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Carl Fulwiler, MD PhD, is Director of MBCT teacher training at the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion at Cambridge Health Alliance, a teaching affiliate at Harvard Medical School, and Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He originally trained and practices Zen, and has been practicing in the Vipassana tradition for over 25 years. He founded the Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) program at the UMass Center for Mindfulness where he served as Medical Director and later Interim Director. He received advanced teacher training in MBCT through the Mindfulness-Based Professional Training Institute at UCSD, and in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) through the UMass Center for Mindfulness. He is a mentor for MBCT teachers through UCSD, and serves on the Advisory Committee for Access MBCT. Dr. Fulwiler received his M.D. from Washington University and his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Harvard where he also completed a residency in Psychiatry. He conducts federally-funded research on mental health services research, neuroimaging and mindfulness interventions, and lectures nationally and internationally on mindfulness-based approaches in healthcare and clinician well-being. He is also a practicing psychiatrist specializing in mindfulness-based psychotherapy.