Judson Brewer, MD PhD. Past and Future Meet Present: The Center for Mindfulness’ Research Priorities

10 of 12. This talk by Judson Brewer, MD, PhD, Associate Professor in Medicine and Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, was given as part of the 2015 UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain research summit "Perspectives on Mindfulness: the Complex Role of Scientific Research" on May 21, 2015.

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Talk abstract: Through his pioneering work 35 years ago in developing the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program, a standardized, and researchable mindfulness program, Jon Kabat-Zinn, helped to set the western wheel in motion. Today, mindfulness is featured on the cover of Time Magazine, on 60 minutes and at Google (among others). This talk will delineate some of the current opportunities and challenges that the Center for Mindfulness faces as it looks to support this growing field of research.

Judson Brewer, MD PhD is the Director of Research at the Center for Mindfulness and associate professor in medicine and psychiatry at UMass Medical School. He also is adjunct faculty at Yale University, and a research affiliate at MIT. A psychiatrist and internationally known expert in mindfulness training for addictions, Brewer has developed and tested novel mindfulness programs for addictions, including both in-person and app-based treatments. He has also studied the underlying neural mechanisms of mindfulness using standard and real-time fMRI, and is currently translating these findings into clinical use. He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, presented to the US President’s Office of National Drug Control Policy, been featured on 60 minutes, at TEDx, in Time magazine (top 100 new health discoveries of 2013), Forbes, Businessweek, NPR and the BBC among others. He writes a blog for The Huffington Post.

Conference Organizing Committee: Clifford Saron, Ph.D., Chair; Catherine Kerr, Ph.D.; David Meyer, Ph.D.; & Evan Thompson, Ph.D. Dr. Brewer is introduced by Clifford Saron.

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