Shamini Jain PhD

She is an Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at UC San Diego’s Department of Family Medicine and Public Health and an active member of the UC San Diego Center for Integrative Medicine. She is the Founder and CEO of the Consciousness and Healing Initiative (CHI), a collaborative accelerator for scientists, educators, practitioners, and innovators dedicated to advancing the research and real-world application of consciousness and healing for the benefit of society. As a Researcher and author in psychoneuroimmunology, integrative health and biofield science, she published the book “Healing ourselves: Biofield science and the future of health” (2021).

She obtained her BA in Neuroscience and Behavior from Columbia University (USA), her MA in Integrative Health Psychology from the University of Arizona (USA), and her PhD from the San Diego State University/UC San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology.

She completed her clinical residency at the La Jolla VA Hospital/UC San Diego, her postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA’s Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research and worked as a Senior Scientist at the Samueli Institute.