Course director

Steven D. Hickman, PsyD
Director, UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness
Associate Clinical Professor
UC San Diego Department of Psychiatry
UC San Diego Department of Preventative and Family Medicine
La Jolla, CA

Steven Hickman, PsyD, established the UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness in 2002 and has taught Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for six years, "graduating" over 30 classes since that time. He is a clinical psychologist specializing in health psychology and works within the UC San Diego Medical Center and the UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center providing treatment to patients with chronic pain, cancer and a variety of other primary medical problems. He teaches a graduate course in Mindfulness in Psychotherapy and has spoken at national conferences on the application of mindfulness in a variety of contexts and situations. He is also engaged in research on the application of mindfulness in a medical setting and has been a teacher for this 5-day Professional Training in MBCT since its inception in Southern California. Dr. Hickman is also currently co-authoring a book for Wiley-Blackwell Publishers on Mindfulness in Integrative Medicine.

2013 Program Committee

Gina M. Biegel, MA, LMFT
Founder, Stressed Teens Program
Psychotherapist and Author

Rosemary Coleman
3rd Grade Teacher
St. Christopher School

Amy Garrett, PhD
Research Scientist
Stanford University

Allan Goldstein
Mindfulness Teacher
Associate Director
UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness

Amy Saltzman, MD
Mindfulness Teacher & Holistic Physician
Creator and Director, Still Quiet Place
Co-founder and Director, Association for Mindfulness in Education

Randye Semple, PhD
Clinical Psychologist, Researcher and Author
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Anxious Children
University of Southern California

Keynote Speakers

Margaret Cullen
Creator, Stress Management and Relaxation
Training (SMART)

Tish Jennings
Director, Initiative on Contemplation & Education
Garrison Institute

Jon and Myla Kabat-Zinn
Co-authors of the book Everyday Blessings:
The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting

Linda Lantieri
Director, The Inner Resilience Program
Tides Center

Presenters

Mark Bertin, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
New York Medical College

Margaret Jones Callahan, MA, RCC, BCATR
TruePoint
Mindfulness Based Education Programs

Mark Collin
Founder, Executive Director
Dovetail Learning

Patrick Cook-Deagan
West Coast Director
Inward Bound Mindfulness Education

Bernadette Evans-Smith, PhD
Clinical Director
Clinical Psychologist
Assistant Professor, Dept of Behavioral Sciences
Rush University Medical Center
Rush NeuroBehavioral Center

Randima Fernando
Executive Director
Mindful Schools

Charles Fisher, PhD
Director of Training & Program Development
Dovetail Learning

Lisa Flook, PhD
Center for State Innovation

Amy Garrett, PhD
Research Scientist
Stanford University

Jim Gillen
Yoga Calm

Lynea Gillen, MS, RYT
Yoga Calm for Children

Elizabeth Hamilton
Teacher, Zen Center of San Diego

Jillian Haydicky, MA
PhD Student, Clinical Child Psychology
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
University of Toronto

Sam Himelstein, PhD
Psychotherapist, Researcher & Mindfulness Teacher

Lorraine M. Hobbs, MA, CHom
Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher
Director of Youth and Family Programs
UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness

Shamini Jain, PhD
Senior Scientist & Program Manager in the Brain, Mind, and Healing Division (BMH)
Samueli Institute;
Assistant Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry
University of California, San Diego

Kraig Kidd
Founder, New World Leadership Children's Academy

Theo Koffler
Founder, Mindfulness Without Borders

Tamar Mendelson, PhD, MA
Clinical Psychology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Mark Petter
Trainee, Pain in Child Health
Strategic Training Initiative in Health Research
Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Sheri Rand
UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness

Robert Roeser, PhD
Portland State University

Amy Saltzman, MD
Mindfulness Teacher & Holistic Physician
Creator & Director, Still Quiet Place
Co-Founder & Director, Association for Mindfulness in Education

Carly Shecter, MA
Keystone Classroom Management

Nimrod Sheinman, ND
Naturopathic physician and mind-body expert
Founder, Israel Center for Mind-Body Medicine
Founder, The Mindful Language Project

Erica Sibinga, MD
Johns Hopkins Children's Center

Ali Smith
Holistic Life Foundation

Atman Smith
Holistic Life Foundation

Vikas Srivastava
Canyon Crest Academy

Itamar Stern
Mindfulness Without Borders

Ferris Buck Urbanowski, MA
Mindfulness Meditation Offerings

Dzung Vo, MD
British Columbia Children's Hospital
Kelty Mental Health Resource Center

Rochelle Voth, PhD, BCBA
New Mindful Life

Katherine Weare
Emeritus Professor, University of Southampton
Southampton Education School

Marilyn Webb-Neagley
Talk about Wellness

Anna Whitehead
Aukland University of Technology

Christopher Willard, PsyD
Author of Child's Mind

Betsy Wisner, LMSW
Assistant Professor
Texas State University