Jon Kabat-Zinn

Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., is professor of medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he founded the Stress Reduction Clinic in 1979 and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society in 1995. He earned his doctorate in molecular biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971, studying under Nobel laureate Salvador Luria, and developed the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program.

Kabat-Zinn is the author of numerous books on mindfulness and meditation, including Full Catastrophe Living, Wherever You Go, There You Are, Coming to Our Senses, Arriving at Your Own Door, and Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief. He contributed the foreword to Rhonda V. Magee’s The Inner Work of Racial Justice.