Keynote Presenter

Joan Borysenko, PhD, has a powerfully clear personal vision — to bring science, medicine, psychology and spirituality together in the service of healing. Her brilliance as a scientist, clinician and teacher have placed her on the leading edge of the mind-body revolution, and she has become a world-renowned spokesperson for this new approach to health, sharing her pioneering work with a gentle graciousness, enthusiasm and humility.

Trained as both a medical scientist and a psychologist, Dr. Borysenko has gone beyond her traditional academic training and developed depth and breadth in a number of fields, including behavioral medicine, stress and well-being, psychoneuroimmunology, women's health, creativity, and the great spiritual traditions of the world. She received her doctorate in medical sciences at the Harvard Medical School, where she also completed three post-doctoral fellowships in experimental pathology, behavioral medicine and psychoneuroimmunology and where she was instructor in medicine until 1988.

Also a licensed psychologist, Dr. Borysenko co-founded and directed the mind-body clinical programs at two Harvard Medical School teaching hospitals (now merged as the Beth Israel/Deaconess Medical Center in Boston). These programs were the foundation for her 1987 classic New York Times bestseller Minding the Body, Mending the Mind.

A spell-binding lecturer and workshop leader, Dr. Borysenko offers a powerful blend of science, psychology and spirituality as well as humor, personal anecdotes, the results of scientific research, and practical exercises for personal and professional growth. With unprecedented clarity and sophistication, her eleven books — an impressive library of healing — combine scholarly wisdom with the language of the heart.

Dr. Borysenko's work has been featured both in scientific journals and popular magazines and newspapers, including U.S. News and World Report, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Reader's Digest, Success, Bottom Line, The Leifer Report, American Health, Shape, Glamour, Vogue, Ladies' Home Journal, Living Fit, Success, Yoga Journal and New Age Journal. Her ability to bridge diverse disciplines and open new lines of communication has led to her appearance on Oprah, Sally Jesse Raphael, Sonya Live, Geraldo, Hour Magazine and Good Morning America as well as programs on public television. Dr. Borysenko is equally at home presenting in corporations, conferences, hospitals, churches, synagogues and civic settings — transcending boundaries and bringing a much-needed message of peace and inspiration.