Gary G. Berntson is an Emeritus Academy Professor of Psychology at the Ohio State University. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles and has edited several books. He has served on numerous federal advisory committees (National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation, as well as the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defence). He has served as a Board member, Secretary and then President of the Society for Psychophysiological Research. He was the recipient of Distinguished Teaching and Distinguished Scholar awards from the Ohio State University, and received the Paul D. MacLean Award for Outstanding Research in Neuroscience from the American Psychosomatic Society in 2013.