Presenters

Welcome & Opening Remarks

Dr. Maurizio Fava is Psychiatrist-in-Chief at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Slater Family Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. A world leader in depression research, he has authored more than 800 peer-reviewed articles cited over 80,000 times, with an h-index exceeding 140. Dr. Fava founded MGH's Depression Clinical and Research Program and the MGH Psychiatry Clinical Trials Network and Institute, and served as co-principal investigator of STAR*D — the largest depression study ever conducted. A former President of the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology, Dr. Fava is a distinguished lecturer and recipient of multiple Harvard and MGH mentoring awards.

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Dr. Eden Evins is the Director of the Center for Comprehensive Healing at Mass General Brigham and the Director of the MGH Center for Addiction Medicine, where she has been an active member of the Schizophrenia and Depression Clinical and Research Program since 1995. A Harvard-trained psychiatrist and researcher, Dr. Evins holds a Master of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health and has conducted fellowships in both molecular biology and clinical research. Her work focuses on pharmacotherapy for nicotine dependence, co-occurring psychiatric and substance use disorders, and cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia, with publications in leading journals including the American Journal of Psychiatry and Biological Psychiatry. In 2026, Dr. Evins was named to the Time100 Health list in recognition of her groundbreaking research on vaping addiction treatments for teens.

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Dr. Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli is Research Director of the Center for Comprehensive Healing and the Tommy Fuss Endowed Chair in Precision Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she also serves as Associate Director of the Center for Precision Psychiatry. A Harvard Medical School faculty member, she is additionally Director of the Northeastern University Biomedical Imaging Center and Research Professor at Northeastern University. Her work harnesses multimodal neuroimaging to uncover the brain basis of psychiatric disorders — including schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, and ADHD — with the goal of translating findings into clinical tools for early detection, precision treatment matching, and next-generation therapies such as real-time fMRI neurofeedback.

The Future of Whole-Person Healing: Medicine at the  Crossroads

Wayne Jonas, MD is a physician and researcher whose career has spanned clinical practice, health policy, and the science of integrative and whole-person medicine, including serving as Director of the Office of Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. He is one of the most recognized voices in the movement to bring evidence-based integrative approaches into mainstream healthcare.

The Science and Practice of EFT Tapping

Nick Ortner is a globally recognized teacher, author, and advocate for Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), best known for making tapping accessible to millions through The Tapping Solution. His work sits at the intersection of ancient healing practice and modern neuroscience.

InterPlay: Unlocking Story, Movement, and Voice

CC King is a practitioner and teacher of InterPlay, a movement-based practice that uses storytelling, spontaneous movement, and voice to facilitate healing, creativity, and connection. Her work brings somatic and expressive arts approaches into accessible, inclusive settings.

Understanding the Emotional Basis of Chronic Pain

Michael Donnino, MD is a physician and researcher at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School whose work has expanded into the relationship between emotional experience and physical symptoms, with a particular focus on the mechanisms underlying chronic pain. He brings both clinical rigor and genuine curiosity to one of medicine's most challenging frontiers.

Exploring Energy Healing in Clinical Practice

Rick Leskowitz, MD is a psychiatrist at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and Harvard Medical School who has spent years investigating energy medicine and its role in clinical care. His work bridges conventional psychiatry and integrative healing with both scientific grounding and open-minded inquiry.

Investigating Reiki and Mindfulness as Treatments for Chronic Pain

Robert Edwards, PhD, is a pain psychologist and researcher at Harvard Medical School specializing in the psychological and neurobiological dimensions of pain perception and management. His session presents his investigation into Reiki and mindfulness as active treatment modalities for chronic pain — bringing the rigorous lens of pain science to two of the most widely used yet understudied approaches in integrative care.

The Microbiome & Our Brain-Gut Health

Alessio Fasano, MD is a world-renowned gastroenterologist and researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, best known for his pioneering work on the gut microbiome, intestinal permeability, and the gut-brain axis. His research has fundamentally reshaped how medicine understands the connection between digestive health and conditions ranging from autoimmune disease to mental health.

