Scientific Advisory Board

Abdullah Abdulrahman Alabdulgader, MD, MRCP (UK), FRCP (Edin), a senior congenital cardiologist/electrophysiologist, has obtained multiple board certifications and memberships from prestigious medical schools and universities in record time (1991-1995) and established a major cardiac hospital funded by his Royal Highness Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz. He established the 1st registry of congenital heart diseases in the middle east which was followed by a nationwide registry and was credited for being the first to described a new congenital anomaly of the heart in 2005. He established a series of international conferences (King of Organs) for advanced cardiac sciences in 2006 which is the first medical conference that explores topics related to the information processing and energetic role of the heart. He is believes that we are at the start of a true revolution in the history of medicine, and his understanding of the broader role of the human heart in ethical, religious and social contexts has drawn major media attention. Dr. Alabdulgader was recently elected as a member of the scientific board of the International committee on Global Geological and Environmental Change (GEOCHANGE).

Maria Lourdes Arguelles, Ph.D., M.S., B.A., a professor of education and cultural studies, Claremont Graduate University co-principal investigator, TestEdge^® National Demonstration Study, which received a $1 million Congressional appropriation administered through the U.S. Department of Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Education. Lourdes Arguelles received her Ph.D. at New York University from the Center for Human Relations and Community Studies in the school of education. Her concentrations were in psychology and sociology. Until recently, Dr. Arguelles occupied the MacArthur Chair in Women Studies at Pitzer College. She has taught at the University of British Columbia; University of New Mexico; Arizona State University; University of Waterloo, Ontario; University of California, Los Angeles; and Loyola College, Montreal. Among the many governmental, private, and nonprofit associations Lourdes Arguelles has been affiliated with, she has been a consultant to the American Association of Colleges and Universities, National Institutes of Health, the Citizenship Branch of the Canadian State Department, Tomas Rivera Institute and AIDS Project, Los Angeles.

John Andrew Armour, M.D., Ph.D. has been an associate professor in pharmacology with the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Montreal, Québec, Canada, and a longtime associate professor and full professor in the department of physiology and biophysics at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada. He is also a researcher and specialist in neurocardiology at the Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal, Québec. Dr. Amour’s primary areas of research are neurocardiology, cardiac arrhythmias induced by autonomic neurons, control of cardiac regional cardiac function by autonomic neurons, transduction of myocardial ischemia by afferent neurons, anatomy of the peripheral cardiac nervous system, heart failure and the cardiac nervous system. He has authored many journal articles, including Neurocardiology: Anatomical and Functional Principles, and books, among them Basic and Clinical Neurocardiology.

Cleve Backster, honorary Ph.D., honorary D.Sc., is a widely recognized polygraph expert who also is known for his experiments with biocommunication in plant and animal cells using a polygraph machine in the 1960s. This work led to his theory of "primary perception." He is currently director of the Backster School of Lie Detection in San Diego, Calif. His course of study changed dramatically in the 1960s, when he said he discovered that other human thoughts and emotions caused reactions in plants that could be recorded by a polygraph instrument. He termed the plants’ sensitivity to thoughts "primary perception," and first published his findings from the experiments in the International Journal of Parapsychology. He has presented papers at numerous international and U.S. conferences and meetings.

Linda Caviness, Ph.D., a researcher and professor of curriculum and instruction in the school of education at La Sierra University, earned a master’s degree in education at the University of California, Berkeley in language and literacy and a Ph.D. in education administration at Andrews University, where her doctoral research focused on educational neuroscience. Her research interests include brain-based learning, reading difficulties and learning theories. She completed HeartMath’s Resilient Educator™ program and is a certified HeartMath trainer. Caviness frequently speaks at teachers’ gatherings and conferences on education neurosciences. She received the Zapara Award for teacher excellence.

Murray Gillin, A.M., F.T.S.E., is professor emeritus of entrepreneurship and innovation at the Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne. Murray was the winner of the Inaugural 2001 Best Entrepreneurial Educator of the Year and founder of Australia’s and the world’s first master’s program in entrepreneurship and innovation. Though he retired 1998, he has remained actively involved in the teaching of the master’s program in entrepreneurship and innovation in Australia and Israel. He also supervises Ph.D. candidates in entrepreneurship and innovation. Murray’s pioneering spirit and educational achievements were recognized when he was named professor emeritus. He is also executive director of AGSE International Entrepreneurship Research Exchange.

