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Michael
Baime, M.D. - Meditation, Mind-Body Medicine and Stress
Management
Barbie Dossey, Ph.D., RN - Spirituality in Healing
Larry Dossey, M.D. - Spirituality in Healing
Mitchell Krucoff, M.D. - The
MANTRA Project
Al Neims, M.D., Ph.D. - Mentor
Greg Plotnikoff, M.D. - Global Perspectives
on Healing
Michael Baime received his B.A. at Haverford College and graduated
from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1981.
He was the Chief of
General Internal Medicine at the Graduate Hospital in Philadelphia from 1992
until 1998. He is the founder and director of the Penn Program
for Stress Management, a meditation-based program at the University
of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. A particular focus of the Penn
Program is the adaptation of mindfulness-based techniques for use
as tools to improve communication, empathy, and healing in health
care. Current initiatives include an onsite training program for
the employees of the four largest hospices in Philadelphia, and a
continuing medical education program entitled “Healing the
Heart and Mind” which teaches clinicians to use mindfulness-based
techniques in their practice. Another major initiative, sponsored
by the Departments of Quality Improvement and Systems Development
at Penn, is attempting to use mindfulness as a tool to enhance healing,
safety, and empathy throughout the entire University hospital system.
Dr. Baime is the director of a full-time month-long
rotation at the University of Pennsylvania medical school, “Spirituality
and Medicine.” This elective rotation for first year medical
students was developed to cultivate personal and spiritual growth
through work with small groups, individual preceptors, and hospitalized
patients. This year, Dr. Baime was nominated to receive the University’s
Special Teaching award because of his work with this class.
Dr. Baime began practicing meditation in 1969. In 1983
he was authorized as a meditation instructor in the Karma Kagyu lineage
of Tibetan Buddhism under the direction of Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche.
In 1991 he was authorized to teach advanced meditation practices
to more senior students. He was the Philadelphia Resident Director
of Shambhala Training, a secular meditation program founded by Chogyam
Trungpa, from 1986 to 1991, and from 1991 to 1997, he was an International
Emissary for Shambhala Training.
Dr. Baime lives with his wife, who is also a physician
and a meditation teacher, and two children, in a small town outside
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is an internationally recognized author, lecturer and educator.
He is a former internist and chief of staff of Medical City Dallas
Hospital and former co-chair of the panel on Mind/Body Interventions,
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National
Institutes of Health. He is the executive editor of Explore:
The Journal of Science and Healing, and the author of ten books on
the role of consciousness and spirituality in healing, including
the New York Times best seller Healing Words: The Power of Prayer
and the Practice of Medicine.
is
an award winning author, educator, consultant, and a trailblazer
in holistic nursing. A recognized
leader and authority
in the field, she has provided innovative and practical approaches
that have helped set the standards of excellence. Barbie is the author
of numerous respected and award winning books, including her latest
book, Florence Nightingale, Mystic, Visionary,
Healer. She is the founder of the Nightingale
Initiative for Global Health, a program
dedicated to the world wide campaign for health as the top global
priority.
Barbara Dossey and Larry Dossey were the recipients of the 2004
Pioneer of Integrative Medicine Award by the Aspen Center for Integrative
Health, honoring their contributions to holistic medicine, holistic
nursing, and integrative healthcare. In 2003 The Dosseys were the
recipients of the Archon Award of Sigma Theta Tau International,
the Honor Society of Nursing, honoring the contributions that they
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Mitchell W. Krucoff, MD, received his bachelor’s degree from
Yale University in 1976 and his MD from George Washington University
in 1980. He completed his
residency in internal medicine at George Washington University in 1985. Before
joining the cardiology staff at Duke, he served on the cardiology faculty at
Georgetown University as director of the cardiovascular intensive care unit.
He currently serves as director of the Ischemia Monitoring
Laboratory and director of interventional clinical trials for the
Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI), as senior staff in the Interventional
Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories at Duke Medical Center, and
as director of the Cardiovascular Laboratories at the Durham Veterans
Administration (VA) Medical Center.
Since 1990, Dr. Krucoff has served as a member of the
board of directors of the Sri Satya Sai Institute of Higher Medical
Sciences in Puttaparthi, India. He has published more than 50 articles
in refereed medical journals and has written numerous book chapters
on various aspects of cardiology and coronary care. He is the principal
investigator of the Monitoring and Actualization of Noetic Trainings
(MANTRA) Study Project at the DCRI.
