A/Prof. Craig Hassed

A/Prof Craig Hassed OAM

MBBS FRACGP

Institution Website

Researchgate

Some other projects include

• Senior Lecturer, Monash University Faculty of Medicine

• Former (inaugural) President, now Patron of the Australian Teachers of Meditation Association

• Author: New Frontiers in Medicine (Vols I and II)

• Author: Know Thyself

• Author: The Essence of Health

• Author: Playing the Genetic Hand Life Dealt You

• Co-Author: The Mindful Home

• Co-Author: Mindfulness for Life

• Video interviews in the Conversation Series in The Connection: Mind your Body

• Smiling Mind Ambassador

• Interview with Mindful in May

• Teaches in cancer support programs at Gawler Cancer Foundation

• Co-developed Monash and FutureLearn collaborative online course: Mindfulness for Wellbeing and Peak Performance

• Guest Speaker: Cancer Council’s inaugural conference Leaders in Supportive Care: Linking Us Together (2013)

• Retreat co-facilitator, Medical Advisor: Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis

• Co-author: Randomised controlled trial evaluating a basis aggression management module

• Co-author: Online self-management of cancer-related fatigue: a multimodal approach

• Co-author: Development of an intervention plan to increase detection, diagnosis, and appropriate management of sleep disorders in the Australian primary care setting

• Author: Examination of Australian general practitioners’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices in relation to sleep disorders in the primary care setting

• Co-author: Meditation practice, dispositional mindfulness, personality and program outcomes in mindfulness training for medical students

• Co-author: Mindfulness-based lifestyle programs for the self-management of Parkinson’s disease in Australia

• Co-author: Do mindfulness interventions improve road safety? A systematic review

Dr. Craig Hassed is a GP, lecturer, and researcher at Monash University who specialises in integrative and mind-body medicine, medical ethics, and mindfulness-based stress medicine. A prolific writer, he is constantly publishing books, designing and delivering teaching and support programs nationally and internationally, and participating in research projects. Craig has published in fields such as epigenetics and psychoneuroimmunology, but some of his most influential work has been in mindfulness and mind-body medicine.

Craig is a distinguished teacher, having taught at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the Monash University Department of General Practice for over 30 years. During that time, he led the inclusion of meditation into the medical curriculum at Monash University as an examinable subject, and co-wrote an online course on mindfulness as a collaborative project between Monash University and FutureLearn. With his students, he emphasises the utility of mindfulness meditation in medical practice as well as in personal stress reduction and focus.

Craig’s work in integrative mind-body medicine has not been restricted to teaching. Over career, he has explored stress management techniques, complementary therapies and integrative medicines, and ways to engage with these within the primary care context. He is passionate about innovations in medical education and balancing alternative knowledge systems against medical scientific epistemologies.