Raphael N Melmed, M.B.,Ch.B., M.D.

Dr Melmed is a graduate of the University of Cape Town Medical School, South Africa. After working in Zimbabwe and Sweden, Dr Melmed trained in General Medicine, Liver Disease and Gastroenterology in the Academic Department of Medicine, Royal Free Hospital (Department Head: Professor Sheila Sherlock), and then at the Courtauld Institute of Biochemistry, Middlesex Hospital Medical School, University of London in the Ultrastructure Laboratory. His major academic interests over the last 20 years has been in reevaluating the field of psychophysiology in Internal Medicine, culminating in the publication of his book this year called "Mind, Body, and Medicine: an Integrative text" (Oxford University Press). In addition, Dr Melmed has been researching physiological techniques for quantification of emotion-related sympathetic activity and is currently combining these techniques with functional brain imaging to the study of the regulation of eating behavior and body weight control in humans. He is currently Associate Professor of Medicine, occupies the Israel S Wechsler Chair of Medical Education, is Head of the Unit of Behavioral Medicine in Internal Medicine, and was formerly head of the Department of Medicine A (rotating position). Dr Melmed was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London) in 1987.