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Dr. Bob Kapitany

Dr. Kapitany is a medical scientist and accomplished meditation teacher. He specializes in analytical insight (mindfulness) meditation and healing (Vajrayana) practices. He has completed more than 50 retreats over the past 30 years in most aspects of Buddhist meditation practice including Vipassana and Vajrayana. He is the resident instructor at the Chittamani Meditation Center in Ottawa and teaches for the Gaden for the West organization across North America.

Dr. Kapitany offers a unique opportunity for an in-depth presentation of traditional analytic insight and Buddhist healing techniques combined with modern mindfulness based therapeutic strategies in terms of the challenge to the therapist dealing with psychological crisis and on-going personality disturbance, pain and neurotrauma recovery.

Dr Kapitany's scientific career has spanned 30 years and he has been a senior clinical assessor for medical devices, anti-infectives, oncology and a variety of other drug classes at Health Canada for 25 of those years. He has coordinated, at the global level, the development of the information technology data transfer standards for the submission of data for prescription drug licensing to the various review agencies.

Today, Dr. Kapitany is actively involved in the medical science of Mindfulness Based practices as co-investigator providing meditation training and on-going support to neurotrauma patients involved in clinical studies of application of MBCT to this clinical paradigm.

Dr. Kapitany is an experienced lecturer and instructor and is especially effective where different scientific, traditional medicine and meditation technologies and vocabularies are combined. He has given over 100 successful presentations to scientific, technological, and meditation audiences globally on a wide variety of subjects and is the recipient of international awards from the US and Canadian governments for leadership in international harmonization.

Dr. Katherine Matas

Dr. Katherine Matas is a nurse scientist-practitioner. Her practice and research have focused on leading edge health care initiatives for over 25 years. Her work includes support, development and investigation of health, self care and healing based on holistic frameworks and culturally-based models in community settings.

Her clinical specialty areas include community health, holistic nursing modalities and hospice and palliative care. She was Director of the Health Patterning Clinic at Arizona State University for 5 years. All clinic clients learned methods to calm the mind for purposes of self-healing. This clinic was part of the ASU Employee Wellness Program that received the Governor's Award for Excellence.

Dr. Matas has been a nursing professor at Arizona State University, Western Michigan University and Northern Arizona University. She has completed research and community-based projects in the following areas:

  • the nature and origins of chronic pain;
  • self-care and healing practices for disease management and health promotion;
  • the influence of faith communities on health and well-being; and,
  • co-participatory community assessment as a community level healing intervention.

Dr. Matas has presented her ideas and research at many professional and scientific meetings. She has authored book chapters and scientific articles. Dr. Matas has taught hundreds of health care professionals and lay people Therapeutic Touch and other healing modalities. She has over 25 years experience and training in different forms of meditation including Vajrayana and insight (mindfulness).

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