Stephen W. Porges

Stephen W. Porges works in Preventive Cardiology affiliated with University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Stephen W. Porges is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University Bloomington. He holds a courtesy professor position in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Jacksonville. He is the developer of the Polyvagal Theory, which has implications for understanding autonomic influences on cardiac function and social behavior.