David J Kearney

David J Kearney

David J. Kearney, MD, is a staff physician at VA Puget Sound Health Care System and a professor of medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He is also the founder and director of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program at VA Puget Sound Health Care System.

His research has studied the influence of mindfulness-based interventions on a broad range of outcomes, including symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder and depression, quality of life, pain, gastrointestinal symptoms, fatigue, and attention/memory lapses.

His work involves clinical trials comparing mindfulness-based interventions with approaches based on cognitive behaviour therapy in a population with a high prevalence of trauma. His work has been supported through grants from the VA Office of Research and Development.