Join CBS member and physician Carrie Horwitch over Zoom for a laughter practice. Both laughter and mindfulness/meditative practice have research that shows multiple health benefits. These health benefits include decreasing stress hormones, improved arterial compliance, improved oxidation, improved immune function markers, and improved well being. This is a fun, interactive way to teach resiliency and get exercise at the same time.

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Carrie A Horwitch is a board certified internal medicine physician. She is also credentialed as an HIV care specialist from AAHIVM.  Dr Horwitch graduated from University of Arizona, College of Medicine. She completed her Master of Public Health at University of California, Berkeley.  Her current position is at Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, Washington where she is a primary outpatient physician. She is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington.

Dr Horwitch’ s interests are HIV care, STDs, laughter in medicine, emerging infections and public health, ethics and professionalism, high value care and graduate medical education.  She is a certified laughter leader through the World Laughter Tour since 2007.  She is on the wellness committee at Virginia Mason Medical Center and promotes laughter as one technique of wellness to health care workers and patients. She is the author of: Death of my Uterus and other humorous events.