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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.

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.

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