Dr. Erica Sibinga is Professor of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She is a general academic pediatrician and conducts research on mindfulness for vulnerable youth and those important to them. With funding from foundations and NIH, she has adapted and studied the mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program for vulnerable youth populations in both school- and clinic-based settings. The trials have shown that MBSR improves youth mental health, self-acceptance, and self-care. In addition, Dr. Sibinga has led promising research of mindfulness programming for urban teachers and mothers of infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.