Healthcare

Healthcare settings – built as they are on caring relationships – can be the ultimate expression of compassion and help set an example for how compassionate organizations can be run. Our experts in health and healthcare are working internationally to make this happen.

Are you a Healthcare Worker who wants to see Compassion put at the Heart of your Healthcare System?

Essential Reading

Books on Compassion in Healthcare

Our Founding Organizations

Organizations Working on Compassion in Healthcare

Our Founding Supporters

People Working on Compassion in Healthcare from our Founding Supporters

Agnes Wong

Staff Ophthalmologist, Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences

The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto

Alejandra Fritis Estay

Encargada Unidad Trast Alimentario Hospital Valdivia en Hospital Base Valdivia

Amara Jones

National Coordinator

Compassion Connectors - Sierra Leone

Amy Richards

Compassion Researcher, Public Health

Task Force for Global Health; Emory University

Andrés Gutiérrez-Carmona

Universidad de Antofagasta

Augustine Yiga

Director/Co-Founder

Training Of Rural Women in Uganda - TORUWU

Barbara Doeleman-van Veldhoven

Founder & Director

BFC Compassionate Care & Mindful Medicine

Carole Pertofsky

Director Emerita; Health Promotion Services

Stanford University

Chris Thomas

Head of the Commission on Health and Prosperity

IPPR

Chris Turner

Co-founder

Civility Saves Lives

Christina Bethell

Professor

Johns Hopkins University, Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative

Dana Yarbrough

Assistant Director of Strategic Initiatives for the Partnership for People with Disabilities

Partnership for People with Disabilities @ VCU

David Vago

President

International Society for Contemplative Research

Dawson Church

CEO/Executive Director

National Institute for Integrative Healthcare

Debbie Ling

Compassion researcher and educator

Monash University

Dee Sandhu

Founder

COVIDPEDIA LABS

Deogratias Niyizonkiza

Founder & CEO

Village Health Works

Dianne Horgan

Co-Founder and Program Director

Mindfulness and Health Institute

Dolly Anadkat

Learning Specialist

Tulane University School of Medicine

Donna Kerridge

Rongoā Māori Practitioner, Trainer and Advisor & Founder and Director

Ora New Zealand

Emma Jones

Physician, Coach, Owner

The Recharge Studio

Erik van den Brink

Co-founder

MBCL (Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living)

Euron Nicholson

Founder/Principal Practice Consultant

WellTyme

Fairouz ELHAMMAR VERGNES

Medical Doctor

Frits Koster

Mindfulness and Compassion Teacher & Author

Godfree McIntyre

Chaplain, Pastor, Life Coach & Trainer

Claremont School of Theology

Hernán Dario Carvajal Posada

Doctor

Jeff Karp

Professor

Harvard Medical School - Brigham and Women's Hospital

Joan Borysenko

Founder

Mind-Body Health Sciences, LLC

John Gillies

Co-Director, Global Compassion Initiative. Honorary Professor of General Practice

Global Compassion Initiative, Global Health Academy, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh

Joyce Wanderi

Kenya Chapter Leader

The TEARS Foundation

Kate Cavanagh

Professor of Clinical Psychology

University of Sussex

Lene Søvold

Clinical Psychologist, Mental Health Advisor, Independent Researcher

Lorraine Hobbs

Founding Director

Youth & Family Programs, UCSD Center for Mindfulness

Luis Miguel Gallardo

Founder and President

World Happiness Foundation

Magdalena Whoolery

Registered Nurse & Founder

Breastfeeding International

María Teresa Bernal Ceballos

Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán

Marian Stuart

Emeritus Professor of Family and Community Medicine

Rutgers University

Mary Ann Boe

Community Relations Director

Journey Guide Project

Michael Amster

Medical Doctor / Awe Researcher / Author

The Power of Awe

Michael West

Professor

Lancaster University

Nathan Consedine

Professor of Health Psychology

University of Auckland

Neil Pakenham-Walsh

Coordinator, Healthcare Information For All

Healthcare Information For All

Nicola Harker

Compassionate Leadership Coach

Nicola Harker Coaching

Pablo Mountford

MD

Neurosoul 2.0

Paquita de Zulueta

Compassion Activist

Imperial College and Human Values in Healthcare Forum

Patricia Donohue-Porter

Professor of Nursing & Director of PhD Program

Adelphi University

Ricki Pollycove

Physician & Deep Ecologist

California Institute of Integral Studies

Robert Thurman

Writer

Tibet House US,

Robin Youngson

Founder

Somatic Compassion

Seçil Tezsezen

Psychologist/Educator/Author

WISELF Academy and Sustainable Compassion Movement

Shon Prem Bon Soeng

PhD Researcher, M.A. Clinical Psychology, Licensed Psychologist, Authorised Dharma Teacher

Auckland University of Technology (AUT), New Zealand

Somen Banerjee

Director of Public Health

London Borough of Tower Hamlets

Sunjeev Kamboj

Professor of Translational Clinical Psychology

University College London

Susan Dzimbiri

Pediatric Nurse & National Coordinator

Compassion Connectors - Malawi

Susan Henderson

Executive Director

Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund

Susan LePlae Miller

Founder, Speaker, Poet

Pieces of I

Tchiki Davis

Founder

The Berkeley Well-Being Institute

Tony Fernando

Psychiatrist, Sleep Specialist

Practice 92

Uwalaka Uchechukwu

National Coordinator & President

Compassion Connectors - Nigeria & Compassion Champions Initiative

Vidyamala Burch

President

The Breathworks Foundation

Yvonne Feeney

Project Manager for the Time for Dementia programme

Brighton and Sussex Medical School

Zachary Taylor

Director

Psychotherapy Networker & PESI