About the Authors
Greg Hammer, MD
is a professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, pediatric intensive care physician, pediatric anesthesiologist, mindfulness expert, and the author of GAIN without Pain: The Happiness Handbook for Health Care Professionals. A member of the Stanford WellMD initiative, Dr. Hammer is currently the Chair of the Physician Wellness Task Force for the California Society of Anesthesiologists. He has been a visiting professor and lecturer on wellness at institutions worldwide and teaches GAIN to medical students, residents, and fellows at Stanford. Dr. Hammer’s clinical focus is in pediatric cardiac anesthesia and pediatric critical care medicine. His research is in developmental pharmacology and immunology, and he has an active laboratory with multiple ongoing studies in these areas. He has published widely on topics related to pharmacology and perioperative care of children undergoing cardiac and thoracic procedures as well as organ transplantation. Dr. Hammer is a health enthusiast and meditator, utilizing a non-duality and mindfulness-based approach, including the GAIN method.
Other Social Media and Websites:
https://www.facebook.com/greghammermd
https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-hammer-02b20422/
GAIN Without Pain website: http://www.gain-withoutpain.com/
John Rettger, PhD
is a San Diego-based clinical psychologist in private practice at The Center for Men’s Excellence. His current psychotherapeutic focus is on utilizing a holistic approach to mental health that is grounded in research and evidence-based methods such as Mindfulness, Existential-Humanistic, Transpersonal, Psychodynamic, Gottman Method, Emotion-Focused Therapy and Cognitive Behavior Therapy. Dr. Rettger works with children, teens, and adults experiencing a range of psychological concerns including depression, anxiety, stress, existential crisis, post-traumatic stress, grief, spiritual concerns, phase of life and life transition stress. Dr. Rettger strives to not only assist those he works with in reducing their distress, but also in examining the deeper dimension of the psyche, including exploring the unconscious, dreams, meditation and spiritual experiences, integration of altered state work, self-transcendence, increasing authenticity and strengthening life meaning and purpose.
As an educator, Dr. Rettger instructed yoga and meditation classes, workshops, and retreats throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond between the years of 2010 and 2019. He offered compassionate and fun classes across various style of yoga including Vinyasa, Restorative, Yin, Prenatal, and Hatha yoga. Dr. Rettger was a faculty member at Summit Professional Education where he traveled across the United States offering professional development training courses on Mindfulness- based Interventions in locations across the United States for professionals from a variety of helping professions. Dr. Rettger also served as a lecturer in Stanford University’s WellnessEd program where he instructed mindfulness and yoga related courses. Dr. Rettger has more recently collaborated with Stanford University’s Early Life Stress & Resilience Program and Pure Edge, Inc. to deliver online mindfulness instruction during the COVID-19 public health crisis.
Dr. Rettger spent almost a decade at Stanford University where a bulk of his efforts concentrated on researching and delivering mindfulness interventions in historically oppressed communities. His work with youth in East Palo Alto, California was featured on the PBS Newshour and in local press. In 2019, he co-edited a book titled, Applied Mindfulness: Approaches in Mental Health for Children and Adolescents published by the American Psychiatric Association Publishing. This book compiled the expertise of international scholars and practitioners describing their method for delivering mindfulness and yoga based approaches for mental health in a variety of community and treatment settings. Dr. Rettger has also published numerous peer-reviewed articles and academic book chapters during his time at Stanford. Additionally, Dr. Rettger has published more than 30 popular press articles on the subject of mindfulness and psychological well being as a previous contributing author at Sonima.com and has contributed blog articles at numerous other websites.
You can follow on:
https://www.facebook.com/John-P-Rettger-PhD-114363370205464 https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-rettger-phd-15b56620/ drjohnprettger.com
Eric C. Wentworth
Eric Wentworth is the author of four books, including A Mindful Career, the first career management book utilizing mindfulness as ‘the secret sauce of career success” and A Mindful Workplace, a roadmap to business cultural transformation with mindfulness as its foundation.
He has also written A Plan for Life: The 21st Century Guide to Success in Wealth, Health, Career, Education, Love, Place . . . and You! a compendium of tips and inspiration from the world’s top thinkers past and present.
Eric is a serial entrepreneur as well, having founded an advertising agency, international travel company, executive recruiting firm, and several startups, including Arrangr.com.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericwentworth/
