Advisory Committee


Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD
Psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, and author

Milton Estes, MD
Medical Director, Forensic AIDS Project
San Francisco Department of Public Health

Diane Jones
Registered nurse, UCSF/San Francisco General Hospital
HIV/AIDS Division

Jack Kornfield
Buddhist teacher and author

BJ Miller, MD
Executive Director, Zen Hospice Project

Susan O’Connell
President, San Francisco Zen Center

Kim Saal, MD
President and Chief Executive Officer
Cooley Dickinson Physician Network

Robert B. Saper, MD MPH
Director of Integrative Medicine, 
Boston Medical Center Department of Family Medicine
Associate Professor, 
Boston University School of Medicine

Eileen Spillane RN, MSN
The Balanced Nurse

Susy Stewart
Integrated Yoga Studies teacher

William B. Stewart, MD
Medical Director, Institute for Health & Healing
California Pacific Medical Center/Sutter Health

Kaethe Weingarten, PhD
Founder and Director, The Witnessing Project
Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School, 1981–2013

Hilary Worthen, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Faculty, UCSF Institute for Physician Leadership

Barbara P. Riley, RN, MS, NEA-BC
Sr. Vice-President & Chief Nursing Officer
Rhode Island Hospital & Hasbro Children’s Hospital

Stacey Tovino, JD, PhD
Lehman Professor of Law
Director, Health Law Program,
William S. Boyd School of Law
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Elizabeth Gaufberg, MD MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Director, Center for Professional Development
The Cambridge Health Alliance