Daniel Holland  is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology. He began to study contemplative practices at the age of 7 when he began attending the Detroit Waldorf School. He has studied contemplative practices and their impact on health and quality of life in a variety of settings in the United States, Europe, and South Asia. Dan graduated from Oberlin College with a B.A. in literature. He has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Southern Illinois University, and interned in clinical health psychology at the University of Missouri School of Medicine.  His residency was in clinical neuropsychology at the University of Washington School of Medicine.  He also has a Masters of Public Health in Health Promotion and Primary Care from the Tulane University School of Public Health.  In 2001, he was a Contemplative Practice Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, a fellowship that supported his development of the first Mindfulness Meditation and Health course at UALR.  During this fellowship, Dan was involved in the Teacher Development Intensive in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, the program founded by Jon Kabat-Zinn.  He was a Fulbright Fellow in 2002 in Eastern Europe, where he studied disability organizations and disability grassroots movements in post-communist Europe. He was subsequently a Fellow of the Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict at the University of Pennsylvania in 2003.  In 2004, Dan taught a version of his UALR course in mindfulness meditation as a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Austria .  Dan was named a Mary E. Switzer Distinguished Fellow of the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) of the U.S. Department of Education for his work in international disability and human rights research.