Miriam E. Cameron - Tibetan Medicine and You: A Path to Wellbeing, Better Health, and Joy

Miriam E. Cameron, PhD, MS, MA, RN, is lead faculty, Yoga and Tibetan Medicine Focus Area, and graduate faculty, Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality and Healing, University of Minnesota. Cameron worked as a staff nurse, nursing supervisor, and nursing instructor before going to graduate school. Since 1994, she has studied, conducted research, and taught graduate courses about Tibetan medicine, yoga, nursing, and ethics. She has published over 65 journal articles, nine book chapters, three monographs, three internet modules, and three other books including Karma & Happiness: A Tibetan Odyssey in Ethics, Spirituality, & Healing, with the foreword by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.

Tenzin Namdul, PhD, DTM, medical anthropologist and experienced Tibetan medicine practitioner, is teaching faculty at the Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality and Healing, University of Minnesota. Namdul has conducted Tibetan medicine consultations around the world. He has published research articles and an internet module about Tibetan Medicine, and he translated from Tibetan to English the Tibetan Medical Dietary Book: Vol. I, Potency & Preparation of Vegetables by Yangbum Gyal. Previously, he served as faculty and director of research at the Men-Tsee-Khang, the Tibetan Medical Instutite in Dharamsala, India.

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Cameron, M. E., Torkelson, C., Haddow, S., Namdul, T., Prasek, A., & Gross, C. (2012, May/June). Tibetan medicine and integrative health: Validity testing and refinement of the Constitutional Self-Assessment Tool and Lifestyle Guidelines Tool. EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing, 8(3), 158171.

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