specialities. Dr. Weil writes a monthly newsletter, Dr. Andrew Weil’s Self Healing and maintains a website at www.drweil.com. He lives near Tucson, Arizona.

Professor Emeritus of psychiatry at Stanford University. He also maintains a private practice in San Francisco and Palo Alto, California. Dr. Yalom is the author of Love’s Executioner, The Theory and Practice of Group Therapy, Existential Psychotherapy, When Nietzsche Wept, The Schopenhauer Cure, Lying on the Couch, The Gift of Therapy, Momma and the Meaning of Life, and his latest, Staring at the Sun.

Internationally recognized scholar, educator, researcher and media personality, winning numerous awards and honors in each of these domains. He has been a Stanford University professor since 1968, having taught previously at Yale, NYU and Columbia. Zimbardo's career is noted for giving psychology away to the public through his popular PBS-TV series, Discovering Psychology, along with many text and trade books, among his 300 publications. He was recently president of the American Psychological Association.