DATE PREPARED: October, 2011

Name: Herbert Benson

Home Address: 1160 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA 02446

Work Phone: (617) 643-6070

Work Fax: (617) 643-6077

Place of Birth: Yonkers, New York

1961-1962 Straight Medical Intern Medicine, King County Hospital, Seattle

1962-1963 Assistant Resident in Medicine University Hospital, University of Washington, Seattle

1963-1965 Surgeon National Heart Institute, Bethesda (United States Public

1964-1965 Research Assistant in Medicine University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

1965-1967 Research Fellow in Medicine Harvard Medical School, Research and Clinical Fellow in Medicine, Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, Boston City Hospital

1967-1968 Research Fellow in Physiology Harvard Medical School

1969 Instructor in Physiology, Harvard Medical School

1969 Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

1970-1972 Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

1972-1977 Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

1977-1987 Associate Professor of Medicine at the Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School

1987-1992 Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

1992- Mind/Body Medical Institute Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

1967-1971 Assistant Visiting Physician, II and IV Medical Service (Harvard), Boston City Hospital

1969-1974 Research Associate, Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, Boston City Hospital

1971-1974 Associate Visiting Physician, Harvard Medical Unit, Boston City Hospital

1986-1990 Active Provisional Staff, New England Deaconess Hospital

1974- Associate Physician, Beth Israel Hospital

1990- Active Staff, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

2006– Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital

2007- Associate Member, Medical Staff, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Medical Department

1967-1969 Medical Foundation Fellow

1969-1977 Consultant in Cardiology, Cambridge City Hospital

1981-1982 Advisory Group, The MacArthur Foundation

1990- 1997 Lecturer in Medicine and Religion, Andover Newton Theological School, Newton Centre

1991- 2003 Board of Advisors, Center for Humility Theology, John Templeton Foundation

1970-1972 Assistant Program Director, General Clinical Research Center, Harvard Medical Unit, Boston City Hospital

1972-1978 Program Director, General Clinical Research Center, 1972-1974 at the Harvard Medical Unit, Boston City Hospital and 1974-1978 at the Beth Israel Hospital

1974-1987 Director, Hypertension Section, Beth Israel Hospital

1974-1988 Chairman of the Cardiovascular Pathophysiology Course

1977-1978 Director, Behavioral Medicine Section, Beth Israel Hospital

1978-1982 Founder and Chairman of the Behavioral Medicine Elective Course

1978-1987 Director, Division of Behavioral Medicine, Beth Israel Hospital

1979- Founder and Director of the Behavioral Medicine-Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine Post Graduate Course

1983-1987 Co-Director, Brigham-Beth Israel Hospitals Hypertension Center

1987-1990 Chief, Section on Behavioral Medicine, New England Deaconess Hospital

1988-2002 President, Mind Body Medical Institute, (NEDH Corp; Pathway), CareGroup

1988- 2006 President, Mind/Body Medical Institute

1989-1991 Co-Chairman of the Cardiovascular Pathophysiology Course

1990-2002 Chief, Division of Behavioral Medicine, New England Deaconess Hospital

1993 Course Director, Clinical Training in Behavioral Medicine, HMS

1994 Course Director:

Clinical Training in Behavioral Medicine (June)

Advanced Clinical Training in Behavioral Medicine (February)

Clinical Training in Behavioral Medicine (October)

1995-1998 Founder and Director of the Spirituality and Healing in Medicine

Post Graduate Course

1995 Course Director:

Clinical Training in Behavioral Medicine (February)

Clinical Training in Behavioral Medicine (June)

Clinical Training in Behavioral Medicine (October)

Spirituality and Healing in Medicine

Course Director:

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (February)

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (June)

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (October)

Spirituality and Healing in Medicine (December

1997 Course Director:

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (February)

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (March)

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (May)

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (October)

Spirituality and Healing in Medicine (December)

1998 Course Director:

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (February)

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (March)

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (May)

Spirituality and Healing in Medicine (March)

Spirituality and Healing in Medicine (December)

1999- Course Director:

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (February)

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (May)

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (October)

Spirituality and Healing in Medicine (December)

2000- Co-Founder of Skills Training for Mind/Body Change Post Graduate Course

2000 Course Director:

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (February)

Spirituality and Healing in Medicine (March)

One Day in Mind/Body Medicine (April)

Mind/Body Training in Optimism, Humor and Cognitive Restructuring (June)

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (June)

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (November)

Spirituality and Healing in Medicine (December)

2001-2002 Founder and Co-Director of Science and Mind/Body Medicine Post Graduate Course

2001 Course Director:

Mind/Body Training in Optimism, Humor and Cognitive Restructuring (March)

Spirituality and Healing in Medicine (March)

One Day in Mind/Body Medicine (March)

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (June)

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (October)

One Day in Mind/Body Medicine (October)

Spirituality and Healing in Medicine (December)

2002-2006 President, Mind/Body Medical Institute

2002 Course Director:

Spirituality and Healing in Medicine (March)

Mind/Body Training in Positive Psychology (April)

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (June)

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (October)

Spirituality and Healing in Medicine (December)

