Emeran A Mayer is a gastroenterologist, neuroscientist and professor in the Departments of Medicine, Physiology and Psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He is the executive director of the Gail and Gerald Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress & Resilience and the co-director of the CURE: Digestive Diseases Research Center at UCLA. As one of the pioneers and leading researchers in the role of mind-brain-gut interactions in health and chronic disease, he has made major scientific contributions to the area of basic and translational enteric neurobiology with wide-ranging applications in clinical GI diseases and disorders. Mayer is the recipient of the 2016 Paul D. McLean award from the American Psychosomatic Society and of the Ismar Boas Medal of the German Society for Gastroenterology and Metabolism.