Cecilia Pascual-Garrido, M.D., Ph.D., is an orthopedic surgeon focusing on hip preservation and reconstruction at Barnes Jewish Hospital and Washington University Orthopedics in St. Louis, Missouri. Her research fellowships have taken her to Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, the University of Colorado Hospital in Denver, Harvard Medical School in Boston, the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and the Schulthess Clinic in Zurich.
Dr. Pascual-Garrido’s research has resulted in scores of publications in prestigious medical journals. Over the last 10 years, her focus has been the in-depth study of cartilage regeneration, prevention of osteoarthritis, and new cell therapies.
Anna Maria Bombardieri, M.D., Ph.D., is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at Stanford University School of Medicine. She received her M.D. degree at the University of Rome La Sapienza, and she completed her residency in anesthesiology and her Ph.D. at the University of Florence. She has had fellowships in regional anesthesiology and acute pain medicine at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City and also in critical care medicine at the University of Brussels in Belgium.
Dr. Bombardieri has published numerous research studies on the effect of different anesthetic techniques on cerebral blood flow.
Dr. Pascual-Garrido and Dr. Bombardieri talk about the impact of Transcendental Meditation practice for those engaged in intensely challenging professions today, such as operating room professionals.
Mario Orsatti, the host of TM Talks and Senior Teacher of the Center for Health and Wellness, a division of the David Lynch Foundation, talked with Dr. Pascual-Garrido and Dr. Bombardieri on January 17, 2021. This popular episode was rebroadcast on November 6, 2022.
Watch the conversation with Dr. Pascual-Garrido and Dr. Bombardieri (49:25)
Dr. Pascual-Garrido and Dr. Bombardieri talk about the impact of Transcendental Meditation practice for those engaged in intensely challenging professions today, such as operating room professionals.
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Thank you for inviting physicians to share their experiences. As an MD who has started meditation at a very early age, I have no perspective of how my life would look without practicing meditation.