Dr. Dan Siegel is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding codirector of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. He is also the executive director of the Mindsight Institute, which teaches insight, empathy, and integration in individuals, families, and communities.

Dr. Siegel has published extensively for both professional and lay audiences. His four New York Times bestsellers are: Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human, Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain, and two books with Tina Payne Bryson, PhD: The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline. Dr. Siegel also serves as the founding editor for the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology, which contains over fifty books.