This month's Guest on
Healing Times Radio
Jan 21, 2010 (11am PST):
Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier
Dr. Pelletier is a Clinical
Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, at the University of Arizona
School of Medicine; and, a Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Department of
Family and Community Medicine and in the Department of Psychiatry at the University
of California School of Medicine, San Francisco (UCSF). At the University of
Arizona, he is Director of the Corporate Health Improvement Program (CHIP)
which is a collaborative research program between CHIP and 15 of the Fortune
500 corporations. Also, he is Chairman of the American Health Association
and is a Vice President with Healthtrac Incorporated.
Prior to
these positions, Dr. Pelletier served as Clinical Professor of Medicine,
Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine; was Director of
the Stanford Corporate Health Program (SCHP); and, Director of the NIH funded
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Program at Stanford (CAMPS). From 1974
until joining the Stanford University School of Medicine in 1990, Dr. Pelletier
held a dual appointment as an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of
Medicine and the Department of Psychiatry, University of California School of
Medicine in San Francisco (UCSF).
In addition
to his faculty positions, Dr Pelletier has served as a member of the Board of
Directors of the California Wellness Foundation, Foundation Health Systems
(FHS), Health Systems International (HSI), and the Social Venture Network. He
was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, studied at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich,
Switzerland and has published over 300 professional journal articles in
behavioral medicine, disease management, worksite interventions, and
alternative/integrative medicine.
At the
present time, Dr. Pelletier is a medical and business consultant to the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services, the World Health Organization (WHO),
the National Business Group on Health, the Federation of State Medical Boards,
and major corporations including IBM, American Airlines, Medtronic, Disney,
Merck, Ford, NASA, Microsoft ENCARTA, Blue Cross, Blue Shield, United
Healthcare, the Pasteur Institute of Lille, France, the Alpha Group of Mexico,
and the Singapore Ministry of Health. He also serves on the boards of the Healthtrac
Foundation, United Behavioral Health, American Institute of Stress,
International Spa Association (ISPA),American Journal of Health
Promotion, and as a peer reviewer for the Journal of the American
Medical Association (JAMA), the Journal of Occupational and
Environmental Medicine (JOEM), and Annals of Internal Medicine.
Dr.
Pelletier is listed in Who's Who in America and in Who's
Who in the World. His research, clinical practice, and
publications have been the subject of numerous national television programs including
several appearances on the ABC World News, the Today program, Good
Morning America, the CBS Evening News, 48 Hours, the McNeil-Lehrer
Newshour, CNN, FOX News, CBS Sunday Morning,Hour Magazine, the Time/Life
video series, the award winning BBC series The Long Search, and the
five-part Blue Cross/Blue Shield sponsored PBS series Healthy People,
Healthy Business.
Dr. Pelletier is the author of ten (10) major books
including the international best seller Mind as Healer, Mind as Slayer
(New York: Delacorte and Delta, 1977; Revised in 1992); Holistic
Medicine: From Stress to Optimum Health (New York: Delacorte and Delta,
1981; Revised in 1991); Healthy People in Unhealthy Places; Stress and
Fitness at Work (New York: Delacorte, Delta, and Doubleday, 1984); Sound
Mind - Sound Body: A New Model for Lifelong Health (New York: Simon
& Schuster, 1995); The Best Alternative Medicine: What Works?
What Does Not? (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000); and Stress
Free for Good: Ten Scientifically Proven Life Skills for Health and Happiness
(New York: Harper Collins, 2005).