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Allen H. Neims is a Professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics and of Pediatrics
at the University of Florida College of Medicine.
Neims matriculated at the University
of Chicago in 1953 and received a B.A. and B.S. (biochemistry) in
1957. He attended medical school at Hopkins and received an M.D.
in 1961. He married Myrna Robins in 1961. Myrna Neims, Ph.D., is
a practicing mental health counselor. They have three children and
five grandchildren.
In 1972 Neims joined the faculty of McGill
University in Montreal, ultimately as a Professor of Pediatrics and
Pharmacology and as Director of the Roche Developmental Pharmacology
Unit. From 1972 8, he studied basic and clinical pharmacology of
useful and harmful drugs in pregnancy and childhood. His laboratory
helped to unravel the ontogeny of drug metabolism at a molecular
and clinical level. He also published a variety of papers on the
action and disposition of caffeine. He served as Felton Bequest Professor
at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia in 1974.
 In
1978, Neims became Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmacology
and Therapeutics and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of
Florida, a position he occupied for eleven years. His laboratory
continued to focus on the basis of individuality in the response
to drugs. He served as an Attending Physician in pediatrics and directed
a drug therapy consultation service. In 1989, Neims was appointed
Dean of the College of Medicine at Florida, a position he occupied
until recently August, 1996. During his deanship, he is particularly
proud to have been associated with revision of the curriculum with
renewed focus on generalist medicine and human values, the initiation
of a major teaching center with focus on patient doctor communication,
the initiation of a multimillion dollar research, educational and
clinical programs devoted to the brain sciences, gene therapy, structural
biology and imaging. He also participated actively in the development
of the Faculty Group Practice and the UF Health System. Neims was
elected to the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars in 1990.
For the past ten years, Neims has become more and more
interested in the mind and spirituality and their role in health
and healing, relationship centered care, wellness and integrative
medicine. He chaired the NIH OCAM Blue Ribbon Panel focused on teaching
alternative and complementary medicine in medical and nursing schools
and has addressed several medical organizations and hospital systems
about complementary medicine, holistic medicine, spirituality and
health. He also chaired a NIH NCCAM Special Emphasis Panel concerned
with approaches to integrate complementary and alternative medicine
into conventional health center curricula in August, 2000. He believes
that the combination of an open mind, a historical perspective, respect
for varying worldviews, improved communication skills, a deeper appreciation
of the importance of lifestyle in prevention, personal growth and
a commitment to appropriate scientific rigor are critical for progress
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Gregory A. Plotnikoff, MD, MTS is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
and Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota Academic Health Center where he
serves as Medical Director of the Center for Spirituality and Healing. Prior
to medical school, Greg attended Harvard Divinity School where he studied spirituality
with Henri Nouwen, world religions and cultures with Diana Eck, political philosophy
with John Rawls and bioethics with Arthur Dyck. While at Harvard, Greg graduated
from the Youville Hospital Chaplaincy Training Program.
Board certified in both internal medicine and pediatrics,
Greg serves patients of all ages at the Community-University Health
Care Center, an inner-city primary care clinic where at least 14
unique languages are spoken. There, Western biomedicine is often
considered "alternative." Drawing from both his educational
and clinical experiences, Greg has published and lectured extensively
on natural products as medicines, cross-cultural ethics, spirituality
in clinical care and the integration of complementary and alternative
medicine into conventional care.
Greg is a faculty associate of the Center for Bioethics
as well as the Center for Plants and Human Health. Greg's current
research includes: Hmong shamanism in Minnesota, medicinal mushrooms
as immunopotentiating and tumoricidal agents, vitamin D deficiency
in adults as well as omega-3 essential fatty acid deficiency syndromes.
Greg has been the recipient of numerous awards including
a Templeton Curriculum Award for Spirituality and Medicine, an "In
the Spirit of Carleton" Distinguished Alumni Award and a University
of Minnesota CHIP Distinguished Alumni Award. He has also been recognized
as "One of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare" by
Minnesota Physician magazine and as "One of the Top 100 People
to Watch in 2000" by Mpls/St.Paul Magazine.
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