Paolo Bonato

Paolo Bonato, Ph.D., is Director of the Motion Analysis Laboratory at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston, MA, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School. He also holds adjunct appointments at the MGH Institute of Health Professions and Boston University, and is a Research Affiliate at MIT. Previously, he held adjunct positions at the University of Ireland Galway, the University of Melbourne, Northeastern University, and the Wyss Institute at Harvard. Dr. Bonato’s research focuses on rehabilitation technologies, with emphasis on digital health and robotics. He was the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation and later the IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology. He serves on advisory and editorial boards for major journals including the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Progress in Biomedical Engineering, and the IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine. His past leadership roles include service as member of the IEEE EMBS AdCom, IEEE EMBS Vice President for Publications, and President of the International Society of Electrophysiology and Kinesiology. He holds an MS from Politecnico di Torino and a PhD from the University of Rome “La Sapienza.”

Lorenzo Cohen

Lorenzo Cohen, PhD, is the Richard E. Haynes Distinguished Professor in Clinical Cancer Prevention and Director of the Integrative Medicine Program at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Cohen is a founding member and past president of the Society for Integrative Oncology. Dr. Cohen leads a team conducting research and delivering clinical care of integrative medicine practices such as meditation, yoga, hypnosis, music therapy, acupuncture, massage, diet, exercise, and other strategies aimed at reducing the negative aspects of cancer treatment and improving quality of life and clinical outcomes. Dr. Cohen has conducted some of the first randomized clinical trials of yoga in cancer patients and continues this important research today. As the majority of cancers are preventable, Dr. Cohen is also conducting research to demonstrate that lifestyle factors including healthy diet, physical activity, stress management, and social support can influence cancer outcomes. Being influenced by his grandmother, legendary yogini Vanda Scaravelli, he also has his own yoga practice and obtained his RYT 200. More recently, along with Dr. Peiying Yang they are conducting in depth research on biofield therapies. Dr. Cohen has published more than 200 scientific articles in top medical journals, has published numerous book chapters, edited two books on integrative medicine for cancer care, and co-edited the book entitled The Principles and Practice of Yoga in Health Care. Dr. Cohen is also co-author of a book entitled Anticancer Living: Transform Your Life and Health With the Mix of Six (Penguin Random House).

Wayne Jonas

Wayne Jonas, MD, is a widely published investigator, practicing family physician, and professor of medicine at Georgetown University and at Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences. He is also a retired lieutenant colonel in the Medical Corps of the United States Army. Dr. Jonas was the director of the Office of Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health from 1995 to 1999 and led the World Health Organization’s Collaborative Center for Traditional Medicine. Prior to that, he served as the director of medical research fellowship at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. He now advises national and international organizations on ways to implement evidence-based healing practices in their medical systems. He serves as the President of Healing Works Foundation.

Helene Langevin

Helene M. Langevin, M.D. is the Scientific Director of the Osher Center for Complementary and Integrative Health at the University of Vermont. She was the Director of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) at the National Institutes of Health from 2018 to 2025, and director of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and a professor in residence of medicine at Harvard Medical School from 2012 to 2018. Prior to this, Dr. Langevin was professor of neurological sciences at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine where she began her research career that included several NIH-funded studies on the role of connective tissue mechanobiology in inflammation and cancer. Dr. Langevin received her medical degree from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in neurochemistry in the Medical Research Council Neurochemical Pharmacology Unit at the University of Cambridge, England, and a residency in internal medicine and postdoctoral fellowship in endocrinology and metabolism at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.

Helen Lavretsky

Helen Lavretsky, MD, MS is a Professor In-Residence in the Department of Psychiatry at the UCLA and a geriatric integrative psychiatrist with the federally-funded research program in integrative mental health using mind-body therapies. She is a recipient of the Career Development awards from NIMH/NIH and the NCCIH/NIH, and other prestigious research awards. Her current research studies include investigations of novel therapeutic options for mood and cognitive disorders in older adults, and Long-COVID. She is the Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, and the Fellow of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, American College of Psychiatrists, and the recipient of the Distinguished Investigator awards for research from the American College of Psychiatrists and the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, and the Jack Weinberg Award for Geriatric Psychiatry from the APA. She is the Director of Research for the UCLA Integrative Medicine Collaborative and the Integrative Psychiatry program. She is an immediate past-President of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. She serves on the Advisory Research Council to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. Dr. Lavretsky iahs served as a speaker or a consultant to many major health professional and consumer organizations nationally and around the world—including the American Heart Association, AARP, the National Council on Mental Wellbeing, Alzheimer’s Association, and others.

