Balancing a Healthy Body and Healthy Mind Through the Combination of Buddhism and Medicine

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Lecture
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Dr. Barry Kerzin
Date: 
Wednesday, December 5, 2018 - 17:00 to 18:30
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As Scheduled
Location: 
602 Cathedral of Learning
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Dr. Barry Kerzin is a personal physician to the Dalai Lama and a Buddhist monk. He is a leading teacher on the relationship between Buddhism and Medicine. His MD degree is from the University of South California. He is a former Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington and the author of No Fear, No Death: The Transformative Power of Compassion. He is the founder and president of the Altruism in Medicine Institute, which has started to offer a resilience training program for 16,000 UPMC nurses.

UCIS Unit: 
Asian Studies Center