Howard Schubiner, MD, who attained the rank of full Professor at Wayne State University School of Medicine in 1999, is an internist and the Director of the Mind Body Medicine Center at Ascension Providence Hospital in Southfield, Michigan. A Clinical Professor at the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine and a Fellow in the American College of Physicians and the American Academy of Pediatrics, he has authored more than 100 publications in scientific journals and books, and lectures regionally, nationally and internationally. Dr. Schubiner has consulted for the American Medical Association, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the National Institute on Mental Health. He is the author of three books: Unlearn Your Pain; Unlearn Your Anxiety and Depression; and Hidden From View, written with Dr. Allan Abbass.

He has collaborated extensively with Mark Lumley, a Professor of Psychology at Wayne State in a series of studies to develop psychological treatments for chronic pain, including Emotion Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET), now listed as a treatment option in the 2019 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Pain Management Best Practices Inter-agency Task Force Report.