2003 Course Director:

Spirituality and Healing in Medicine (March)

Mind/Body Training in Positive Psychology (April)

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (June)

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (October)

One Day in Mind/Body Medicine (October)

Spirituality and Healing in Medicine (November)

2004 - Co-Founder and Director of Mind Body Medicine Course

2004 Course Director:

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (March)

Mind/Body Training in Positive Psychology (April)

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (June)

One Day in Mind/Body Medicine (October)

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (October)

Spirituality and Healing in Medicine (December)

2005 Course Director:

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (March)

Spirituality and Healing in Medicine (April)

Mind/Body Training in Positive Psychology (May)

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (June)

One Day in Mind/Body Medicine (September)

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (October)

Spirituality and Healing in Medicine (December)

2006- Director Emeritus, Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at

Massachusetts General Hospital

2006 Course Director:

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (March)

Mind/Body Training in Positive Psychology (May)

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (June)

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (September)

One Day in Mind/Body Medicine (November)

Spirituality and Healing in Medicine (December)

2007 Course Director:

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (February)

Mind/Body Training in Positive Psychology (May)

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (June)

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (September)

One Day in Mind/Body Medicine (October)

Spirituality and Healing in Medicine (December)

2008 Course Director:

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (March)

Mind/Body Training in Positive Psychology (May)

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (June)

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (September)

One Day in Mind/Body Medicine (October)

Spirituality and Healing in Medicine (December)

2009 Course Director:

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (March)

Mind/Body Training in Positive Psychology (May)

2010 Course Director:

Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (June)

Clinical Training in Mind Body Medicine (September)

One Day in Mind/Body Medicine (November)

2011 Course Director:

Building Resilience: The Mind Body Revolution in Health & Healing (May)

The Revolutionary Practice of Mind Body Medicine (June)

Changing Lifestyle with Mind Body Medicine (July)

The Revolutionary Practice of Mind Body Medicine (October)

1960-1961 Boylston Medical Society, Harvard Medical School

1969-1974 Tutor in Medical Sciences, Harvard Medical School

1969-1977 Advisor to Members of the Harvard Classes of 1971-1977 and Subcommittee on

Electives and Tutorial, Harvard Medical School

1970-1975 Financial Aid for Medical Students Committee, Harvard Medical School

1970-1980 Internship Advisor, Harvard Medical School

1973-1988 Committee on Clinical Investigation, Beth Israel Hospital

1974-1975 President, Boylston Medical Society, Harvard Medical School

1974-1977 Committee on Medical Research, Harvard Medical School

1974-1977 Founding Chairman, Committee on Human Studies, Harvard Medical School

1975-1977 Personnel Committee, Beth Israel Hospital

1978-1988 Laurence B. Ellis Lecture Committee, Harvard Medical School

1978-1980 Walter Bradford Cannon Student-Faculty Society, Harvard Medical School

1979-1985 Chairman, Committee on Medical Research, Harvard Medical School

1980- Committee on Continuing Education in the Medical School, Harvard Medical School

1985-1988 Faculty Council, Harvard Medical School

1987-1989 Subcommittee on Courses and Credits, Harvard Medical School

1990-1991 Institutional Review Board, New England Deaconess Hospital

1972-1974 Founding Chairman, Committee on Human Studies of the Harvard-Affiliated Services,

Boston City Hospital

1972-1974 Human Studies Committee, Boston City Hospital

1977-1978 Chairperson, Steering Committee, Boston Health Promotion Council

1972 Consultant, National Institutes of Mental Health

1973 Expert Consultant, Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention, Executive Office of

the President, Washington, D.C.

1977-1979 Behavioral Medicine Study Section, National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute, National

Institutes of Health

1978-1980 Chairman, Committee on Community Health and Education, The Medical Foundation

1978-1997 Board of Directors, The Medical Foundation

1981 Chairman, Behavioral Medicine Special Study Section, National Institutes of Health

1984-1990 Advisory Board, American Health Magazine

1985-1988 Board of Advisors, United States Committee, United Nations Lumbini Project

1986-1988 Board of Directors, Society for Tibetan Medicine

1956 Sigma Xi

1963-1965 American Medical Association

1965- Massachusetts Medical Society

1968- American Association for the Advancement of Science

1969 American Federation for Clinical Research

1969 Massachusetts Heart Association

1969 American Heart Association

1970-1972 American Physiological Society

1972-1975 Board of Directors, Greater Boston Chapter, Massachusetts Heart Association

1974-1976 American Psychosomatic Society

1975-1996 American College of Cardiology

1976 Medical Advisory Board of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research, American

Heart Association

1978-1982 Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research

1978- Society of Behavioral Medicine

1985-1986 President

1986 – Fellow

1994 – Master Lecturer

1993 Chairperson, Alternative Medicine Study Section, National Institutes of Health

1994 Alternative Medicine Study Section, National Institutes of Health

1974-1991 Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

1974-1985 Journal of Biofeedback and Self Regulation

1974-1993 Behavioral Medicine (formerly Journal of Human Stress), Executive Editor (1981-1993)

