Luminary: James Gordon

Luminary: James Gordon

James S. Gordon, MD, is the Founder and Director of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, DC and is a Clinical Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Family Medicine at the Georgetown University School of Medicine. Dr. Gordon recently served as Chairman of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy. He also served as the first Chair of the Program Advisory Council of the National Institutes of Health's Office of Alternative Medicine and is a former member of the Cancer Advisory Panel on Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the NIH.

Dr. Gordon has devoted 30 years to the exploration and practice of mind-body medicine. A Harvard Medical School graduate, he was for ten years a research psychiatrist at the National Institute of Mental Health. There he developed the first national program for runaway and homeless youth, edited the first comprehensive studies of alternative and holistic medicine, directed the Special Study on Alternative Services for President Carter's Commission on Mental Health, and created a nationwide preceptorship program for medical students.

In the years since then, Dr. Gordon has created ground-breaking programs of comprehensive mind-body healing for physicians, medical students and other health professionals; for people with cancer, depression and other chronic illnesses; and for traumatized children and families, and those who serve them, in Bosnia and Kosovo, Israel and Gaza. Dr. Gordon integrates relaxation therapies, hypnosis, meditation, acupuncture, nutrition, herbalism, musculoskeletal manipulation, dance, yoga and physical exercise in his own practice of medicine and psychiatry.

Dr. Gordon's two most recent books are Comprehensive Cancer Care: Integrating Alternative, Complementary and Conventional Therapies and Manifesto for a New Medicine: Your Guide to Healing Partnerships and the Wise Use of Alternative Therapies (both Perseus Books). In addition, Dr. Gordon has written or edited nine other books, including the award-winning Health for the Whole Person, and more than 120 articles in professional journals and general magazines and newspapers, among them the American Journal of Psychiatry, Psychiatry, The American Family Physician, The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. He helped develop and write the educational materials to supplement the public television series "Healing and the Mind with Bill Moyers".

The Center for Mind-Body Medicine presents:

Mind-Body Medicine Professional Training Program

September 28 – October 3, 2007, New Orleans, LA

Join us in New Orleans for the most comprehensive mind-body training program in the U.S. 

• 6-day intensive professional training

• Science-based & experiential

• Taught around the world since 1994

• Used in hospitals, medical schools, private practice,  community health and trauma relief programs

• Providing thousands of professionals with the tools & experiences needed to transform their lives & practices.

Up to 80% of all illnesses are related to chronic stress.  This course is designed to give you the tools you need to help your patients and clients with stress management and to deal expertly with preventing and treating chronic illness of all kinds.

“The Center is a prototype, combining compassion and community with scientific understanding.  In its programs, people are healed and inspired in body, mind and spirit.”
- Joan Borysenko, PhD

For schedule, CEU credits & complete details, visit:

www.cmbm.org/mbm