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Daniel Holland received his B.A. from Oberlin College, his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Southern Illinois University, and an M.P.H. from Tulane University School of Public Health. His internship was in rehabilitation psychology and neuropsychology at the University of Missouri School of Medicine, and he then completed a two-year post-doctoral residency in clinical neuropsychology at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He returned to the University of Missouri School of Medicine as faculty, and was the Director of the Brain Injury Program there for three years. He subsequently studied health policy and legislative process in Baltimore and Washington, D.C., following which he became faculty at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where he was Director of the Health Psychology Program, with cross-appointments in the College of Public Health and College of Nursing at the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences.

In 2001, Dan was named a Contemplative Practice Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, a fellowship that supported his efforts to integrate concepts of universal design and accessibility into meditation. He spent time in Barre, Massachusetts and Rhinebeck, NY while a Contemplative Practice Fellow, studying approaches to self-awareness and self-regulation through forms of meditation. During this time, he also studied approaches to somatic awareness in Napa Valley, exploring ways that would help him integrate self-awareness and self-regulation into community health delivery models. He established the Mindfulness-based Health Program at the University of Arkansas, which promoted behavioral health in the community, particularly for people with disabilities.

Dan’s area of scholarship has focused on disability issues, particularly in transitioning parts of the world. He has been a two-time Fulbright recipient; a Fellow of the Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict at the University of Pennsylvania; a Research Scholar in the East European Studies program of the Wilson International Center in Washington, D.C.; and a Mary Switzer Distinguished Fellow in Rehabilitation Research with NIDRR/U.S. Department of Education.

In 2008, Dan joined the Minneapolis VA Medical Center, where he was a Polytrauma Neuropsychologist, focusing on psychological and neuropsychological trauma care of veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. He joined Fielding in 2013 and lives in Minneapolis with his family.