Richard Gunderman, MD, Ph.D.
Professor Radiology, Pediatrics, Medical Education Philosophy, Liberal Arts, Philanthropy and In the Honors College
Indiana University
Health and Faith:  Lessons Learned the Hard Way

Richard Gunderman, is a Professor of Radiology, Pediatrics, Medical Education, Philosophy, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy at Indiana University, where he also serves as Vice Chair of Radiology.  He is a Fellow of the Tobias Center for Leadership Excellence and serves on the boards of IU Health, the Kinsey Institute, and the Alpha Omega Alpha National Honor Medical Society.  He received his AB Summa Cum Laude from Wabash College, MD and PhD (Committee on Social Thought) from the University of Chicago, and MPH from Indiana University.  He was a Chancellor Scholar of the Federal Republic of Seminary at Northwestern University.  He is a nine-time recipient of the Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award, and has also received the Wayne Booth Award, the Robert Shellhamer Award for the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, the School of Medicine Faculty Teaching Award, the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Herman Frederic Lieber Memorial All-University Award for Teaching Excellence.  He was named the 2008 Outstanding Educator by the Radiology Society of North America, the 2011 American Roentgen Ray Society Berlin Scholar in Professionalism, and the 2012 Distinguished Educator of the American Roentgen Ray Society.  He is the author of over 330 scholarly articles and has published eight books, including We Make a Life by What We Give (Indiana University, 2008), Leadership in Healthcare (Springer, 2009), and Achieving Excellence in Medical Education (2nd edition, Springer, 2011).  His next book, X-ray Vision, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.  He is president of the faculty at Indiana University School of Medicine.  He and his wife, Laura, have four children.

Harold G. Koenig, MD
Director, Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health
Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Associate Professor of Medicine
Duke University
Religion, Spirituality and Health:  Definitions, Relationships, and Applications

Crystal Park, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology 
University of Connecticut                                                                                                            Spirituality, Meaning and Health

Dr. Park's research focuses on stress, coping, and adaptation, particularly on how people's beliefs, goals, and values affect their ways of perceiving and dealing with stressful events.  She has developed a comprehensive model of meaning and meaning making and is working to apply this model to a variety of health-related problems.  Dr. Park has published articles on the roles of religious beliefs and religious coping in response to stressful life events, the phenomenon of stress-related growth, and people's attempts to find meaning in or create meaning out of negative life events.  She is currently the principal investigator on grants from the Lance Armstrong Foundation, the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.  She is also editor for Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, Psychology and Health, and International Journal of the Psychology of Religion.  Dr. Park is a Fellow of the American psychological Association (APA) and a former president of Division 36 of APA and a recipient of their Early Career Award.

Thomas J. Johnson, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Director - Center for the Study of Health, Religion, and Spirituality
Indiana State University
Terre Haute, IN
Addiction and the Search for the Sacred

Dr. Jean Kristeller, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Indiana State University                                                                                                                        Terre Haute, IN                                                                                                                         Addressing Religious and Spiritual Concerns in Health Care:  Medical and Psycho-Social Applications; An Introduction to Mindfulness-Based Awareness Therapy (MB-EAT):  Theory, Research and Practice

Dr. Kristeller is a professor emeritus at Indiana State University.  She received her B.A. from Swarthmore College in 1974, her Master's degree in clinical and human psychophysiology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1978, and her Ph.D. in clinical psychology with an emphasis in clinical health psychology from Yale University in 1983.  She completed post-doctoral training in eating disorders at McClean Hospital and in Behavioral Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.  Prior to coming to ISU, she was a member of the staff and faculty in the behavioral medicine services at Cambridge Hospital (Harvard Medical School, Dept. of Psychiatry) and the University of Massachusetts Medical Center (Worcester, MA).

Dr. Kristeller is interested in the effects of psychological variables on physical health and illness, which has informed much of her research.  It has included work with compulsive eating and obesity, smoking, the role of the physician in facilitating health behavior change, anxiety disorders and the use of meditation as a way to promote self regulatory processes.  She began developing the Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training Program over 15 years ago, drawing on her work with Jon Kabat-Zinn's Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Program and on her research and clinical training in food intake regulation and eating disorders.

Dr. Rosetta Haynes, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies 
Indiana State University                                                                                                                      Terre Haute, IN

Dr. Haynes, will read from and sign copies of her book Radical Spiritual Motherhood:  Autobiography and Empowerment in Nineteenth-Century African American Women (LSU Press, 2011).  The book explores the spiritual autobiographies of five nineteenth-century African American women itinerant preachers to discover the ways in which they drew upon religion and the material conditions of their lives to fashion powerful personas that enabled them to pursue their missions as divinely appointed religious leaders.  Haynes examines the lives and narratives of Jarena Lee, Zilpha Elaw, Julia Foote, Amanda Berry Smith, and Rebecca Cox Jackson through an innovative conceptual framework Haynes terms "radical spiritual motherhood"-- an empowering identity deriving from the experience of "sanctification," a kind of spiritual perfection following conversion.  Further details about the book can be found at the LSU Press web site at:  http://lsupress.org/books/detail/radical-spiritual-motherhood/

George Wolfe
Coordinator of Outreach Programs, Center for Peace and Conflict Studies 
Ball State University                                                                                                                         Muncie, IN                                                                                                                                       "The Practice of Tapaysa:  Turning Anger into a Positive Energy" - Anger is a negative energy, but when we allow it to be transformed into a positive energy, it becomes a powerful spiritual force for effective nonviolent action and conflict resolution.  Dr. George Wolfe explains how this is accomplished through the practice of "tapasya."

George, is currently Coordinator of Outreach Programs for the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at Ball State University where he served as Director of Peace Studies from 2002 to 2006.  He is the author of several publications, including his recent book "The Spiritual Power of Nonviolence:  Interfaith Understanding for a Future Without War,"  which has been endorsed by Arun Gandhi, Bishop William E. Swing, and peace educator Michael N. Nagler.  He is also a trained mediator and an ordained interfaith minister.  In 1991 he was awarded an Open Fellowship from the Eli Lilly Endowment which made possible his first trip to India where he was introduced to the nonviolent philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi.

Wolfe received his doctorate in higher education administration from Indiana University.  As an educator, he frequently speaks both within and outside the United States on topics related to nonviolence, peace education, academic freedom, and the role of the arts in social activism.  He has been a featured speaker in the Hall of Philosophy at Chautauqua Institution and has served as a panelist at the annual Conference on World Affairs in Boulder, Colorado.  He has also served as a visiting scholar at Limburg Catholic University in Hasselt, Belgium and has presented peace education workshops in the island nation of Saint Lucia by invitation of the Ministry of Education.  In 2004, conservative commentator David Horowitz listed George Wolfe as "one of the 101 most dangerous academics in America."