Keynote - Randolph M. Nesse, M.D.

Evolutionary Medicine: Envisioning the Opportunities Randolph M. Nesse, M.D. University of Michigan Randolph M. Nesse is Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan, where he directs the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program. He collaborated with the George Williams to write several seminal works on Darwinian medicine, including Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine. His early research on the neuroendocrinology of anxiety has been transformed into a focus on how selection shapes mechanisms that regulate defenses such as pain, fever, anxiety and low mood. He is devoted to encouraging doctors and researchers to apply evolutionary insights in diverse areas of medicine and to helping organize the growing Evolution and Medicine community via many initiatives including EvolutionAndMedicine.org and The Evolution & Medicine Review. Nesse is also President of the Foundation for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health.