Conference Participants :

The conference was moderated by Dr. William Mobley , Cahill Professor in the School of Medicine and Director of the Neuroscience Institute at Stanford.  He assembled a distinguished group of scientists and Buddhist scholars to join him in this dialogue.  They included:

• Dr. Carl Bielefeldt , Professor of Religious Studies, Stanford University

• Dr. Paul Ekman , Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, University of California , San Francisco

• Dr. Howard Fields , Professor of Neurology, Physiology, and Psychiatry and Director, Wheeler Center for the Neurobiology of Addiction, University of California, San Francisco
• Philippe Goldin, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Psychology, Stanford University

• Dr. Janet Gyatso , Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies, Harvard Divinity School

• Dr. Anne C. Klein , Professor of Religious Studies, Rice University

• Dr. Brian Knutson , Assistant Professor of Psychology, Stanford University

• Dr. Helen Mayberg, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology, Emory University

• Dr. William Newsome , Professor of Neurobiology, Stanford University

• Dr. Mathieu Ricard, Buddhist scholar and monk, French translator for His Holiness  

• Dr. David Spiegel , The Jack, Lulu and Sam Willson Professor in Medicine, Stanford University

• Ven. Karma Lekshe Tsomo , Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, University of San Diego

• Dr. Alan Wallace , Founder & President, Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies
  
• Brian Wandell , Isaac and Madeline Stein Family Professor of Psychology, Stanford University

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