The CRR Team
William Lee Rand
Bio
William Lee Rand is president of The International Center for Reiki Training, which he founded in 1991. He is also the publisher and editor-in-chief of Reiki News Magazine and the online Reiki Newsletter. He founded and developed the Reiki in Hospitals web site, forerunner of the Center for Reiki Research. William began practicing Reiki in 1981 and has taught full-time since 1989. He has studied Reiki with six teachers, three of whom are Japanese Reiki Masters. He has made three trips to Japan for the purpose of researching the history and practice of Reiki, and he continues to maintain close contact with other researchers and teachers. William has developed a number of Reiki techniques, including Reiki Aura Clearing and the Healing Attunement. Over a two-year period beginning in 1993, he and some of his students developed the Karuna Reiki® system of healing. In 1997 he traveled to the North Pole to place a Reiki World Peace Grid, which is dedicated to furthering world peace. He placed a Peace Grid at the South Pole in 1999 and one in Jerusalem in 2004. The Peace Grid system is the basis of a monthly world peace meditation William leads with Reiki practitioners around the world. William continues to teach Reiki classes internationally and has recently established a new Reiki Training Center in Hawaii.
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Natalie Leigh Dyer, Ph.D.
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Dr. Natalie Dyer, Ph.D., is a Research Scientist and shamanic energy healer, working to bridge the scientific and the mystical. Natalie completed her PhD in Neuroscience at Queen’s University and her Postdoctoral Fellowships in Psychology at Harvard University and at Harvard Medical School.
As a Research Scientist, Natalie investigates yoga and mindfulness for improving psychological health and wellbeing with the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health and evaluates the effectiveness of hospital-based integrative medicine programs at Connor Integrative Health Network. As the President for the Center for Reiki Research, Natalie also conducts research on Reiki energy medicine for psychological and physical health. She also conducts research on universal love, defined as unconditional love for all of existence, and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. She has published multiple scientific papers and presented her research to diverse audiences throughout North America and Europe.
Natalie is also an energy healer incorporating Japanese Usui Reiki with North American, European, and Tibetan shamanism into her practice. Natalie lives in rural Ontario Canada with her husband, artist Louis Dyer.
Website: drnataliedyer.com
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Ann Baldwin, Ph.D.
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Dr. Ann Baldwin is a Research Professor of Physiology and Psychology at the University of Arizona and is Director of “Mind-Body-Science” (www.mind-body-science.com). She obtained her Bachelors degree in Physics from University of Bristol, UK, her Masters degree in Radiation Physics from University of London, UK and her PhD in Physiology from Imperial College, University of London. Her research focuses on the deleterious physiological effects of mental and emotional stress and how these outcomes may be minimized. She is currently exploring the efficacies of Reiki, Biofeedback techniques and Equine Assisted Learning in enhancing sympatho-vagal balance, as shown by heart rate variability, and thereby reducing the damaging effects of stress. Dr. Baldwin has quantitatively monitored the effects of Reiki on cardiac function and on peripheral blood flow in humans and in rats. Her work has been featured on KVOA News 4 and on KUAT Arizona Illustrated. With her Reiki training and extensive scientific background, Ann Baldwin hopes to bridge the gap between energy healing and quantitative scientific enquiry. Dr. Baldwin has published over 110 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals on these topics and others including arterial disease, physiological testing of blood substitutes and the effects of environmental stressors on laboratory animals and on marine mammals. Her book, “Reiki in Clinical Practice. A science-based guide”, published by Handspring Publishing, will be available in February 2020. She has been a member of several review panels for National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, and serves on several editorial boards of major scientific journals, such as the American Journal of Physiology. Her work, in a variety of areas, has been funded by NIH, NSF, American Heart Association, Arizona Disease Control Research Commission, and by private and corporate sources. In her spare time Ann likes to ride her horse and she also volunteers as a horse handler for Therapeutic Riding of Tucson.
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Harold Bob, M.D.
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Harold Bob, MD, CMD is a Maryland Family Physician who focuses on care in the post acute and long term care continuum. He previously served for 7 years as the medical director of Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care of Maryland, and utilized Reiki as part as part of an integrative approach to symptom management.
He served as secretary of MedChi, the Maryland State Medical Society (1987–1991) and as president of the Maryland Medical Directors Association (2008–2012), Maryland’s chapter of AMDA the society for post-acute and long term care medicine. His is a Certified Medical Director (CMD) to 2019 and is Hospice Medical Director Certified (HMDC to 2020).
Dr. Bob served as a member of AMDA’s Clinical Practice Committee and was involved in that committee’s development of national, evidence-based practice guidelines. He was awarded AMDA’s Clinical Practice Committee Volunteer of the Year award for 2008 in which he was cited for his “devoted and immeasurable helpfulness in all the clinical projects he undertook.”
In 2012, he was awarded the Maryland AMDA chapter’s Berman Award, given “in recognition of a lifetime of service as a physician to patients in long term care in Maryland.”
