Dzung X. Vo, MD, is a pediatrician specializing in adolescent medicine and founding director of the British Columbia Children’s Hospital Centre for Mindfulness. He is also a clinical associate professor and division head for the Division of Adolescent Health and Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, at BC Children’s Hospital and the University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
 
In partnership with Dr. Jake Locke, Dr. Vo co-developed MARS-A (Mindful Awareness and Resilience Skills for Adolescents), an eight-week mindfulness training program for adolescents with depressive symptoms, with or without other co-occurring chronic illness or chronic pain. Dr. Vo also developed a Mindful Healing course for health care providers, adapted from Mindful Practice (by Ron Epstein and Michael Krasner) and other sources. He is the author of The Mindful Teen: Powerful Skills to Help You Handle Stress One Moment at a Time, and has written numerous other articles in general, Buddhist, and medical literature.