1977-1988 Associate Editor, Journal of Behavioral Medicine

1980-1982 Chairman, Editorial Board, Massachusetts Journal of Community Health

1983-1993 Journal of Psychiatric Research

1993-1997 Co-Editor-in-Chief, Mind/Body Medicine

1958-1959 President, Harvard Medical School Class of 1961

1961 Mosby Scholarship Award, Harvard Medical School

1961 Permanent Vice-President, Harvard Medical School Class of 1961

1967-1969 Medical Foundation Fellowship

1976 Fellow, American College of Cardiology

1976 Medical Self-Care Award for 1976

1988 Honorary President, Chinese Society of Behavioral Medicine and Biofeedback

1990 Joseph Garland Memorial Lecturer, The Boston Medical Library

1992 Distinguished Alumnus Award, Wesleyan University

1997 Honorary Doctorate of Human Letters, Becker College, Worcester, Massachusetts

2000 Hans Selye Award

2002 Presidential Citation, American Psychological Association

2002 National Samaritan Award, The Samaritan Institute

2009 Mani Bhaumik Award, The Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology at

UCLA, California

2011 Jerilyn Ross Lecturer, Anxiety Disorders Association of America

1972-1974 NIH/RO1 PI

Behavioral Approach to Clinical Hypertension

1974-1978 NIMH/RO1 PI

Therapy of Anxiety: A New Psychophysiologic Approach

1978-1988 NIH/5T Associate Program Director

Cardiovascular Research Training Program: Multidisciplinary, Behavioral,

Cardiomyopathies

1978-1991 NIH/RO1 PI

Cardiovascular Behavior and the Relaxation Response

1980-1981 National Science Foundation PI

American Institute of Indian Studies

g Tum-mo Yoga Investigations

1980-1989 The John E. Fetzer Foundation PI

Investigation of Tibetan Meditation and Traditional Chinese Medicine and General

Research Support

1982 National Science Foundation PI

American Institute of Indian Studies

g Tum-mo Yoga Investigations

1985-1987 Joan B. Kroc Foundation PI

Behavioral Intervention in Cancer Patients

1985-1987 Advanced Medical Research Foundation PI

Cancer and Behavioral Interventions

1985-1987 The Ruth Mott Fund PI

Integration of Effective Self-Help Technologies with Those of Modern Medicine

1986 Yolande Jurzykowski PI

Neurochemical and Neurophysiologic Changes Associated with Meditation

1987-1992 Laurance S. Rockefeller PI

The Effects of the Relaxation Response and Spiritual Experiences on Health

1987-1988 National Science Foundation PI

American Institute of Indian Studies

g Tum-mo Yoga Investigations

1988-1990 Adolf Coors Foundation PI

General Research Support

1988-1990 A. Joshua Sherman and George S. Warberg PI

General Research Fellow Support

1990-1992 Wood-Rill Foundation CoPI

The Effects of Moderate and Low Intensity Exercise and Exercise Plus the

Relaxation Response on the Health Status of Adults

1991-1993 The Nathan Cummings Foundation PI

Model Relaxation Response Health Curriculum for Troubled and Healthy

Adolescents

1992-1993 Ester A. and Joseph Klingenstein Fund PI

The Use of Relaxation Response-based Interventions in the Treatment of Epilepsy

1992-1994 Fetzer Institute PI

A New National Health Curriculum for High Schools to Alleviate the Harmful

Effects of Stress

1990-1996 Advanced Medical Research Foundation PI

Preoperative Relaxation Response Training in Open Heart Surgery Patients.

1993-1995 David Kriser PI

Relaxation Response for Stress in High School Students and Their Teachers

1994-1998 The California Wellness Foundation PI

An Innovative Program to Decrease School Violence

1994-1998 Amelior Foundation PI

An Innovative Program to Decrease School Violence

1994- Castle Rock Foundation CoPI

Development of the Center for Training in Mind/Body Medicine

1994- William K. Coors CoPI

Development of the Center for Training in Mind/Body Medicine

1994-98 Sam Wyly Fund of the Communities Foundation of

Texas, Inc. PI

Gallop Survey of Health Habits

1994-98 Charles J. Wyly Fund of the Communities Foundation

of Texas, Inc. PI

Gallop Survey of Health Habits

1995-98 Laurance C. Rockefeller CoPI

Development of the Center for Training in Mind/Body

Medicine

1995-00 State Street Foundation CoPI

An Innovative Program to Decrease School Violence

1999-00 Fetzer Institute

Dynamics of Meditation CoPI

1999-00 VHA CoPI

Evaluation of a New Experience Protocol:

Initial Studies of cardiovascular and Immune System Function

1998-02 Advanced Medical Research Foundation CoPI

Mind/Body Ovarian Cancer Project

1995- 2003 The Procter & Gamble Company PI

Unrestricted Research

1996- 2006 John Templeton Foundation PI

The Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer

2000-2004 Kalpa Foundation PI

Mind/Body Studies of Tibetan Buddhism

2004-2007 Advanced Medical Research Foundation CoPI

Complimentary Medicine Therapies in Prostate Cancer

Patients Received Hormonal, Chemotherapy and Radiation Interventions

2000-2011 Mechanisms and Therapeutic Effects of the Relaxation Response

CDC 5R01DP000339

PI ($307,417)

The long term objectives of this project are to generate knowledge through basic and

clinical research on the relaxation response, a physiological mind/body state opposite to

that of stress.

