Jon Kabat-Zinn
Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, is internationally known for his work as a scientist, writer, and mindfulness meditation teacher engaged in bringing mindfulness practices, especially mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) into the mainstream of medicine and society. He is Professor Emeritus of medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he was founding executive director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society, which celebrated its 30th Anniversary in 2009. He was the former director of its world-renowned Stress Reduction Clinic. More than 200 medical institutions nationwide and abroad now use the clinic’s mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) model to teach mindfulness meditation.
Dr Kabat-Zinn’s research since 1979 focused on mind/body interactions for healing; the clinical applications of mindfulness meditation training for people with chronic pain; stress-related disorders; psoriasis, and cancer; the effects of MBSR on the brain, emotions, and the immune system; with prison inmates and staff; in multicultural settings; and on stress in various corporate settings and work environments.
Dr Kabat-Zinn is the founding convener of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine, a network of deans, chancellors, and faculty at major United States medical schools engaged at the creative edges of mind/body and integrative medicine. He also serves on the board of the Mind and Life Institute, a group that organizes dialogues between the Dalai Lama and western scientists and scholars.
Dr Kabat-Zinn is well known for his best selling books Full Catastrophe Living; Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditations on Everyday Life; Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness, and through the Bill Moyers’ PBS Special: Healing and the Mind . He is also co-author, with his wife Myla, of Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting
For more information on Dr Jon Kabat-Zinn’s work and research please visit
www.umassmed.edu/Content.aspx?id=41252
www.mindfulnesstapes.com/author.html
Dr Kabat-Zinn’s research since 1979 focused on mind/body interactions for healing; the clinical applications of mindfulness meditation training for people with chronic pain; stress-related disorders; psoriasis, and cancer; the effects of MBSR on the brain, emotions, and the immune system; with prison inmates and staff; in multicultural settings; and on stress in various corporate settings and work environments.
Dr Kabat-Zinn is the founding convener of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine, a network of deans, chancellors, and faculty at major United States medical schools engaged at the creative edges of mind/body and integrative medicine. He also serves on the board of the Mind and Life Institute, a group that organizes dialogues between the Dalai Lama and western scientists and scholars.
Dr Kabat-Zinn is well known for his best selling books Full Catastrophe Living; Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditations on Everyday Life; Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness, and through the Bill Moyers’ PBS Special: Healing and the Mind . He is also co-author, with his wife Myla, of Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting
For more information on Dr Jon Kabat-Zinn’s work and research please visit
www.umassmed.edu/Content.aspx?id=41252
www.mindfulnesstapes.com/author.html
