Jon Kabat-Zinn
Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Dr. Kabat-Zinn has conducted numerous studies and published several books which focus on mind-body interventions that promote healing. His Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program, an eight week course that combines meditation and hatha yoga, has been demonstrated to effect positive changes in brain activity, stress reduction, improved emotional processing, better immune functioning and symptom amelioration in people who suffer from chronic pain, stress-related illnesses and/or a wide range of chronic diseases, including breast cancer. Over 200 medical centers and clinics nationwide and abroad now use the MBSR model. Dr. Kabat-Zinn received his Ph.D. in molecular biology in 1971 from MIT.
