Mitch Krucoff is a long time friend of the Rhine Research Center, has served on our Board of Directors, and has helped RRC in innumerable other ways over several years. His presentations offer a rare blend of career commitment to cardiovascular medicine coupled with extensive research into the impact of "intangibles" within medical settings. These presentations never fail to delight RRC audiences. You will be inspired to hear of the extensive studies which with he continues to be actively involved which demonstrate the possibilities of using music, imagery, touch and prayer as adjuncts to high tech cardiac care. The story of these studies is a good one and it continues to evolve. You may take away from this evening a renewed and deeper sense of excitement for the healing power generated when patients, doctors and other practitioners align their energies and efforts. Your sense of excitement will be supported by solid scientific observations. Do come!!

Dr. Mitchell W. Krucoff is a native of Washington D.C. He graduated Yale University in 1976 Magna Cum Laude with a degree in religious studies and philosophy. He earned his M.D. from George Washington University in 1980, where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. In 1988 Dr. Krucoff joined the cardiology faculty at Duke University Medical Center where he remains to this date. He is currently fully tenured as a Professor of Medicine/Cardiology, member of the Duke Senior Interventional Cardiology Staff and Director of the Cardiovascular Devices Unit at the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) and served as Director of the Cardiovascular Laboratories at the Durham VA Medical Center for 12 years.

In exploring new healing paradigms complementary to modern high tech medical practices Dr. Krucoff has served on the Board of Directors of the Sri Satya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences in Puttaparthi, India since 1990. He is past Editor In Chief of Larry Dossey’s Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, is currently Senior Editor of the peer review Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, and recently published the book Integrative Cardiology from McGraw Hill.