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Naila Jabbar

Naila Jabbar coordinates the SMART and PART certification pathways, assists with business development and also plays a role in managing the Resilient Youth curriculum through the Child Resiliency Program. Prior to joining BHI, Naila worked in Interventional Radiology at MGH, where she spent four years managing scheduling, patient coordination, and daily operations. In 2025, she earned her MBA at UMass Boston with a focus in Business Analytics and Information Systems.

Naila loves finding creative ways to keep teams organized, connected and engaged, and she’s really looking forward to being part of the BHI community.

 

Meghan Noonan Feldpausch, MSN, APRN-BC

Meghan Noonan Feldpausch is a nurse practitioner at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. Meghan is a certified Stress Management and Resiliency Training (SMART) provider. She works with patients individually and runs clinical groups teaching the SMART curriculum, a skill building program introducing a variety of mind body strategies to enhance wellness and resiliency. Meghan has experience working in clinical research and in project management and is currently working with Katherine Rosa, PhD, on a funded program to run SMART groups for advanced practice providers at MGH to prevent burnout and enhance resiliency. Meghan is passionate about improving access to mind body programs and volunteers in the community teaching stress reduction and mind body strategies to support wellness.

Michael Nathan, MD

Staff Physician

Michael Nathan, MD is a staff physician at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine.  He also serves as a hospitalist in the Mass General Hospital Rural Health program, a Coach in the MGH MD-Thrive Physician Coaching group, and is an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School.  He is also an active faculty member of the Academy on Communication in Healthcare.  He completed his medical degree at Rush University in Chicago, and his residency and chief residency in Primary Care Internal Medicine at the University of Rochester.  He is board certified in Internal and Geriatric Medicine.

Dr. Nathan has been a general internist and geriatrician at Mass General for 34 years, 32 of them in primary care at a community health center. In addition, he has been engaged in the MGH Continuum Project for palliative care, and has been certified in coaching in order to coach physicians to help them thrive.

His academic interests have included improving clinician-patient communication through teaching of medical interviewing and cross cultural communication, medical anthropology, and the work of medical interpreters in clinical encounters.  He has always had an interest in holistic approaches to medical care, and has been providing intake consultations for the Benson Henry Institute since 2022.

Peter Shannon

Peter Shannon is a professional orchestral conductor and the founder and director of the American Institute for Music and Healing, a non-profit organization dedicated to harnessing music’s healing properties to benefit patients, musicians, and healthcare professionals.  He was conductor of the Savannah Philharmonic Orchestra (2017-2019) and Chorus, and in 2014 was appointed conductor of The Jackson Symphony Orchestra (TN) having previously held positions in Germany and his native Ireland. He is internationally active as a guest conductor in Europe and the US (www.petershannon-conductor.com). A leading authority on the use of music within the health humanities, Peter is an Affiliative Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities at Mercer University Department of Medicine. He is in his final year as an Irish Research Council funded PhD scholar. His thesis is “Franz Schubert: Illness and Healing in the final symphonies, A Conductor’s Perspective.”  He also partnered with Jacqueline Huntly, MD, MPH to create the “Awakening the Musician’s Inner Gift” and “Nurturing the Inner Spirit/Healer” workshops for musicians interested in Mind Body Medicine

Sarah Lazar, PhD

Associate Director of Neuroscience Research

Sara W. Lazar, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Psychiatry Department at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. The focus of her research is to elucidate the neural mechanisms underlying the beneficial effects of yoga and meditation, both in clinical settings and in healthy individuals. She has also collaborated with clinicians to study the effects on mindfulness on anxiety and depression. Her current work is focused on well-being and personality development. Dr. Lazar has been practicing yoga and mindfulness meditation since 1994 and her research has been covered by numerous news outlets including The New York Times, USA Today, CNN, and WebMD.