The Sadhguru Center Scientific Advisory Board
Our Scientific Advisory Board
Meet the Scientific Advisory Board for the Sadhguru Center for a Conscious Planet: Enhancing Consciousness, Cognition, and Compassion:
Akshay Anand, PhD
Professor of Neurology
Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
Editor-in-Chief, Annals of Neurosciences
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Integrative Medicine Case Report (JIMCR)
DPhil, FAAP, FCCM, FRCPCH
Kanwaljeet J. S. Anand, MBBS, D.Phil., FAAP, FCCM, FRCPCH
Professor of Pediatrics, Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
2009 Nils Rosén von Rosenstein Laureate, Swedish Academy of Medicine
Director, Pain/Stress Neurobiology Laboratory, Maternal & Child Health Research Institute
Director, Jackson Vaughan Critical Care Research Fund
Emery N. Brown, MD, PhD
Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science
Professor of Computational Neuroscience
Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School
Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Elissa Epel, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco
Director of the Aging, Metabolism, and Emotions Center
Associate Director of the Center for Health and Community and the NIDDK UCSF NORC
Member of the National Academy of Medicine
Sat Bir S. Khalsa, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Director of Yoga Research, Yoga Alliance
Director of Research, Kundalini Research Institute
Research Associate, Benson Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine
Research Affiliate, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine
Editor in Chief, International Journal of Yoga Therapy
Steven Laureys, MD, PhD, FEAN
Director, "Giga Consciousness" Research Unit and "Coma Science Group"
Professor, Center du Cerveau2, University Hospital of Liege, Liege, Belgium
Research Director, National Fund for Scientific Research
Nancy E. Oriol, MD
Associate Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School
Faculty Associate Dean for Community Engagement in Medical Education
Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine
Blavatnik Institute, Global Health and Social Medicine
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD
Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Vice-Chair, Neurology (Research)
Director, Genetics and Aging Research Unit
Co-Director, McCance Center for Brain Health
Co-Director, MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease
David R. Vago, PhD
Director, Contemplative Neuroscience & Mind-Body Research Laboratory
Research Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt Brain Institute
Research Associate, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Research Lead, RoundGlass
Shirley Yen, PhD
Associate Professor, Psychology, Harvard Medical School
Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Director, Psychology Training, Massachusetts Mental Health Center
Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Alpert Brown Medical School