RE S EARCH GRAND ROUNDS
Thi s is a f ree presentat ion, open to the communi ty.




Friday September 11, 2009
1 – 2 PM, OCOM Clinic Room B
10541 SE Cherry Blossom Drive, Portland, OR 97216-2859




Mary Jo Kreitzer, PhD, RN, FAAN
Founder and Director of the Center for Spirituality and Healing
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Twenty-five years ago, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) was developed at the University of
Massachusetts by Jon Kabat-Zinn. It is now taught in schools, prisons and boardrooms as well as hospitals
and clinics around the globe. In this talk, Dr. Kreitzer will discuss the MBSR research program at the
University of Minnesota and will highlight recent results from a 5 year NIH clinical trial with solid organ
transplant patients. She will also discuss methodological issues commonly encountered in conducting
mind/body research and will offer practical guidance on ways to build robust interdisciplinary research
teams.
Oregon College of Oriental Medicine’s Research Grand Rounds (RGR) is an initiative of Acupuncture Practitioner
Research Education Enhancement (APREE), a grant funded by the NIH/National Center for Complementary and
Alternative Medicine. RGR is a seminar series that examines the challenges in the design and implementation of
research, especially in the field of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (AOM). In contrast to hospital based grand
rounds, which focus on clinical care, OCOM’s Research Grand Rounds focus on issues of clinical research.
A B O U T M A R Y J O K R E I T Z E R
Mary Jo Kreitzer, PhD, RN, FAAN is the founder and director of the Center for Spirituality and Healing at the
University of Minnesota. This interdisciplinary center coordinates integrative health and medicine programs and
initiatives in the Medical School, School of Nursing, College of Pharmacy and other units throughout the Academic
Health Center. Dr. Kreitzer earned her doctoral degree in health services research and her masters and bachelor’s
degrees in nursing. She is currently the co-PI on several grants, including a five year NIH (NINR) clinical trial of
mindfulness meditation with solid organ transplant patients, and an NIH (NCCAM) trial on mindfulness meditation
for caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients.
For Further information, contact Sue Fleishman, Director of Research Education at 503.253.3443 x 161.
BUILDING A PROGRAM OF MINDFULNESS-BASED
STRESS REDUCTION RESEARCH: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES