David Lehman
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David Lehman
David Lehman is an IIQTC Tai Chi Easy™ Senior Trainer. David has been learning and experiencing Tai Chi for some 30 years. In 2010 he completed the IIQTC 200-hour Integral Qigong and Tai Chi Teacher Training Program and has been leading people to experience the Tai Chi and Qigong principles at the VA Castle Point, Samadhi Recovery Center, Dutchess Community College, Omega Institute, community Tai Chi Easy™ and traditional Taiji Quan classes throughout the Hudson Valley, New York.
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Vince Sauter
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Vince Sauter
Vince Sauter has studied Qigong and Tai Chi since 1997 and is a Certified IIQTC Tai Chi Easy™ Senior Trainer, Level One Instructor White Tiger 5 Element Qigong, The Fundamentals of Rehabilitative Qigong and Tai Chi Level One, Qigong Healer, and Tai Chi Qigong Shibashi Instructor. In 2018 Vince published his first book Everyday All Day to aid which explores ways to incorporate Qigong into everyday life to reap the most benefit from the practice.
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Howard Schubiner
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Howard Schubiner
Dr. Howard Schubiner is an internist and the director of the Mind Body Medicine Center at Ascension Providence Hospital in Southfield, Michigan and a Clinical Professor at the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. He has authored more than 100 publications in scientific journals and books, and lectures regionally, nationally, and internationally. Dr. Schubiner is a senior teacher of mindfulness meditation and the author of three books: Unlearn Your Pain, Unlearn Your Anxiety and Depression, and Hidden From View, written with Dr. Allan Abbass. Dr. Schubiner lives in the Detroit area with his wife of thirty-seven years and has two adult children.
Yoni Ashar
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Yoni Ashar
Yoni K. Ashar, PhD is a clinical psychologist, neuroscientist, and father of three. Yoni’s research uses functional MRI brain imaging, natural language processing, and other tools to understand how mind and brain processes influence health, especially chronic pain. Yoni is an NIH-funded postdoctoral associate at Weill Cornell Medicine, and he completed his doctorate at the University of Colorado Boulder. He conducted the first randomized trial testing Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) and leads PRT clinician trainings as well. His research in chronic pain has been featured in several news outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, Vox, and the Coloradan. You can see more of Yoni’s work on Twitter and Google Scholar.
Allan Abbass
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Allan Abbass
Dr. Allan Abbass is a Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology and founding Director of the Centre for Emotions and Health at Dalhousie University in Canada.
He completed Medicine at Dalhousie University and a residency in Family Medicine and has worked as a family physician and emergency physician. He completed a Psychiatry residency at the University of Toronto dedicating his career to teaching and researching the impact of emotions on health.
Over the past 25 years he has become a leading teacher and researcher in the area of Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy, having provided over 350 invited presentations and over 250 publications including his first 2 books Reaching Through Resistance: Advanced Psychotherapy Techniques and Hidden from View: clinician’s guide to psychophysiologic disorders. He has been both a lead and co-investigator of research into Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy for Treatment Resistant Depression, Personality Disorders and somatic symptom disorders. He has received a number of awards including a national teaching award in Psychiatry. In 2018 he was named the David Malan visiting Professor of Psychotherapy at the Tavistock in London and is the current president of the International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association.
Steve Overman
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Steve Overman
Dr. Steve practiced rheumatology for 40 years and now works at KenSci, a healthcare data platform and ML/AI analytic company, where he brings the patient and provider perspective to data scientists and engineers. During his last decade of practice, he directed MSK Planning for University of WA Northwest Hospital and founded The Seattle Arthritis Clinic, which grew to 10 rheumatology practices, several dieticians and illness counselors. During the last healthcare revolution of the 1990’s, he was medical director for Network Health HMO Plan and then founded CAPPS, Inc., a MSK Consultation program, that helped the plan reduce unnecessary MRIs and orthopedic surgeries. He has started multiple integrated pain & arthritis care programs, most recently for SEARHC, the SE Alaskan Regional Health Consortium. He regularly teaches UW PT PhD students rheumatology early diagnosis and chronic pain management using his Patient Perspective Pain Paradigm, which includes 5 components of pain, 4 phases of healing and the “4 YOU” self-care pathways. One of his most gratifying experiences was accepting an invitation to co-write with a patient, Joy Selak, two editions of You Don’t LOOK Sick: Learning to Live Well with Chronic Invisible Illness, a book about her journey with chronic illness. He loves having his 3 son’s, spouses and 4 grandchildren in the Seattle area and enjoys active mediation cycling, walking their English black lab and working their property in the Methow Valley.
Naomi Eisenberger
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Naomi Eisenberger, Ph.D.
Naomi Eisenberger, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at UCLA. Her research uses neuroimaging techniques to better understand why social relationships are critical for mental and physical health. For example, her research has explored the neural underpinnings of social pain—the painful feelings following social rejection or loss—and has shown that social pain relies on some of the same neural regions that are involved in processing physical pain. She has also explored the neural substrates associated with social connection—including the systems involved in giving and receiving social support from others. Her work also examines the bidirectional relationships between social relationships and health. For instance, her recent work has examined whether prosocial behaviors such as support-giving can reduce threat-related responding including inflammatory responding. Dr. Eisenberger, who received her Ph.D. in 2005, has published more than 150 papers including articles in top tier journals (Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Neuroscience). In addition, her work has been recognized with several early career awards including ones from the American Psychological Association, the American Psychosomatic Society, the Association for Psychological Science, and the International Union of Psychological Science.
Angelos Halaris
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Angelos Halaris
Dr. Angelos Halaris has been active in conducting basic, clinical and translational research since attending medical school at the University of Munich School of Medicine and the Max-Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich. He has received numerous research grants from local, state, federal and private agencies. He has published over 200 refereed articles, numerous chapters, four books, and co-edited two monographs titled “Inflammation in Psychiatry” and “Neuroprogression in Psychiatric Disorders” with Dr. B. Leonard. He has conducted and published research in Psychocardiology. He has given over 400 lectures at local, national and international forums. He has received numerous awards and honors including the Kraepelin-Alzheimer’s Medal from the University of Munich and the International Union of Angiologists. He has received several teaching awards. He is an Honorary Member of the Hellenic Society for Sleep Medicine, the Latin American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, and the Cuban College of Neuropsychopharmacology. He is a Lifetime Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He was recognized with a Distinguished Service Resolution by the State of Mississippi Legislature for establishing an International Research Mentor Program for the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology (CINP). He was elected to active membership in the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and was awarded the Owl of Wisdom Award by the International Society of Neurobiology and Psychopharmacology at its 2017 annual congress. Currently his research focuses on biomarkers of inflammation in mood disorders and on pharmacogenomics.
Steven Hayes
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Steven Hayes
Steven C. Hayes is a Nevada Foundation Professor of Psychology at the University of Nevada. An author of 46 books and nearly 675 scientific articles, he is especially known for his work on “Acceptance and Commitment Therapy” which is one of the most researched new methods of psychological intervention over the last 20 years, and is widely used in chronic pain. Dr. Hayes has received several national awards, such as the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy. His popular book Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life for a time was the best-selling self-help book in the United States, and his new book A Liberated Mind has been released to wide acclaim. His blogs and TEDx talks have been read or viewed by over 3 million people, and he is ranked among the most cited psychologists in the world.
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