James J. Lynch, PhD, is Director of the Life Care Health Center in Baltimore, Maryland (www.lifecarehealth.com) and the author of The Broken Heart: The Medical Consequences of Loneliness, and A Cry Unheard: New Insights into the Medical Consequences of Loneliness. His research over the past 35 years has provided much credibility for the benefits of the human-animal bond and animal-assisted therapy. He and Aaron Katcher were the first to document how dramatically the presence of animals can lower blood pressure, and to suggest that reading to dogs might be an excellent idea to support children learning to read. We consider him one of our inspirations and are delighted he will be joining us at the first R.E.A.D.ing with Dogs conference.

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