Bruce S. McEwen Keynote Speaker

07.06.2010

Professor Bruce S. McEwen is Head of the Harald and Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology at the Rockefeller University New York. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Institute of Medicine.

In 1998, in The New England Journal of Medicine, Bruce S. McEwen proposed a radically new understanding of the impact of chronic stress linked to a concept termed Allostatic load. This modell caught immediately the interest of some Nordic General Practitioners. They saw depicted what they encountered every single day in their clinics: the ”wear and tear” of chronic lifetime adversity, conflicting relationships and unescapable burdens.

This is why he is coming to Tromsø. (Besides: a post-doc fellowship years ago made him a true friend of Scandinavia)