Conference Committee
Peter Wayne, PhD
(Bio)
Committee Co-Chair
Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School
Gloria Yeh, MD, MPH
(Bio)
Committee Co-Chair
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center / Harvard Medical School
Wolf Mehling, MD
(Bio)University of California, San Francisco
Darshan Mehta, MD, MPH
(Bio)Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital
Evan Thompson, PhD
(Bio)University of British Columbia
Chenchen Wang, MD, MSc
(Bio)Tufts Medicine
John Weeks
(Bio)Retired Editor - The Integrator/JACM
Albert Yeung, MD
(Bio)Harvard Medical School/ Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)
Peter Wayne
Peter Wayne, PhD, is a researcher and practitioner of integrative and mind-body therapies. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine. He also directs the Mind-Body-Movement Laboratory and is Associate Director for the NIH-funded Research Fellowship in Integrative Medicine. Dr. Wayne's research evaluates how mind-body and related therapies clinically impact aging and chronic health conditions, as well as the physiological and psychological mechanisms underlying observed therapeutic effects. Dr. Wayne has more than 40 years of training experience in Tai Chi/Qigong, and is an internationally recognized teacher of these practices.
Gloria Yeh
Dr. Yeh is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS), Director of Clinical Research at the Harvard Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, and Director of the HMS Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Integrative Medicine. She also directs a mind-body research program in the Division of General Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. As an internationally recognized leader in the field, she has served as PI or co-investigator on dozens of NIH-funded trials of Tai Chi and related mind-body therapies with expertise in clinical trial methodology, including intervention development and adaptation for complex chronic disease, psychosocial and physiological outcome measurement, and mixed quantitative and qualitative methods. Her research has focused on the intersection of mindfulness and movement, with a specific interest in the role of mind-body therapies in promoting physical activity, and the impact of mind-body exercise on cardiopulmonary physiology and risk of cardiovascular disease.
Wolf Mehling
Trained in Germany as a Family Physician with board certifications for Manual Medicine and Psychotherapy, he completed a second residency and a Clinical Research Fellowship in the US. He is on faculty at the University of California, San Francisco in Family and Community Medicine and the Osher Center for Integrative Health. Doing research on mind-body interventions for low back pain, PTSD, and cognitive impairment, he is particularly interested in the role of interoceptive bodily awareness in contemplative practice and health. His team developed the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness.
Darshan Mehta
Dr. Mehta is the Medical Director and Director of Medical Education for Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (BHI-MGH) and Director of Education at Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital (OCIM).
Dr. Mehta's educational and research interests include curricular development in complementary/integrative medical therapies, mind/body educational interventions in health professions training, and promotion of professionalism in medical trainees. He directs medical student/resident rotational electives at BHI-MGH and Osher Center and provides a consultative role with patients at both locations.
Dr. Mehta serves on Education and Membership Committees for the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine (CAHCIM).
Evan Thompson
Evan Thompson, PhD is Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and an Associate Member of the Department of Asian Studies and the Department of Psychology (Cognitive Science Group). He is the author of Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology and the Sciences of Mind; Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy; and co-author of The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience.
Chenchen Wang
Dr. Chenchen Wang is a Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and Director of the Center for Integrative Medicine at Tufts Medical Center. Her work is focused on Integrative Medicine treatment strategies to promote health and healing in patients with chronic medical conditions. As principal investigator, Dr. Wang has been awarded numerous US National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants to test the health benefits of mind-body therapies. She is also the privileged recipient of a 10-year NIH Mid-career Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research and currently provides significant mentorship to global researchers in clinical and translational integrative medicine with a multi-disciplinary team of trained scientists. These projects have provided the opportunity to define the role of integrative mind-body medicine in the management of chronic medical conditions. Dr. Wang's mentoring efforts have resulted in the production of over 150 peer-reviewed publications by her trainees from 2000-2022 in the field.
John Weeks
John Weeks has been involved in the integrative health field for 38 years as writer, executive, consultant, editor, and speaker. His services on integrative initiatives have been utilized by the NIH, Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner, WHO, PAHO, India's NITI Aayog, and multiple academic, professional and industry stakeholders. He recently served 5-years as Editor-in-Chief of JACM where he continues as Contributing Editor, Special Projects and Collaborations. Urging whole person research has been a through-line in his work. He grew up camping in the glorious forests of the Olympics and Cascades and regularly bathes in them now.
Albert Yeung
Dr. Albert Yeung is Director of Primary Care Research at the Depression Clinical and Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Yeung obtained his medical degree from National Taiwan University. He also obtained a master degree and a Doctor of Science degree with a major in epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health. He completed his psychiatry residency training at MGH.
Dr. Yeung's major research interests include integrating primary care and mental health services to improve treatment of depression, mental health issues of underserved populations, and the use of complementary and alternative methods including acupuncture, tai chi, qigong, and mind body group intervention in treating anxiety and depressive disorders. He has authored or co-authored over 150 original articles, numerous book chapters, a book on self-management of depression, and a book on the science of stress.
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