NED Planning Team Member
Mary Jo Kreitzer
As founder and director of the Center for Spirituality and Healing, Dr. Mary Jo Kreitzer, PhD, RN, brings more than 15 years of leadership and expertise to the field of complementary therapies and healing practices. Currently, she is the principal investigator of a $1.6 million National Institutes of Health (NCCAM) education grant, the co-PI of a five year $2.1 million NIH (NINR) clinical trial of mindfulness meditation with solid organ transplant patients, the PI on a Fetzer Institute funded evaluation of the Inner Life of Healers Program, and the co-PI of a clinical trial funded by Blue Cross/Blue Shield Minnesota on the impact of an integrated residential treatment program on women with eating disorders. Dr. Kreitzer is also the co-program director of an NIH funded clinical research fellowship program. In addition to her administrative responsibilities in the Center for Spirituality and Healing, Mary Jo teaches in the graduate minor in complementary therapies and healing practices, is the program lead for the complementary and integrative medicine program within the Lillehei Heart Institute at the University of Minnesota and is a tenured associate professor in the School of Nursing. Dr. Kreitzer earned her doctoral degree in health services research and her masters and bachelor's degrees in nursing. (kreit003@umn.edu, (612) 625-3977)