William C. Gough, Ph.D., graduated from Princeton University with BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering and is a registered professional engineer (nuclear). He did research and studies on the interaction between science and public policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Gough was a manager at the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission’s controlled fusion research program, where, in 1968, he co-invented the Fusion Torch concept for producing sustainability for the material world (www.FusionTorch.com). Later he was the manager of the fusion power program for the electric utility industry at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), and then the U.S. Department of Energy site manager for high-energy physics and synchrotron radiation at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). The integration of technical and humanity-related topics is one of his fortes. He co-founded the Foundation for Mind-Being Research (www.fmbr.org), a nonprofit organization for consciousness research, in 1980.

David Joffe, a biomedical engineer and mathematician who lives and works in Boulder, Colo., has brought numerous inventions and products in the medical and computer industry to successful commercial distribution. He was an integral member of the team that developed the pulse oximeter at Biox Technology from 1979-1984. The pulse oximeter indirectly measures a patient’s blood oxygen saturation and is considered one of the last decade’s most valuable medical devices. Joffe was founder and chief technical officer for Lexicor Medical Technology, which manufactures EEG brain mapping and neurofeedback technology. He developed one of the core signal processing algorithms that run on the emWave^® Desktop for Mac and PC. He received the Distinguished Achievement Award for the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback’s neurofeedback division. Joffe’s primary focus is hardware/software design related to human physiological signal acquisition, processing and display.

James R. Johnston, Ph.D., demonstrated in his early work in physics the equivalence of coherence in laser radiation and macroscopic quantum coherence in superfluids. Johnston worked with Dr. Joe Kamiya doing research in EEG feedback at Langley Porter Institute, University of California at San Francisco. During that time he completed a post-doctoral interdisciplinary training program, provided technical support for research in alpha and other brainwave biofeedback and conducted research on EEG synchrony within the alpha frequency band. He returned to his work in biofeedback and, beginning in 2006, developed a practice using EEG and peripheral biofeedback for enhancement of attention, improvement in responses to stress and other issues involving autonomic regulation. In 2007, Johnston became a research associate with Erik Peper, Ph.D., at San Francisco State University, where he supports a class on the introduction to biofeedback and self-regulation.

Joseph Kamiya, Ph.D., generally acknowledged as the father of the field of EEG biofeedback/neurofeedback, is a former professor of medical psychology and a research psychologist at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. From 1951 to 1953 he served at the university as a research assistant and then went on to the University of Chicago, where he was a faculty member from 1951 to 1960. Kamiya began a career at the Langley-Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute of UCSF, where he specialized in brain self-regulation and psychophysiological states. He is one of the pioneers of biological control by feedback and has delved deep into sleep and dream research. His current research, which has earned him distinction, involves the psychophysiology of consciousness and heightened awareness; he directs a psychophysiology-of-consciousness laboratory. Kamiya is at the forefront of research in altered states of consciousness and transpersonal consciousness.

Joseph F. McCaffrey, M.D., a vascular surgeon at Auburn Memorial Hospital, Auburn, N.Y., is a board-certified surgeon with over 30 years of experience helping people overcome health problems using both conventional and complementary medical practices. He emphasizes maintaining optimal health through balanced living. After graduating from Georgetown University School of Medicine, Dr. McCaffrey did post-graduate training in general surgery and a fellowship in vascular surgery. He is a member of many professional organizations and has served as a director of critical care and chief of surgery. Early in his career, McCaffrey recognized two crucial factors that empower people to attain optimal wellness: the mind’s ability to influence healing; and a healthy lifestyle’s capacity for preventing most health problems. This led to decades of research into alternative and complementary methods.

