Admin

Alejandra “Alex” Bobadilla serves as Revenue Manager and Patient Navigator for our Center for Integrative Medicine.  She specializes in identifying and resolving any issues found within our revenue cycle and helping our patients navigate through scheduling, insurance verification, and finding the right fit with one of our prestigious providers to help address their needs.  Alex is also the coordinator of the Supervised Lifestyle and Integrative Medicine Program for Weight Management (SLIM).  Alex has collaborated with leadership to roll out many new lines of services and help improve established ones. Prior to Integrative Medicine, Alex was a referral coordinator for Collaborative Care and Family Medicine.  Alex’s background is in psychology, certified substance abuse counseling, esthetics, and fitness, as a spinning instructor. Alex cherishes every moment of being a mother to her two amazing sons.   In her free time, she enjoys high intensity exercise, dancing, the companionship of her partner, family, friends, and last, but not least, her long-tongued pug, Maya.

Philayne Pribnow, originally from Wisconsin, moved to California back in 1999. Her most recent job was at UC San Diego Rady School of Management where she was an Event Manager for 6 years. Philayne began working as the Administrative Coordinator for the UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness in March of 2022. She looks forward to continuing to build on her mindfulness training and offering administrative support to the center. In her free time, Philayne enjoys golfing, pet sitting, and hanging out with family and friends.

Cassandra Vieten is Clinical Professor and Director of the Center for Mindfulness at the Centers for Integrative Health in the Department of Family Medicine at UC San Diego. She is also Director of Research at the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination and Clinical Psychology Director at the Psychedelics and Health Research Initiative at UCSD. She is Senior Advisor of the John W. Brick Mental Health Foundation where she served as Executive Director from 2019-2023, and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, where she served as President from 2013-2019.

Her research has focused on spirituality and health, transformative experiences and practices, the development of mindfulness-based interventions for emotional well-being, and development of media technologies to inspire awe. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and completed her research training in behavioral genetics at UC San Francisco. She has authored three books, published numerous articles in scientific journals, and is an internationally recognized keynote speaker and workshop leader.