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Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDirector of Virtual Reality & Immersive Techology (VR-IT) Clinic and Lab.
Use of technology to understand the interaction of sensation, embodiment, and emotional/ behavioral regulation.
Virtual reality treatments as a sensory modulating device to treat disorders involving body image, sensation, and control. Exploration of the use of mirrored visual feedback while inhabiting a virtual avatar to treat pain and somatic symptom related disorders.

Jonathan Burgess, MD, MPH

Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

BioJonathan Burgess MD, MPH is Clinical Assistant Professor in the Lifestyle Psychiatry Clinic at Stanford University School of Medicine. He one of four co-editors for The American Psychiatric Association Publishing Textbook of Lifestyle Psychiatry in press. He has published 11 academic book chapters on diet and lifestyle interventions for psychiatric disorders, as well as co-authored The Culinary Medicine Textbook: Psychiatry, Food and Mood. With over 50 publications and oral presentations, he is credited with nine Grand Rounds presentations, is a recurring faculty presenter at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, as well as an invited speaker at major academic hospitals. Dr. Burgess is co-author of the Lifestyle Interventions for Depression module of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine certification course. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, received a Doctor of Medicine from Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, and a Master of Public Health from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Dr Burgess is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and completed psychiatry residency at the University of Vermont Larner School of Medicine.