Mitochondria: Regulators of Stress Responses, Energy, and the Healing Process

Martin Picard, PhD, is a mitochondrial psychobiologist at Columbia University whose research has reframed mitochondria not merely as the cell's power source, but as dynamic regulators of stress responses, mood, and the body's capacity to heal. His work sits at the frontier of how cellular energy connects to whole-person health and resilience.

Molecular Thriving and the Social Genome

Steve Cole, PhD, is a professor at UCLA whose research explores how social experience is translated into biological reality — specifically, how loneliness, connection, and sense of purpose shape gene expression in ways that profoundly affect physical health. He is one of the leading scientists behind the emerging field of social genomics.

Prescribing Movement: The Future of Integrative Lifestyles

Beth Frates, MD is a physician and lifestyle medicine expert at Harvard Medical School whose work focuses on using movement, nutrition, and behavior change as evidence-based clinical tools. She is a leading voice in the effort to make lifestyle medicine a core pillar of how clinicians practice.

Cooking & Nutrition for Healing

David Eisenberg, MD is a physician and researcher at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health who has spent decades building the evidence base for integrative medicine and, more recently, the therapeutic power of food and cooking. He is a pioneer in culinary medicine — the practice of teaching patients to cook as a genuine clinical intervention.

Energy Healing in Practice

Laurie Nealon is an energy healing practitioner whose work brings these modalities directly into clinical and patient-facing settings, making them accessible to both healthcare providers and the people they serve. Her practice bridges the experiential and the clinical in a way that is grounded, approachable, and deeply patient-centered.

Breathwork for Health and Resilience

David Magone is a breathwork teacher and practitioner whose work explores the physiological and psychological effects of intentional breathing on stress, resilience, and overall wellbeing. He brings a practical, accessible approach to one of the most evidence-supported tools in integrative health.

Energy Healing and the Patient Experience

Marybeth Toran, MD is a neurologist at Newton-Wellesley Hospital and Mass General Brigham whose own personal experience with energy healing led her to investigate how these modalities physically interact with the nervous system. She brings a rare combination of clinical neurology expertise and firsthand patient perspective to one of integrative medicine's most compelling and underexplored questions.

Tai Chi: 'Going from Mind-Body to Body-Mind’

Peter Wayne, PhD is a Harvard Medical School researcher and author of The Harvard Medical School Guide to Tai Chi whose work has helped establish Tai Chi as a clinically validated mind-body practice. His lunch-and-learn will reframe how we think about the relationship between movement and the mind — and why the direction of that connection may matter more than we've assumed.

Mind-Body Activity Approaches to Chronic Pain Management in Hospital and Community Settings

Ana-Maria Vranceanu, PhD is a clinical psychologist and researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School specializing in mind-body interventions for chronic pain. Her session translates this research into practice, exploring how these approaches can be meaningfully integrated into the real-world settings where patients actually live and receive care.

Rotation: Sound Healing

Lauren Aloisio is a registered nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital with over 15 years of experience across medical-surgical, intensive care, outpatient oncology, and perioperative settings. She has also served as adjunct faculty at Simmons University in Boston. Passionate about integrative wellness, Lauren incorporates practices such as reiki and sound therapy into her work and has been sharing sound meditations with nursing colleagues since the start of the pandemic. Her mission is to expand education and access to integrative wellness practices in healthcare settings.

Rotation: Gratitude Journaling

Dr. Ellen Slawsby is a staff psychologist in Behavioral Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor in Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She serves as a researcher, clinical trainer, and Director of Pain Services at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine. Dr. Slawsby holds an MA and PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Massachusetts Boston, and provides individual and couples therapy with a specialization in chronic fatigue, pain, and chronic illness. Her research and publications span chronic medical conditions including infertility, irritable bowel syndrome, and chronic pain.

Rotation: Qigong

Dr. Albert Yeung is Director of Primary Care Research at the MGH Depression Clinical and Research Program and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He holds an MD from National Taiwan University and a Doctor of Science in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health, and completed his psychiatry residency at MGH. Dr. Yeung also serves as a staff psychiatrist and co-medical director at South Cove Community Health Center, where he supports Boston's Asian immigrant community. His research focuses on integrating primary care and mental health services, mental health in underserved populations, and complementary and alternative approaches to mood and anxiety disorders.