2010-2011 Mind/Body Research Program

CDC 1R01DP003091-01

PI ($269,544)

The long term objectives of this project are to generate knowledge through basic and

clinical research on the relaxation response (RR), a physiological mind/body state

opposite to that of stress.

2010-2015 Quantification of Outcome Measures for Mind Body Interventions

NCCAM 1R01AT006464-01

PI ($175,998)

This study aims to provide novel information on the relative precision, reliability and

validity of psychological self-report, biochemical and genomic outcome measures for

mind body interventions, and on the strength of correlations between them.

Teaching of Students in Courses

1966-1973 Physiology and Pathophysiology of the Circulation, Harvard Medical School

Conference Leader

Lecturer

20 Medical Students (conferences)

Entire First Year Class (lectures)

1974-1991 Cardiovascular Pathophysiology, Harvard Medical School

Lecturer

Entire Second Year Class

1978-1982 Behavioral Medicine Elective Course, Harvard Medical School

Lecturer

Approximately 10 medical students

1992 William James Lecture of Religious Experience Lecturer, Harvard Divinity School

150 students

1999-2001 Spirituality and Healing in Medicine Elective Course, Harvard Medical School

Lecturer

Approximately 10 medical students

2004- Mind Body Medicine Course, Harvard Medical School

Lecturer

Approximately 20 medical students

1980-1990 Joan Borysenko, PhD Founding Partner of Mind/Body Health Sciences, LLC

Director, The Claritas Institute Inter-Spiritual Mentor

Training Program

Author

Published six manuscripts. Co-founded a mind/body clinic.

1987 Alice Domar, PhD Executive Director, Domar Center for Mind/Body Health

Director of Mind/Body Services, Boston IVF

Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and

Reproductive Biology, Harvard Medical School

Senior Staff Psychologist, Beth Israel Deaconess

Medical Center

Author

1989 Jane Leserman, PhD Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine

University of North Carolina

Principle Investigator of UNC portion of the Coping in Health and Illness Project

1993 Gregg Jacobs, PhD Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical

School

Author of Say Goodnight to Insomnia and The Ancestral Mind: Reclaim the Power

1999 Jeffery A. Dusek, PhD Director, Integrative Health Research Center

Penny George Institute for Health and Healing

Abbott Northwestern Hospital

STEP study co-author as well as investigator of a 7 year grant funded by Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention.

2006 Jamil Zaki, Graduate Student

Columbia University Psychology Department

Involved in the multi-faceted collaborative (with Niall Bolger) project that uses field,

psychophysiological and fMRI methods to examine the neural and psychological bases of

empathy and empathic accuracy.

1979- Behavioral Medicine-Clinical Training in Mind/Body

Medicine Post Graduate Course

Lecturer

25-90 Post graduate health professionals (held three times

yearly for the last eight years)

1995- Spirituality and Healing in Medicine Post Graduate Course

Lecturer

400-1050 Post graduate health professionals (held one or two times yearly)

2004 The Mind/Body Approach to Stress and Addiction Single Presentation

The Addictions: Treatment Approaches, Harvard Medical School (no sponsor) Boston

The Relaxation Response: How to Counteract the Harmful Effects of Stress Single Presentation

Pri-Med, Harvard Medical School (no sponsor) Fort Lauderdale

Mind/Body Medicine, Spirituality: The Breakout Principle Three Presentations

2005 Stress Reduction for Physicians Lecture

Center for Faculty Development, BIDMC (no sponsor) Boston

A Mind/Body Approach to the Management of Headache Single Presentation

Headache and Facial Pain, Harvard Medical School (no sponsor) Cambridge

Relaxation Response Therapy Training Single Presentation

Natural Remedies for Psychiatric Disorders: Considering the Alternatives

Harvard Medical School (no sponsor) Boston

Advances in Mind/Body Medicine: The Cutting Edge of Science Three Presentations

A Mind/Body Approach to Anxiety Single Presentation

Anxiety and Related Disorders: From Childhood to Adulthood,

Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School (no sponsor) Boston

2006 The Relaxation Response Single Presentation

Meditation in Psychotherapy, Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School

(no sponsor) Boston

Mind/Body Approach to Pain Medicine Single Presentation

Principles and Practice of Pain Medicine, BIDMC (no sponsor) Boston

2007 Prostate Cancer and Stress Single Presentation

Prostate Cancer Coalition, MA Dept of Public Health, BIDMC, Mount Auburn Hospital

(no sponsor)

Mind/Body Approach to Pain Medicine Single Presentation

Principles and Practice of Pain Medicine, BIDMC (no sponsor) Boston

Advances in Mind/Body Medicine: The Cutting Edge of Science Three Presentations

The Application of Mind-body Insights in Clinical Practice Single Presentation

Primary Care Internal Medicine: Principles and Practice, MGH (no sponsor) Cambridge

2008 Counteracting the Harmful Effects of Stress Single Presentation

The Global Clinic: Healthcare Management for Physician Executives, Harvard Medical School

(no sponsor) Boston

Mind/Body Approach to Pain Medicine Single Presentation

Principles and Practices of Pain Management, BIDMC (no sponsor) Boston

The Relaxation Response: How to Counteract the Harmful Effects of Stress Single Presentation

Introduction to Lifestyle Medicine, HMS (no sponsor) Belmont

2009 Mind/Body Medicine: Components, Research, Techniques and Applications

with the Emphasis on the Relaxation Response Three Presentations

My Journey in Publishing Starting in 1975 with The Relaxation Response Single Presentation

Publishing Books, Memoirs and Other Creative Non-Fiction, HMS (no sponsor) Boston

Opening the Door to Compassion and Wisdom Single Presentation

Meditation and Psychotherapy Course, Cambridge Health Alliance/HMS

(no sponsor) Boston

Mind Body Medicine: Components, Research, Techniques and Applications with Emphasis on

the Relaxation Response

Master Series in Clinical Practice, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, HMS Department of

Psychiatry at BIDMC, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and the Massachusetts

School of Professional Psychology (no sponsor) Boston Single Presentation

Stress Management Single Presentation

Lifestyle Medicine: Tools for Promoting Healthy Change (no sponsor) Boston

Mind/Body Approach to Pain Medicine Single Presentation

Principles & Practice of Pain Medicine (no sponsor) Boston

Exercise and Stress Relief Single Presentation

Active Doctors, Active Patients (no sponsor) Boston

2010 Workplace Stress Management Single Presentation

Center for Connected Health and HMS/DCE (no sponsor) Boston, MA

Mind/Body Medicine: Components, Research, Techniques and Applications

with the Emphasis on the Relaxation Response Three Presentations

Annual Summer Seminar, Harvard Medical School (no sponsor) Martha’s Vineyard

The Relaxation Revolution Plenary

2010 MGH Nurses Alumnae Fall Reunion Educational Program Boston

2011 Mind and Body Single Presentation

Men’s Health: Opening a New Frontier (no sponsor) Boston

Mind/Body Approach to Pain Medicine Single Presentation

Principles and Practices of Pain Medicine (no sponsor) Boston

2004 Stress Management/Lifestyle Management Panel

Harvard Alumni Association (no sponsor)

2005 The Relaxation Response: How to Counteract the Harmful Effects of Stress/Grand Rounds

Department of Medicine, Faulkner Hospital (no sponsor)

The Relaxation Response and Pain/Grand Rounds

Department of Medicine, MGH (no sponsor)

2006 The Relaxation Response: How to Counteract the Harmful Effects of Stress

MGH-Revere HealthCare Center (no sponsor)

The Relaxation Response: How to Counteract the Harmful Effects of Stress

Harvard Medical School (no sponsor)

Complementary Medicine Treatment Methods for Low Back Pain/Grand Rounds

Department of Medicine, Falkner Hospital, Boston, MA (no sponsor)

2007 The Relaxation Response: How to Counteract the Harmful Effects of Stress/ Partners

Employee Assistance Program

850 Boylston Street Staff (no sponsor)

Primary Care Program Retreat

Primary Care Residency Program, MGH (no sponsor)

Spirituality and Healing in Medicine/Spirituality and Psychiatry Course

Harvard Medical School (no sponsor)

The Relaxation Response: How to Counteract the Harmful Effects of Stress/Grand Rounds

OB/GYN Department, MGH (no sponsor)

The Relaxation Response: How to Counteract the Harmful Effects of Stress/Grand Rounds

Chaplaincy Department, MGH (no sponsor)

The Relaxation Response: How to Counteract the Harmful Effects of Stress/Annual

Ambulatory Preceptor Retreat

Department of Medicine, MGH (no sponsor)

The Relaxation Response/ Mind Body Medicine Elective Course

Harvard Medical School (no sponsor)

The Relaxation Response/Behavioral Medicine Lecture Series

Department of Psychiatry, MGH (no sponsor)

2008 Mind Body Strategies in the Care of Surgical Patients/Grand Rounds

Department of Surgery, MGH (no sponsor)

The “New” Mind Body Medicine: Stress & Resiliency/Grand Rounds

Department of Anesthesia & Critical Care, MGH (no sponsor)

Stress Reduction: The Relaxation Response/2008 Winter Symposium on Mental Health

and Wellness

The Mood & Anxiety Disorders Institute, MGH (no sponsor)

The Relaxation Response: How to Counteract the Harmful Effects of Stress/Grand Rounds

Joslin Clinical Conference Series (no sponsor)

The Relaxation Response/Behavioral Medicine Lecture Series

Department of Psychiatry, MGH (no sponsor)

2009 Spirituality and Healing in Medicine/Spirituality and Psychiatry Course

Harvard Medical School (no sponsor)

Behavioral Medicine Seminar

Department of Psychiatry, MGH (no sponsor)

Counteracting Stress: The Relaxation Response

Harvard University Health Services (no sponsor)

