An expert in Virtual Reality, former chair of the UNC Charlotte Computer Science Department and former Director of the School of Computing at Clemson University, Larry Hodges received his M.S. in 1982 and his Ph.D. in 1988 from N.C. State University. After graduating, Hodges joined the computer science faculty at Georgia Tech, where he was a founding member of the Graphics, Visualization and Usability (GVU) center. Hodges also led the Virtual Environments Research Group, which focused on the rapidly emerging area of Virtual Reality. In 1995 his work with Virtual Reality resulted in the 1995 publication of Effectiveness of computer-generated (virtual reality) graded exposure in the treatment of acrophobia in the American Journal of Psychiatry. This paper was the first published report of a controlled study on the use of VR for psychotherapy in the psychiatric literature. It caught the attention of a large number of venues, including CNN, Dateline NBC, Good Morning America, US News & World Report, Discover, and the New York Times. Since this publication, Hodges has continued to develop Virtual Therapy into other areas of cognitive behavior therapy such as fear of flying, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in military veterans, and balance disorders. His work in this area was recognized in 2006 when Dr. Hodges was awarded the IEEE Virtual Reality Career Award in Recognition of Seminal Contributions to Clinical Virtual Reality.In 1996, he founded Virtually Better, Inc. (VBI) with research colleague Barbara Rothbaum of Emory University. VBI specializes in creation, testing, and sales of virtual environments for clinical applications in psychiatry, psychology, and addiction. Today, these systems are used by clinicians in many states across the United States and eleven other countries.With over 150 published papers, Dr. Hodges has continued as an active researcher in several other areas of Virtual Reality such as 3D User Interface Design and Evaluation, Interactive Training Systems, and Virtual Humans. He has served as General Chair of both the IEEE Virtual Reality Conference and the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, the Steering Committee of the IEEE VR Conference, the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics and the Advisory Board of the Journal of Healthcare Informatics ResearchDr. Hodges returned to North Carolina to serve as the Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte from 2002-2008. Through his efforts there, he doubled the number of Computer Science faculty members and tripled the annual external funding of the Department. Currently, Dr. Hodges is Professor of Human-Centered Computing in the School of Computing, a Faculty Scholar in the School of Health Research, and a Faculty Fellow in the Spiro Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership—all at Clemson University. He is also Co-founder and COO of Recovr, Inc., a new startup in the area of physical rehabilitation.