Sunday, October 12, 2014

Dr. Shamini Jain, psychologist, scientist, and social entrepreneur joined me Monday October 20th @9:00am!


If you missed Dr. Shamini Jain on today's show,
you can listen to our conversation
here.

About Dr Jain
Dr. Shamini Jain is a psychologist, scientist, and social entrepreneur. She is the Founder and Director of the Consciousness and Healing Initiative, a collaborative effort that links scientists, practitioners, entrepreneurs, and educators to facilitate healing through an understanding of consciousness and consciousness-based practices. Dr. Jain is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UC San Diego, where she is also Chair of the Center for Integrative Medicine’s Research Committee.


Dr. Jain conducts research in integrative medicine and psychoneuroimmunology. Her published, NIH-funded research in biofield healing, a form of integrative medicine, has been featured in TIME magazine and CNN. Dr. Jain has received several awards from scientific organizations for her work. Dr. Jain obtained her B.A. in Neuroscience and Behavior from Columbia University, and her Ph.D. degree from the SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology. She conducted her clinical residency at the La Jolla VA Hospital/UCSD, and her post-doctoral fellowship at UCLA’s Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research. Dr. Jain’s extramurally-funded research has included examining biofield-based approaches for cancer-related fatigue and PTSD, the development of systems-biology based models for understanding and tracking resilience, examining the effects of a comprehensive supportive care clinic on survival and quality of life in cancer patients, and the impact of gratitude on psychoneuroendocrine function in heart failure patients.


To learn more about Shamini Jain, Founder and Executive Director of Consciousness and Healing Initiative, visit:

https://twitter.com/ShaminiJain
www.linkedin.com/in/shaminijain
www.facebook.com/drshaminijain


Here are some recent featured blog posts!
Huffington post blog on embracing chaos:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-shamini-jain/want-a-better-life-embrac_b_5984644.html

Fulfillment daily post on “is positivity overrated?”

http://www.fulfillmentdaily.com/positivity-overrated/

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