Polina has been supporting the President of Mind & Life, Susan Bauer-Wu, as Executive Assistant since January 2023. As a previous recipient of the Mind & Life 1440 Grant for her dissertation research, participant of the Summer Research Institute, and presenter at the ISCS, she is grateful to assist Mind & Life at this time. …

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Nicholas Chadi completed his medical school and pediatric residency in Montreal and is currently an Adolescent Medicine Fellow at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. His main research interests include substance abuse, international health, medical education, mental health and mindfulness-based interventions. Nicholas has been practicing meditation, yoga and mindfulness for many years and …

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Michael J. Crowley, Ph.D. is an assistant professor at the Yale Child Study Center, is a child psychologist whose work focuses on key questions in social and affective neuroscience. Dr. Crowley earned his doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2004. He completed a child-focused clinical internship through the …

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