Credits
For Twin Cities Public Television
Writer
Kristin Pederson
Producer
Erika Stenrick
Programming
Drew Gorton and Ronan Dowling of Gortons.Net
Design
Garrick Willhite
Executive Producer
Catherine Allan
For The University of Minnesota’s Center for Spirituality and Healing
This content was made possible by Grant Number NIH #R25 AT00556 from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), PI Mary Jo Kreitzer. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health.
Special thanks to
We gratefully acknowledge the pioneering work of Roger Jahnke and Rebecca
McLean of Health Action in Santa Barbara. Their innovative Circle of Life
program has served as a model for our work at the Center for Spirituality
and Healing at the University of Minnesota. For more information on the Circle
of Life program, visit the Circle of Life website at http://www.wellnesscircle.org/
Authors
Karen Lawson, Barbara Leonard, Mary Jo Kreitzer, Raquel Rodriquez
Online Development Team
Louise Delagran, Instructional Design and Project Management
Sheila Hoover, Instructional and Graphic Design
Lixin Zhang: Research
Student Advisory Board
Sraddha Helfrich
Lisa Hillman
Scott Roethle
Rachana Sikka
Kerry Wangen
Based on Content Written by Mary Jo Kreitzer, RN, PhD
As founder
and director of the Center for Spirituality and Healing, Dr. Mary Jo Kreitzer
brings more than 15 years of leadership and expertise to the field of integrative
medicine. Currently, she is the principal investigator of a $1.6 million National
Institutes of Health (NCCAM) education grant, the co-PI of a five year $2.1
million NIH (NINR) clinical trial of mindfulness meditation with solid organ
transplant patients, the PI on a Fetzer Institute funded evaluation of the
Inner Life of Healers Program, and the co-PI of a clinical trial funded by
BlueCross/Blue Shield Minnesota on the impact of an integrated residential
treatment program on women with eating disorders. Dr. Kreitzer is also the
co-program director of an NIH funded clinical research fellowship program.
In addition to her administrative responsibilities in the Center for Spirituality
and Healing, Mary Jo teaches in the graduate minor in complementary therapies
and healing practices and is a tenured associate professor in the School of
Nursing. Dr. Kreitzer earned her doctoral degree in health services research
and her masters and bachelor's degrees in nursing.