Brad Manor

Dr. Brad Manor is the Director of the Mobility and Falls Research Center at the Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research at Hebrew SeniorLife. He is also an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Manor’s research goal is to alleviate the burden of balance decline that often accompanies biological aging into senescence. He works to achieve this goal by identifying links between brain function, balance, and falls in older adults, and designing interventions to improve balance by optimizing brain function and exploiting its adaptive properties.

Jun Mao

Dr. Jun Mao is the Chief of the Integrative Medicine Service and the Laurance S. Rockefeller Chair in Integrative Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. A board-certified family physician with added qualifications in hospice and palliative care, Dr. Mao is also an experienced licensed acupuncturist who combines Western and Eastern approaches to manage pain and symptoms in cancer patients. Dr. Mao’s program of research focuses on investigating the effects, mechanisms, and integration of Complementary and Integrative Medicine (CIM) for symptom management in cancer. He has advanced research training in clinical epidemiology and extensive experience conducting acupuncture, pain, symptom science clinical trials, as well as health services research among cancer patients. He has received research support from the National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, and the American Cancer Society. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts. He is the immediate past president of the Society for Integrative Oncology (SIO) and Co-President of the Society for Acupuncture Research. His research findings have been in American Society of Clinical Oncology, National Comprehensive Cancer Network, and SIO clinical guidelines, for developing evidence-informed integrative oncology practices in standard cancer care.

Alvaro Pascual-Leone

Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD, PhD, is practicing cognitive neurologist specialized in brain health and dementia care, a world leader in neurotechnology, a translational neuroscientist, a committed teacher and mentor. He is Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, a Senior Scientist of the Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research, and the Medical Director of the Deanna and Sidney Wolk Center for Memory Health at Hebrew SeniorLife in Boston, MA. He has authored over 1000 scientific papers and several books, and his scientific work is highly cited and has gained wide public appeal and outreach through dissemination in articles in the lay press, television and radio documentaries, and several books. He is also listed inventor in over 30 patents for various methods for noninvasive brain stimulation and modulation, and digital biomarkers of cognition, behavior and brain health. He has co-founded several companies, including Linus Health to enable early detection of brain conditions harnessing mobile and ambient technologies and to deploy interventions that might prevent or minimize brain-related disabilities and empower individuals maintain brain health.

Martin Picard

Martin Picard, PhD, is Professor of Behavioral Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center where he directs the Mitochondrial Psychobiology Group (www.picardlab.org). Pioneering Mitochondrial Psychobiology, Martin has bridged the science of energy and the human experience to advance Healing Science—a field dedicated to understanding the dynamic energetic processes that keep us healthy. As Chair of Energy and Health at the Columbia Aging Center, he leads NIH-funded research on the mind-mitochondria connection that has uncovered connections between subjective experiences and mitochondria in the brain and immune system, linked mental stress to energy metabolism and aging, discovered that hair greying is reversible, and mapped the diversity of mitochondria across the brain and body. Author of the upcoming book ENERGY, Martin collaborates globally to drive scientific and cultural transformation around energy, health, and healing. He finds inspiration in nature, exploring energy and consciousness with his family, friends, and colleagues. Martin received his PhD at McGill University in Canada in 2012, completed postdoctoral training with the father of mitochondrial genetics Doug Wallace at the University of Pennsylvania, and established his laboratory at Columbia in 2015.

Peter Wayne

Peter Wayne, PhD, is a researcher and practitioner of integrative and mind-body therapies. He is the Bernard Osher Associate Professor of Medicine in the Field of Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies at Harvard Medical School (HMS), and Director of the Osher Center for Integrative Health. 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. He has served as a principal or co-investigator on more than 35 NIH-funded studies and has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed articles. Dr. Wayne has more than 45 years of training experience in Tai Chi/Qigong, and is an internationally recognized teacher of these practices.

Claudia Witt

Claudia M. Witt is Full Professor of Complementary and Integrative Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Zurich (UZH) since 2014. She is a physician and holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Health Care Management. Before moving to Zurich, she was a Professor and Acting Director of the Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Economics at the Charité. From 2014 to 2023, she was a part-time Professor of Primary Care at the University of Maryland in Baltimore. At UZH, she serves as Co-Director of the Digital Society Initiative and is a member of the Digital Strategy Board. She is actively engaged in interdisciplinary and innovative initiatives across faculties – including as a member of the Steering Committee of the Center for Reproducible Science and Research Synthesis and of the One Health Institute. In addition, she is part of the Steering Committee of the School for Transdisciplinary Studies. She leads the interprofessional doctoral program Care and Rehabilitation Science at the Faculty of Medicine and is a member of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences. Her research focuses on the digital transformation of health care, particularly digital health interventions and artificial intelligence (AI).