A place to list yourself, your interests and contact information if you’d like to network with other practitioners with similar interests. Here’s mine:
Mark McCabe MD, Internal Medicine, dharmadoctor@gmail.com. My medical interests are reflected in this website and I also practice in the vipassana tradition of Buddhism.
Dear Mark,
Thank you very much for being the cause of this great intersection between medicine, health care and Buddhism.
I’m a physician who began in internal medicine, went into emergency room practice, then into psychiatry and psychoanalysis. I’m also a member of a local sangha, Nalandabodhi.
I’m currently working on a project to help Pora Tulku Rinpoche with his hospital in Nangchen Par Ka, a nomadic community in eastern Tibet. He’s particularly interested in getting help with the treatment of tuberculosis, maternal and child, neonatal illness, dental disease, and eye disease (mainly cataracts). He needs equipment, particularly ultrasound equipment, technicians, physicians, nurses, the whole gamut. Needless to say, it’s a long term project and multi-generational.
It can provide some interested people with a great opportunity to be in a community that isn’t visited by tourists, to be at home with the Rinpoche, his friends and family, fellow monks and traditional medical practitioners. As well, it’s quite an adventure to get there. Rinpoche gave me a choice: horseback or truck, with the horses being more reliable.
If you or colleagues are interested in any way in talking about the project, I’d be very pleased to talk or meet with you.
Thanks again,
Don Ross
I am very happy to find this website and opportunity for open communication about bringing a different kind of relief to and within the medical community.
I offer Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction classes in Seattle. My meditation experience dates back to 1977 and I was trained in 2004 and 2008 at the Center for Mindfulness founded by Jon Kabat Zinn . I am also a RN and my classes are for both personal and professional development. I also offer CEU and CME. The classes are held in a lovely studio in Fremont I rent and they are beginning to be full at 12 participants.
I have been offering the 8 week class, an occassional half day retreat for those wanting to check this out, free open houses, and introductory 4 week programs for those who cannot or do not wish to invest in the 8 week program, as well as other types of programs for corporations and groups. In spring 2009 I will be teaching MBSR at Evergreen Hospital in Kirkland. In 2008 I was the consultant and facilitator for a 6 month medical pilot study for health and weight management using MBSR with 24 employees of Grange Insurance Company in Seattle. The success and compliance rate was the best the co-sponsor has ever seen in their 10 year history of weight management with only behavior, nutrition and physcial activity interventions.
I would very much like to join efforts with other health care professionals in exploring common ground of what could be a healthy respite from our usual SOP of medicine and health care.
Your replies and communicatoin welcome.
Thank you,
Deborah Klibanoff
deborah@grow-aware.com
http://www.grow-aware.com
What a wonderful website you have started! You have a great deal of valuable information posted, and I am looking forward to contributing.
I am a Psychologist in Seattle working with the Evidence Based Treatment Centers of Seattle. I regularly offer Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) classes which focus on preventing relapse to depression. I also specialize in treating anxiety disorders (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Panic, Social Anxiety, Generalized Anxiety and worry, and Specific Phobias), and incorporate mindfulness practices into individual psychotherapy. My approach to therapy is cognitive-behavioral and heavily influenced by the teachings of mindfulness, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. I am very interested in the growing scientific literature on mindfulness meditation, and excited to see the many different health care professionals who are interested in incorporating some of these practices into their treatments.
I look forward to contributing and learning with others here.
Jayde Pryzgoda, PhD
jpryzgoda@ebtseattle.com
http://asrcseattle.com/mbct.html
http://asrcseattle.com/bios/pryzgoda.html
Juniper offers Buddhist training for modern life. We are deeply interested in the intersection of buddhist training and modern knowledge. Our work involves extracting the essence of Buddhist thought from its cultural wrapper and placing it in a modern context. We also focus on integrative healing services that use Buddhist methods to assist those undergoing medical and other challenges.
Wishing you the best of luck with this site. Thank you.
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