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Director

Matthew D. Sacchet, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Director, Meditation Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital
Faculty, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Mass General Hospital
Faculty, Spirituality and Mental Health Program, McLean Hospital
Faculty, Mind Brain Behavior Interfaculty Initiative, Harvard University
Faculty, Harvard Brain Science Initiative, Harvard University

Affiliated Scientists

	Kilian Abellaneda-Pérez, Ph.D. University of Barcelona Guttmann Institute of Barcelona		Andrés Canales-Johnson, Ph.D. University of Cambridge Catholic University of the Maule, Chile
	Terje Sparby, Ph.D. Witten/Herdecke University Steiner University College		Karen Vasquez, M.D. Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School
	Malcolm J. Wright, Ph.D. Massey University		David Zarka, Ph.D. Free University of Brussels

Affiliates

Denise Koller, M.A., M.A., M.St.

Harvard University
Princeton University
Oxford University
Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London

Postdoctoral Researcher

Winson Yang, Ph.D.

Texas Tech University

Graduate Students

	Umay Demir, M.S. Utrecht University		Sebastian Ehmann, M.Sc. West Chester University of Pennsylvania
	Hoki Fung, M.S. University College London		Saampras Ganesan, M.Eng. University of Melbourne
	Rosalind McAlpine, M.Res. University College London		Idil Sezer, M.Sc. Sorbonne University

Isaac Treves

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Program Manager and Senior Research Assistant

Ruby Potash, B.S.

Northeastern University

Research Assistants

	Batool Abbasi		Isidora Beslic
	Thomas Cahaly		Vanessa Cha
	Grace Mackin		Vanessa Naughton
	Melissa Streifert		Joseph Valenti

Open Positions

Postdoctoral Researchers

Affiliated Faculty

Jagpreet Chhatwal, Ph.D.

Director, Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School

Maurizio Fava, M.D.

Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Massachusetts General Hospital
Executive Director, MGH Clinical Trials Network and Institute
Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research, Harvard Med School
Slater Family Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Randy L. Gollub, M.D./Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Associate Director for Translational Research, Division of Psychiatric
Neuroimaging, Massachusetts General Hospital
Chair, Organization for Human Brain Mapping

Gregory L. Fricchione, M.D.

Associate Chief of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
Director, Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine, MGH
Founding Director, Chester M. Pierce Division of Global Psychiatry, MGH
Mind Body Medicine Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Med School

Sara W. Lazar, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Director, Lazar Lab for Meditation Research, Massachusetts General Hospital

Joshua L. Roffman, M.D./Ph.D.

Director, Early Brain Development Initiative, Massachusetts General Hospital
Co-Director, Mass General Neuroscience, Massachusetts General Hospital
Co-Director, Division of Psychiatric Neuroimaging, MGH
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Bruce R. Rosen, M.D./Ph.D.

Director, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Mass General Hospital
Vice Chair of Research in Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Scientific Director, Center for the Neuroscience of Psychedelics, MGH
Robbins Professor, Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School

Jerold F. Rosenbaum, M.D.

Psychiatrist-in-Chief Emeritus, Massachusetts General Hospital
Director, Center for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Disorders, MGH
Director, Center for Neuroscience of Psychedelics, Mass General Hospital
Stanley Cobb Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Mass General Hospital

David H. Rosmarin, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Director, Spirituality & Mental Health Program, McLean Hospital

Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D.

