Associate Professor in Psychiatry; Founding Director, CHA Center for Mindfulness and Compassion
Cambridge Health Alliance
Zev Schuman-Olivier, MD is the Founding Center Director of the CHA Center for Mindfulness and Compassion. Dr. Schuman-Olivier is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a faculty affiliate of the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health at Dartmouth. As a board-certified addiction psychiatrist, he has been involved with research and clinical care of patients with substance use and mental health disorders, PTSD, migraine headache, and chronic pain. Through the NIH Science of Behavior Change Initiative, he was PI of the MINDFUL-PC project, which led the way in integrating mindfulness into primary care. He was PI of a national NIH-HEAL trial of live online mindfulness training groups for people with opioid use disorder, recruiting from 16 states. He is Director of the Clinical Core for the NCCIH program project grant testing synergistic integrative mind-body approaches to migraine and chronic pain, using vagal nerve stimulation.