Participants

Our Speakers

We are delighted to have recruited renowned Vajrayana masters, who are still teaching their monks and nuns advanced Vajrayana practices in their monasteries and retreat centers. This will include H.E. Gyeltshen Tulku Rinpoche, a renowned retreat master in Bhutan and Gebchak Wangdrak Rinpoche, one of the abbots of Gebchak nunnery, known for its accomplished female Tummo practitioners.

We are also delighted to have prominent cognitive psychologists, medical scientists, neuroscientists, and Buddhist studies researchers.

Maria Kozhevnikov

Associate Professor
National University of Singapore & Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Harvard Medical School

Organizer

Benjamin Baird

Research Scientist, Center for Sleep and Consciousness, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin – Madison

bbaird@wisc.edu

Rael Cahn

Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry & the Behavioral Sciences, University of South California
Director of USC Center for Mindfulness Science

rael.cahn@usc.edu

Arnaud Delorme

Project Scientist, Institute for Neural Computation, University of California, San Diego

adelorme@ucsd.edu

David Germano

Professor, Department of Religious Studies
Director, Contemplative Studies Center, University of Virginia

dfg9w@virginia.edu

Alexander Levitov

Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, East Virginia Medical School

levitoab@evms.edu

Antonino Raffone

Associate Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
Visiting Professor and Advisory Faculty at Nalanda University (India)

antonino.raffone@uniroma1.it

Michael Lifshitz

Assistant Professor Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University
Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Montreal Jewish General Hospital

michael.lifshitz@gmail.com

Ken Paller

Professor of Psychology
James Padilla Chair in Arts & Sciences, Department of Psychology, Northwestern University

kap@northwestern.edu

Geoffrey Samuel

Professor, School of Religious and Theological Studies at Cardiff University
University Buddhist Education Foundation Visiting Professor, University of Sydney

samuelG@cardiff.ac.uk

Michael Sheehy

Research Assistant Professor in Tibetan Buddhist Studies, Department of Religious Studies
Director of Scholarship, Contemplative Sciences Center, University of Virginia

ms4qm@virginia.edu



Our Participants


Chris Berka

CEO and Co-Founder of Advanced Brain Monitoring

chris@b-alert.com

Keith Holyoak

Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles

holyoak@psych.ucla.edu

Michael Inzlicht

Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto

inzlicht@utsc.utoronto.ca

Laurence Kirmayer

McGill Professor and Director, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University

laurence.kirmayer@mcgill.ca

Dan Levendowski

President, Advanced Brain Monitoring

dan@b-alert.com

Jennifer Penberthy

Professor of Research in Psychiatric Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Virginia

jkp2n@hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu

Jennifer Shephard

Special Initiatives Program Manager, Division of Social Sciences, Harvard University

jmsheph@fas.harvard.edu

Gonpo Tenzin

County Coordinator, Bhutan

gnhbhutan@gmail.com



Our Tibetan & Dzongkha Interpreters


Elizabeth McDougal

tenzinchozom@gmail.com

Andrzej Rybszleger

urybszlegerr@me.com