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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

Postdoctoral Researchers

Avijit Chowdhury, Ph.D.

National University of Singapore

Winson Yang, Ph.D.

Texas Tech University

Graduate Students

	Umay Demir, M.S. Utrecht University		Hoki Fung, M.S. University College London
	Saampras Ganesan, M.Eng. University of Melbourne		Rosalind McAlpine, M.Res. University College London
	Liam McClintock, M.S. King's College London		Idil Sezer, M.Sc. Sorbonne University

Program Managers and Senior Research Assistants

Megan Eckman, B.S.

Northeastern University

Poorvikalyani Keshava Mandayam, M.A.

Columbia University

Research Assistants

	Vanessa Cha		Yi Gu
	Riley Hoffman		Bavesh Matapathi
	Ruby Potash		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

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
Bruno A. Cayoun, D.Psych. MiCBT Institute	Peter K. Y. Chan, M.D. University of British Columbia	Eric L. Garland, Ph.D. University of Utah
Andrea D. Grabovac, M.D. University of British Columbia	Nickolas Grabovac Meditation teacher and author	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	Tiffany C. Ho, Ph.D. University of California, San Francisco
S. M. Hadi Hosseini, Ph.D. Stanford University School of Medicine	Caroline C. Kaufman, Ph.D. McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School	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	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)