Investigators

More than four hundred studies conducted at over one hundred medical schools and research institutions during the past fifty years have demonstrated benefits of the TM technique for mind, body, and behavior. The following are a few of the investigators involved in this research.

Hakima Amri, PhD

Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology at Georgetown University and co-founder and co=-director of Georgetown’s Complementary and Alternative Medicine Graduate Program

Desiree Azizoddin, PsyD

Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine (current); Research Faculty, Clinical Instructor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School (former)

Vernon A. Barnes, MS, MSCI, PhD

Faculty, Georgia Prevention Institute; Emeritus Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Nursing and Graduate Studies

Peter J. Bayley, PhD

Director of Research at the War Related Illness & Injury Study Center and Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University

Mayer Bellehsen, PhD

Founding director of the Center for Traumatic Stress, Resilience and Recovery and the Feinberg Division of the Unified Behavioral Health Center for Military Veterans and their Families

Sabahat Bokhari, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Director of Nuclear Cardiology, Columbia University Medical Center

Jen Bonamer, PhD, RN, NPD-BC, AHN-BC

Nursing Professional Development – Research Specialist and Education, Professional Development & Research Department at Sarasota Memorial Health Care System

Lisa Brenner, PhD

Director of the VA Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center and Research Division Director for the American Association of Suicidology

Margaret M. Calarco, PhD, RN, NEA-BCD

Director for Clinical Innovation, Adjunct Clinical Instructor at University of Michigan Medical School

Jordan Davis, PhD

Assistant Professor and Associate Director, University of Southern California Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society

Charles Elder, MD, MPH

Senior Investigator Internal Medicine, Northwest Kaiser Permanente

Janine Flory, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Director of the Trauma & Readjustment Services (PTSD) Clinic

Clarence Grim, MD

Professor of Medicine-Cardiology, Medical College of Wisconsin

Ravishankar Jayadevappa, PhD

Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Sangeeta Joshi, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine at Duke University Medical School

Steven Seung-Suk Kang, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department(s) of Biomedical Sciences, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine

Noelia Kvaternik, PA-C

Physician Assistant, Emergency Medicine Department at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Patty J Lee, MD

Senior Faculty, Medicine, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai (current); Professor of Medicine and Professor of Cell Biology at Duke University Medical School (former)

C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD

Irwin and Sheila Allen Trust Chair in Women’s Health Research and Director, Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center; Director, Linda Joy Pollin Women’s Heart Health Program; Director, Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center; Professor of Cardiology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Paul Mills

Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health and Director of the Center of Excellence for Research and Training in Integrative Health

Cesar Molina, MD

Cardiology Department a El Camino Hospital and Stanford University Medical School

Hector Myers, PhD

Professor Emeritus of Psychology, UCLA and Professor, The Center for Medicine, Health, and Society and Psychology, Vanderbilt University

Dr. Yuval Neria

Professor of Medical Psychology at the Departments of Psychiatry and Epidemiology at Columbia University Medical Center, and Director of Trauma and PTSD at the New York State Psychiatric Institute

Mark S. Nestor, MD, PhD

Director, Center for Clinical and Cosmetic Research, Voluntary Professor, Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery, Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Sanford Nidich, PhD

Professor, Physiology and Health, and Education Director, Center for Social-Emotional Health & Consciousness, Maharishi International University

Keith Norris, MD, PhD

UCLA Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA

Brian Olshansky, MD

Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Iowa College of Medicine

Eric Pedersen, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences and Director of Digital Mental Health Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California

Otelio Randall, MD

Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Howard University College of Medicine

Laura Redwine, PhD

Clinical Research Director, Osher Center for Integrative Health, Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Miami

John Rigg, MD, FAAPMR

Traumatic Brain Injury Program Director for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center at Fort Gordon, Georgia

Norman Rosenthal, MD

Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine

Thomas Rutledge, PhD

Staff Psychologist and Professor of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego

Frank Staggers, MD

Director of the Alcohol, Drug, and Methadone Programs, West Oakland Health Center

Rachel Yehuda, PhD

Director of the Traumatic Stress Studies Division, Mount Sinai School of Medicine and of the PTSD Clinical Research Program and the Neurochemistry and Neuroendocrinology Laboratory, James J. Peters VA Medical Center