Hedy Kober, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and of Psychology, and Amanda Calhoun, MD, MPH, a resident in the Albert J. Solnit Integrated Adult/Child Psychiatry program, were featured by Yale Today in its "Best Of" weekly email feature.
Kober is lead author of a paper published in Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience that touts the benefits of mindfulness to help people deal with physical pain and negative emotions. Mindfulness has been shown to have benefits in treating many conditions such as anxiety and depression. But Kober and colleagues wanted to know whether people with no formal training in meditation and mindfulness might benefit from a brief 20-minute introduction into mindfulness concepts.
Calhoun was among a select group of speakers - and the only resident - chosen to share their narrative stories about the patient experience and working as a doctor at the Feb. 5 Pediatric Grand Rounds. Her talk, titled “Two Lenses,” centered on her experience as a woman of African descent working in the medical field.
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