About the keynote

Public interest in mindfulness is undergoing a rapid global expansion, as is the scientific evidence base. Because of this, population health approaches are necessary to foster evidence-based mindfulness delivery systems world-wide.

In his keynote, Eric Loucks will address some of the strongest evidence, and knowledge gaps, about the impacts of mindfulness on mental and physical health. The talk explores some of the major opportunities for mindfulness research and education moving forward, including mindfulness delivery systems, health insurance coverage, and adapting mindfulness interventions to specific patient and demographic groups. 

About the speaker

Dr. Eric Loucks is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health and the Medical School at Brown University. He is Director of the Mindfulness Center at Brown. Dr. Loucks has held teaching positions at Harvard, McGill and Brown Universities. He has over 85 peer-reviewed publications.

Dr. Loucks and his colleagues were among the first to show associations of dispositional mindfulness with cardiovascular health. They developed the first consensus theoretical framework of how mindfulness meditation could potentially reduce risk for cardiovascular disease. Dr. Loucks' work showed in a recent clinical trial of Mindfulness-Based Blood Pressure Reduction (MB-BP) to have sizeable lowering of blood pressure in hypertensive participants. 

Read more here: https://vivo.brown.edu/display/eloucks