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Faculty Who Serve on the IMP Board of Directors

Paul R. Fulton, EdD Paul R. Fulton, EdD, President, 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
   
Trudy A. Goodman, EdM, LMFT

Trudy A. Goodman, EdM, 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

   
Susan M. Pollak, MTS, EdD, Director of Continuing Education, 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).
Email: susanpollak@comcast.net
   
Susan T. Morgan, MSN, RN, CS 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.
Email: stmorgan@animail.net
   
Charles W. Styron, PsyD 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
   
Sara W. Lazar, PhD 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
   
Christopher K. Germer, PhD

Christopher K. Germer, PhD is a clinical psychologist in private practice, specializing in mindfulness-based treatment of anxiety and couples therapy. He is a founding member of IMP and has been a Clinical Instructor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School for most of the past 25 years. Dr. Germer is the author of The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion and co-editor of Mindfulness and Psychotherapy. He co-directs the annual Harvard Medical School conference on meditation and psychotherapy, and speaks nationally on clinical applications of mindfulness and self-compassion.
Email: ckgermer@gmail.com

   
William D. Morgan, PsyD 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.
Email: wmorgan3@mac.com
   
Stephanie P. Morgan, PsyD, MSW Stephanie P. Morgan, PsyD, MSW is a clinical psychologist and social worker. She has been a student of meditation in the mindfulness and Zen traditions for the past 25 years. She was an Instructor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School from 1990-1994, training psychology interns in mindfulness and self-care skills. Dr. Morgan is currently in private practice in Manchester, MA, specializing in mindfulness-oriented treatment of depression, and consultation to meditation communities on mental health issues.
Email: stephpm01944@yahoo.com
   
Andrew R. Olendzki, PhD 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 also the editor of the Insight Journal.
Email: andrewo@dharma.org
   
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
   
   
Ronald D. Siegel, PsyD

Ronald D. Siegel, PsyD is a clinical psychologist, a member of the clinical faculty of Harvard Medical School for over 20 years, and a long-term student of mindfulness meditation. His personal recovery from disabling back pain led him to develop a mindfulness-based approach to treating chronic pain. He teaches nationally about mind/body treatment and maintains a private, clinical practice in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Dr. Siegel is a co-editor of Mindfulness and Psychotherapy and coauthor of Back Sense: A Revolutionary Approach to Halting the Cycle of Chronic Back Pain (Broadway Books).
Email: rsiegel@hms.harvard.edu

   
Janet L. Surrey, PhD 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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