Faculty and Investigators

barsalou

Lawrence Barsalou, PhD

Emory College
Department of Psychology

Interests:

bauer

Susan Bauer-Wu, PhD, RN, FAAN

Emory School of Nursing

Interests: stress resiliency and the use of contemplative practices, primarily in the context of cancer and other serious illness (for patients, family caregivers, and health care professionals) using a psychoneuroimmunology framework

dunne

John Dunne, PhD

Emory College
Department of Religion

Interests:

goodman

Sherryl Goodman, PhD

Emory College
Department of Psychology

Interests: mindfulness based cognitive therapy

hasenkamp

Wendy Hasenkamp, PhD

Emory College
Department of Psychology

Interests: subjective experience, default mode network, neural correlates of meditation, mind-wandering and attention

negi

Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi, PhD

Emory College
Department of Religion

Interests:

patterson

Barbara (Bobbi) Patterson, PhD

Emory College
Department of Religion

Interests: contemplative practices (particularly in relation to wilderness and social change), intersections of symbolisms of the body, psychodynamics, and cultural construction

raison

Charles Raison, PhD

Emory School of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Interests: the dialectic between psychosocial processes and anciently evolved physiological pathways, especially inflammation; effects of meditation with social focus (ie: compassion) within this relationship


Teri Sivilli, MA

Emory School of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry

Interests: