Diane Reibel, PhD, Director of the Stress Reduction Program

Dr. Reibel is the Founding Director of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Program at the Jefferson-Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine. She currently serves as the program’s Director of Professional Education and Development.  She received intensive training from the originator of MBSR, Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, and she has completed the most advanced teacher training offered at the Center for Mindfulness at University of Massachusetts Medical Center. Dr. Reibel has been teaching MBSR to patients, medical students and healthcare professionals for over 15 years, and she has recently developed a college credit course in MBSR that will be offered at Jefferson’s College of Health Professions. She also directs a practicum training program for MBSR instructors.

Dr. Reibel is Research Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and in the Department of Physiology at Jefferson Medical College.  She received her doctorate in Physiology from Thomas Jefferson University, and completed a fellowship in cardiology from Temple University School of Medicine.  She is currently a lead investigator of a study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to examine the effects of MBSR on immune responses in women with human papillomavirus (HPV).