Joseph Loizzo, MD, PhD, is a contemplative psychotherapist, Buddhist scholar, and author with over four decades’ experience integrating Indo-Tibetan mind science and healing arts into modern neuropsychology, psychotherapy, and clinical research. He is the founder and academic director of the Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science, the developer of its Contemplative Psychotherapy Program, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, and a clinician in private practice in Manhattan.