Alan Gordon

Alan Gordon, LCSW, is the Founder and Director of the Pain Psychology Center where he oversees a team of 25 therapists. Alan developed Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), a cutting-edge protocol for treating chronic pain, and just completed a groundbreaking neuroimaging study on the efficacy of PRT in conjunction with the University of Colorado Boulder. He was featured on CBS's The Doctors, where he conducted the first fMRI case study of a patient eliminating chronic pain. He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at USC and has presented on the topic of pain treatment at conferences and trainings throughout the country. Alon Ziv has a degree in Neuroscience and was awarded the Certificate of Distinction in Teaching in Biology from UCLA. He is the author of Breeding Between the Lines: Why Interracial People Are Healthier and More Attractive and has appeared on the BBC London Evening News, NPR, BBC Radio, and local radio across the United States. Alon co-founded PrepU, an adaptive learning system for the sciences that has been used by college students over 1 billion times.