About John and the Studio
The Mind Body Studio is dedicated to your self-care, helping you learn to mobilize your own inner resources to promote health, prevent disease and heal physical and psychological conditions.
Informed, empowered self-care is the heart of individual wellness, good medicine, public health and human resource management.
We use shared decision-making and therapeutic partnerships to create unique, personalized self-care prescriptions reflecting each person’s individuality.
Our group classes provide a supportive environment in which to learn a variety of mind body skills for immediate use in daily life, at work and in relationships.
We take an integrative approach, combining conventional Western biomedicine with safe, effective complementary approaches.
Research shows this ‘new medicine’ can lower health care costs to individuals and businesses. It also offers therapeutic and self-healing options that people find more personally meaningful and consistent with their values and beliefs.
For an excellent overview of this “New Medicine”, go to thenewmedicine.org. This online companion to the 2007 PBS series provides extensive video excerpts of the documentary, which emphasizes the use of mind body medicine in major US medical centers.
John has been in the private practice of rural family medicine in Irvine (Estill County) KY since 1980. Here is a summery of his background.
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Education
- BA (Psychology) 1970 Vanderbilt University
- MD 1973 University of Tennessee
- MSPH (Master’s Degree in Public Health and Preventive Medicine Residency) 1997 University of Kentucky
Board Certification
- American Board of Family Practice (initial 1979, last re-certified 2003)
- American Board of Holistic Medicine (2000)
Academic Appointment
- Assistant Professor (Community-Based Faculty) Dept of Family and Community Medicine, U of Kentucky College of Medicine, 1990-present
Professional Activities
- Co-investigator, NIH grant to integrate complementary and alternative medicine into medical curriculum, Dept of Family and Community Medicine, U of Kentucky, 2002-2005
- Course Director of UK College of Medicine elective The Healer’s Art, part of the national Healer’s Art initiative created by Rachel Remen MD
- President (2000-01) Kentucky Academy of Family Physicians
Additional Certification
- Certified by the Center for Mind Body Medicine 2002, now on CMBM faculty for US professional training and international program, Healing the Wounds of War (Israel and Gaza 2004-2006)
- Certified by Integral Yoga Institutes 2000
- Certified by Kentucky Environmental Education Council 2006
- Trained by Al Gore’s The Climate Project for Faith-Based Presenters 2008