Zev Schuman-Olivier, MD is the Founding Center Director of the CHA Center for Mindfulness and Compassion and Director of the Mindful Mental Health Service at CHA. He is Director of Addiction Research at CHA. Dr. Schuman-Olivier is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an investigator at 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 addiction, mental illness, and chronic pain both in mental health and primary care settings. He has participated in the NIH Science of Behavior Change Initiative and NIH HEAL Initiatives. He is the principal investigator for the PARTS study, which is developing and testing novel group interventions based on an Internal Family Systems approach to trauma and PTSD. He co-developed the Mindful Behavior Change curriculum and was the principal investigator of the MINDFUL-PC project, which led the way in integrating mindfulness into primary care. He is the principal investigator of the MINDFUL-OBOT trial, a national trial of live online mindfulness training groups, which recruited people with opioid use disorder from 16 states. He is Director of the Clinical Core for the NCCIH program project grant testing synergistic integrative mind-body approaches to chronic pain treatment. In addition, he is involved in clinical trials of innovative interventions for depression, anxiety, alcohol use, and grief.
Featured News: CMC was awarded a research grant titled “Neural and physiologic effects of self-compassion on chronic pain” from the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital. This grant provides seed funding for a pilot neuroimaging study examining self-compassion training for people experiencing chronic lower back pain.
