Faculty Experts
Dessa Bergen-Cico
Dessa Bergen-Cico is a professor in the Public Health Department, coordinator of the Addiction Studies program and faculty in the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program at Syracuse University. She holds a research appointment at the Syracuse Veterans Administration Medical Center for Integrative Healthcare and is a fellow of the American Academy of Health Care Providers in the Addictive Disorders.
Bergen-Cico is a Certified Addiction Specialist (CAS), Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) and a Certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Teacher. She completed MBSR Teacher Training through the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
Bergen-Cico has been selected twice as a Fulbright Scholar (Republic Georgia and Thailand) and was selected as a Rotary Peace Fellow in the International Rotary Peace Program at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand.
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