2010 Spirituality in Psychiatry/Spirituality and Psychiatry Course

Harvard Medical School (no sponsor)

The Relaxation Response

Counteracting Stress . . . The Relaxation Response

Harvard Graduate School of Design (no sponsor)

The Relaxation Response

Behavioral Medicine Seminar

Department of Psychiatry, MGH (no sponsor)

Mind/Body Medicine Elective Course

Harvard Medical School (no sponsor)

Counteracting Stress

Harvard Business School (no sponsor)

Belief and Medicine/Grand Rounds

Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Grand Rounds (no sponsor)

2011 Spirituality in Psychiatry/Spirituality and Psychiatry Course

Harvard Medical School (no sponsor)

The Relaxation Response

Harvard Graduate Commons (no sponsor)

The Relaxation Response

Harvard Graduate School of Education (no sponsor)

Scientific Basis of the Relaxation Response

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (no sponsor)

How to Beat Stress

Harvard Medical School – Talk at 12 (no sponsor)

Mind Body Medicine Elective Course

Harvard Medical School (no sponsor)

The Relaxation Response and Mind Body Medicine

Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Grand Rounds (no sponsor)

The Relaxation Response

Harvard Graduate School of Education (no sponsor)

Body, Mind and Spirit

Harvard Law School Association Senior Advisory Network (no sponsor)

1997 Irving M. Rosen Memorial Lecturer, Butler Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island

2002 Bouvé Lecturer, Northeastern University

2004 The Relaxation Response: How to Counteract the Harmful Effects of Stress Keynote

Doctor’s Day Luncheon, Lawrence General Hospital, MA (no sponsor)

The Relaxation Response: How Stress Affects the Brain

Learning & the Brain, Cambridge, MA (Public Information Resources, Inc.)

2005 Cascieri Lectureship in the Humanities, Boston Architectural Center

Mind/Body Medicine and its Relation to Good Health/Medical Grand Rounds Keynote

Caritas Norwood Hospital, Norwood, MA (no sponsor)

The Relaxation Response: a Bridge Between Mind, Body and Spirituality Keynote

Brandeis University, Burlington, MA (no sponsor)

The Relaxation Response: A Bridge Between Mind, Body and Spirituality Keynote

Lahey Clinic Social Work Lecture Series, Burlington, MA (no sponsor)

2006 The Relaxation Response: How to Counteract the Harmful Effects of Stress/Grand Rounds

Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA (no sponsor)

The Relaxation Response Keynote

Visiting Clinician Program, Lawrence Memorial Hospital (Hallmark Health)

The Relaxation Response: How to Counteract the Harmful Effects of Stress Plenary

2007 The Relaxation Response: How to Counteract the Harmful Effects of Stress Keynote

Social Law Library, Boston, MA (Flaschner Judicial Institute)

The Relaxation Response: How to Counteract the Harmful Effects of Stress Keynote

Burlington, MA (Lahey Clinic)

The Relaxation Response: How to Counteract the Harmful Effects of Stress Keynote

The Relaxation Response: How to Counteract the Harmful Effects of Stress/ Grand Rounds

Boston, MA (Lemuel Shattuck Hospital)

2008 The Relaxation Response: How to Counteract the Harmful Effects of Stress Keynote

Master Series in Clinical Practice, Boston, MA (MA School of Professional Psychology)

Benefits of the Relaxation Response: Does it Work in Heart Failure Keynote

Boston, MA (American Assn of Heart Failure Nurses)

2010 The Relaxation Response: How to Counteract the Harmful Effects of Stress and Plenary

Anxiety

Anxiety and Asperger Conference, Cambridge, MA (Asperger’s Association of N.E.)

Mind/Body Medicine and the Relaxation Response: Research, Techniques and Keynote

Applications

Masters Series in Clinical Practice, Boston, MA (MA School of Professional Psychology)

2011 The Relaxation Revolution: Your Innate Genetic Capacity to Counteract the Harmful

Effects of Stress Keynote

Cape Cod Community College’s Nursing Club, West Barnstable, MA

1992 Bowles Chapel Lecturer, Memorial Healthcare System, Houston, Texas

1995 Greenville Hospital System, Distinguished Lecturer, Greenville, South Carolina

1998 Norman Vincent Peale Lectureship, Penn State Geisenger Health System, Hershey, PA

1999 Distinguished Lecturer, American Psychological Association

1999 Zacharias Lecture, Bon Secours St. Mary’s Hospital, Richmond, Virginia

2004 AOA Lecture, Case Western Reserve University

2004 AOA Lecture, University of Minnesota

The Relaxation Response: How to Counteract the Harmful Effects of Stress Lecture

Seminar to Public Health Researchers, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Atlanta, GA (no sponsor)

Reducing Stress with the Relaxation Response Keynote

Northside Hospital, Atlanta, GA (no sponsor)

The Relaxation Response: How to Counteract the Harmful Effects of Stress Keynote

AOA Spring Lecture Case Western Reserve University, Ohio (no sponsor)

The Science and Spirit of Healing Keynote

Seton Hall University, New Jersey (no sponsor)