Director, Genetics and Aging Research Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital
Vice Chair of Neurology, Department of Neurology, Mass General Hospital
Co-Director, McCance Center for Brain Health, Mass General Hospital
Co-Director, Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, Mass General Hospital
Kennedy Professor, Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Collaborators (incomplete)

Andrea Alamaia, Ph.D. French National Centre for Scientific Res	Selen Atasoy, Ph.D. Oxford University	Laima Baltusis, Ph.D. Stanford University
Marta Bianciardi, Ph.D. Mass Gen Hosp and Harvard Medical School	James H. Bishop, Ph.D. Stanford University School of Medicine	Judson A. Brewer, M.D. Ph.D. Brown University
Josh Cain, Ph.D. Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies	Bruno A. Cayoun, D.Psych. MiCBT Institute	Peter K. Y. Chan, M.D. University of British Columbia
Avijit Chowdhury, Ph.D. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Leonardo Christov-Moore, Ph.D. Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies	George Deane, Ph.D. University of Montreal
Eric L. Garland, Ph.D. University of Utah	Gary H. Glover, Ph.D. Stanford University School of Medicine	Ian H. Gotlib, Ph.D. Stanford University
Roberto Goya-Maldonado, M.D. University of Göttingen	Andrea D. Grabovac, M.D. University of British Columbia	Nickolas Grabovac Meditation teacher and author
Tiffany C. Ho, Ph.D. University of California, San Francisco	Akila Kadambi, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles	Eunmi (Jina) Kim, Ph.D. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Morten L. Kringelbach, D.Phil Oxford and Aarhus Universities	Andrew D. Krystal, M.D. University of California, San Francisco	Ruben E. Laukkonen, Ph.D. Free University Amsterdam
Michael Lifshitz, Ph.D. McGill University	Emily K. Lindsay, Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh	Hesheng Liu, Ph.D. Medical University of South Carolina
Poorvi K. Mandayam, M.A. University of Nevada, Reno	Christopher H. Miller, Ph.D. California State University, Fresno	Diego A. Pizzagalli, Ph.D. McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Nicco Reggente, Ph.D. Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies	Soham Rej, M.D. McGill University	Joseph L. Sanguinetti, Ph.D. University of Arizona
Heleen Slagter, Ph.D. Free University Amsterdam	Terje Sparby, Ph.D. University of Witten/Herdecke	Moria Smoski, Ph.D. Duke University
Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D. Mass Gen Hosp and Harvard Medical School	Christopher Timmermann, Ph.D. Imperial College London	Remko van Lutterveld, Ph.D. Dutch Ministry of Defense
Nolan R. Williams, M.D. Stanford University School of Medicine	Malcolm G. Wright, Ph.D. Massey Univeristy	Shinzen Young University of Arizona

Andrew Zalesky, Ph.D.

University of Melbourne

Martin Zhang, M.D. Ph.D.

Mass Gen Hosp and Harvard Medical School

COORDINATE-MDD Consortium Consortium Chair: Cynthia H. Y. Fu, M.D. Ph.D.	Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium Consortium Director: Daniel Ingram, M.D.
ENIGMA Depression, Bipolar, et cetera Selected Chairs: Lianne Schmaal Ph.D. and Paul Thompson Ph.D.	Multisite Resting-state fMRI Initiative (PsyMRI) Consortium Director: Martin Walter, M.D.

Alumni / Prior Mentees (incomplete)

Micah Breiger Research Assistant to M.D. Harvard Medical School	M. Catalina Camacho Research Assistant to Neuroscience Ph.D. Washington University in St. Louis	Sarah E. Chang Research Assistant to Neuroscience Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Carlos G. Correa Research Assistant to Neuroscience Ph.D. Princeton University	Monica E. Ellwood-Lowe Research Assistant to Psychology Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley	Satish Jaiswal Visiting Scholar to Postdoctoral Researcher University of California, San Diego
Monica Kullar Research Assistant to Neuroscience Ph.D. University of Cambridge	Emily E. Livermore Research Assistant to Psychology Psy.D. PGSP-Stanford Psy.D. Consortium	Adam R. Pines Research Assistant to Neuroscience Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
Omar Riaz Res Asst to Software Eng Robotics/Controls Boston Dynamics	Anastasia Ryhanych Research Asst to M.D. University of California, San Diego	Praveen Suthaharan Summer Student to Neuroscience Ph.D. Yale School of Medicine

Shane Walsh

Research Assistant to Engineer
MathWorks (MATLAB)