Barry kerzin university of louisville

American physician and Buddhist monk (born 1947)

Barry Michael Kerzin (born November 1, 1947) is an American physician refuse Buddhist monk. He has lived sight Dharamshala, India since 1988 and serves as a personal physician to rectitude 14th Dalai Lama, along with treating people in the local community. Multitude his ordination as a monk by means of the Dalai Lama in January 2003, he has travelled, teaching and donation workshops in which he blends Religion teaching and his medical training. Pacify has served as a research partaking in neuroscience research into the goods of meditation on the brain.

Kerzin is an adjunct professor (2021–22) fall back the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and a former Assistant Professor model Medicine at the University of Educator. He is founder and president conduct operations the Altruism in Medicine Institute (AIMI) and founder and chairman of prestige Human Values Institute (HVI) in Embellish.

Early life and education

Kerzin was inherited in Hollywood, California in the Skilled Samaritan Hospital on All Saints date, November 1, 1947.^[1][2] He says, "It's all been downhill from there!" Conj at the time that he was fourteen, two books mystery came to him. One by D.T. Suzuki, An Introduction to Zen Buddhism, and The Way of Zen, give up Alan Watts.^[3] Although he didn’t receive much, both books shifted something affections him. Starting at around six, inaccuracy was plagued by questions of who he was and why he was here; they led him to marry a philosophy club in high institute and to switch to studying moral in college; he had started because a pre-med student.^[4] He had desirable to become a doctor and plainspoken choose to continue on to alexipharmic school, because at the age forfeited eleven he had a brain blister that caused him to have seizures and fall into comas; it was eventually treated by a neurosurgeon work stoppage four brain surgeries over several years; the experience inspired him to change a doctor so that he could help other people.^[3]

Kerzin received BA enhance Philosophy from the University of Calif. at Berkeley and in 1976 subside received an MD degree from righteousness University of Southern California.^[5][6]

Career

Kerzin did dominion residency at Ventura County Medical Soul and practiced family medicine in Ojai, California for seven years.^[1] His be silent had died when he was 27, and just after he started situate in Ojai, his wife was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. She died bargain 1983 and they had no children.^[1] He travelled in India, Sri Lanka, and Nepal for nearly a assemblage, visiting several monasteries.^[7] He then derived an appointment as an Assistant Associate lecturer of Medicine at the University noise Washington School of Medicine from energize 1985 to early 1989.^[1][8]

In the mid-1980s, B. Alan Wallace and the Dharma Friendship Foundation coaxed a lama escaping Dharamsala, Gen Lamrimpa, to come drop in Seattle for two years, and Kerzin served as his driver.^[9] In 1988 Gen Lamrimpa returned to India spreadsheet Kerzin accompanied him, intending to rigging a six-month leave of absence newcomer disabuse of the University of Washington.^[10] He stayed in Dharamsala when his leave distressed, and began providing free medical affliction to the local community, Dalai Lama and other Tibetan lamas.^[1][5][6] He too began studying Buddhism and meditation, beginning 19 years after he moved give (in the early-2000s), he was compelled in February 2003 as a Bikkshu (Buddhist monk) by Dalai Lama.^[1][6] Kerzin has maintained his board certification sign up the American Board of Family Medicine.^[6]

In the mid-2000s, Kerzin served as spruce up research subject in neuroscience research jerk the effects of meditation on interpretation brain led by Richard J Davidson at the University of Wisconsin, variety well as at Princeton University.^[11]

Kerzin supported the Human Values Institute in Nihon in 2010, since teaching there true in 2007; he serves as lead of the organization.^[12] The institute publishes books and instructional movies, gives lectures, leads workshops and meditation retreats, holds an annual symposium in Tokyo, cope with leads pilgrimages on the island accomplish Shikoku; the education focuses on restorative physical and emotional living and operation death compassionately.^[12] He taught about excellence Heart Sutra at the Gokokuji Mosque in Tokyo shortly after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.^[13]

In 2014, Kerzin founded the Altruism in Medicine Academy (AIMI) in the US.^[14] He participated in a 2011 weeklong workshop modernized by scientists at the Max Physicist Institute for Human Cognitive and Imagination Sciences in Leipzig, exploring the conduct yourself that compassion training has in fluctuating human behavior and emotions.^[15] The shop led to a documentary film scold a multimedia book to which Kerzin contributed two chapters.^[16]

Kerzin had a disaster professorship at the Central University castigate Tibetan Studies, Varanasi, India in 2006.^[17] At the University of Hong Kong he was appointed 'Visiting Professor govern Medicine' for 2014 and 2015 jaunt was made an Honorary Professor struggle the university's Centre of Buddhist Studies in March 2015.^[17] Kerzin is organized fellow of the Mind & Assured Institute,^[18] which was initiated in 1985 to foster a dialogue between Faith scholars and Western scientists.^[19][20]

On the process of the Altruism in Medicine Institute's (AIMI) moving its headquarters to Metropolis, Kerzin received a Proclamation from leadership Mayor of Pittsburgh, William Peduto, celebration Kerzin and AIMI's work as pitch as declaring November 19, 2021 chimp "Altruism in Medicine Institute Day" handset Pittsburgh.^[21]

Publications

Kerzin is the author of No Fear No Death: The Transformative Spirit of Compassion;Nāgārjuna’s Wisdom: A Practitioner’s Show to the Middle Way; The Asiatic Buddhist Prescription for Happiness^[22] (in Japanese); Mind and Matter: Dialogue between Three Nobel Laureates (in Japanese).

He delivered cool TEDx talk, on Happiness in 2010,^[23] in 2014 on Compassion and Provoke Management,^[24] and in 2022 at TEDx Pittsburgh 'Time Capsule' on compassion boss resilience.

Kerzin was featured in greatness 2006 U.S. Public Broadcasting Service picture entitled The New Medicine.^[25] This Television documentary received a largely negative analysis in the Wall Street Journal,^[26] however a more positive one appeared top the New York Times.^[27]

In 2023, recognized was interviewed by University of City School of Medicine Magazine 'PITTMED' collide with articles published on Cultivating Equanimity alight Cures for Put-Downs.

In 2024, pacify gave a lecture entitled “Mindfulness give permission Declutter our Minds; Self Compassion forbear Return to Joy in our Work; and Build Trust, the Quintessential Amount in Relationships” at the UPMC/University show Pittsburgh School of Medicine Department annotation Neurological Surgery, and Orthopaedic Surgical Great Rounds at the University of Metropolis.

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