Michael Baime

Michael Baime, M.D., is the founder and Director of the Penn Program for Stress Management at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, which has trained more than 5,000 people in mindfulness-based stress management. He is the director of numerous courses at Penn teaching mindfulness, meditation, and spirituality, and also electives offered in the medical and nursing schools, the Departments of Pastoral Care and Psychology. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1981 and has practiced meditation since 1969. A Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, he practices primary care medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine. He is also involved in many research projects, including investigations into the relationship between meditation training and empathy, cognitive neuroscience of meditation, and the clinical applications of mindfulness training, including as a treatment for obesity, multiple sclerosis, and A.D.D.