Barry Kerzin
Barry Kerzin is a medical doctor, an Affiliate Prof at the Univ. of Washington Tacoma, an Affiliate Prof at the Univ. of Pittsburgh (pending), a Visiting Prof at Central University of Tibetan Studies in Varanasi, India, an Adjunct Prof at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), an Honorary Professor at the Mongolian National University of Medical Science, and a former Assist. Prof. of Medicine at the Univ. of Washington. Barry is a fellow at the Mind and Life Institute and consults for the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig on compassion training.
He is founder and president of the Altruism in Medicine Institute (AIMI) and founder and chairman of the Human Values Institute (HVI) in Japan.
For over 30 years, he has been providing free medical care to the poor up to the highest lamas, including HH Dalai Lama. Barry has completed many meditation retreats including a three-year retreat. His brain was studied at Princeton Univ. and the Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, as a long-term meditator. He was ordained as a Buddhist monk synthesizing monk and doctor work through harmonizing mind and body, lecturing around the world in Japan, Hong Kong, Russia, Mongolia, India, Korea, Europe, and North America. (Source Accessed Jan 7, 2026)
