Gordon J. G. Asmundson

Gordon J. G. Asmundson, Ph.D., is a Registered Doctoral Psychologist and is currently a Full Professor of Psychology at the University of Regina and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Saskatchewan Dr. Asmundson holds several editorial posts, including North American Editor of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, the Behavioral Medicine Section Editor for Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, The PTSD Section Co-editor for Psychological Injury and Law, and serves on the editorial boards for the Journal of Anxiety Disorders, the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, Clinical Journal of Pain, and several other journals. He has published over 250 journal articles and book chapters (regarding the anxiety disorders, chronic pain, and overlap between the two) as well as numerous books. He served as a member of the DSM-IV Text Revision Work Group for the Anxiety Disorders, trained as a Beck Scholar at the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research (2005-2006), and recently received the highest accolade available to scientists and scholars in Canada – induction as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2009). He is actively involved in clinical research, clinical research supervision, has a small private practice, and has research and clinical interests in assessment and basic mechanisms of the anxiety disorders, health anxiety, acute and chronic pain, and the association of these with disability and behavior change.