UC San Diego

Dr. Ryan  Bradley is an Associate Professor in the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, a member of the Center for Integrative Health Research and a faculty member and mentor in the Integrated Cardiovascular Research T32 program. Dr. Bradley’s clinical research focuses on natural products, mind-body practices, and models of Whole Person Health care delivery. In addition to his clinical research, he is a cardiovascular and nutritional epidemiologist, having investigated cannabis- and nutritional-associated cardiovascular risk in multiple longitudinal cohort studies.

He received his Doctor of Naturopathy degree from Bastyr University and his Master of Public Health degree in Epidemiology from the University of Washington, where he also completed a 5-year KL2 clinical research training program in the Division of Cardiology. He has published over 115 peer-reviewed research articles and has been an investigator or director on 11 NIH grants, including over 12 years as a director of research training programs. In addition to his roles at UC San Diego, he is a member of the Board of Governors and co-chairs the Strategy Committee  of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). 

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.

Dr. Cinnamon Bloss is a tenured Professor of Public Health, Psychiatry, and Medicine at the University of California San Diego. She is the Founding Director of the Center for Empathy and Technology, situated within the UCSD Institute for Empathy and Compassion, where she also serves as Associate Director. Dr. Bloss conducts interdisciplinary research focused on social and behavioral phenomena related to emerging information and biotechnologies. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and philanthropic donations. In 2021, Dr. Bloss was appointed by the NIH Director to serve as Chair of the Novel and Exceptional Technology and Research Advisory Committee, a federal advisory committee that provides recommendations to the NIH Director and a public forum for the discussion of scientific, safety, and ethical issues associated with emerging biotechnologies. Prior to assuming the chairpersonship of the committee, she served as Co-chair of the Gene Drives in Biomedical Research Working Group. Dr. Bloss was recognized by the Western Societies of Medicine with the Carmel Prize for Research Excellence and has published over 100 papers. She was honored by the American Society of Human Genetics as the recipient of the 2022 Mentorship Award and has mentored over 50 trainees. She has received multiple teaching awards at UCSD, where she also founded a new concentration in Technology and Precision Health for the Master in Public Health degree. Dr. Bloss is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health. For over a decade, she was a California-licensed clinical psychologist.