RESEARCH FACULTY
Manjunath Sharma, BNYS, PhD, DSc.
Faculty and Research Director, VaYU
Yoga and Non-Communicable Diseases
Michelle L. Dossett, MD, PhD, MPH
Faculty, UC Davis
Mind & Body Medicine
Lorenzo Cohen, PhD
Dist. Prof. in Clinical Cancer Prevention
U Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Yoga & Cancer
Richard Fletcher, PhD
Faculty, MIT D-Lab & UMass Medical
Yoga, IOT & Wearables
Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, PhD
Faculty, Harvard Medical School
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Yoga & Mental Health
Helen Lavretsky, MD
Professor, UCLA
Breath & COVID-19
Anurag Mairal, PhD, MBA
Director, Global Outreach Programs
Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign
Yoga & Global Health
Darshan Mehta, MD, MPH
Harvard Medical School
Mind Body Educational Interventions
Indranill Basu Ray, MD, DNB
Cardiologist, MIT LinQ
Amer. Assoc. of Yoga & Meditation
Yoga, Meditation & Cardiology
Dilip Sarkar, MD, D.Litt
Faculty, VaYU
Retired Vascular Surgeon
Yoga & Cardiology
Murali Venkatrao, PhD
VP of Academics, VaYU
Yoga, AI & Diabetes
Teaching Faculty
Nagendra HR
Founding Trustee, VaYU
Ramachandra Bhat, PhD, D.Litt.
Professor, VaYU
Sri Krishna Chandaka,
Professor, VaYU
Nidhi Chaudhary, PhD
Associate Professor, VaYU
Krishna Dwivedi
Associate Professor, VaYU
Padmashree Gudapati, MSc
Assistant Professor, VaYU
Dhanada Kulkarni, BAMS, LMT, BA.
Assistant Professor, VaYU
M Maheshwari
Assistant Professor, VaYU
Sridhar MK, PhD
Professor, VaYU
Karuna Nagarajan, MBA, MSc, PhD
Professor, VaYU
Yashwant Pathak, PhD
Professor, VaYU
Nagarathna R, MD, DSc.
Professor, VaYU
Ashlesha Raut, BAMS, MD
Professor, VaYU
Vikas Rawat, PhD
Associate Professor, VaYU
Nibedita KS, BNYS
Assistant Professor, VaYU
Apar Avinash Saoji, BNYS, PhD
Associate Professor, VaYU
Manjunath Sharma, BNYS, PhD, DSc.
Professor, VaYU
Nick Shroff, MD, FACS, E-RYT
Professor, VaYU
Amit Singh, BAMS, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, VaYU
Sreekumar TS, PhD
Associate Professor, VaYU
