James S Gordon MD, author of Transforming Trauma: The Path to Hope and Healing, is a Harvard educated psychiatrist, and the founder and CEO of the nonprofit Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington DC. Dr Gordon is internationally recognized for using self-awareness, self-care, and group support to heal population-wide psychological trauma. He is a clinical professor at Georgetown Medical School, and was chairman (under presidents Clinton and GW Bush) of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy.