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15.03.2008
Publication
date of The Blissful Brain
The Blissful Brain
is published by Gaia Thinking. For more information on how
to order your copy, please click
here.
13.05.2008
The
Blissful Brain, St Mark's Islington, London
This evening event was chaired
by Dr Shanida Nataraja, author of The Blissful Brain.
Shanida was joined by other popular speakers, including Laurence
Freeman OSB, Director of The World Community for Christian
Meditation (WCCM), and Kim Nataraja, author of Dancing
With Your Shadow, a book on the stages of meditation
and the path towards the integration of Self. For more information,
please click
here.
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Shanida Nataraja
Dr Shanida Nataraja has a BSc (First Class Hons) in Human
Science and Neuroscience and a PhD in Neurophysiology, both
from University College London. Her undergraduate studies
encompassed a broad-spectrum of scientific disciplines including
Neuroscience, Human Physiology, Human Anatomy, Biochemistry,
Pharmacology, Psychology, Anthropology, and Genetics. In her
final year of undergraduate studies, in order to gain a better
understanding of human behaviour, Shanida wrote a dissertation
on brain plasticity and its implications for learning and
memory. Her interest whetted, Shanida investigated the processes
underlying learning and memory in the rat brain for her PhD
thesis, and continued in this field of research for a further
two years, holding a post-doctoral research position at the
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.
After five-years in research, Shanida abandoned
the isolation of the laboratory for the relative comforts
of a career in medical communications. She is currently Senior
Scientific Director in a global medical education agency where
she provides scientific and strategic input into a wide range
of different medical education initiatives in oncology, cardiology,
respiratory diseases, metabolic disorders, and auto-immune
disorders. As part of her professional responsibilities, Shanida
has been involved in the development of: original research
articles and review articles in peer-reviewed journals; slide
presentations and meeting materials for scientific symposia;
product monographs, clinical compendia, sales aids, sales
rep training materials and other promotional materials; patient
information leaflets and support websites. Shanida is also
an experienced trainer being both responsible for in-house
medical writing training at her current company and a number
of training workshops for the European Medical Writer’s Association
(EMWA). She has also sat on EMWA's Executive Committee since
2005 as the organisation's Web Manager.
Shanida regularly meditates, and has received basic instruction
in tai chi, chi gung, and iyengar yoga. In 2004, she collaborated
with Laurence Freeman OSB and Kim Nataraja of the World
Community for Christian Meditation (WCCM) and Sifu Dr Mark
Green (Green Tai Chi) to produce an introductory seminar
on meditation, tai chi, and chi gung for an audience of
20–40 year old professionals. Shanida is also a member of
the Scientific and Medical Network, an organisation promoting
open exploration in science and human experience whose common
objective is to deepen understanding in science, medicine,
and education through both rational analysis and intuitive
insights.
To see a copy of Shanida's CV, please click
here. |
