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Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine where he is also on the faculty of the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development and the Co-Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. An award-winning educator, he is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and recipient of several other honorary fellowships. Dr. Siegel is the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational organization that focuses on how the development of mindsight in individuals, families and communities can be enhanced by examining the interface of human relationships and basic biological processes. He has published extensively for the professional audience, including his latest book, The Mindful Therapist. Dr. Siegel’s ability to make complicated concepts exciting as well as easy to understand has led him to be invited to address local, nation, and international groups of educators, parents, public administrators, health care providers, policy-makers, clergy, and neuroscientists.