Bruce McEwen

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Bruce McEwen
Bruce McEwen in an NCCIH interview entitled "Stress and Your Body"
Born	Bruce Sherman McEwen (1938-01-17)January 17, 1938[1] Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S.
Died	January 2, 2020(2020-01-02) (aged 81)
Education	Oberlin College (BS) Rockefeller University (PhD)
Known for	Allostatic load
Awards	Dale Medal of the Society for Endocrinology, Karl Spencer Lashley Award (2005), Pasarow Award in Neuropsychiatry (2005), Goldman-Rakic Prize for Cognitive Neuroscience (2005), Gold Medal Award from the Society for Biological Psychiatry (2009), IPSEN Foundations Prize in Neuroplasticity (2010), IPSEN Foundations Prize in Endocrine Regulations (2017)
Scientific career
Fields	neuroscience, biological psychiatry, endocrinology
Institutions	Rockefeller University, University of Minnesota
Thesis	Energy Metabolism in Cell Nuclei  (1964)
Doctoral advisor	Alfred Mirsky
Doctoral students	Heather Cameron Robert Sapolsky

Bruce Sherman McEwen (January 17, 1938 – January 2, 2020) was an American neuroendocrinologist and head of the Harold and Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology at Rockefeller University. He was known for his work on the effects of environmental and psychological stress, having coined the term allostatic load.