Category: Mindfulness and Well-being

Value Institute Fall Symposium 2013 – “The Future of Hospice and Palliative Care”

David Casarett, MD, MA, serves as the chief of Palliative Care Services for Duke University Health System, and chief of the Section of Palliative Care within Division of General Internal Medicine. Formerly, he was professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, where he was also a faculty member of the […]

Value Institute Fall Symposium 2013 – “Matching Care to Patient and Family Needs”

Dr. Diane E. Meier is Director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC), a national organization devoted to increasing the number and quality of palliative care programs in the United States. Under her leadership the number of palliative care programs in U.S. hospitals has more than tripled in the last 10 years. She is […]

Mindfulness Based Interventions for Maternal Child Health

Mindfulness interventions have been found to decrease symptoms and health issues and to improve overall health. We conducted two mindfulness based studies at Thomas Jefferson University to determine effects of mindfulness on maternal child health. The first study that will be presented was a one year pilot Mindfulness in Pregnancy in the Ob/Gyn Dept with […]

Mindfulness Based Interventions to Prevent Toxic Stress

This presentation will describe current research on adverse exposures and the use of mindfulness based programs for new mothers in treatment for opioid addiction. Mindfulness Based Parenting has shown improvements in parenting and behavior change. The presentation will describe the mechanisms of mindfulness based training and findings from research. A pilot project that aims to […]

The Impact of Toxic Stress on Lifelong Health

This will be a didactic and interactive presentation to define toxic stress and the biology of exposures to adverse experiences, describe the prevalence nationally and in Delaware, describe screening methods in clinical care and research tools, and discuss evidence based treatments. Dr. Sharif is Chief, Division of General Pediatrics at Nemours/Alfred I duPont Hospital for […]

Cognitive Assessment and Aging Physicians: Are Patients or Doctors the Ones at Risk?

The aging of our physician workforce presents a new concern for both workers and patients. Cognitive changes associated with aging can impact clinician performance. In some cases, cognitive aging progresses beyond acceptable age-associated changes into the realm of pathological aging with clinically significant performance consequences. This presentation will describe normative cognitive aging and how this […]