Douglas Ziedonis (UMass­ Med­ical School) to speak on scaling up meditation and mindfulness

Excit­ed to announce that Dr. Dou­glas Ziedo­nis, Pro­fes­sor and Chair of the Depart­ment of Psy­chi­a­try at at the Uni­ver­sity of Mass­a­chu­setts Med­ical School, will share his work and insights on Scal­ing up med­i­ta­tion and mind­ful­ness via well­ness pro­grams and biofeed­back sen­sors, at the 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit (Octo­ber 28–30th).

Dr. Ziedo­nis is also Pres­i­dent of UMass Memo­r­ial Behav­ioral Health Ser­vices. He is inter­na­tion­ally rec­og­nized for his research and lead­er­ship in address­ing co-occur­ring addic­tion and men­tal ill­ness, in par­tic­u­lar tobac­co and also food addic­tion. He is Direc­tor of the UMass Cen­ter of Excel­lence (COE) in Addic­tions and Co-Direc­tor of the UMass COE in Neu­ro­sciences. He and his research team have been well-fund­ed by NIH, SAMHSA, Foun­da­tions, Vet­eran Affairs (VA), and state research grants, and his stud­ies include devel­op­ing and eval­u­at­ing med­ica­tion and behav­ioral ther­apy approach­es and orga­ni­za­tional change interventions.

–> Explore the Agen­da @ 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit, and join­ us Octo­ber 28–30th! (10%-off pro­mo­tion­al code: sharp2014)