In the Media

PPSM has been featured in the media, and at local, regional, and national conferences since the Program’s inception in 1996.

Conferences

• American Academy of Physician Assistants
• National Meeting of the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA)
• Celebration of Life. Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania, Keynote speaker
• Meditation and Mind-Body Medicine, World Congress on Complementary Medicine, June 27, 2001.
• Mindfulness as a Tool in Developing Empathy with Patients and their Families. Hospice Foundation of America's Eighth Annual National Bereavement Teleconference, hosted by WHYY as part of its Wider Horizons Forum. April 18, 2001.
• Teaching Spirituality and Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Medical School
  Frontiers in Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Medical School
  Pyschotheraputic Skills in Primary Care, University of Pennsylvania Medical School
• Lillian Bruner Nursing Lecture, Presbyterian Hospital

Speaking Engagements

• Medical Grand Rounds, Hospital of University of Pennsylvania
• Stress and Health, Philadelphia FIGHT (AIDS Docs)
• Patient Safety Initiative, CEQI Retreat, University of Pennsylvania Health System
• Change of Heart Series (for coronary heart disease patients), Chestnut Hill Hospital
• Meditation and Contemplative Prayer, Daylesford Abbey
• FOCUS Speaker Series, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
• Stress and Heart Disease, Pennsylvania Public Health Districts (six regional sites)
• Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, Haverford College

Electronic Media

• Gross, Terry (2001, June 20). Fresh Air.WHYY 91FM.
• Goldensohn, Marty (2003, May) Been There Done That. WHYY 91FM.
• Gotleib, Dan (2000, January 10) Voices in the Family. WHYY 91FM
• Discovery. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
• Various programs on German, Italian and Japanese Television.

Print Media / News Releases

• Meditate...to Concentrate: Penn Researchers Demonstrate Improved Attention With Mindfulness Training (May 09, 2007). University of Pennsylvania Communications.
• Begley, Sharon (2001, May 7). Religion and the brain. Newsweek, 50-57.
• PPSM was also mentioned in an article in New Scientist magazine.
• Newsletter of the University of Pennyslvania's Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Winter 2005. 

Guest Appearances

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