Dr. Mick Krasner, Professor of Clinical Medicine and Professor of Clinical Family Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, practices primary care internal medicine in Rochester, New York. Dr. Krasner has been teaching Mindfulness-Based programs to patients, medical students, and health professionals for more than 20 years with a keen focus on the connection between health professional well-being and the effectiveness of the healing relationship.
He has shared his work in peer-reviewed publications, scientific assemblies, workshops, visiting professorships, and intensives throughout the world and he describes his personal mission as centered on compassion in medicine- for the self and others, envisioning a personalized health professional-patient relationship where healing is truly bidirectional, care goals are mutually derived, and the uniqueness of the clinical encounter reflects this central act of mutual high regard.
Not a personal failing, but the result of a number of systemic and structural forces that place unrealistic demands on our health professionals, upwards of 50% of physicians experience significant indicators of burnout, starting in medical school. Dr. Krasner discusses the growing role of mindfulness-based practices in assisting physicians and other medical professionals in coping with the many stresses of their profession. Dr. Krasner outlines some of the foundational tenets of mindfulness-based thinking as well as his experience across the globe in engaging his colleagues around this very unique brand of The Helping Conversation.