- Apr
- 16
- 2024
Mindfulness for coping with cancer and serious illness: New innovations in clinical research
Dr. Linda Carlson will discuss the Mindfulness-Based Cancer Recovery (MBCR) program development and research, with a focus on current innovative studies, including Virtual Mind, which evaluates a Virtual Reality mindfulness program for chronic cancer pain, and the SEAMLESS research, which is evaluating a mindfulness app in a clinical trial of cancer survivors across Canada. She will also review current research assessing the effects of MBCR on the gut microbiome and work in developing mindfulness-based psilocybin-assisted therapy.
About Speaker
Dr. Linda Carlson is Full Professor in Psychosocial Oncology in the Department of Oncology, Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary, and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology. Her research in Psychosocial Oncology, Integrative Oncology, and Mindfulness-Based Cancer Recovery has appeared in many high-impact journals and book chapters. In 2011, she and Michael Speca published a patient manual entitled Mindfulness-Based Cancer Recovery: A step-by-step MBSR Approach to Help You Cope with Treatment and Reclaim Your Life. In 2016, she presented a TEDx talk entitled Mindfulness for Personal and Collective Evolution.