Mindfulness Talk

Mindfulness Talk

Mindfulness Talk (142)

Chris Cresswell ¹

Wanganui Hospital, Wanganui, New Zealand

Mindfulness is a type of meditation which has been shown to maintain mental health and to be useful in treating depression, anxiety and chronic pain. The techniques are easy to learn and to teach and can quickly produce benefits for health professionals, and can be taught to patients even in busy work places, increasing job satisfaction for the clinician. Dr Chris Cresswell is a practicing Emergency Medicine Physician. During this session he will teach some of these techniques and describe how to implement them in a busy work place and to quickly share them with patients.

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Dr Chris Cresswell is practicing Emergency Medicine Physician in Wanganui, New Zealand. He has previously worked as a GP, in Alice Springs and for the Royal Flying Doctors Service. Chris is partly employed by the Medical Council of New Zealand to mentor, supervise and teach junior doctors at his hospital. He also teaches emergency medicine via blog and podcast http://emtutorials.com/. The podcast has just under 5,000 audio downloads a month. Chris co-leads a public meditation class, and teaches meditation to staff and patients within his hospital and via his podcast and blog. Dr Cresswell is also a maniacal mountain biker and a keen kayaker, he enjoys skiing and live music. He is very happily married and has two awesome children.

Mindfulness Talk (142)

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