Mary Jo Kreitzer is founder and director of the Center for Spirituality and Healing at the University of Minnesota.

Jean L. Kristeller is former director of the Center for the Study of Health, Religion and Spirituality at Indiana State University, where she is also a professor emeritus of psychology. Her interests include integrating spirituality into care practice.

Kenneth Pargament is a professor emeritus of psychology at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. His research addressed religious beliefs in various traditions and health. He also researched how the elderly who struggle with their religious beliefs and hold negative perceptions about their relationships with God and life meaning have an increased risk of […]

Richard Davidson is a professor of psychology and psychiatry and director of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has studied the brain activity of meditators and since 1992 has collaborated with the Dalai Lama and Buddhist monks to study the effect of meditation on mental activity.

Dr. R. Murali Krishna is a president and chief operating officer of INTEGRIS Mental Health and INTEGRIS James L. Hall Jr. Center for Mind, Body and Spirit.

Lorenzo Cohen is a professor of medicine and director of the integrative medicine program at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Cohen has investigated the benefits of different forms of yoga for women undergoing breast cancer treatment.  

Dr. Keith Meador is the director and professor of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, professor of health policy, and professor of the graduate department of religion. He was formerly the co-director of the Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health and a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at […]

The American Muslim Health Professionals can help reporters find Muslim health-care professionals to discuss how Islam balances the stewardship of animals and the needs of science. Arshia Wajid is president.

David Hufford is professor and director at the Doctors Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine at the Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey. He teaches and does research on religion and health and folk and alternative health systems.