Biography of
Peggy Huddleston, MTS
Author of Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster:
A Guide of Mind-Body Techniques
Peggy Huddleston, MTS, is a pioneer in mind-body medicine. Her groundbreaking research, clinical work and writing focus on the ways positive emotions and the human spirit enhance healing. An expert on integrative modalities that combine holistic and conventional medicine, she is the author of the Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster workshop book and Relaxation/Healing audio tape offered to preoperative patients around the country by major hospitals such as NYU Medical Center in New York and several Kaiser Permanente Hospitals in California.
Her program gives patients tools to use in the days before surgery that empower them to go from feeling very afraid to profoundly peaceful, a state of being medically proven to help people heal faster. She trains nurses, social workers, psychologists and other medical professionals to deliver her one-hour workshop in hospitals and medical practices.
Huddleston is a psychotherapist and researcher who holds a Master of Theological Studies degree from Harvard Divinity School. For more than 30 years she has developed and taught mind-body techniques that have been used by more than 200,000 people in the US, Paris and Amsterdam.
As a researcher, she is the principle investigator of several randomized, controlled research studies related to how her program improves surgical outcomes. She just completed a study at the New England Baptist Hospital, a Tufts and Harvard Medical School teaching hospital, with patients having total knee joint replacements. She and Benjamin E. Bierbaum, MD, Chief of Orthopedic Surgery at the New England Baptist Hospital, are co-authors of the study which is being submitted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
In addition, she is currently conducting studies at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and at Hartford Hospital and Greenwich Hospital in Connecticut.
She is a Project Director and Board Member at the Center for Psychology and Social Change in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has a private psychotherapy practice in Westminster, Colorado.