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Susan M. Pollak, MTS, EdD, President, is a clinical psychologist. Dr. Pollak received a degree in Comparative Religion from Harvard Divinity School, her doctorate in Psychology from Harvard University, and her clinical training through Harvard Medical School. She has been a clinician and Instructor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School for 20 years, specializing in the integration of meditation and psychotherapy. She has had a meditation and yoga practice since childhood. She is the co-editor, with Merry White, of The Cultural Transition (Routledge & Kegan Paul), contributing author to Mapping the Moral Domain, ed. Carol Gilligan, (Harvard Press), and a contributing author to Evocative Objects, ed. Sherry Turkle (MIT Press). |
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Trudy A. Goodman, PhD, Guiding Teacher, is president and founder of InsightLA, a non-profit organization for secular mindfulness education and Vipassana meditation training . She teaches extensively in the field of meditation and psychotherapy at conferences and retreats nationwide. In 1995, she co-founded the very first Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy in Cambridge, MA, where she lived and taught at the Cambridge Buddhist Association from 1991-98. Trudy has studied Buddhist meditation for 35 years, with Asian and Western teachers, and is also an affiliate teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California. She is a contributing author to Mindfulness and Psychotherapy (Guilford 2005) and Clinical Handbook of Mindfulness (Springer, 2008). Email: trudy@sprintmail.com |
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Susan T. Morgan, MSN, RN, CS, Secretary, is a Clinical Nurse Specialist in private practice in Cambridge, MA. She has meditated in both the Christian and the Buddhist traditions for the past 20 years. Ms. Morgan was Coordinator of the Yale Adult Pervasive Developmental Disorders Research Clinic for five years. Following this, she was a clinician at the Harvard University Health Services and introduced mindfulness meditation to college students in the context of psychotherapy. Ms. Morgan participates in a 6-week silent mindfulness retreat each year. When not practicing psychotherapy, she is mindfully throwing clay pots. Susan will be away on retreat until September, 2011 Email: stmorgan11@gmail.com |
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Charles W. Styron, PsyD, Treasurer, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Watertown, Massachusetts, as well as a consulting psychologist for Caritas Norwood Hospital in Norwood, Massachusetts. He is the founder of Everest Coaching, for which he does professional and executive coaching, and he is also a former architect. Additionally, Dr. Styron has been a practitioner and teacher in the Shambhala and Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhist traditions for 25 years. Email: CWStyron@aol.com |
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Sara W. Lazar, PhD, Science Advisor, is a neuroscientist in the Psychiatry Department at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Instructor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School. The focus of her research is the neurobiology of meditation. Dr. Lazar uses functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate the neural correlates of changes in autonomic function during the practice of meditation. She has been practicing yoga and mindfulness meditation since 1994. Email: lazar@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu |
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Paul R. Fulton, EdD, is a clinical psychologist and founding member of IMP. He is currently Director of Mental Health for Tufts Health Plan, a large managed care organization in Massachusetts. He is also a forensic psychologist. Dr. Fulton received his doctoral degree from Harvard University and his clinical training through Harvard Medical School at Cambridge Hospital. He was the clinical director of a large state psychiatric facility, and later the program director for a private psychiatric hospital. Dr. Fulton has been teaching about psychology and meditation for many years and is a co-editor of the book, Mindfulness and Psychotherapy. Dr. Fulton is also on the board of directors of the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies and maintains a private practice in Newton, Massachusetts. Email: PFulton00@netscape.net |
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Christopher K. Germer, PhD, Christopher K. Germer, PhD is a clinical psychologist in private practice, specializing in mindfulness, acceptance, and compassion-based treatment. He has been integrating the principles and practices of meditation into psychotherapy since 1978. Dr. Germer is a clinical instructor in psychology at Harvard Medical School and a founding member of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy. He lectures internationally on mindfulness and self-compassion, is a co-editor of Mindfulness and Psychotherapy, author of The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion, and co-editor of the forthcoming Wisdom and Compassion in Psychotherapy: Deepening Mindfulness in Clinical Practice. |
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William D. Morgan, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Cambridge and Braintree, Massachusetts. He has participated in intensive retreats in the Theravadin, Zen, and Tibetan schools of Buddhism during his 30 years of meditation practice. Dr. Morgan’s graduate research focused on the meaning of making progress in meditation. Since 1987, he has led retreats and taught mindfulness meditation, most recently to psychotherapists. Bill will be away on retreat until September, 2011. Email: wdmorgan33@gmail.com |
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Andrew R. Olendzki, PhD, is a scholar of the early Buddhist tradition, trained at Lancaster University (England), Harvard University, and at the University of Sri Lanka (Perediniya). In addition to teaching at various New England colleges, he was the Executive Director of the Insight Meditation Society for 6 years, and is currently the Executive Director and core faculty member of the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, Barre, Massachusetts. Dr. Olendzki is the editor of the Insight Journal and and is the author of Unlimiting Mind: The Radically Experiential Psychology of Buddhism. |
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Tom Pedulla, LICSW, is a clinical social worker in private practice in Arlington, Massachusetts. In addition to working with individual adults, he also leads Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy groups for people coping with depression and anxiety. A practitioner of meditation in the Vipassana tradition since 1987, Tom also serves on the board of directors at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center. Email: tpedulla@comcast.net |
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Ronald D. Siegel, PsyD, is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School, where he has taught for over 25 years. He teaches internationally about mindfulness and psychotherapy and mind/body treatment, has worked for many years in community mental health with inner city children and families, and maintains a private clinical practice in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Dr. Siegel is coauthor of the self-treatment guide Back Sense: A Revolutionary Approach to Halting the Cycle of Chronic Back Pain, which integrates Western and Eastern approaches for treating chronic back pain; coeditor of Mindfulness and Psychotherapy, and author of a recent book for general audiences, The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems. Email: rsiegel@hms.harvard.edu • Web site: www.Minfulness-Solution.com |
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Janet L. Surrey, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and a Founding Scholar of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute at the Stone Center, Wellesley College. She is on the faculty of the the Andover-Newton Theological School. Dr. Surrey has been consulting and teaching Relational-Cultural Theory nationally and internationally for over 20 years, and has been working to synthesize Buddhist and relational psychology. She has co-authored or co-edited a number of books, including Women's Growth in Connection (Guilford Press), Women's Growth in Diversity, Mothering Against the Odds: Diverse Voices of Contemporary Mothers (Guilford Press), We Have to Talk: Healing Dialogues Between Women and Men (Basic Books) and Bill W. and Dr. Bob: The Story of the Founding of Alcoholics Anonymous (Samuel French). Email: jsurrey@comcast.net |
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Christopher Willard, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice and at Tufts University. He works primarily with adolescents and young adults, and also consults about mental health issues in the workplace and in schools, nationally and internationally. Dr. Willard has been formally practicing meditation since 1999, with retreat practice in North America and Asia. He has taught mindfulness to developmentally disabled children, ex-cons, college students, and a wide range of health and education professionals. Most recently, he is the author of Child's Mind, a book about teaching meditation to adolescents and children and is currently working on a series of followup workbooks. |
