Series Description: 

This Grand Rounds series showcases cutting‑edge clinical insights, emerging practice guidelines, and late‑breaking research across key medical subspecialties. Lectures focus on the prevention of disease, management and treatment of patients, molecular components with a basic understanding of disease process and evidence-based updates on emerging novel therapies. The series is designed to inspire clinical excellence, support evidence‑based decision‑making, and elevate the standard of care across the continuum.

Session Description: 

This Grand Rounds session will give physicians a practical, scientifically grounded overview of mindfulness and meditation neuroscience. The presentation will distinguish major practice types, summarize clinically relevant evidence for anxiety,
chronic pain, stress, and relapse risk, and explain the brain networks most often implicated in attention, emotion regulation, pain modulation, and self-referential processing. The session will also emphasize safe, bias-aware, and equity conscious
clinical communication so that physicians can discuss mindfulness as an adjunctive option without overpromising, dismissing patient interest, or overlooking patients for whom inward-focused practice may need adaptation. 

Target Audience: 

Nurse Practitioner (NP)

Nurse, Registered (RN)

Pharmacists (PharmD)

Physicians (MD or DO)

Physician Assistant (PA)

Social Workers

Other Healthcare Professionals

Physical Therapist

Learning Objectives- After Attending this Session Learners Should be Able to:

1. Distinguish focused attention, open monitoring, body-based/interoceptive, and compassion-oriented meditation practices and relate each to plausible neuropsychological operations and brain networks relevant to clinical symptoms.
2. Appraise recent evidence for mindfulness-based interventions as adjunctive approaches for anxiety, chronic pain/opioid misuse, stress-related distress, and relapse prevention, including limitations, adverse effects, and areas of uncertainty.
3. Formulate a brief patient-centered recommendation or referral plan that matches mindfulness practices to patient goals, safety considerations, social determinants of health, and bias-aware communication needs.

Assembly Bills 1195 & 241- Culturally Appropriate Care which is Free of Implicit Biases:

Learners are strongly encouraged to engage in self-directed learning related to the impact of implicit biases in this clinical area via the references provided below:

SDOH: Chen, Y., Liu, Z., Werneck, A.O., Huang, T., Van Damme, T., Kramer, A.F., Cunha, P.M., Zou, L., Wang, K., & Werneck, A.O. (2024). Social determinants of health and youth chronic pain. Complementary therapies in clinical practice, 57, 101911. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ctcp.2024.101911 

Implicit Bias: Murphy, J., Farrell, K., Kealy, M.B., & Kristiniak, S. (2023). Mindfulness as a self-care strategy for healthcare professionals to reduce stress and implicit bias. Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice, 30, 100598. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xjep.2022.100598 

Disclosure of Financial or In-Kind Commercial Support & Conflict of Interest

No one involved in the planning or presentation of this educational activity have any relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. No financial or in-kind commercial support was received to produce or promote this educational activity. 

– Provider Designee/Verification:  Fozia Ferozali, Ed.D. 

Committee Member(s)

Ronald Adler, MD has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Ursula Boynton, MD has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Brian Candell, MD has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Masoud Chopan, D.O. has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Hussain Gilani, MD has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Taher Hegab, PharmD, PhD, MBA has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Ajay Upadhyay  has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Valentino Walker, LCSW has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Serene Wilson has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Sharon Washington has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Planner(s)

Ronald Adler, MD has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Ursula Boynton, MD has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Brian Candell, MD has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Masoud Chopan, D.O. has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Hussain Gilani, MD has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Taher Hegab, PharmD, PhD, MBA has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Ajay Upadhyay  has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Valentino Walker, LCSW has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Serene Wilson  has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Sharon Washington has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.