Program Directors
Joe Loizzo, MD, PhD
Founder and Director, Nalanda Institute
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Cornell University
Geri Loizzo
Director of Programming
Director, Mindful Families & Schools
Emily J. Wolf, PhD
Director, Contemplative Psychotherapy Program
Instructor in Psychology, Cornell University
Elazar Aslan, MBA, CPC
Director, Mindful Business & Leadership
CEO, Caterfly Solutions
Mary Reilly Nichols
Director, Yoga, Mind & Spirit
Yoga Instructor in Private Practice
Support Staff
Diane Bertolo, Design
Gerry Chadwick, Comptroller
Tom Damrauer, Information Technology
Rochelle Nechin, Accountant
Michael Perez Sosa, Bookkeeper
Board of Directors
Elazar Aslan, MBA, CPC
CEO, Caterfly Solutions
Jennifer DuBrul
Teacher/Editor
Pablo J. Farias, MD, Vice Chair
Harvard Medical School
Randy Glatt
Designer
Vance W. LaVelle, MBA, Secretary
Marketing Consultant
Geri Loizzo
Director of Programming, Nalanda Institute
Joe Loizzo, MD, PhD, Chairman
Founder and Director, Nalanda Institute
Miles Neale, PsyD
Core Faculty, Nalanda Institute
Peggy Neu, Treasurer
President, Meatless Monday Campaigns
Helen H. Park, LMSW, MFA
Elizabeth Rovere, PsyD
Clinical Psychologist, The New School
Emily J. Wolf, PhD
Director, Contemplative Psychotherapy Program, Nalanda Institute
Board of Advisors
Ryüichi Abé, MPhil, PhD
Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions, Harvard University
Leslie Blackhall, MD
Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
Yeshi Donden, DTM
Former Personal Physician to His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Father Philip Eichner, SM
President, Kellenberg Memorial High School, Uniondale, New York
Paul Fulton, PhD
President, Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy
Phillip Glass
Composer and Vice President, Tibet House US
Daniel Goleman, PhD
Health Psychologist and Writer
Edward Kenny, MD
Professor, Columbia University Psychoanalytic Institute
Vasant Lad
Founder and Director, The Ayurveda Institute
Mary C. Pearl, PhD
Senior Associate Dean and Provost, CUNY Macaulay Honors College
Kenneth Porter, MD
Director, The New York Institute for Spirituality & Psychotherapy
Lobsang Rapgay, PhD
Director of Clinical Training, Mindfulness Awareness Research Center, UCLA
Robert Rosenthal, MD
Co-Director, Foundation for Inner Peace
Sharon Salzberg
Author and Co-founder, Insight Meditation Society
Dan Siegel, MD
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA, Co-Director, Mindful Awareness Research Center
Robert Thurman, PhD
Je Tsong Khapa Professor of Tibetan Studies, Columbia University and President, Tibet House US
Sander Tideman, PhD
Associate Researcher, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and Managing Director of Mind & Life Europe