Our faculty is composed of leading Buddhist scholars, world-class meditation teachers, pioneering mindfulness researchers and renowned clinicians.
We are a diverse group of people dedicated to helping others find meaning, purpose, community, and transformation of self and the world-at-large. Our faculty deeply embody Nalanda Institute’s mission to cultivate an open mind, warm heart and altruistic way of being.
Program Directors
Mar Aige, BFA, MA
Co-Director, Contemplative Psychotherapy Program in Spanish & Portuguese
Elazar Aslan, MBA, CPC
Director, Boundless Leadership
Core Faculty Boundless Leadership
Fiona Brandon, MA, MFT
Director, Compassion-Based Resilience Training
Director, Contemplative Psychotherapy Program, Embodiment Year: Psychotherapy
Chantelle Brown, MSW, LMSW
Co-Director, Contemplative Psychotherapy Program: Embodiment Year: Psychosocial Change
Daniel Donohue, MA
Director of Marketing and Operations
Rahshaana Green, MBA, PMP, RYT
Director of Equity and Contemplative Psychotherapy
Co-Director, Contemplative Psychotherapy Program, Live Learning
Co-Director, Contemplative Psychotherapy Program, Blended Learning
Co-Director, Contemplative Psychotherapy Program: Embodiment Year: Psychosocial Change
Diego Hangartner, PhD, PCC
Co-Director, Contemplative Psychotherapy Program, Blended Learning
Pilar Hurtado, MD
Co-Director, Contemplative Psychotherapy Program in Spanish & Portuguese
Geri Loizzo
Director of Programs and Community Engagement
Joe Loizzo, MD, PhD
Founder and Academic Director, Nalanda Institute
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Cornell University
Support Staff
Diane Bertolo
Design
Tom Damrauer
Information Technology
Ayesha Basi
Marketing Support
Board of Directors
Elazar Aslan, MBA, CPC, Acting Treasurer
CEO, Caterfly Solutions
Doris Chang, PhD
Associate Professor at NYU Silver School of Social Work and a research scientist at the Center of Excellence for Cultural Competence, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Mary Charlson, MD
Professor and Chief of the Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluative Sciences Research, Weill Cornell Medical College
Tom Damrauer, MLS (Ex-Officio)
Information Specialist
Jennifer DuBrul
Teacher/Editor
Pablo J. Farias, MD, Vice Chairperson
Lecturer, Harvard Medical School
Randy Glatt
Designer
Geri Loizzo
Director of Programming, Nalanda Institute
Joe Loizzo, MD, PhD, Chairperson
Academic Director
Peggy Neu, Secretary
Senior Advisor, GRACE Communications Foundation
Elizabeth Rovere PsyD,
Clinical Psychologist
Board of Advisors
Ryüichi Abé, MPhil, PhD
Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions, Harvard University
Leslie Blackhall, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
Paul Fulton, EdD
Co-founder and Course Director, Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy
Phillip Glass
Composer and Vice President, Tibet House US
Daniel Goleman, PhD
Health Psychologist and Writer
Edward Kenny, MD
Supervising and Training Analyst, Columbia University Psychoanalytic Institute
Vasant Lad, BAMS, MASc
Founder and Director, The Ayurvedic Institute
Mary C. Pearl, PhD
Dean, CUNY Macaulay Honors College
Kenneth Porter, MD
Psychiatrist
Lobsang Rapgay, PhD
Director of Behavioral Medicine Clinic and Program, Semel Institute, UCLA
Sharon Salzberg
Author and Co-founder, Insight Meditation Society
Dan Siegel, MD
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA, Founding Co-Director, Mindful Awareness Research Center
Robert Thurman, PhD
Former Je Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Studies, Columbia University and President, Tibet House US
Sander Tideman, PhD
Senior Research Associate, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and Managing Director of Garrison Institute Europe