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Novack DH; Suchman AL; Clark W; Epstein RM; Najberg E; Kaplan C. “Calibrating the physician. Personal awareness and effective patient care. Working Group on Promoting Physician Personal Awareness, American Academy on Physician and Patient.” Journal of the American Medical Association. 1997;278(6):502-9. Read article

Novack DH; Epstein RM; Paulsen RH. “Toward creating physician-healers: fostering medical students’ self-awareness, personal growth, and well-being.” Academic Medicine: Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. 1999;74(5):516-20. Read article

Epstein RM. “Mindful practice.” Journal of the American Medical Association. 1999;282(9):833-9. Read article

Epstein RM; Hundert EM. “Defining and assessing professional competence.” Journal of the American Medical Association. 2002;287(2):226-35. Read article

Epstein,RM;. “Mindful practice in action (II): Cultivating habits of mind.” Families, Systems and Health. 2003; 21(1): 11-17. Read article

Epstein,RM;. “Mindful practice in action (I): Technical competence, evidence-based medicine and relationship-centered care.” Families, Systems, & Health. 2003; 21(1): 1-10. Read article

Krasner MS. Mindfulness-Based Interventions: A Coming of Age?, Families, Systems, & Health, 2004, Vol.22, No. 2, 207-212. Read article

Krasner MS. The Gift of Mindfulness, Families, Systems, &Health, 2004, Vol.22, No. 2, 213-215. Read article

Borrell-Carrió F; Epstein RM. “Preventing errors in clinical practice: a call for self-awareness.” Annals of Family Medicine. 2004;2(4):310-6. Read article

Krasner MS. Through the Lens of Attention, Apprenticeship, and Attachment in Health and Healing, Zen Bow, 2006, Vol. 29, No. I, 10-14.; also appears in Best Buddhist Writing of 2007, Shambala, Halifax, Nova Scotia 2007.

Krasner MS. “Physician, know thyself: Review of How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman.” Shambala Sun, 2007;16(1): 81-86.

Epstein RM; Siegel DJ; Silberman J. “Self-monitoring in clinical practice: a challenge for medical educators.” The Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions. 2008;28(1):5-13. Read article

Epstein RM. “Reflection, perception and the acquisition of wisdom.” Medical Education. 2008;42(11):1048-50. Read article

Krasner, MS. In Pursuit of Balance: A Paradigm Shift, The Bulletin of the Monroe County Medical Society, 2008, 14-15.

Krasner MS; Epstein RM; Beckman H; Suchman AL; Chapman B; Mooney CJ; Quill TE. “Association of an educational program in mindful communication with burnout, empathy, and attitudes among primary care physicians.” Journal of the American Medical Association. 2009;302(12):1284-93. Read article

Krasner MS. “Toward an understanding of disturbance and the awakened physician.” Turtlequill, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. 2009; Spring Issue: 39-41.

Chapman BP, Talbot NL, Duberstein PR, Krasner MS, Moynihan JA, Knight JM. “Extraversion predicts higher IgG titers in response to antigen challenge in older adults” Brain, Behavior and Immunity. 2010; 24: S13. Read article

Kloram R, Duberstein P, Talbot N, Krasner M, Brown K, Moynihan J. “Effects of mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) on elders’ alpha power and asymmetry.” Psychophysiology. 2010; 47: S37

Moynihan JA, Klorman R, Chapman BP, Duberstein PR, Brown KW, Krasner M, Xia Y, Tu X, Talbot NL. “Mindfulness to improve elderly’s health and immune status.” Brain, Behavior and Immunity. 2010; 24: S13. Read article

Dyche L; Epstein RM. “Curiosity and medical education.” Medical Education. 2011;45(7):663-8. Read article

Heffner KL, Talbot NL, Krasner MS, Moynihan JA. “Pain in older men associated with interleukin (IL)-6 change across time following a mindfulness-based stress reduction intervention.” Brain, Behavior and Immunity. 2011; 25: S2

Makowski SK; Epstein RM. “Turning toward dissonance: lessons from art, music, and literature.” Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 2012;43(2):293-8. Read article

Beckman H.B.; Wendland, M.; Mooney, C.; Krasner, M.S.; Quill, T.E.; Suchman, A.L.; Epstein, R.M. “The impact of a program in mindful communication on primary care physicians”. Academic Medicine. 2012; 87(6): 1-5. Read article

Dalen J, Kabat-Zinn J, Krasner M, Sibinga E. “Guidance clinicians can give patients for identifying and reducing stress.” The Medical Roundtable. 2012;1(1): 7-16.

