Dr. Shamini Jain is a psychologist, scientist, and social entrepreneur. She is the Founder and Director of the Consciousness and Healing Initiative (CHI), a collaborative accelerator which links scientists, practitioners, artists, entrepreneurs, and educators to facilitate the transdisciplinary science and real-world application of consciousness and healing practices. This entity was formed from Dr. Jain’s deep desire to bring key stakeholders together to create a coherent and effective movement to move us from the “decade of the brain”, beyond the “decade of the mind”, into the “decade of consciousness and healing”. Major partners of CHI include the Chopra Foundation, Miraglo Foundation, and Institute of Noetic Sciences.
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, with a research focus in psychoneuroimmunology. 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 is also a student of Rev. Rosalyn Bruyere in the healing arts.
While a graduate student, Dr. Jain received NIH funding and conducted the first-ever clinical trial at UCSD on biofield healing, the results of which are published in the prestigious journal Cancer, widely read by oncologists. Following her post-doctoral fellowship, Dr. Jain was recruited and hired as a Senior Scientist at the non-profit Samueli Institute, where she served for 4 years and raised over 3 million in her role as a Senior Scientist. Currently, in addition to her running CHI, Dr. Jain is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UC San Diego, where she is also Co-Chair of the UCSD Center for Integrative Medicine’s Research Committee, where she has been serving for the past 5 years. Dr. Jain has published extensively in the areas of psychoneuroimmunology and well-being, integrative medicine, and biofield healing, and has received numerous awards from scientific societies including the American Psychosomatic Society, the American Psychological Association, Society of Behavioral Medicine, Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society, and other societies for her work. Her published research in biofield healing has been featured in TIME magazine and CNN, as well as other radio and media. Dr. Jain regularly speaks on topics surrounding healing, psychoneuroimmunology and well-being, in diverse venues including NASA, TEDx, and major universities and medical centers, health-related conferences and corporations. She also contributes as an author on these topics in online blogs for Huffington Post, The Times of India, and Fulfillment Daily.
Episode Details:
In this episode, we featured Dr. Shamini Jain, who is taking on a different perspective when it comes to healing and the power of the mind. Dr. Jain explains how she first became interested in the field of medicine at a young age. She describes the differences between the medical model and the complementary/integrative model in medicine- a topic she focuses on in her past TED Talk. Dr. Jain shares more about her own research and work in medicine, specifically within the field of psychoneuroimmunology. She explains further how the power of the mind can help to empower the individual, from the inside out.
