Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine in the Community

Marc S . Micozzi, MD, PhD is a worldwide leader in mind-body and complementary/alternative medicine. He has had a distinguished career as a researcher and physician executive at the National Institutes of Health and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington, DC, and the College of Physicians in Philadelphia PA. He is adjunct professor of physiology and biophysics, and pharmacology, at Georgetown University School of Medicine, and of Medicine and Physical Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He has published over 30 medical and trade books, and founded and edited the first scientific journal, and the first textbook, Fundamentals of Complementary & Integrative Medicine, now going into a 5th edition (2013) and continuously in print since 1995.
Donald McCown, MAMS, MSS, LSW is assistant professor of integrative health at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, and has taught mindfulness-based interventions to professionals and students at Thomas Jefferson University, the Won Institute of Graduate Studies, and the post-graduate program in Marriage and Family Therapy at Council for Relationships. He is lead co-author of Teaching Mindfulness: A Practical Guide for Clinicians and Educators, and New World Mindfulness: From the Founding Fathers, Emerson, and Thoreau to your Personal Practice. He is completing a PhD in social science through Tilburg University, with a dissertation on the ethics of mindfulness in clinical practice. He maintains a practice in mindfulness-based psychotherapy with families, caregivers, and individuals with developmental disabilities.
Sebhia Marie Dibra is an author, entrepreneur, speaker and public policy advocate. Sebhia contributes a 21st-century perspective on consciousness, biophysics, and psychology, and spiritual dimensions of health and wellness issues, including life cycle and healthy aging. Sebhia is the Founder and President of The Conscious Generation, a nonprofit organization directed toward teaching children mindfulness and meditation. Sebhia serves on the editorial board of the European Journal of Physics Education and the Journal ofAdvances in Physics under the editor-in-chief at the University of Oxford. She works with individuals and organizations, as well as policymakers, thought leaders, and influencers. She combines her strengths in interdisciplinary fields to support innovative research.She is featured in Publishers Weekly, Energy Times, Awareness Magazine, NYC Talk Radio, and The Huffington Post.