Richa Gawande, PhD (she/her). I am interested in community conversations and community-based participatory research about the impact of stress, culture and illness on our bodies. I am also interested in ways in which listening with compassion to our bodies internally (interoception) and collectively can facilitate social change through healing, joy, and justice. I serve as Co-Director of the Mindfulness Training for Primary Care teacher training pathway, as a Research Scientist, and a trained Mindful Self-Compassion teacher at CMC. I am committed to working within and towards a larger ethical research and teaching framework that is sensitive and responsive to the importance of social justice, community, story and culture. I have a background in biology and public health and served as the CMC Research and Programs Manager from 2015-2019.
Featured News: CMC was awarded a research grant titled “Neural and physiologic effects of self-compassion on chronic pain” from the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital. This grant provides seed funding for a pilot neuroimaging study examining self-compassion training for people experiencing chronic lower back pain.