Epstein RM; Krasner MS. “Physician resilience: what it means, why it matters, and how to promote it.” Academic Medicine: Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. 2013; 88(3):301-3. Read article

Moynihan JA, Chapman BP, Klorman R Krasner MS, Duberstein PR, Brown KW, and Talbot NL. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Older Adults: Effects on Executive Function, Frontal Alpha Asymmetry and Immune Function. Neuropsychobiology, 2013; 68(1):34-43. Read article

Gallegos AM, Hoerger M, Talbot NL, Krasner MS, Knight JM, Moynihan JA, Duberstein P. Towards identifying the effects of the specific components of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction on biological and emotional outcomes among older adults. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. 2013; 19(10):787-792. Read article

Epstein RM: “Whole mind and shared mind in clinical decision-making.” Patient Education and Counseling. 2013; 90(2):200-6. PMID: 22884938 doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2012.06.035. Read article

Beach MC, Roter D, Korthuis PT, Epstein RM, Sharp V, Ratanawongsa N, Cohn J, Eggly S, Sankar A, Moore RD, Saha S: “A multicenter study of physician mindfulness and health care quality.” Annals of Family Medicine. 2013; 11(5):421-8. PMID: 24019273 doi: 10.1370/afm.1507. Read article

Asuero AM, Queraltó JM, Pujol-Ribera E, Berenguera A, Rodriguez-Blanco T, Epstein RM: "Effectiveness of a mindfulness education program in primary health care professionals: a pragmatic controlled trial." The Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions. 2014; 34(1):4-12. PMID: 24648359 doi: 10.1002/chp.21211. Read article

Epstein RM: “Realizing Engel's biopsychosocial vision: resilience, compassion, and quality of care.” International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine. 2014;47(4):275-287. PMID: 25084850 doi: 10.2190/PM.47.4.b. Read article

Epstein RM, Back AL: “A piece of my mind. Responding to suffering.” JAMA. 2015;314(24):2623-2624. PMID: 26720023 doi: 10.1001/jama.2015.13004. Read article

Ekman E, Krasner MS. “Empathy in medicine: Neuroscience, education and challenges.” Medical Teacher. 2016: DOI: 10.1080/0142159X.2016.1248925

Epstein RM, Privitera MR: “Doing something about physician burnout.” Lancet. 2016; 388(10057):2216-2217. PMID: 27692468. Read article

Krasner MS. “Mindful clinical practice: Addressing burnout and building resilience.” Perifacts. 2016; Activity 16085P

Epstein RM: “What’s the opposite of burnout?” Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2017; 32(7):723-724. PMID: 28349411 PMCID: PMC5481238, doi: 10.1007/s11606-017-4034-x. Read article

Epstein RM: “Ronald Epstein, MD: “Bringing mindfulness into the examination room.” Advances in Mind-Body Medicine. 2017; 31(2):21-28. PMID: 28659511. Read article

Perula-de Torres LA, Verdes-Montenegro Atalaya JC, Garcia-Campayo J, Toldan-Villalobos A, Magallon-Botaya R, Bartolome-Moreno C, Moreno-Martos H, Melus-Palazon E, Lietor-Villajos N, Valverde-Bolivar FJ, Hachem-Salas N, Rodrigues LA, Navarro-Gil M, Epstein RM, Cabezon-Crespo A, Morillo-Velarde Moreno C, collaborative group of the MINDUUDD study: “Controlled clinical trial comparing the effectiveness of a mindfulness and self-compassion 4-session programme versus an 8-session programme to reduce work stress and burnout in family and community medicine physicians and nurses: MINDUUDD study protocol.” BMC Family Practice. 2019;20(1)24. PMCID: PMC6364464 doi.org/10.1186/s12875-019-0913-z. Read article

Epstein RM, Privitera MR: “Addressing physician mental health.” Lancet Psychiatry. 2019;6(3):190-191. PMID: 30744996 doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(19)30036-7. [Epub 2019 Feb 13]. Read article

Scheepers RA, Emke H, Epstein RM, Lombarts KM: “The impact of mindfulness-based interventions on doctors’ well-being and performance: a systematic review.” Med Educ. 2020;54(2):138-149. PMID: 31868262 PMCID: PMC7003865 doi: 10.1111/medu.14020. Read article

Epstein RM. "Mindfulness in medical education: coming of age." Perspect Med Educ. 2020;9(4):197-198. PMID 32632668. doi: 10.1007/s40037-020-00598-w. Read article

Epstein RM, Privitera MR. “Finding our way out of burnout.” JCO Oncology Practice. 2021. PMID: 34152836. Read article

Epstein, RM. “Facing epistemic and complex uncertainty in serious illness: the role of mindfulness and shared mind.” Patient Educ Couns. 2021;S0738-3991(21)00489-4. PMID: 34334265 doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2021.07.030 [Online ahead of print]. Read article

Naehrig D, Schokman A, Hughes JK, Epstein RM, Hickie IB, Glozier N. “Effect of interventions for the well-being, satisfaction and flourishing of general practitioners-a systematic review. BJM Open. 2021;11(8):e046599. PMID: 34408036 doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046599. Read article

Harvey SB, Epstein RM, Glozier N, Petrie K, Strudwick AG, Dean K, Henderson M. “Mental illness and suicide among physicians.” Lancet. 2021;398(10303):920-930. PMID: 34481571. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01596-8. Read article

Epstein RM, Marshall F, Sanders M, Krasner MS. “Effect of an intensive mindful practice workshop on patient-centered compassionate care, clinician well-being, work engagement, and teamwork.” J Contin Educ Health Prof. 2021 Aug. PMID: 34459443. doi: 10.1097/CEH.0000000000000379. Epub ahead of print. Read article