Joseph Chilton Pearce, of Faber, Va., is a world-renowned thinker, author, workshop leader and specialist in early child development. He authored The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Magical Child, Evolution’s End, The Biology of Transcendence and The Death of Religion and the Rebirth of the Spirit. Pearce has been probing the mysteries of the human mind for nearly half a century. His expertise spans a broad range of disciplines: psychology, anthropology, biology and physics. Scholar, scientist, mystic and itinerant teacher, Pearce tries to maintain close touch with the most brilliant people in every field. He creates a unique synthesis of their work and translates the results into a common language. He is a certified HeartMath trainer, so he is further developing his already extensive insights into the biological basis of the mind-heart connection and how it is central to full development and total health.

Karl H. Pribram, M.D., Ph.D. (honorary), received his B.S. and M.D. degree at the University of Chicago and was trained in neurological surgery and behavioral science. Most of his career has been devoted to brain/behavioral research, which he pursued at the Yerkes Laboratory of Primate Biology, Yale University and, for 30 years, at Stanford University, where he received a lifetime career award from the U.S. National Institutes of Health as a professor of neuroscience in the departments of psychology and psychiatry. He is currently a distinguished professor in cognitive neuroscience at Georgetown and George Mason universities. Pribram is author of data and theory papers and of books that include Plans and the Structure of Behavior – with George Miller and Eugene Galanter; Languages of the Brain; Brain and Perception; and Freud’s Project Reassessed – with Merton Gill. He has devoted much of his career to elucidating the structure and function of the cerebral cortex, relating human clinical experience to his neurophysiological and neurobehavioral studies on nonhuman primates. He discovered the visual functions of the temporal lobe and the relationship of the anterior frontal cortex to the limbic system. His theoretical writings include the topics of perception, emotion, memory, and planning.

T. Gregory Quinn, M.D., cardiologist, director of cardiac rehabilitation at San Ramon Regional Medical Center in Oakland, Calif., is chief executive officer, chief medical officer and co-founder of the center. He earned his medical degree from the University of California, Davis, and completed residency at the University of California, Los Angeles/Veterans Administration Medical Center. He completed a subspecialty fellowship at Stanford University in cardiovascular medicine and the Stanford Center for Disease Prevention. Quinn is an interventional cardiologist at the Sutter East Bay Medical Foundation, where he is a board member and chair of the strategic planning committee and director of the Wellness Task Force. In addition to his expertise in cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment, he is a health and fitness enthusiast, a regular triathlon competitor and practicing jujitsu martial artist.

Richard Rahe, M.D., is a stress researcher and specialist in the psychometric assessment of life stress and its relationship to health. Throughout his medical career, Dr. Rahe has conducted stress and coping research studies and has taught these subjects at four medical schools. He examines the balance in individuals’ lives by assessing their recent stress loads and their current coping and wellness resources. Rahe co-authored The Holmes-Rahe Social Readjustment Rating Scale. He has served as a consultant to the United Nations and the World Health Organization regarding war crimes victims in the former Yugoslavia. He currently consults with military and National Guard medical commands to improve recovery from stress among servicemen and women returning from Afghanistan and Iraq. Rahe is the director of Health Assessments Programs Inc., in Reno, Nev.

Elizabeth A. Rauscher, M.S., Ph.D., of Phoenix, Ariz., is an internationally recognized astrophysicist and nuclear scientist whose career spans many disciplines, including work on the NASA space shuttle program, as a United Nations delegate for long-term energy sources and co-inventor with her late husband, William Van Bise, of an ultrasensitive magnetic detector for measuring earth’s rhythms, an external magnetic pacemaker and a pulsed magnetic pain control system. Rauscher’s current focus is on electromagnetic phenomena and biomedical and bioengineering research. She is an award-winning photographer, author of six books and over 270 papers in peer-reviewed journals and holds four patents. Rauscher is the current director of the Tecnic Research Laboratory and formerly worked with the Lawrence Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories. She is the recipient of numerous awards and distinctions. www.elizabethrauscher.com.

