Our 8th Annual International Scientific Conference is scheduled for April 7-11, 2010 in Worcester, MA.

Our Call for Papers and Presentations has concluded. The selection process is now underway. We will post a complete listing of all conference sessions shortly.

Preliminary 2010 Conference Information

David M. Eisenberg, MD
Director, Harvard Medical School Osher Research Center
Bernard Osher Associate Professor of Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Program Director, Integrative Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Paul Grossman, PhD
Director of Research
Department of Psychosomatic Medicine
Division of Internal Medicine
University of Basel Hospital
Basel, Switzerland

Amishi P. Jha, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
University of Pennsylvania

Mary Jo Kreitzer, PhD, RN, FAAN
Director, Center for Spirituality & Healing
Professor, School of Nursing
University of Minnesota

Opening Keynote Address:

Saki F. Santorelli, EdD, MA
Conference Chair
Associate Professor of Medicine
Executive Director, Center for Mindfulness
University of Massachusetts Medical School

Please check this again page in mid-to-late October for additional conference information.

Below is information about the 7th Annual Conference which took place March 18-22, 2009.

DVDs and CDs from this March 2009 Conference can be purchased by clicking here.

7th Annual International Scientific Conference for Clinicians, Researchers and Educators:

Investigating and Integrating Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society

March 18–22, 2009
Crowne Plaza Hotel and Resort - Worcester, MA, USA

Please join us in celebrating 30 years of mindfulness in medicine: 1979-2009

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Click here to download the complete conference brochure (PDF).

Special Pre-Conference Public Event

This Analog Life: Reconnecting with What is Most Important in an Always Uncertain World An Evening of Mindfulness Practice and Dialogue with Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD Click for more information.

Conference Highlights

Plenary Speakers
	Margaret Chesney, PhD Associate Director, Center for Integrative Medicine Professor of Medicine University of Maryland School of Medicine Former Deputy Director of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) National Institutes of Health (NIH)  Click for more information
	Richard Davidson, PhD William James and Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry Director, W.M. Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging University of Wisconsin  Click for more information
	Carolyn Jacobs, MSW, PhD Dean and Elizabeth Marting Treuhaft Professor School for Social Work Smith College  Click for more information
	Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts Medical School  Click for more information
	Saki F. Santorelli, EdD, MA Conference Chair Executive Director, Center for Mindfulness University of Massachusetts Medical School  Click for more information

Research Symposium

The Biological Mechanisms of Mindfulness
Co-Chairs: Amishi P. Jha, PhD and Philippe Goldin, PhD
For more information, please click here.

Featuring Pre-Conference and Post-Conference Institutes and Workshops

Pre-Conference Institutes (For more information, please click here)

Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm

• Taking Your Seat: A Day of Mindfulness Meditation Practice
  Melissa Blacker, Florence Meleo-Meyer, Bob Stahl, and Saki Santorelli
• Integrating Emotion Training into MBSR -
  One day workshop based on UCSF research program
  "Cultivating Emotional Balance" and SMART in Education
  pilot programs to teachers and school administrators
  Margaret Cullen, MFT

Pre-Conference Workshops (For more information, please click here)

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Morning workshops: 9:00 am to noon 

• Exploring Mindfulness through Qualitative Research Methodologies
  Belinda S.L.Khong, PhD 
• Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Mindfulness and Addiction
  Lawrence Peltz, MD

Afternoon workshops: 1:00 to 4:00 pm

• The Body and Posture in MBSR: Practicalities and Possibilities
  -THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED-
  Timothea Goddard, BA, Dip. Psychotherapy 
  
• Thinking the World Together: Seeking accord and interdependence
  in the discourses of mindfulness teaching and research
  Donald McCown, MAMS, MSS and Susan Wiley, MD

Post Conference Institutes (For more information, please click here) 

Sunday, March 22, 2009, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm

• Turning toward the moment: Challenges in clinical
  practice and the integration of mindfulness, narrative
  medicine, and appreciative inquiry
  Mick Krasner, MD, FACP, and Anthony Suchman, MD, FACP 
• Welcome to the Guesthouse: The Five Remembrances as A
  Teaching Platform for MBSR
  Elana Rosenbaum, MS, MSW, Lucia McBee, LCSW, MPH, RYI and Vered Hankin, MA, PhD

Post-Conference Workshops(For more information, please click here)

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Morning workshops: 9:00 am to noon

• Two Wings of a Bird: Mindfulness and Compassion Practices for Chronic Pain Patients
  Beth Roth, MSN
• Mindfulness in Elementary School: An Exploratory Discussion
  Gina Biegel, MA, LMFT, and Laurie Grossman, BA

Afternoon workshops: 1:00 to 4:00 pm

• A Model for MBSR Teaching Support
  Katherine Bonus, MA, Laura Pinger, MS, and Diana Grove, BSN
• “The Between”: Mindfulness in Relationship
  Nick Luchetti, M.S., and Mary Tibbetts-Cape, LICSW