James Carmody
Professor, Departments of Medicine, and Population & Quantitative Health, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
James Carmody is a Professor in the Departments of Medicine, and Population and Quantitative Health Sciences Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School.
His interest is in the qualities of attending to experience that are associated with distress and well-being and how these can be modified. As such, his research is on the psychological and neural mechanisms of mindfulness and mind-body processes more generally, including the evolutionary and biological imperatives that these programs mitigate.
He teaches mindfulness courses for clinicians with the goal of making the conceptualization and psychological mechanisms of mind-body processes straightforward, jargon-free and practically accessible for patients.
Jim is a New Zealander and studied and practiced in Zen, Tibetan, Theravada and Advaita traditions in a number of countries over forty-five years. His work has been featured in national and international media including the New York Times, NPR, and ABC.