Paul J. Rosch, M.D., F.A.C.P, is president of the American Institute of Stress and one of the world’s leading authorities and media spokespersons on stress. Rosch is a clinical professor of medicine and psychiatry at New York Medical College, honorary vice president of the International Stress Management Association and author of the books, The Doctors Guide To Instant Stress Relief, DeStress – Weigh Less and Bioelectromagnetic Medicine. He completed his internship and residency training at Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Walter Reed Army Hospital and Institute of Research, where he was director of the endocrine section in the department of metabolism. He had a fellowship at the Institute of Experimental Medicine and Surgery at the University of Montreal with Dr. Hans Selye, the originator the term "stress," as it is currently used. He also co-authored works with Selye and Dr. Flanders Dunbar, who introduced the term, "psychosomatic" into American medicine.

Deborah Rozman, Ph.D., is a psychologist, business executive, educator, author and a researcher in the psychology of consciousness. Dr. Rozman has written numerous books, including the award-winning Meditating With Children and co-authoring with Doc Childre the Transforming Series – Transforming Anger, Transforming Stress, Transforming Anxiety and Transforming Depression. She helped Doc Childre found the Institute of HeartMath and currently is president and co-CEO of Quantum Intech Inc., the HeartMath technology company that develops and manufactures emWave^® coherence feedback technologies. Prior to her involvement with HeartMath she was Executive Vice President of a biotech company where she directed sponsored research projects with Harvard University. Dr. Rozman serves on the Institute of HeartMath’s Global Coherence Initiative Steering Committee and is a key spokesperson for the HeartMath System, giving keynote addresses and media interviews on HeartMath research and applications.

Donald H. Singer, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.C., F.C.C.P., is a cardiologist, specialist in heart-rate variability and a clinical professor of medicine, with a specialty in cardiology, at the University of Illinois’ Chicago College of Medicine. Dr. Singer is a former director of the Reingold ECG Center and professor of medicine pharmacology at Northwestern University School of Medicine, Chicago.

Keith A. Wesnes, B.Sc., Ph.D., F.S.S. CPsychol, F.B.Ps.S., earned his B.Sc., from Reading University in 1973 with first class honours in experimental psychology, then undertook an MRC-funded Ph.D. using nicotine and scopolamine to identify the role of the brain cholinergic system in human attention. In 1986, Professor Wesnes founded Cognitive Drug Research to offer this system as a service in clinical trials. He became a chartered psychologist in 1988, was made a fellow of the British Psychological Society in 1989 and fellow of the Royal Statistical Society in 1983. Wesnes belongs to 13 other societies, associations and colleges, and regularly sits on specialist advisory boards for many major pharmaceutical companies. He has published over 270 peer-reviewed research articles and more than 20 chapters and literature reviews. He holds professorships at the Human Cognitive Neuroscience Unit at Northumbria University, Newcastle, England, and the Brain Sciences Institute at Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia.

Bruce C. Wilson, M.D., F.A.C.C., is a cardiologist and HeartMath’s medical director. Dr. Wilson is a board-certified cardiologist in Milwaukee, Wis. He served as director of cardiac care at the University of Minnesota Hospitals, director of the University of Pittsburgh Heart Institute, chief of cardiology and chairman of medical education at Columbia Hospital in Milwaukee and chairman of the board for Heart Hospital of Milwaukee. Dr. Wilson is currently in private practice and is a clinical associate professor at the Medical College of Milwaukee. Wilson helped develop the Health Care Division at HeartMath LLC and has been its medical director since 2002. He is the author of The HeartMath Approach to Managing Hypertension and many medical articles. He is also the founder, president and CEO of HeartMatters.

Tony Yardley-Jones, M.D. Ph.D., F.F.O.M., F.R.C.S.E., is an accredited specialist in occupational medicine. Dr. Yardley-Jones is lead consultant in occupational medicine at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Trust in London and a consulting occupational toxicologist at the National Poisons Information Centre (Birmingham Centre) City Hospital, Birmingham, England. He is a consultant adviser in occupational medicine to several private- and public-sector organizations, with referrals that cover a full spectrum, from stress management, performance issues and health screening and surveillance work with senior executives to consultations regarding redeployment or rehabilitation for employees with varying medical conditions. Yardley-Jones is interested in the neurophysiology of performance and behavior and the neurophysiological mechanisms by which positive emotion affects heart-rate variability and how these can reduce the harmful physiological responses to stress.