Osher WISE

2022-2023

Holistic Approaches to Mental Health and Healing 
Chair: Jenifer Matthews, MD

• Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: Integrative Approaches to Working with Teens with Anxiety, Depression, and Chronic pain (video), Lisa Wild, MFT, and Cristina Benki, PhD
• Growing Health from the Soil Up: The Links between Earth, Farms, Food, and Well-being, (video), Daphne Miller, MD
• Eastern View of the Mind: Comparing Traditional Chinese Medicine & Ayurveda Philosophy (video) Anisha Durve, DOM, Lac
• Researching Psilocybin Therapy: Current Challenges and Future Prospects (video), Josh Woolley, MD, PhD
• Room to Breathe: Therapeutic Yoga to Address Trauma (video), Chanda Williams, PhD
• Acupuncture and Its Use for Mental Health, Expanding Our Consciousness, and Leading Us to a Path of Healing (video), Mitch Elkiss, DO

2021-2022

Transforming Cancer Care with Integrative Oncology
Chair: Kavita M. Mishra, MD, MPH

• Integrative Oncology 101: Empowering Us to Reduce Risk, Support Treatment, and Promote Health (video, slides), Kathleen Cavanaugh, NP, and Kavita Mishra, MD
• Exercise and Cancer: Impact of Physical Activity (video, slides), Natalie Marshall, MD
• Nutrition and Cancer: Do’s and Dont’s (video, slides), Donald Abrams, MD
• Introduction to Integrative Palliative Care & Symptom Management (video, slides), Brieze Bell, MD
• Caring for Mind, Body, and Spirit: Approaches to Coping with Cancer Care (video, slides), Jamie Cohen, PsyD, and Christina Weyer Jamora, RN, PhD
• Integrative Cancer Care: Bringing Innovative Approaches into the Clinic (slides, video), Jennifer Ashby, DAOM; Chloe Atreya, MD; Shannon Fogh, MD

Yoga for Self-Transformation: Awakening to the Possibilities Within
Chairs: Sudha Prathikanti, MD, and Priya Jain, MD

• What is Yoga? Perspectives on Its Journey from East to West (video, slides), Sudha Prathikanti, MD, and Priya Jain, MD
• Body, Breath and Abundant Energy: Yoga for Vitalizing Physical Health (video), Ishwarya Chaitanya and Varsha Ravikumar
• Cultivating Compassion and Resilience: Yoga for Enhancing Mental Health (video), Sudha Prathikanti, MD, and Kate Holcombe, CYT
• Elevating Life Purpose and Meaning: The Science and Research on Yoga for Improving Transcendence and Spirituality (video), Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, PhD
• Yoga for Transforming Consciousness: The Chakra System and Jungian Psychology (video), Patrick Mahaffey, PhD

2020-2021

Creative Expression for Mind-Body Health
Chair: Selena Chan

• The Neuroscience of Creativity (video, slides), Karen Chan Barrett, PhD
• The Essential Role of Music Therapy in Pediatric Health Care (video, slides), Matthew Logan, MA; Jennifer Goldhammer, MM; and Brianna Negrete, MM
• The Role of Music in Dementia Caregiving Relationships (video), Theresa Allison, PhD
• Movement is Medicine (video, slides), Alissa Garcia-Sanchez, DPT
• The Mandala of Healing (video, slides), Sudha Prathikanti, MD
• Art for Recovery (video, slides), Amy Van Cleve

Family Health: Practices for Wellbeing During the Pandemic
Chair: David Becker, MD

• Enhancing Neurodevelopmental Resilience from Conception to Adulthood (video, slides), Robert Hendren, DO
• Scientifically Proven Strategies of CBT: Empowering Parents with Knowledge and Tools to Effectively Manage Anxiety in the Family (video, slides), Bridget Walker, PhD
• Bringing Willingness and Values to Challenging Times (video, slides), Walter E.B. Sipe, MD
• State of the Pandemic: Risk, Prevention, and Treatment for Children and Families (video), Prachi Singh, DO
• Pandemic Q&A: Integrative Therapy to Manage Anxiety and Reduce Stress (video), Dave Berger, MFT, PT
• Cultivating Emotion Awareness and Fierce Compassion (video), Eve Ekman, PhD
• Developmental Impact of COVID-19: Addressing Parental and Student Stress (video), Petra Steinbuchel, MD

2019-2020

Embracing Life Challenges: Finding Balance through Integrative Mental Health Care
Chairs: Sudha Prathikanti, MD, and Selena Chan, DO

• The Mandala of Healing: Moving Toward a Whole Person Paradigm in Mental Healthcare (video, slides), Sudha Prathikanti, MD
• A Shamanic Journey: MDMA-assisted Psychotherapy to Guide Recovery from Trauma (video, slides), Sylver Quevedo, MD
• The Alchemy of Healing: The Pathways to Emotional and Spiritual Flourishing in the Classical Chinese Medicine Tradition (video, slides), James Duffy, MD
• Listening to One's Deepest Self: Opening to Transpersonal Dimensions of Healing (video, slides), David Lukoff, PhD
• Nature’s Remedies: Herbal Treatments for Emotional Distress (video, slides), Geronima Cortese, RN, MPH
• Exploring Physical and Emotional Dimensions of Pain and Loss: The Power of the Mind-Body Connection (video, slides), Selena Chan, DO

2017-2018

The Science Behind Optimal Metabolic Health and Nutrition: Adding Years to Your Life and Life to Your Years
Chairs: Elissa Epel, PhD, and Ashley Mason, PhD

• Inside the Effects of Exercise: From Cellular to Psychological Benefits (video, slides), Eli Puterman, PhD
• Food and Fiction: What We Know, and What We Don’t about Nutrition and Supplements (video, slides), Frederick Hecht, MD, and Chris Kresser, MS, Lac
• FoodGate: The Break-in, the Cover-up, and the Aftermath (video, slides), Robert Lustig, MD; Cristen Kearns, DDS; and Laura Schmidt, PhD
• The Face of Food Addiction: Living Through and Beyond (video), Community Panelists
• Sleep, Inflammation, and Metabolism: Sleep-worthy (video, slides), Aric Prather, PhD
• The Diet Trap: Why You Should Never Go on a Diet Again, and What To Do Instead (video, slides), Sandra Aamodt, PhD, and Darya Rose, PhD