The Role of Spirituality in Medicine Plenary

Second Annual Clinical Leadership Forum, The Community Health Care Association of New

York State, Rye Brook, NY (no sponsor)

The Importance of Stress Management in Health and Well-Being: The Relaxation Response

Keynote

National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Atlanta, GA

(no sponsor)

The Mind-Body Connection and Beyond the Mind-Body Connection: The Role of Spirituality

and Health Keynote

Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY (no sponsor)

How to Counteract the Harmful Effects of Stress: The Relaxation Response Plenary

St. Anne’s Hospital/Hudner Oncology Center, Croton on the Hudson, NY (no sponsor)

Special Lecture: Spirituality and Healing Plenary

Annual Update and Intensive Review of Internal Medicine 2004

The Plaza, New York, New York Columbia University Medical Center & Beth Israel Deaconess

Medical Center (no sponsor)

Mind/Body Medicine-the Third Leg of a Three-Legged Stool Three Presentations

Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society Keynote

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (no sponsor)

2005 The Relaxation Response: How to Counteract the Harmful Effects of Stress Keynote

Creating the Next Step: Honoring Tradition and Embracing Science

Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, Austin, TX (no sponsor)

The Relaxation Response: Linking Mind, Body & Spirit Single Presentation

Lutheran HealthCare Lecture Series, Brooklyn, NY (no sponsor)

2006 First Visiting Professor in Integrative Medicine, Weill Medical College of

Cornell University, New York, NY (no sponsor)

The Relaxation Response: How to Counteract the Harmful Effects of Stress/Grand Rounds

Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY (no sponsor)

Spirituality and Healing in Medicine Keynote

Ball Memorial Hospital, Muncie, IN (no sponsor)

A Case for Change: Creating a Healing Environment Keynote

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1985 Visiting Professor, Shanghai College of Traditional Chinese Medicine,Shanghai,

People’s Republic of China

1986 Wiegand Inaugural Lecturer, 1986, University of Toronto

1990 Special Invited Lecturer, Japanese Society of Autogenic Training, Tokyo, Japan

2006 The Importance of Integration of Mind/Body Practices and Prayer Plenary

Spirituality, Knowledge and Integral Health Congress, Monterrey, Mexico

The Relaxation Response: How to Counteract the Harmful Effects of Stress Plenary

Emotions, Illness and Wellness Congress, Bologna, Italy

1965 Board of Registration in Medicine, Massachusetts

Ambulatory Care Hospital Practice Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at MGH

Five days per week

I was the first to describe the clinical intervention known as the relaxation response. Very large

numbers of patients now routinely elicit the relaxation response to counteract the harmful clinical effects

of stress.

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1a. ibid, London: Collins, 1976.

1b. ibid, New York: Avon, 1976.

1c. ibid, (Mietiskellen mielenrauhaan) Helsinki: Werner Soderstrom Osakeyhtio, 1976

1d. ibid, Boston: Hall, 1976.

1e. ibid, (Reagir par la detente) Paris: Tchou, 1976.

1f. ibid, (La risposta rilassante) Milan: Rizzoli Editore, 1977.

1g. ibid, Tokyo: Kodan Sha, 1977.

1h. ibid, (Relajacion) Barcelona: Editorial Pomaire, 1977.

1i. ibid, (Afspaending meditation og blodtryk) Copenhagen: Bergens Forlag, 1977.

1j. ibid, (Aprendendo a relaxar) Rio de Janeiro: Editora Artenova, 1977.

1k. ibid, (Bewust ontspannen) Amsterdam: H J W Becht's Uitgeversmaatschappij, 1978.

1l. ibid, (Arslappning) Varnamo: Brombers Bokforlag, 1980.

1m. ibid, Seoul, Dongdowan (in press)

1n. ibid, Global Group Holdings: Taipei City, 2010.

2a. ibid, (El effecto mente/cuerpo) Barcelona-Buenos Aires-Mexico: Grijalbo, 1980.

2b. ibid, New York: Berkley, 1980.

2c. ibid, (Medicina Humanista) Sao Paulo: Editora Brasiliense, 1980.

3a. ibid, London: Collins-Fount, 1985.

3b. ibid, New York: Berkley, 1985.

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3c. ibid, Barcelona: Grijalbo Ediciones, 1986.

3d. ibid, Seoul: Hakjisa, 2003

4a. ibid, London: Thorson's, 1988.

4b. ibid, New York: Avon, 1989.

4c. ibid, (El poder de la mente) Barcelona: Grijalbo Ediciones, 1989.

Carol, 1992.

5a. ibid, New York: Fireside, 1993.

5b. ibid, Wien: Donauland, 1993

6a. ibid, Rydalmere (Australia): Hodder & Stoughton, 1996.

6b. ibid, London: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

6c. ibid, Rockland: Wheeler, 1996.

6d. ibid, (Geloof in uw eigen geneeskracht de medische

werking van geest en spiritualiteit) Utrecht: Kosmos, 1996.

6e. ibid, (Curados por la Fe. Revelador Estudio Sobre el Poder Curativo de las Creencias) Bogota:

Grupo Editorial Norma , 1996.

