Current International Collaborators
Dr. Sat Bir Khalsa

Dr. Sat Bir Khalsa (Associate Professor of Medicine)
Associate Neuroscientist, Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Departments of Medicine and Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Dr. Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, Ph.D. has been fully engaged in basic and clinical research on the effectiveness of yoga and meditation practices in improving physical and psychological health since 2001. He has practiced a yoga lifestyle since 1971 and is a certified instructor in Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan. He is currently the Director of Research for the Kundalini Research Institute, Research Associate at the Benson Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine, Research Affiliate of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He has conducted clinical research trials evaluating yoga as a treatment for insomnia, post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic stress, and anxiety disorders and also for the mental health benefits in occupational workplace and public school settings. Dr. Khalsa works with the International Association of Yoga Therapists to promote research on yoga therapy as the chair of the scientific program committee for the annual Symposium on Yoga Research and as editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Yoga Therapy. He is the medical editor of the Harvard Medical School Special Report An Introduction to Yoga, coeditor of the textbook The Principles and Practice of Yoga for Children and Adolescents, and chief editor of the medical textbook The Principles and Practice of Yoga in Health Care.