Faculty

Keynote Speakers

Yvette Cozier, ScD

Dr. Yvette Cozier is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology, and the Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice (DEIJ) at Boston University School of Public Health. She is also a Senior Epidemiologist at the Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University School of Medicine where she co-leads the Black Women’s Health Study (BWHS), a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded follow-up of over 59,000 African American women begun in 1995. As of July 1st, Dr. Cozier is the Immediate Past President of the Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER), the nation’s oldest and largest general epidemiology organization.  Read more

 

Stephen Post, PhD

Stephen G. Post is Professor of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine & Founding Director of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics (2008-present) at Stonybrook University. Previously he was Professor of Bioethics in the Department of Bioethics of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (1988-2008). He also taught at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. Read more

 

Adam Rodman, MD, MPH

Adam Rodman is a general internist and medical educator at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. He is the Director of AI Programs for the Carl J. Shapiro Center for Education and Research and he leads the task force for integration of AI into the medical school curriculum. He is also an associate editor at NEJM AI. His research focuses on medical education, clinical reasoning, integration of digital technologies, and human-computer interaction, especially with AI. His first book is entitled Short Cuts: Medicine, and he is the host of the American College of Physicians podcast Bedside Rounds.  Read more

 

Kasisomayajula Viswanath, PhD

Dr. K. “Vish” Viswanath is Lee Kum Kee Professor of Health Communication in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) and in the McGraw-Patterson Center for Population Sciences at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI). He is also the Faculty Director of the Health Communication Core of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC). Other additional administrative and scientific leadership positions held by Dr. Viswanath include: Director of the Center for Translational Communication Science, DFCI; Director, Harvard Chan India Research Center and Director, Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness, Harvard Chan. He is the founding Director of DF/HCC’s Enhancing Communications for Health Outcomes (ECHO) Laboratory. Read more

 

Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH

Dr. Rochelle Walensky served as the 19th Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2021-2023), Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School (2012-2021), and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital (2017-2021).  She currently serves as a Senior Fellow of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She is also a Hauser Leader at the Center for Public Leadership, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and an Executive Fellow of the Harvard Business School. Read more

Distinguished Faculty

Zeba Ahmad, PhD, Clinical Staff Psychologist, Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry; Instructor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry

Hermioni Amonoo, MD, MPP, MPH, Carol C. Nadelson, MD Endowed Chair in Psychiatry and Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School; Director, Well-Being and Cancer Research Program, Associate Program Director, BWH/HMS Residency in Psychiatry

Chika Anekwe, MD, MPH, Preventive Medicine and Obesity Medicine Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital; Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Miguel Anglada, LICSW, Employee Assistance Counselor/Coordinator, US Department of Justice/Federal Bureau of Investigation

Margaret Baim, MS, NP, Director, Stress Management and Resiliency Training (SMART) Program, Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine

Madeleine A. Becker, MD, MA, FACLP, FAIHM, Professor, Department of Integrative Medicine and Nutritional Sciences, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Sidney Kimmel Medical College; Director, Graduate Medical Education, Associate Director, Integrative Medicine Fellowship, Marcus Institute of Integrative Health, Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health

Suzanne Bertisch, MD, MPH, Physician/Clinical Investigator, Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Wren Burton, DC, MPH, Chiropractor, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Barbara Canada, MBA, Administrative Director, Massachusetts General Hospital, Revere Health Center

Rana Chudnofsky, MEd, Certified PART Instructor

John Denninger, MD, PhD, Director of Integrative Science and Clinical Training, Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine; Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Edin Evins, MD, MPH, Founding Director and Principal Investigator, Center for Addiction Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; William Cox Family Professor of Psychiatry in the Field of Addiction Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Meghan Feldpausch, NP, Nurse practitioner, Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital

Jane Flanagan, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, ANP-BC, FAAN, Department Chairperson and Associate Professor, Connell School of Nursing at Boston College

Elizabeth Frates, MD, Director of Medical School Education, Institute for Lifestyle Medicine; Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Part-time, Harvard Medical School

Gregory Fricchione, MD, Director, Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine; Mind Body Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Barry Friedman, Founder, Finding Balance Tai Chi

Chin Ho Fung, MD, Staff Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital, Revere Health Center; Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Kristen Gilmore, MSN, RN, CEN, TCRN, NE-BC, Program Manager for Nurse Well-Being, Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals; SMART-Certified Healthcare Clinician

Staci Gruber, PhD, Director, Cognitive and Clinical Neuroimaging Core, and Director, Marijuana Investigations for Neuroscientific Discovery (MIND), McLean Hospital; Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Daniel Hall, PhD, Clinical Health Psychologist, Massachusetts General Hospital; Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Aude Henin, PhD, Director, Child Resiliency Programs, Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine; Co-Director, Child Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital

Ana Ivkovic, MD, Director, Transplant Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital; Instructor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Felipe Jain, MD, Director of Healthy Aging Studies, Depression Clinical and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital; Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Tara Jones, MPH, Certified PART Instructor

Sat Bir Khalsa, PhD, Neuroscientist, Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Franklin King, MD, Staff Psychiatrist, Massachusetts General Hospital; Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Tom Klisiewicz, CPLP, Certified PART Instructor

Sara Lazar, PhD, Associate Researcher in Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital; Assistant Professor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School

L. Elizabeth "Liz" Lincoln, MD, Staff Physician, Benson-Henry Institute; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Christina Luberto, PhD, Staff Psychologist, Massachusetts General Hospital; Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School

Laura Malloy, LICSW, C-IAYT, Director of Mind Body Program for Successful Aging, Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine (BHI); Director of Yoga Programs, BHI

John Matthews, MD, Psychiatrist, Massachusetts General Hospital; Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Darshan Mehta, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine; Director of Medicine and Education, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine; Medical Director, MGB Center for Comprehensive Healing; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Jacob Mirsky, MD, FACLM, Staff Physician, Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine; Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Michael Nathan, MD, Staff Physician, Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine; Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Maren Nyer, PhD, Director of Yoga Studies and Associate Director, Research Coordinator Program, Depression Clinical and Research Program (DCRP), Massachusetts General Hospital; Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Elyse Park, PhD, MPH, Director of Behavioral Health Research, Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine; Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Giselle Perez, PhD, Director, Mind-Body Resiliency Clinical Program, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center; Staff Psychologist, Behavioral Medicine Service, MGH

Shalu Ramchandani, MD, Staff Physician, MGH Digestive Healthcare Center; Instructor in Medicine, Part-time, Harvard Medical School

Katherine Rosa, PhD, FNP-BC, Co-Director, SMART Program, Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine; Instructor in Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Part-time, Harvard Medical School

Silvia Ruíz Cala, MD, Psychiatrist, Javeriana University; SMART-Certified Healthcare Clinician

Matthew Sacchet, PhD, Director, Meditation Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Mark Salvatore, MD, Clinical Director, Pediatric Mind Body Medicine Program, Massachusetts General Hospital; Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

kei slaughter, MA, MFA, BMT, Music Therapist; Associate Professor, Berklee College of Music

Ellen Slawsby, PhD, Director of Chronic Pain Services, Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine; Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Balachundhar Subramaniam, MD, MPH, FASA, Director, Sadhguru Center for a Conscious Planet, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Ellison "Jeep" Pierce Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School

Ahmed Tawakol, MD, Director of Nuclear Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Irma Torres-Rivera, PhD, Psychologist and SMART-Certified Provider

Denise Velazquez, LCSW, Senior Social Worker, Montefiore Children’s Hospital; SMART-Certified Provider

Peter Wayne, PhD, Director, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School