6f. ibid, (Siempre Sano. La Biología y la Fuerza de las Creencias) Barcelona: Grijalbo, 1996.

6g. ibid, New York: Fireside, 1996.

6h. ibid, (Credere Per Poter Guarire) Milan: Sperling & Kupfer, 1997.

6i. ibid, Munich: (Heilung Durch Glauben. Die Beweise. Selbstheilung In Der Neuen Medizin)

Heyne Verlag, 1997.

6j. ibid, Tokyo: Shoeisha, 1997.

6k. ibid, (Moc A Bíologie Víry V Uzdravení) Prague: Sofa, 1997.

6l. ibid, London: Pocket Books, 1998.

6m. ibid, (Medicina Espiritual. O Poder Essencial da Cura) Rio de Janeiro: Editorial Campas, 1998.

6n. ibid, Tapei: Successmart, 1998.

6o. ibid, Bratislava: Sofa, 1998.

6p. ibid, Seoul: Miresa , 1998.

6q. ibid, Jakarta: Binarupa Aksara, 1998.

6r. ibid, Global Group Holdings: Taipei City, 2010.

York: Avon, 2000.

7a. ibid, (reakcija opuštanja) Zagreb: Algoritam, 2001.

7b. ibid, Moscow: Astrel, 2004

8a. ibid, Moscow: Eksmo, 2004.

8b. ibid, Tokyo: PHP, 2004.

8c. ibid, Indonesia: Kifa, 2005

8d. ibid, Paris: Editions Sand, 2005

8e. ibid, Seoul: Hakjisz, 2005

New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006

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of 1969 Film Reel, [Silent], VHS, 13:00

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Sheets Ceremony, Pt. 2, 1985, videotape, Digital BETACAM, master copy,95:52

Excerpts, 1981, Expedition, Dr. Herbert Benson

Productions, 2 December 1985, videotape, VHS, original copy, 8:32

Productions, 2 December 1985, videotape, VHS, use copy, 8:00

Productions, 2 December 1985, videotape, Digital BETACAM, master copy, 8:00

VHS, 25:44

Symposium Introduction by HB, 24 March 1991, videotape, VHS, 1:59:10

[CBC], 1995, videotape, VHS, 45:44

videotape, VHS, 30:00

1996, videotape, VHS, 46:24

Participation by HB, 17 February 1996, videotape, VHS, 36:00

Dr. John Templeton, Jr., MSNBC; Interview with HB, WCVB TV 5; Interview with HB,

Healthcast [WHDH TV 7]; Interview with Dr. John Templeton, Jr., WFXT TV [Fox]; 16

December 1996, videotape,VHS, 20:05

Channel], 28 March 1997, videotape, VHS, 20:06

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Institute with Herbert Benson, M.D., 1997, videotape, VHS, 30:00

Relaxation Response with Peter Graves, 1997, videotape, VHS, 15:00

with Peg Baim, M.S., R.N., introduction by Herbert Benson, M.D., 1998 videotape, VHS,

44:00

Ivanhoe Broadcast News, videotape, VHS, 7:03

videotape, VHS, 15:30

Produced by Russ Pariseau and Mike Edwards, Spring 2001, videotape, VHS, original copy,

24:33

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Produced by Russ Pariseau and Mike Edwards, Spring 2001, videotape, Digital BETACAM,

master copy, 24:33

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undated, videotape, VHS, original version, 17:00

undated, videotape, VHS, use copy, 17:00

undated, videotape, Digital BETACAM, master copy, 17:00

Seminar by HB, undated, videotape, VHS, 1:32:00

videotape, UMatic

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I am the Mind/Body Medical Institute Associate Professor Medicine, Harvard Medical School

and the founding President of the Mind/Body Medical Institute. A graduate of Wesleyan University and

the Harvard Medical School, I am the author or co-author of over 180 scientific publications and 11

books. More than five million copies of my books have been printed.

Throughout my career I have been pioneering the development of the fields of behavioral

medicine and mind body medicine as well as in spirituality and healing in medicine through teaching,

clinical activities, administrations and research. My research defined the relaxation response, the

physiological counterpart of the fight-or-flight response. I continue to lead research into the basic

physiology and efficacy of the relaxation response in counteracting the harmful effects of stress. My

research extends from the laboratory to the clinic and to Asian field expeditions and this work serves as

a bridge between medicine and spirituality, East and West, mind and body and belief and science.

Through my testimonies before the U.S. House and Senate, I have been instrumental in having

scores of millions of dollars appropriated to the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention for mind/body, behavioral medicine research.

I have been invited by my colleagues and peers to talk about my research in Shanghai, Tokyo,

Toronto, Case Western Reserve University and in 2006, at Weill Medical College of Cornell University.

In 1978 I developed the first Harvard Medical School CME course in behavioral medicine and

in 1995, the first Harvard Medical School CME course in mind body medicine and also in 1995, the first

Harvard Medical School CME course in spirituality and healing in medicine. Thousands of participants

have attended theses courses. Evaluations of all these courses continue to rank very high in all

categories.