The Columbia Law School Mindfulness Program invites you to a meditation for faculty, staff, and students, held via live-stream on Wednesday, September 30th from 12:45-1:25pm. These sessions are oriented to beginners and also open to those more experienced with mindfulness practices, and they include guided meditation as well as discussion of mindfulness meditation. Participants are also invited to bring lunch to these sessions and enjoy their meal in community. This week's session will be led by Dr. Patricia Bloom (bio below).
To access the live-stream of this session, please follow this link.
Dr. Patricia A. Bloom, MD is a Clinical Associate Professor of Geriatrics at the Icahn Medical School of Mount Sinai, a past Vice Chair of the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, NY, and previously the Director of Integrative Health for the Martha Stewart Center for Living at the Mount Sinai Medical Center. She also previously served as an Associate Director of Internal Medicine at St. Luke’s/Roosevelt Hospital Center (now Mount Sinai St. Luke’s/West), Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at St. Luke’s, and Chief of Geriatric Medicine at St. Luke’s/Roosevelt.
Her major interests include integrative health and health promotion, stress reduction, and Mind Body Medicine. She is a certified teacher of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), a curriculum developed by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts over 40 years ago and now used in over 750 health centers around the world. She teaches meditation and MBSR for patients and health care professionals at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, teaches mindfulness for professional and workplace groups (The Asia Society, Rockefeller University), is involved in research concerning the benefits of mindfulness, and lectures widely on integrative medicine and the science of meditation. She was listed on New York Magazine’s list of “Best Doctors” for 15 years, and in 2012 was awarded the Mount Sinai Physician of the Year Special Recognition Award. In 2012 she was also honored by the New York City Zen Center for Contemplative Care for her work in advancing integrative medicine in academic settings. In 2013 she was a Sidney Katz Professor of the Columbia University Stroud Center at numerous academic and clinical centers investigating mindfulness in England. In 2019 she was awarded the Mount Sinai Alumni Association Special Recognition Award for excellence in patient care and teaching.
