Eric L. Garland

Eric L. Garland, PhD, LCSW, is Distinguished Endowed Chair in Research, Distinguished Professor, and Associate Dean for Research at the University of Utah College of Social Work, where he is also Director of the Center on Mindfulness and Integrative Health Intervention Development. Dr. Garland is the developer of Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement. He has published more than 250 scientific papers and has conducted extensive clinical trials of mindfulness for addiction and chronic pain. Dr. Garland is an appointed member of the Multi-Disciplinary Working Group that assists the Helping to End Addiction Long-term Initiative of the National Institutes of Health (NIH HEAL Initiative). In 2021, a bibliometric analysis of mindfulness research published over the past 55 years found Dr. Garland to be the most prolific author of mindfulness research in the world.