Program in Placebo Studies
The Program in Placebo Studies and the Therapeutic Encounter was founded in July 2011, at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Harvard Medical School. Its purpose is to bring together researchers who are examining the placebo response.
PiPS is led by the following members of the Harvard faculty:
- Ted Kaptchuk, Director
- Irving Kirsch, PhD, Associate Director
- Randy L. Gollub, MD, PhD, Director of Neuroimaging
- Anne Harrington, PhD, Director of Initiatives in the Humanities
- Efi Kokkoutou, MD, PhD, Director of Molecular Biology Research
- John Kelley, PhD, Director of Psychological Research
- Anthony Lembo, MD, Director of Clinical Research
