Parameshwaran Ramakrishnan MD, MDiv, PhD

Dr Ramakrishnan specializes in spiritual psychiatry and is currently completing his child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at the Tower Health, Drexel University program. He holds a Master of Divinity (MDiv) from Harvard Divinity School, where he developed an inter-religious theological framework of healing, and pursued contemplative neuroscience research in the Harvard Psychiatry Department. To refine his theoretical "Mindfulness-to-Transcendence" framework, which underpins the neuroscientific basis of chaplains' Empathic Listening care, he joined the PhD program at UC Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union. Dr Ramakrishnan is dedicated to establishing evidence-based Spiritual Psychiatry programs. He advocates for combining rigorous theological education with contemplative psychiatric approaches, believing this is essential for a contemporary social psychiatry that can address societal conflicts and fulfill the word's true meaning: "Healer of the Soul.