Associate Professor Craig Hassed OAM has been working at Monash University since 1989 where he has been teaching within the Faculty of Medicine. He now also teaches into a number of other faculties and is coordinator of mindfulness programs across Monash University.

His teaching, research and clinical interests include mindfulness, mind-body medicine, lifestyle medicine, integrative medicine and medical ethics. Craig developed and integrated into the Monash medical curriculum the world-first mindfulness-based healthy lifestyle course called the Health Enhancement Program.

He has authored over 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals and is regularly invited to speak and run courses in Australia and overseas in health, educational, government and corporate contexts. Craig has collaborated with a number of Australian and international universities helping them to integrate similar content.

Craig was the founding president of Meditation Australia, is a regular media commentator, and has published 13 books and 14 book chapters. Craig featured in the documentaries, The Connection, and My Year of Living Mindfully.

He co-authored with Richard Chambers the two free online Mindfulness courses in collaboration with Monash University and FutureLearn, both of which are rated by Class Central as the leading online mindfulness courses in the world. In 2019 Craig was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for services to Medicine.