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The Rabbit Effect
Dr. Kelli Harding discusses ways for school communities to help foster cultures of kindness and positive social connections.
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Los Altos High School
201 Almond Ave Eagle Theater Los Altos, CA 94022About this event
The Rabbit Effect: Live Longer, Happier, and Healthier with the Groundbreaking Science of Kindness.
When Columbia University doctor Kelli Harding began her clinical practice, she never intended to explore the invisible factors behind our health. But then there were the rabbits. In 1978, a seemingly straightforward experiment designed to establish the relationship between high blood cholesterol and heart health in rabbits discovered that kindness—in the form of a particularly nurturing post-doc who pet and spoke to the lab rabbits as she fed them—made the difference between a heart attack and a healthy heart.
As Dr. Kelli Harding reveals in this eye-opening book, the rabbits were just the beginning of a much larger story. Groundbreaking new research shows that love, friendship, community, life’s purpose, and our environment can have a greater impact on our health than anything that happens in the doctor’s office. For instance, chronic loneliness can be as unhealthy as smoking a pack of cigarettes a day; napping regularly can decrease one’s risk of heart disease; and people with purpose are less likely to get sick. Through provocative storytelling and compelling research, Harding presents a new model for you to take charge of your health.
At once paradigm-shifting and empowering, The Rabbit Effect shares a radical new way to think about health, wellness, and how we live.
About our Speaker
Dr. Kelli Harding is an expert in human health and wellbeing. She’s celebrated for her ability to make complex medical and public health research meaningful to a broad audience. She helps individuals and organizations apply the science of kindness and connection to help them thrive.
Dr. Harding is currently an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. She’s also boarded in the specialty of psychosomatic (mind-body) medicine. Her work as a doctor – seeing patients, doing research, and serving in national leadership roles – led her to write The Rabbit Effect: Live Longer, Happier, and Healthier with the Groundbreaking Science of Kindness (Simon & Schuster, 2019.). In addition to the US, UK and Australia, The Rabbit Effect is also available so far in Turkish, Chinese, Russian, and Korean.
Dr. Harding has spent much of her career in the emergency room at New York-Presbyterian Hospital as an attending physician seeing patients who come in with both medical and behavioral symptoms. This includes anyone acting odd on the subway or found naked on the street.
As part of her mission to educate the general public about important health topics she’s appeared on Today, Good Morning America, NPR, The New York Times, Medscape, Oprah.com, and US News & World Report.
Dr. Harding grew up far outside the city lights near Florida and California beaches, in the Rocky Mountains, and the Nevada desert. She now lives with her husband, three sons (ages 11, 9, and 7), and two guinea pigs in Manhattan.
Additional Information
Audience: Grade TK - 12 parents, caretakers, teachers, and counselors
Admission: Free