Amanda J. shallcross, ND, MPH
Director, Center for Research and Training
Department of Wellness and Preventive Medicine
Cleveland Clinic
Dr. Shallcross is the director of the MINDS Research Lab. She is a board-certified naturopathic physician with clinical and research expertise in preventative and integrative medicine, affective and behavioral science, and public health. Her research focuses on the role of emotion regulation in resilience and chronic mental and physical disease. She also conducts randomized controlled trials of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) with an eye toward making MBIs more available, accessible, and scalable for patients with a range of chronic diseases and for individuals from socioeconomically disenfranchised and racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds. Her research utilizes multiple methodologies including laboratory tasks, sleep actigraphy, experience sampling, behavioral coding, and autonomic nervous system responding.
shallca@ccf.org
Dr. Hill is a board-certified naturopathic physician with clinical and research expertise in integrative medicine, oncology, health systems research, palliative care, dietary supplements, and global health. He has completed a clinical residency in integrative oncology at Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Midwestern Regional Medical Center near Chicago Illinois, and a 3-year T32 NCCIH postdoctoral research fellowship in complementary and integrative medicine at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is currently a Research Scientist in the Department of Emergency Medicine at New York University and maintains a part-time clinical practice in Middlebury, Vermont. He is also an Adjunct Instructor at the University of North Carolina. Dr. Hill has been involved in a wide range of research including mixed-method studies developing mHealth applications for integrative medicine, international studies documenting traditional medicine use and palliative care practices in Malawi, and multiple palliative care studies examining access factors to home and community resources for end-of-life care for older adults with serious life-limiting illness. Dr. Hill brings a strong expertise in integrative medicine and research methodology to support the MINDS Research Lab.
jacob.hill@nyulangone.org
Jodi Scharf, BA
Research Associate, Department of Population Health
Jodi is a research associate for the MINDS Research Lab and a Master of Public Health candidate in Public Health Research Methods and Population & Family Health at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. She has experience in quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research around mental and psychosocial health, including work around mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) such as MBSR and MBCT, mind-body interventions, school-based health, gender-based violence, and violence prevention and child protection. Her research interests are in improving the population-level impact of mental and behavioral health programs and scaling up these programs for vulnerable populations by integrating methods in intervention evaluation, implementation science, and interdisciplinary collaboration. She received her BA in Contemplative Studies from Brown University.
jodi.scharf@nyulangone.org
Lab Alumni
Sarah H. Sperber, ba
Tanya Datta, BA
UCLA Medical School
Samina Lutfeali, mPH
PhD Candidate in Marketing, Stanford Business School
zoe t. duberstein, ba
PhD Candidate in Clinical Psychology, University of Rochester
Collaborators
Tanya M. Spruill, NYU Langone
Pallavi D. Visvanathan, Manhattan Center for Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Iris B. Mauss, UC Berkeley
Brett Q. Ford, University of Toronto
Allison S. Troy, Franklin & Marshall College
Lisa V. Doan, NYU Langone
Elizabeth K. Seng, Yeshiva University
Rebecca E. Wells, Wake Forest School of Medicine