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Faculty
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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:
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Trudy A. Goodman, EdM, LMFT, Guiding
Teacher, has been teaching the integration of psychotherapy
and meditation since 1976. She studied child development with
Jean Piaget in Geneva and was a dharma teacher with Zen Master
Seung Sahn. Ms. Goodman was also an early meditation student
of Joseph Goldstein and Sharon Salzberg. Ms. Goodman now teaches
with Jack Kornfield and other mindfulness meditation teachers
around the country. She co-founded the Center for Mindfulness
and Psychotherapy in Los Angeles, www.mindfulnessandpsychotherapy.org,
and she offers on-going classes and retreats through two other
programs she founded in LA: www.InsightLA.org
and www.growingspirit.org.
Email: trudy@sprintmail.com |
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Christopher K. Germer, PhD, Director
of Continuing Education, is a clinical psychologist in private
practice, specializing in mindfulness-based treatment of anxiety
and panic, and couple therapy. He has taken numerous trips to
India to explore the varieties of meditation and yoga. Dr. Germer
has been integrating meditation and mindfulness principles into
psychotherapy since 1978 and he is a co-editor of Mindfulness
and Psychotherapy. He has been a Clinical Instructor
in Psychology at Harvard Medical School for most of the past
20 years.
Email: campsych@earthlink.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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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
and in the Program for Psychotherapy at the Cambridge Health
Alliance. In addition to working with individuals, he also leads
mindfulness-based cognitive therapy groups for people coping
with depression and anxiety. He has practiced meditation in
the Vipassana tradition since 1987. A former advertising executive,
Tom also serves on the board of directors at the Cambridge Insight
Meditation Center.
Email: tpedulla@comcast.net |
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Susan M. Pollak, MTS, EdD
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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Lizabeth Roemer, PhD
is a clinical psychologist and an associate professor of psychology
at University of Massachusetts at Boston. In collaboration with
Dr. Susan Orsillo, she has developed an acceptance-based behavior
therapy for generalized anxiety disorder that integrates mindfulness-based,
as well as other acceptance-based, strategies into a behavioral
approach to treating this chronic anxiety disorder. She conducts
research on this treatment, along with basic and descriptive
research (in collaboration with her graduate students) on the
role of experiential acceptance and avoidance in anxiety-related
and other emotional problems. She is co-editor, with Sue Orsillo,
of Acceptance- and mindfulness-based approaches to anxiety:
Conceptualization and treatment. She has been practicing
yoga since 2000.
Email: Lizabeth.Roemer@umb.edu
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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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