Research Fellowship in Integrative Medicine Faculty

Our Fellowship Program Faculty

Fellowship Program Core Faculty

Gloria Yeh, MD, MPH, Program Director

Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Director, Mind-Body Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Director of Clinical Research, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine

Research Interests:

  • Efficacy and mechanisms of multimodal mind-body exercise
  • Chronic cardiovascular and pulmonary disease
  • Promoting positive behavior change
  • Remote delivery of mind-body interventions
Ted Kaptchuk, MD

Co-Director of the Program
Professor of Medicine at HMS
Director of the Program in Placebo Studies and Therapeutic Encounter

Research Interests:

  • Placebo effects
  • Patient-provider relationship
  • Asian medicine
Roger Davis, ScD

Associate Director of the Program
Senior biostatistician in the Research Section, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard School of Public Health

Research Interests:

  • Biostatistics
  • Epidemiology
Peter Wayne, PhD

Associate Director of the Program
Associate Professor in Medicine at the Harvard Medical School, and Director, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine.

Research Interests:

  • Mind-body movement
  • Translational and systems biology
  • Interdependence of movement, cognition, affect
  • Multimodal interventions

Affiliated Faculty

Suzanne Bertisch, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Physician/Clinical Investigator in Sleep Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital

Research Interests:

  • Autonomic effects of yoga and meditative slow breathing
  • Behavioral therapies
  • Non-pharmacological approaches to insomnia and sleep disorders
Felipe Fregni, PhD, MMSc, MPH 

Associate Professor of Neurology and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School
Director of the Neuromodulation Center at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital

Research Interests:

  • Neuromodulation
  • Cognition
Paula Gardiner, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Research Interests:

  • Integrative medicine for the underserved
  • Group health visits
  • Remote delivery of integrative health treatment
  • Herbal medicine and dietary supplements
Ary Goldberger, MD

Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Director of the Margaret and HA Rey Institute for Nonlinear Dynamics at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Research Interests:

  • Cardiology
  • Biophysics
  • Nonlinear dynamics
Kathryn Hall, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Associate Molecular Biologist in the Division of Preventive Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital,
Director of Placebo Genetics in the Program for Placebo Studies
Director of Basic and Translational Research, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine

Research Interests:

  • Systems pharmacogenomics
  • Physiological pathways of drugs, dietary supplements and placebo treatment
  • Functional pain disorders, cardiometabolic disease, cancer
Irving Kirsch, PhD

Lecturer in Medicine at Harvard Medical School

Research Interests:

  • Placebo effects
  • Hypnosis
Jennifer Ligibel, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Medical Director of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's Zakim Center for Integrative Therapies and Healthy Living

Research Interests:

  • Cancer risk and outcomes
  • Integrative cancer treatment
Ellen P McCarthy, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School

Research Interests:

  • Epidemiology
  • Health services research
  • Large database analysis
Kenneth Mukamal, MD, MPH, MA

Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Visiting Scientist in Nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Co-Director, Research Section, Division of General Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Research Interests:

  • Lifestyle factors and diet impact on chronic disease
  • Cardiovascular disease
Vitaly Napadow, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Faculty at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital

Research Interests:

  • Biomedical engineering
  • Acupuncture
  • Neuroscience
  • Chronic pain 
Elyse R. Park, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Behavioral science researcher at the MGH Benson-Henry Institute for Mind-Body Medicine and the MGH Cancer Survivorship Program

Research Interests:

  • Quality of life and cancer risk
  • Integrating mind-body interventions into clinical care settings
  • Remote delivery of mind-body interventions
Peng Chung-Kang, PhD

Lecturer in Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Co-Director of the Margret & H.A Rey Institute for Nonlinear Dynamics in Physiology & Medicine
Director of the Center for Dynamical Biomarkers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Research Interests:

  • Development of mathematical and computational tools to characterize spatial and temporal patterns in health and disease
  • Dynamical complexity for biological systems
Russell Phillips, MD

Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Center for Primary Care at HMS

Research Interests:

  • Innovations in primary care
Robert Saper, MD, MPH

Director of Integrative Medicine for the Boston Medical Center Department of Family Medicine
Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine and Public Health

Research Interests:

  • Integrative, mind-body approaches for chronic pain
  • Low back pain
  • Safety and efficacy of traditional Indian herbal medicines
Sat Bir Khalsa, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School

Research Interests:

  • Yoga/mind-body medicine
  • Clinical effectiveness
  • Insomnia in post-traumatic stress disorder
Zev Schumann-Olivier, MD

Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
Executive and Research Director of the Cambridge Health Alliance, Center for Mindfulness and Compassion.

Research Interests:

  • Applying mind-body techniques to patients with mental illness
  • Mindfulness training on impulsivity and inhibitory control during smoking cessation
Christina C. Wee, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Director of the Obesity and Health Behaviors Research Programs, BIDMC

Research Interests:

  • Obesity and health behaviors
  • Influence of race and obesity on health outcomes
Weidong Lu, MB, MPH, PhD, Lic. Ac.,

Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Faculty at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Brigham Women's Hospital

Research Interests:

  • Traditional Chinese Medicine (acupuncture and herbal medicine)
  • Peri-procedural/chemotherapy acupuncture
Ross Zafonte, DO

Professor and Chair of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Massachusetts General Hospital and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital

Research Interests:

  • Traumatic brain injuries

Clinician Educator Faculty

Donald Levy, MD

Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Medical Director, Osher Clinical Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Research Interests:

  • Integrative medicine education
  • Supplements
  • Integrative care delivery
Mehta Darshan, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Medicine at HMS
Medical Director, Benson-Henry Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital
Director of Education, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine

Research Interests:

  • Clinical nutrition
  • Mind-body medicine
  • Resiliency and burnout
Randall Paulsen, MD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School

Research Interests:

  • Mindfulness-based stress reduction