Marian R. Stuart

Marian R. Stuart, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey--Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. "Retiring" after thirty years of teaching medical students, doctors in graduate training, faculty and practicing physicians the art of integrating mental and physical health practices, she continues as a consultant and lecturer as well as pursuing a private practice as a Licensed Psychologist in the Princeton area of New Jersey.

Senior author of The Fifteen Minute Hour: Therapeutic Talk in Primary Care (4th Edition, 2008), she is in great demand as a speaker on medical education, communications and stress management skills, successful aging, and the power of forgiveness. She has presented in a variety of formats in most areas of the United States as well as in the UK, Canada, Denmark and Israel. Both The Fifteen Minute Hour and Coping with the Stressed out People in Your Life, which she co-authored with Ronald G. Nathan, are available for Kindle.

Listed in Who's Who in America, Dr. Stuart is the recipient of the 1997 Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Excellence in Education Award, and a charter member of the Stuart D. Cook, M.D. Master Educators Guild of UMDNJ. In 2002 the American Academy of Family Physicians made her an Honorary Member, an extraordinary achievement for a psychologist.