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.

Dr. James Gordon is a founder and director of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine and a clinical professor of psychiatry and family medicine at Georgetown Medical School in Washington, D.C. He is the author or co-author of several books, including Manifesto for a New Medicine: Your Guide to Healing Partnerships and the Wise Use of Alternative Therapies (Addison Wesley Publishing […]

Dr. Esther Sternberg is research director for the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona at Tucson. She has studied links between the central nervous system and the immune system, and the connections between disease and stress.

Dr. Bruce Rabin is a professor of pathology, psychiatry and psychology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, director of its Healthy Lifestyle Program and an authority on the effects of stress on the human immune system. His research has contributed to the understanding of how the brain and the immune system interact and influence an […]

Richard P. Sloan is professor of behavioral medicine (in psychiatry) at the New York Presbyterian Hospital at Columbia University Medical Center. He examines the link between psychological factors and heart disease, among other issues. Sloan cautions physicians against prescribing religion as medicine, and he urges them to maintain a separation between their role as physicians and […]

Anne Harrington is acting chair of the department of the history of science at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. She was a consultant for the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Mind-Body Interactions and is on the board of the Mind and Life Institute. Harrington teaches courses on the mind-body connection in modern medicine and has worked on […]

The Benson Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston is a leader in the field with specific areas of expertise, including mind-body programs in cardiac wellness, cancer, exercise, aging, chronic pain and menopause.

Balaji Hebbar is a professor of religion at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He has lectured widely on religion, spirituality and the care of the patient.

Satya Dev Negi is a senior lecturer at Emory University in Atlanta and chairman of the Emory-Tibet Partnership. He has written about traditional Buddhist and contemporary Western approaches to emotions and their impact on health, and he has done other research on the mind-body connection and health. He has studied whether meditation can reduce depression […]