I am a second year, neuroscience PhD student at Wake Forest School of Medicine, and am interested in studying traumatic and mild traumatic brain injuries (TBI and mTBI). I am currently conducting research in an imaging lab, where we employ multiple imaging modalities to effectively examine changes to the brain. I have worked with youth, …
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Shayna Fox Lee
Richa Gawande
Richa Gawande, PhD (she/her) is a Research Scientist at the Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) Center for Mindfulness and Compassion, where she serves as Co-Director of the Mindfulness Training for Primary Care teacher training pathway and as a trained Mindful Self-Compassion teacher. She has a background in biology and public health and served as the CMC …
Nabila Farhin Jahan
Nabila Farhin Jahan explores the characteristics and effects of contemplative states and practices (e.g., mindfulness, self-inquiry, meditation) on human functioning and wellbeing. Personally, and as a clinical psychology graduate student at Virginia Commonwealth University, she is particularly interested in investigating impacts of social conditioning, language, thought- and identity-formation on mindful awareness, compassion, and healthy living. …
Sarah Laborde
Amanda Shallcross
Amanda Shallcross is a board-certified naturopathic physician with clinical and research expertise in preventative and integrative behavioral medicine and public health. Her research utilizes multiple methodologies including laboratory tasks, experience sampling, behavioral coding, and autonomic nervous system responding. The overarching goal of her work is to adapt and test mindfulness-based interventions for individuals with co-morbid mood disorders and …
Gunes Sevinc
Gunes Sevinc is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School. Her current research interests include the relationship between mindfulness meditation and moral cognition. She is specifically interested in the structural and functional changes associated with mindfulness practice as they relate to moral reasoning and prosocial …
Katarina Tabi
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia and BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver. Specifically, I am affiliated with a Reproductive Mental Health Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness. I have a background and have been involved in projects in the fields of mental health, neuropsychopharmacology, e-mental health and application of …
Sasha Sommerfeldt
“But how does meat get contents?” My favorite philosophy professor would repeatedly shout at our class. He was echoing the hard problem of consciousness – how can a physical substance such as the brain give rise to the beautifully diverse and colorful phenomenological experiences we enjoy as human beings? This question is part of the insatiable curiosity that …
Vanessa Somohano
My research interests have centered on adapting and assessing mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) for vulnerable populations, especially individuals with substance use and co-occurring disorders (SU-CoDs), as well as determining the mechanisms of change of such interventions. I received my B.A. in Psychology at Long Beach State University, followed by my M.A. in Counseling Psychology at Humboldt State University. After …
