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Psychiatry Department at Mas-
    sachusetts General Hospital and an Instructor in Psychology at Harvard Med-
    ical School. The focus of her research is to elucidate the neural mechanisms
    underlying meditation, both in clinical settings and to promote and preserve
    health and well-being in healthy individuals. She has been practicing yoga
    and mindfulness meditation since 1994, and is a Board member of the Insti-
    tute for Meditation and Psychotherapy.
    Lykins Emily is a doctoral student in clinical psychology at the University of
    Kentucky. Her research interests center on positive psychology, with a focus
    on mindfulness, acceptance, and psychological well-being.
    McBee Lucia , LCSW, MPH, is a geriatric social worker who has worked
    with elders and their caregivers for 27 years. For the past 13 years she has
    integrated mindfulness and other complementary therapies into her prac-
    tice with frail elders in the nursing home and those who are homebound;
    elders with cognitive and physical challenges; patients at the end of life; and
    their formal and informal caregivers. Her work has been published in peer
    reviewed journals and presented at national and international conferences.
    She has just completed a book on her practice with elders: Mindfulness-Based
    Elder Care, scheduled for a March 2008 release by Springer Publishers.
    Olendzki Andrew, PhD, Executive Director and Resident Scholar at the
    Barre Center for Buddhist Studies (www.dharma.org) in Barre Massachusetts,
    an educational center focusing on the integration of scholarly understanding
    and meditative insight. A scholar of Pali literature and early Buddhist thought,
    he has taught at numerous New England colleges, including Harvard and
    Brandeis, is on the faculty of the Institute of Meditation and Psychotherapy,
    and is the editor of the Insight Journal.
    Pinto Antonio, is a Medical Doctor, psychiatrist and cognitive behavioural
    therapist. He’s been lecturer of Psychotherapy at University of L’Aquila
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    (Italy). He’s ordinary membership and teacher of the SITCC, and one of
    the italian representatives of the EABCT (European Association Behavioural
    and Cognitive Therapy). He leads regularly trainings and workshops in CBT
    of Psychosis, and has published on this topic the results of a Randomized
    Controlled Trial. He is a EMDR supervisor and, at the moment he is leading
    researches about the application of mindfulness protocol on complex psy-
    chiatric diseases. He takes part in an International research group leaded by
    Prof. A.T. Beck for the application of new psychotherapeutic findings with
    psychotic patients. He’s membership of IEPA (International Early Psychosis
    Association). At the present time he works as psychiatrist in a Department of
    Mental Health in Naples (Italy).
    Quillian Wolever Ruth, PhD is a clinical health psychologist and the
    Research Director of Duke Integrative Medicine at the Duke University
    School of Medicine in Durham, NC, USA. She specializes in behavioral
    change, treatment of stress-related problems and mind-body health. Her clin-
    ical practice and research focus on utilizing the mind-body connection to
    improve health. Her research explores 1) the application of mindfulness
    to improve eating patterns, lifestyle change and weight; 2) the emerging
    role of health coaching in mainstream medicine; and 3) the efficacy of
    integrative approaches to health. She and her husband Mark are active in
    educating the public on Rett Syndrome.
    Rizvi Shireen L., Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the department of psy-
    chology at the New School for Social Research in New York City. Her research
    focuses on treatment development for chronic and severe mental health
    problems, as well as the emotion of shame and its relation to the develop-
    ment and maintenance of psychopathology. Dr. Rizvi has written and pre-
    sented numerous theoretical and research papers on BPD, DBT, and trauma.
    She also maintains a small private