Co-Chair, 2015 U.S. Psychiatric and Mental Health Congress
Mike and Mary Sue Endowed Chair in Mind, Body, and Family Well-being Professor; School of Human Ecology Professor, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

Dr. Charles Raison is the Mike and Mary Sue Endowed Chair in Mind, Body, and Family Well-being Professor, School of Human Ecology Professor, in the Department of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Wisconsin. Previously he was a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Arizona College of Medicine and the Barry and Janet Lang Professor at the Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona. Before his time at the University of Arizona, Dr. Raison was an associate professor and the Clinical Director of the Mind-Body Program, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA. In addition, he serves as the mental health expert and mind-body consultant for CNN.com and Scientific Vice President for the European Association of Clinical Psychoneuroimmunology. Dr. Raison received his medical degree from Washington University in St. Louis, MO, where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha and won the Missouri State Medical Association Award. He completed residency training at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital in Los Angeles.

The recipient of several teaching awards, Dr. Raison has received research funding from the National Institute of Mental Health, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Georgia Department of Human Services. His research focuses on bi-directional relationships between stress and immune systems, as these relate to the development of depression in response to illness and psychosocial adversity. His research ranges from the use of cytokine antagonists for the treatment of major depression and immune system effects on central nervous system functioning to the application of compassion meditation as a strategy to reduce inflammatory responses to psychosocial stress. In addition, Dr. Raison is also on the Editorial Board of Brain, Behavior and Immunity.