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Applied Meditation Studies Faculty
Acupuncture Studies Faculty
Won Buddhist Studies Faculty
Applied Meditation Studies Full-Time Faculty
Glenn Wallis, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Ph.D. Harvard University
M.A. Harvard University
Georg-August Universitat, Gottingen, Germany,
Indology and Buddhist Studies, Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany
B.A. Temple University, Philosophy
Glenn Wallis is a specialist in Indian Buddhism with expertise in meditation theory and technique, Buddhist canonical literature, Buddhist psychology, and ritual studies. Dr. Wallis has taught in the religion departments of several universities, including the University of Georgia, Brown University, and Bowdoin College.. He began formal Buddhist practice in 1975, and subsequently received training in several forms of Buddhist meditation.. Dr. Wallis is the author of four books, The Dhammapada: Verses on the Way (New York: Random House, Modern Library, 2004), Mediating the Power of Buddhas (Albany: State University of New York Press, Buddhist Studies Series, 2002), Basic Teachings of the Buddha (New York: Random House, Modern Library, 2007), and Buddhavacana: A Pali Reader (Onalaska, WA: Pariyatti Press, forthcoming 2010), as well as numerous articles and reviews on various aspects of Buddhism in both scholarly journals and popular magazines.
Helen J. Rosen, Ph.D., MSW, Associate Professor
Ph.D. Rutgers University
MSW New York University
Dr. Rosen is currently a faculty member at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. She teaches Buddhism and meditation and psychotherapy to psychoanalytic candidates and psychotherapy students. She has taught at Rutgers University School Of Social Work in Camden, NJ; the University of Medicine and Dentistry, School of Osteopathic Medicine in Cherry Hill, NJ; Widener University School of Social Work; Rowan College and Bryn Mawr College. Her book: Unspoken Grief: Coping with Childhood Sibling Loss won a Best Book Award from the American Journal of Nursing.
Applied MeditationVisiting Scholar
Jeffrey Rubin, Ph.D. Associate Visiting Scholar
Princeton University, New Jersey
Columbia University, New York
Union Institute, New York
Dr. Jeffrey Rubin is the psychotherapist who has pioneered groundbreaking work on the intersection of Buddhism and psychotherapy. Dr. Rubin holds degrees from Princeton, Columbia, and Union Institute. He teaches at Westchester Institue for Training in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy; at the Center for Mental health; and at Union Theological Seminary. His national workshops include topics such as meditation, deepeining intimacy, and human floursihing in times of peril. He is the author of The Good Life, Psychotherapy and Buddhism: Toward Integration, and Psychoanalysis for Our Times: Exploring the Blindness of Seeing I. He has been practicing yoga and meditation for more than 30 years and is a Dharma Holder in the White Plum Sangha and the Red Thread Zen Circle.
Applied Meditation Studies Adjunct Faculty
Diane Reibel, Ph.D.
Ph.D. Thomas Jefferson University
B.S. Penn State University
Dr. Reibel has taught mindfulness-based stress reduction programs to patients, physicians and other health care providers for 10 years. She participated in professional training under the direction of Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD. Dr. Reibel is also Adjunct Research Associate Professor of Physiology at Jefferson Medical College and brings both a scientific foundation and heartfulness to her work.
Elaine Yuen, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor
B.A. University of Chicago
M.B.A. Temple University
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Yuen is a Research Associate in the Center and a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine. She has published her research widely in scholarly journals. Currently, she is studying risk adjustment and population-based financing of care in Italy, assessing the biopsychosocial factors contributing to asthma prevalence in Philadelphia school children, and assessing television programming and awareness of caregiver needs. Other studies have examined the mental health of Korean immigrant women as they care for their elderly relatives, access to care and avoidable hospitalization for patients with asthma and diabetes in the greater Philadelphia area; examining how medical students express and frame their views of spirituality, and models of factors that are important in collaborative relationships between primary care physicians and mental health specialists. Dr. Yuen is also a senior teacher at the Philadelphia Shambhala Meditation Center, and has been a Shambhala Buddhist practitioner since the early 1970's. She was a founding member of the Mudra Theater Group in Boulder, and has performed Prajna, a play by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, in Boulder as well as more recently at the Philly Fringe Festival. She lived at Karmê Chöling from 1977 to 1980. She has lectured on Buddhism, end of life issues, and cultural diversity at professional conferences, colleges and universities and has been a regular columnist for the "Living Religion" page of the Philadelphia Inquirer. Dr. Yuen is an interfaith chaplain.