Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, is the author and narrator of numerous bestselling books about mindfulness and meditation, including the classic, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life.
He is founding Executive Director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is also the founding director of its renowned Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Clinic and Professor of Medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
He received his Ph.D. in molecular biology from MIT in 1971 in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate, Salvador Luria.
Jon has contributed to a growing movement to bring mindfulness into mainstream institutions such as medicine, and psychology, health care and hospitals, schools, corporations, the legal profession, prisons, and professional sports. He teaches mindfulness and MBSR in various venues around the world.
