Jan Newman
Dr. Newman is a Fellow of the American and International Colleges of Surgeons and Diplomat of the American Board of Holistic Medicine who has studied and practiced biofeedback and meditation since 1976.She utilized meditation and biofeedback techniques in her residency and surgical practice both personally and for her patients to aid them in stress reduction, smoking cessation and pain management. She spent a year studying gastrointestinal physiology including the Brain Gut axis and contributed chapters to Gastrointestinal Endocrinology. Over the last 10 years She has studied and practiced yoga and Buddhism with spiritual masters including the Dalai Lama, learned new biofeedback modalities, and completed her Master's of Arts in Fine Arts with a major in integrated arts and education at the University of Montana. She guest lectures to teachers in the Master's Degree Program at the University of Montana. She utilizes a multimodality approach to illustrating how combining medicine, biofeedback and the arts can further health, human development and promote learning, stress management and wellness. She has presented at the Winter Brain Meeting on "Walking the Spiritual Path and It's Relationship to Health and Disease and Neuro and Biofeedback.". She is founder of Meditation for Modern Man a start-up organization whose mission is to foster individual, organizational and community multimodality therapy, education and research to promote health, compassion, and wellbeing. She is currently on the steering committee of the Western Montana Integrative Health Alliance. She is also a poet, freelance writer and photographer.
Jan B. Newman, M.A., M.D.
3436 Mountain Dr.
Clinton, MT 59825
406-258-6284