ONGOING COMPASSION EDUCATION
Designed for professionals, changemakers, caregivers, and anyone ready to bring compassion into their personal and professional lives, the CCARE Compassion Lab equips individuals with evidence-based tools to navigate life’s complexity with resilience, clarity, and purpose.
In Cultivate a Compassionate Heart, you will enhance your skills of emotional intelligence, self-reflection, meditation, active listening, and more. The course incorporates traditional contemplative practices with contemporary psychology and on-going scientific research on compassion.
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James Doty, neurosurgeon and compassion expert, dies at 69
The professor, neurosurgeon, investor, and author founded CCARE, Stanford Medicine’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education. James “Jim” R. Doty, MD, founder and director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford Medicine, died at age 69 on July 16, 2025, after complications from…
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In Memoriam: Dr. James Doty (1955-2025)
James (Jim) R. Doty, MD, FACS, FICS, FAANS, a beloved member of the Stanford Neurosurgery family, and the founder and director of the Stanford Center for Compassion and Altruism Research (CCARE), passed away on July 16, 2025. He will be deeply missed by his family, colleagues, faculty, generations of trainees,…
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Nurturing You, Nurturing Them – A space of compassion for parents
As a student in the 2023 cohort of the Applied Compassion Training at CCARE Stanford, I was invited to explore what compassion truly means — not just as a concept, but as a lived, embodied practice. The journey led me deep into the heart of my own parenting experience, where…
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Promoting Compassion in Israeli Healthcare: From ACT at Stanford to Systemic Change
When I joined the Applied Compassion Training program at Stanford, I had already founded Mehva, an NGO dedicated to promoting compassion and improving patient experience in Israeli healthcare. Mehva’s mission is to develop methodologies and practical tools, raise awareness, and impact public policy while training healthcare leadership and teams to…
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