Past lectures

Alicia Heapy, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry Yale School of Medicine; Associate Director The Pain, Research, Informatics, Medical Comorbidities, and Education (PRIME) Center VA Connecticut Healthcare System

Eric Garland, Ph.D., L.C.S.W.
Distinguished Endowed Chair in Research, Professor and Associate Dean for Research College of Social Work; Director, Center on Mindfulness and Integrative Health Intervention Development (C-MIIND); Associate Director of Integrative Medicine, Supportive Oncology Program, Huntsman Cancer Institute at The University of Utah

Sean F. Brady, Ph.D.
Tri-Institutional Professor and Evnin Professor Head, Laboratory of Genetically Encoded Small Molecules
The Rockefeller University

Isaac Chiu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Immunology
Department of Immunology
Harvard Medical School

Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello, Ph.D.
Henry Rutgers Professor of Microbiome and Health, Departments of Biochemistry and Microbiology, and Anthropology, Interim Director, NJ Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 

Gregory N. Bratman, Ph.D.
Inaugural Holder of the Doug Walker Endowed Faculty Fellowship and Assistant Professor of Nature, Health, and Recreation at the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
University of Washington

Mary Jo Larson, Ph.D., M.P.A.
Senior Scientist, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management
Brandeis University

Erin E. Krebs, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Minnesota Medical School

Dr. Alexander Chesler, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator, Section on Sensory Cells and Circuits Intramural Lab
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health

Alan I. Leshner, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer Emeritus
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Roger Linington, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia and Canada Research Chair in High-Throughput Screening and Chemical Biology

Karen Seal, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry
University of California, San Francisco

Abigail Gewirtz, Ph.D., L.P.
Professor, Department of Family Social Science and Institute of Child Development Director, Institute for Translational Research in Children's Mental Health
University of Minnesota

Roger Chou, M.D.
Professor in the Department of Medicine and Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology
Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine

Peter Wayne, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital,
Research Director of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine 

Susmita Kashikar-Zuck, Ph.D.
Professor of Pediatrics, Endowed Research Director of Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

Christina Smolke, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering, Associate Chair of Education; W.M. Keck Foundation Faculty Scholar
Stanford University

David Ginty, Ph.D.
Edward R. and Anne G. Lefler Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

John F. Cryan, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience
University College in Ireland

Thomas Best, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Pomerene Chair in Primary Care in the Division of Sports Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, and Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Ohio State University

Steven Cole, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine

Gervasio Lamas, M.D., F.A.C.C., F.A.H.A., F.E.S.C.
Chairman of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center and Chief of the Columbia University Division of Cardiology at Mount Sinai Medical Center
Professor of Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Co-director of the Mount Sinai Heart Institute

Pieter Dorrestein, Ph.D.
Professor of Pharmacology, Chemistry and Biochemistry in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California, San Diego
Director of the Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center and Co-director of the Institute for Metabolomics Medicine at University of California, San Diego

David Spiegel, M.D.
Willson Professor and Associate Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Stanford University School of Medicine