Beverley Meerveld

Beverley Greenwood-Van Meerveld, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Physiology, director of the Oklahoma Center for Neuroscience, and a Senior VA Career Scientist, has devoted much of her research career to the connection between emotional stress and gastrointestinal problems. Each discovery has served as a stepping stone to another, more specific research project, such as her current work, which seeks to identify mechanisms in the brain that make women with irritable bowel syndrome more susceptible to abdominal pain than men when under stress.