Research Professor, Institute for World Religions, Berkeley 
Lecturer, Philosophy Department, San Francisco State University 

Ronald Epstein is a family doctor palliative care physician,, researcher, and writer, has devoted his career to understanding and improving communication, quality, and clinician mindfulness in healthcare through groundbreaking research and educational program and a professor of family medicine, psychiatry, and oncology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, where he also heads the Center for Communication and Disparities Research and codirects mindfulness programs. Google Books

Books: Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity

With Mick Krasner, Ron is cofounder of Mindful Practice Programs at the University of Rochester, where he is a professor of family medicine, psychiatry, oncology, and medicine. Ron has published more than 250 works on communication and mindfulness in healthcare, has received several humanism-in-medicine awards, and is an internationally recognized speaker. His first book is Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity.