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Michael Krasner, M.D.

Michael Krasner, M.D.

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Appointment (585) 341-7230
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About Me

Mick Krasner, MD, FACP, is a Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He completed medical school in 1987 at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, a combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics residency at the University of R...
Mick Krasner, MD, FACP, is a Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He completed medical school in 1987 at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, a combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics residency at the University of Rochester and now limits his practice to Primary Care Internal Medicine.

Dr. Krasner has been teaching Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction to patients, medical students, and health care professionals for over 8 years, involving nearly 800 participants. He is engaged in a variety of research projects including the investigation of the effects of mindfulness practices on the immune system in the elderly and on medical student stress and well-being as well as the effects on health care professionals' well being. He is very interested in the connection between health care professional well-being and the effectiveness of the healing relationship.

Faculty Appointments

Professor Emeritus - Department of Medicine, Primary Care Physicians (SMD)

Credentials

Post-doctoral Training & Residency

Residency
Combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Internship and Residency, University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester, New York 14642 1988 - 1991

Internship:
Combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Internship and Residency, University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester, New York 14642 1987 - 1988

Education

MD | U Cal San Diego Sch Medicine. Medicine. 1987

BA | Univ of Cal Berkeley. Biochemistry. 1983

Publications

Journal Articles

Through the Lens of Attention, Apprenticeship, and Attachment in Health and Healing

Krasner, Michael S.

Zen Bow. 2006; 29(1): 10-14.

Mindfulness-Based Interventions: A Coming of Age?

Krasner, Michael S.

Families, Systems, & Health. 2004; 22(2): 207-212.

The Gift of Mindfulness

Krasner, Michael S.

Families, Systems, &Health. 2004; 22(2): 213-215.

MD's Who Have Given Up Clinical Practice to Become Entrepreneurs: Circumstances, Experiences-to-Date, and Risk Propensity Profiles

OJ Krasner, DBA, Scott A. Krasner, MD, Michael S. Krasner, MD.

Presented to and abstracted in the Proceedings of the Society for Entrepreneurial Research Conference, Pepperdine University. 1987; .