Dr Bob currently works for Five Star physicians, and performs Medical Director services for Augsburg Lutheran Home, Communicare, Mid Atlantic Healthcare, and Golden Living.
He presented evidence based reviews on Reiki at an AMDA annual meeting (March 2012), at the Hospice Network of Maryland meeting (Nov 2013), and authored a guest editorial on Reiki for “Caring for the Ages.” (Oct 2009), spoke on “CAM in the LTC continuum (Maryland Medical Director’s Association (Nov 2011), and was a panel chair for the Mid Atlantic Reiki conference (Nov 2014).
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Ann Thompson
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Ann Thompson, MA, Certified Medical Reiki Master (CMRM) has practiced Reiki since the mid-1990s. She is a Level III Reiki Master (Usui, Holy Fire); a CMRM registered with Raven Keyes Medical Reiki International, LLC; a Certified End-of-Life Doula; an ordained interfaith minister; and a 30-year career writer-editor and published poet (www.wellspringofwords.net )
As a practicing CMRM, Ann has provided pre-/post-op inpatient and outpatient Reiki to people undergoing surgery for: hysterectomy, hip replacement, maxilla-facial repair, and cancers of the tongue, jaw, esophagus, ovaries, and breast (double mastectomy).
In addition to practicing Reiki, Thompson teaches Reiki Levels 1, 2 and 3 both privately and through Potomac Massage Training Institute.
Thompson also is co-directing the new National Reiki in Healthcare Certification initiative, with her colleague, Reiki Master-Teacher Helene Williams, RN.
Thompson gives speeches/presentations and publishes articles on Reiki and other aspects of holistic health, healing, and spirituality, including most recently:
- Speaker/panelist, Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities March 2019 Conference, “Unspoken Wounds” (See Monday’s Breakout Session, B3.)
- Author, feature article: “Low-Cost, High Comfort: The Benefits of Reiki” McKnight’s Long-Term Care News,October 10, 2018.
- Author, blog post: “Unpacking the Five Precepts of Reiki“- The Wellness Universe:
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- May, 2019- On Gratitude
- July, 2019 – On Anger
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Jennifer DiBenedetto
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Dr. Ann Baldwin is a Research Professor of Physiology and Psychology at the University of Arizona and is Director of “Mind-Body-Science” (www.mind-body-science.com). She obtained her Bachelors degree in Physics from University of Bristol, UK, her Masters degree in Radiation Physics from University of London, UK and her PhD in Physiology from Imperial College, University of London. Her research focuses on the deleterious physiological effects of mental and emotional stress and how these outcomes may be minimized. She is currently exploring the efficacies of Reiki, Biofeedback techniques and Equine Assisted Learning in enhancing sympatho-vagal balance, as shown by heart rate variability, and thereby reducing the damaging effects of stress. Dr. Baldwin has quantitatively monitored the effects of Reiki on cardiac function and on peripheral blood flow in humans and in rats. Her work has been featured on KVOA News 4 and on KUAT Arizona Illustrated. With her Reiki training and extensive scientific background, Ann Baldwin hopes to bridge the gap between energy healing and quantitative scientific enquiry. Dr. Baldwin has published over 110 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals on these topics and others including arterial disease, physiological testing of blood substitutes and the effects of environmental stressors on laboratory animals and on marine mammals. Her book, “Reiki in Clinical Practice. A science-based guide”, published by Handspring Publishing, will be available in February 2020. She has been a member of several review panels for National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, and serves on several editorial boards of major scientific journals, such as the American Journal of Physiology. Her work, in a variety of areas, has been funded by NIH, NSF, American Heart Association, Arizona Disease Control Research Commission, and by private and corporate sources. In her spare time Ann likes to ride her horse and she also volunteers as a horse handler for Therapeutic Riding of Tucson.
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Jennifer is a Registered Nurse and has been practicing nursing since 2013. She is currently employed at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, MA in the Intensive Care Unit. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Nursing at the University of Massachusetts- Worcester in Worcester, MA and has completed her master’s degree in nursing leadership from Framingham State University in Framingham, MA since 2016. She also obtained her nursing degree from Rivier University in Nashua, NH in 2013.
Jennifer has been an Usui Reiki Master Teacher since 2015 and has been a Holy Fire II Karuna Reiki Master with the International Center of Reiki Training since 2017. Jennifer has been teaching Reiki privately since 2015 and has been practicing Reiki since 2014. Jennifer is the owner of Balance Restored in Shrewsbury, MA.
Jennifer’s goal is to conduct and disseminate nursing and Reiki research and spread awareness of complementary therapy benefits in hospital settings. She hopes to target all members of the interdisciplinary team to provide the highest quality patient care and improve their outcomes. Her research interests include Reiki, Acupuncture, Mind-body practices, post-operative care, and congestive heart failure and diabetes management.
You can visit her website at www.balancerestored.org.
