Christiane Wolf, MD, Ph.D. is a physician, internationally known mindfulness and Insight (Vipassana) meditation teacher. She was trained as an OB/GYN and holds a Ph.D. in psychosomatic medicine from Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. Dr. Wolf is the is the lead-consultant and teacher trainer for the National Mindfulness Facilitator Training at the US Department of Veteran Affairs. She is the co-author of “A Clinician’s Guide to Teaching Mindfulness” and just published her new book “Outsmart Your Pain - Mindfulness and Self-Compassion to Help You Leave Chronic Pain Behind”. She is a senior teacher at InsightLA (www.insightla.org) in Los Angeles, where she lives with her husband and their three teenagers. For more info: www.christianewolf.com