Guest Speaker: Professor Craig Hassed OAM

Professor Craig Hassed OAM is a general practitioner and senior lecturer within the Faculty of Medicine at Monash University since 1989. His teaching, research and clinical interests include mindfulness, mind-body medicine, lifestyle medicine, integrative medicine and medical ethics. Craig was the founding president of Meditation Australia and is on the advisory boards of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association and is a Smiling Mind ambassador. Craig is coordinator of mindfulness programs at Monash and is Director of Education at the Monash Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies. He teaches mindfulness nationally and internationally in health, educational, community and corporate contexts. In 2019, Craig was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for services to Medicine.