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Faculty Who Serve on the IMP Board of
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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 |
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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
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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 |
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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.
Email: stmorgan@animail.net |
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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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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
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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.
Email:
wmorgan3@mac.com |
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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 |
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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 also the editor of the
Insight Journal.
Email: andrewo@dharma.org |
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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 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 |
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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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