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Scientist, writer and vipassana meditation teacher.

Read Jon Kabat-Zinn for applying mindfulness meditation to healing and parenting.

• He received his Ph.D. in molecular biology from MIT in 1971 with the Nobel Laureate in physiology and medicine, Salvador Luria. His research between 1979 and 2002 focused on mind/body interactions for healing, and on various clinical applications of mindfulness meditation training for people with chronic pain and/or stress-related disorders.

• Internationally known for his work as a scientist, writer, and vipassana meditation teacher who is engaged in bringing mindfulness into the mainstream of medicine and society. He is Professor of Medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he was founding executive director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society. He is also founder (in 1979) and former director of its world-renowned Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center.

• He has trained business and social groups in mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) programs. Over 200 medical centers and clinics nationwide and abroad now use the MBSR model. He conducts annual Power of Mindfulness retreats for business leaders and innovators in the Sonoran desert. In 1994, he received the Interface Foundation Career Achievement Award, and the New York Open Center's Tenth Year Anniversary Achievement in Medicine and Health Award. In 1998, he received the Art, Science, and Soul of Healing Award from the Institute for Health and Healing, California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, and in 2001, the 2nd Annual Trailblazer Award for "pioneering work in the field of integrative medicine" from the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine in La Jolla, California. He is a Founding Fellow of the Fetzer Institute and a Fellow of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, and the founding convener of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine, a network of deans and chancellors and faculty at major US medical schools engaged at the creative edges of mind/body and integrative medicine.