This chapter profiles Dr. Esther Sternberg, a rheumatologist and neuroscientist who pioneered the field of psychoneuroimmunology, demonstrating scientific mechanisms linking stress, emotions, and immune function (Sternberg, Esther M. Sternberg, M.D. [Official website]. https://esthersternberg.com/ , n.d.; National Library of Medicine, Esther M. Sternberg. Changing the Face of Medicine. https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_309.html , n.d.; University of Arizona College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, Esther Sternberg. https://capla.arizona.edu/faculty-staff/esther-sternberg , n.d.). After earning her Bachelor of Science degree in 1972 and her MD from McGill University in 1974, she completed her residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Rheumatology at McGill University (University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson, Esther M Sternberg, MD. https://medicine.arizona.edu/person/esther-m-sternberg-md , n.d.). She joined the National Institutes of Health in 1986, serving for 26 years as Senior Scientist and Section Chief of Neuroendocrine Immunology and Behavior at NIMH (Sternberg, Esther M. Sternberg, M.D. [Official website]. https://esthersternberg.com/ , n.d.; National Library of Medicine, Esther M. Sternberg. Changing the Face of Medicine. https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_309.html , n.d.). She led the NIH-CDC-FDA research team that elucidated the cause of the L-Tryptophan Eosinophilia Myalgia Syndrome epidemic in 1989, receiving the FDA Commissioner’s Special Citation in 1991 and the Public Health Service Superior Service Award in 1994 (Sternberg, Esther M. Sternberg, M.D. [Official website]. https://esthersternberg.com/ , n.d.; National Library of Medicine, Esther M. Sternberg. Changing the Face of Medicine. https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_309.html , n.d.). Her books “The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions” (2001, W.H. Freeman) and “Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being” (2009, Harvard University Press) translated complex research for general audiences (Sternberg, Esther M. Sternberg, M.D. [Official website]. https://esthersternberg.com/ , n.d.; Sternberg, The balance within: the science connecting health and emotions. Macmillan. https://www.amazon.com/Balance-Within-Science-Connecting-Emotions/dp/0716744457 , 2001; Sternberg, Healing spaces: the science of place and Well-being. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Spaces-Science-Place-Well-Being/dp/0674057481 , 2009). In 2012, she became the Inaugural Andrew Weil Chair for Research in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, founding the Institute on Place, Wellbeing & Performance (Sternberg, Esther M. Sternberg, M.D. [Official website]. https://esthersternberg.com/ , n.d.; University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson, Esther M Sternberg, MD. https://medicine.arizona.edu/person/esther-m-sternberg-md , n.d.). Her recent work “Well at Work: Creating Wellbeing in Any Workspace” (2023, Little, Brown Spark) was named a Publishers Weekly Top Ten Lifestyle Book for Fall 2023 and received the OWL Longlist Award (Sternberg, Esther M. Sternberg, M.D. [Official website]. https://esthersternberg.com/ , n.d.; Sternberg, Well at work: creating wellbeing in any workspace. Little, Brown Spark. https://www.amazon.com/Well-Work-Creating-Wellbeing-Workspace-ebook/dp/B0BRKNYPX3 , 2023; Publishers Weekly, Well at Work: creating wellbeing in any workspace [Review]. http://www.publishersweekly.com/9780316542685 , 2023). Dr. Sternberg has published over 240 scholarly articles in leading journals including Science, Nature Reviews Immunology, Nature Medicine, The New England Journal of Medicine, Scientific American, JAMA, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Sternberg, Esther M. Sternberg, M.D. [Official website]. https://esthersternberg.com/ , n.d.; National Library of Medicine, Esther M. Sternberg. Changing the Face of Medicine. https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_309.html , n.d.).

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This chapter profiles Dr. Esther Sternberg, a rheumatologist and neuroscientist who pioneered the field of psychoneuroimmunology, demonstrating scientific mechanisms linking stress, emotions, and immune function (Sternberg, Esther M. Sternberg, M.D. [Official website]. https://esthersternberg.com/ , n.d.; National Library of Medicine, Esther M. Sternberg. Changing the Face of Medicine. https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_309.html , n.d.; University of Arizona College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, Esther Sternberg. https://capla.arizona.edu/faculty-staff/esther-sternberg , n.d.). After earning her Bachelor of Science degree in 1972 and her MD from McGill University in 1974, she completed her residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Rheumatology at McGill University (University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson, Esther M Sternberg, MD. https://medicine.arizona.edu/person/esther-m-sternberg-md , n.d.). She joined the National Institutes of Health in 1986, serving for 26 years as Senior Scientist and Section Chief of Neuroendocrine Immunology and Behavior at NIMH (Sternberg, Esther M. Sternberg, M.D. [Official website]. https://esthersternberg.com/ , n.d.; National Library of Medicine, Esther M. Sternberg. Changing the Face of Medicine. https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_309.html , n.d.). She led the NIH-CDC-FDA research team that elucidated the cause of the L-Tryptophan Eosinophilia Myalgia Syndrome epidemic in 1989, receiving the FDA Commissioner’s Special Citation in 1991 and the Public Health Service Superior Service Award in 1994 (Sternberg, Esther M. Sternberg, M.D. [Official website]. https://esthersternberg.com/ , n.d.; National Library of Medicine, Esther M. Sternberg. Changing the Face of Medicine. https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_309.html , n.d.). Her books “The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions” (2001, W.H. Freeman) and “Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being” (2009, Harvard University Press) translated complex research for general audiences (Sternberg, Esther M. Sternberg, M.D. [Official website]. https://esthersternberg.com/ , n.d.; Sternberg, The balance within: the science connecting health and emotions. Macmillan. https://www.amazon.com/Balance-Within-Science-Connecting-Emotions/dp/0716744457 , 2001; Sternberg, Healing spaces: the science of place and Well-being. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Spaces-Science-Place-Well-Being/dp/0674057481 , 2009). In 2012, she became the Inaugural Andrew Weil Chair for Research in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, founding the Institute on Place, Wellbeing & Performance (Sternberg, Esther M. Sternberg, M.D. [Official website]. https://esthersternberg.com/ , n.d.; University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson, Esther M Sternberg, MD. https://medicine.arizona.edu/person/esther-m-sternberg-md , n.d.). Her recent work “Well at Work: Creating Wellbeing in Any Workspace” (2023, Little, Brown Spark) was named a Publishers Weekly Top Ten Lifestyle Book for Fall 2023 and received the OWL Longlist Award (Sternberg, Esther M. Sternberg, M.D. [Official website]. https://esthersternberg.com/ , n.d.; Sternberg, Well at work: creating wellbeing in any workspace. Little, Brown Spark. https://www.amazon.com/Well-Work-Creating-Wellbeing-Workspace-ebook/dp/B0BRKNYPX3 , 2023; Publishers Weekly, Well at Work: creating wellbeing in any workspace [Review]. http://www.publishersweekly.com/9780316542685 , 2023). Dr. Sternberg has published over 240 scholarly articles in leading journals including Science, Nature Reviews Immunology, Nature Medicine, The New England Journal of Medicine, Scientific American, JAMA, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Sternberg, Esther M. Sternberg, M.D. [Official website]. https://esthersternberg.com/ , n.d.; National Library of Medicine, Esther M. Sternberg. Changing the Face of Medicine. https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_309.html , n.d.).