Jan chozen bays biography

Jan Chozen Bays, MD (born ), is a Zen teacher, author, mindful eating educator, and pediatrician specializing in work with abused children.

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Biography

Jan Chozen Bays was born in Chicago, Illinois on August 9, , the day the US dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. She grew up in East Greenbush, New York and spent two years in Korea. She received her undergraduate degree at Swarthmore College and earned her medical degree at the University of California at San Diego, specializing in pediatrics.

Bays is a nationally recognized expert on child abuse.^[1]

It was after Bays began practicing Zen in a group the included Charlotte Joko Beck, Anne Seisen Saunders, and Jerry Shishin Wick in San Diego.

She eventually moved to the Zen Center of Los Angeles to study with the Japanese Zen teacher Taizan Maezumi Roshi. She served a