Robert Chodo Campbell, HHC, is a Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care. He serves on the Core Faculty for the Center’s Buddhist Chaplaincy Training Programs. Chodo is an Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Buddhist Studies. He is Co-Director of Contemplative Care Services for the Department of Integrative Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center. Chodo brings his life experience and his Zen and psychoanalytic study to his teachings in the areas of: anxiety and depression, drug and alcohol abuse, and contemplative approaches to care. He began formal Zen training in 1994 and currently he is a Soto Zen Buddhist Priest, at Village Zendo. He gives plenary addresses, workshops and retreats in a variety of settings from corporations to national healthcare conferences.

His expertise as a chaplain is in the following areas:

• Helping clients recognize the habitual patterns that fuel and perpetuate difficulty in their lives.
• Exploring the journey of recovery, from alcohol abuse, drug addiction and other forms of addictive, and compulsive behavior
• Facilitating the healing of sexual, physical or emotional abuse and trauma
• Counseling people living with HIV/AIDS, living with a chronic or terminal illness
• Guiding clients in their exploration of anxiety, depression, grief and loss
• Leading mindfulness and guided meditation practice for individuals and groups