Darshan Mehta, MD, MPH - Course Director
        Medical Director,
        Director of Medical Education for Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine,
        Massachusetts General Hospital (BHI-MGH);
        Director of Education at Osher Center for Integrative Medicine,
        Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (OCIM)

Darshan Mehta, MD, MPH Dr. Mehta is Medical Director and Director of Medical Education for the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (BHI-MGH) and Director of Education at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (OCIM). His educational and research interests include curricular development in complementary and integrative medical therapies, mind/body educational interventions in health professions training, and promotion of professionalism in medical trainees.

        Yogesh Rathi, PhD - Course Director
        Associate Professor,
        Harvard Medical School

Yogesh Rathi, PhD Yogesh Rathi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Radiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston. His research focus is at the intersection of brain imaging and neurosciences to understand the structure and function of the brain.

         Matt Matterson, PhD
         Faculty of Neuroscience
         Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Mark Mattson, PhD is on the faculty of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The former Chief of the Laboratory of Neurosciences at the National Institute on Aging, Dr. Mattson is among the most highly cited neuroscientists in the world. His research has advanced our understanding of the cellular signaling mechanisms that control the formation and plasticity of neuronal networks in the brain, cellular and molecular mechanisms of brain aging and neurodegenerative disorders. His findings on how the brain responds adaptively in the face of challenges has been used to develop novel interventions that work to promote lifelong optimal brain function.  

       
        Vasant Lad, MASc
        Ayurvedic Physician and Executive Director
        Ayurvedic Institute

Vasant Lad, MASc Founder of The Ayurvedic Institute, Vasant has spent the last 40 years promoting the transformative power of Ayurveda to the West. His passion for healing has garnered him respect throughout the world, and he is considered the premiere authority on Ayurveda outside of India. The author of numerous books, his insights range from introductory courses in Ayurveda and yoga to advanced clinical pathology immersion programs.

        Ana Bajželj, PhD
        Director of Undergraduate Studies,
        Associate Professor and Shrimad Rajchandra Endowed Chair in Jain Studies
        UC Riverside, Department of Religious Studies

Ana Bajželj, PhD is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Shrimad Rajchandra Endowed Chair in Jain Studies at the University of California, Riverside. Her research focuses on Jain philosophy, metaphysics, and ethics. In her upcoming book, Insistent Life: Principles for Bioethics in the Jain Tradition (UC Press, 2021), Ana investigates the relationship between Jainism and bioethics, exploring how the tradition informs the attitudes and decisions of contemporary Jain medical professionals

        
        Frank A.J.L. Scheer, PhD
        Neuroscientist,
        Brigham and Women's Hospital;
        Professor of Medicine,
        Harvard Medical School

Frank A.J.L. Scheer, PhD is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Director of the Medical Chronobiology Program (MCP) at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Boston. Scheer’s work focuses on influences of the endogenous circadian system and its disruption—such as with shift work or late-night eating—on ca​​​​​​​rdiovascular, pulmonary, and metabolic regulation and disease states, including hypertension, asthma, obesity and diabetes.

        Brian​​​​​​​ A. Hatcher, PhD
        Religion Faculty
        Tufts University

Brian A. Hatcher, PhD is a Professor and Packard Chair of Theology in the Department of Religion at Tufts University. A scholar of religion and colonialism in modern South Asia, he is the author of several monographs, including Hinduism Before Reform (Harvard, 2020) and Bourgeois Hinduism, or the Faith of the Modern Vedantists (Oxford, 2008). With support from the American Institute of Indian Studies, the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Religion, Dr. Hatcher is researching the rise and fall of a Hindu monastic network in colonial Bengal.​​​​​​​

        Sangseraima Ujeed,PhD​​​​​​​
        Assistant Professor of Tibetan Buddhism Studies
        University of Michigan

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Sangseraima Ujeed,PhD Assistant Professor of Tibetan Buddhism at the University of Michigan,​​​​​​​ Ann Arbor. Her main research focus is the trans-national, trans-regional, and cross-cultural ​​​​​​​aspects of Buddhism, lineage, translation, monastic and reincarnation networks, and identity in Tibet and Mongolia in the Early Modern period, with an emphasis on the contributions ​​​​​​​made by ethnically Mongolian monk scholars.

        Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, PhD​​​​​​​
        Assistant professor of medicine,
        Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital;
        Research Director,
        Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health​​​​​​​

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Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, PhD is the Director of Yoga Research for the Yoga Alliance and the Kundalini Research Institute, Research Associate at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine, Research Affiliate at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His research has evaluated yoga for insomnia, stress, anxiety-related disorders, and in workplace and public-school settings. He works with the International Association of Yoga Therapists as scientific director for the annual Symposium on Yoga Rese​​​​​​​arch and editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Yoga Therapy.