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Spiritual
Beings Having a Human Experience: Intangible Healing Capacities
and Modern Cardiology Practice
with Dr. Mitch Krucoff
Mitch Krucoff is a long time friend
of the Rhine Research Center, has served on
our Board of Directors, and has helped RRC
in innumerable other ways over several
years. His presentations offer a rare blend
of career commitment to cardiovascular
medicine coupled with extensive research
into the impact of "intangibles" within
medical settings. These presentations never
fail to delight RRC audiences. You will be
inspired to hear of the extensive studies
which with he continues to be actively
involved which demonstrate the possibilities
of using music, imagery, touch and prayer as
adjuncts to high tech cardiac care. The
story of these studies is a good one and it
continues to evolve. You may take away from
this evening a renewed and deeper sense of
excitement for the healing power generated
when patients, doctors and other
practitioners align their energies and
efforts. Your sense of excitement will be
supported by solid scientific observations.
Do come!!
Dr.
Mitchell W. Krucoff is a native of
Washington D.C. He graduated Yale University
in 1976 Magna Cum Laude with a degree in
religious studies and philosophy. He earned
his M.D. from George Washington University
in 1980, where he was elected to the Alpha
Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. In 1988
Dr. Krucoff joined the cardiology faculty at
Duke University Medical Center where he
remains to this date. He is currently fully
tenured as a Professor of
Medicine/Cardiology, member of the Duke
Senior Interventional Cardiology Staff and
Director of the Cardiovascular Devices Unit
at the Duke Clinical Research Institute
(DCRI) and served as Director of the
Cardiovascular Laboratories at the Durham VA
Medical Center for 12 years.
In exploring new healing paradigms
complementary to modern high tech medical
practices Dr. Krucoff has served on the
Board of Directors of the Sri Satya Sai
Institute of Higher Medical Sciences in
Puttaparthi, India since 1990. He is past
Editor In Chief of Larry Dossey’s
Alternative Therapies in Health and
Medicine, is currently Senior Editor of the
peer review Journal of Alternative and
Complementary Medicine, and recently
published the book Integrative Cardiology
from McGraw Hill.