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Joel G. Anderson, PhD, CHTP, holds a PhD in Nutrition from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington. He completed a T32-funded postdoctoral research fellowship in the conduct of clinical studies and research with human subjects at the University of Virginia Center for the Study of Complementary and Alternative Therapies. As a fellow, Dr. Anderson served as a co-investigator on several clinical studies involving the use of complementary therapies in chronic disease populations. In addition, as a postdoctoral fellow he conducted secondary data analyses to examine the use of complementary therapies by persons with chronic diseases. He is a Certified Healing Touch Practitioner and a member of the Board of Directors and the Research Director of Healing Beyond Borders, the education and certification organization for Healing Touch. Dr. Anderson is an active member of the International Dementia Scholars Collaborative, the Gerontological Society of America, and the American Society for Nutrition. He is a member of the Kappa Omicron Nu honor society and Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society. Dr. Anderson serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Integrative Medicine & Therapy. In 2014, Dr. Anderson was named one of the 100 Inspiring Nursing Professors to Watch by the Online LPN to RN blog. In 2012, he was an invited fellow at the 12th Annual Summer Institute on Randomized Behavioral Clinical Trials sponsored by the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research at the National Institutes of Health, and the 6th Annual Mary Frances Picciano Dietary Supplements Research Practicum sponsored by the Office of Dietary Supplements at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Anderson’s research program focuses on non-pharmacological interventions for symptom management and caregiver support, with an emphasis on dementia care. This focus includes an exploration of family quality of life and the psychosocial impacts of dementia caregiving in an effort to develop tailored intervention strategies to alleviate caregiver burden. He is currently involved in several studies to examine family quality of life in dementia and to ascertain issues related to caregiver burden and caregiver support. Additionally, Dr. Anderson is collaborating with nursing researchers at the Inova Health System in Northern Virginia on several projects involving the effects of Healing Touch on patient-centered outcomes in the acute care setting.