The Fifth Annual Science on Spiritual Health Symposium

The Talks

The Science on Spiritual Health Symposium (SOS) is an annual gathering of international leaders at the forefront of spiritual health research, practice, & innovation. It is a celebration of new scientific & clinical findings in spiritual health & psychedelic medicine that are poised to transform the medical system's approach to treating mental & physical ailments.

Robin Carhart-Harris

Robin Carhart-Harris is a leading researcher in the fields of human neuroscience and psychopharmacology. He is best known for his groundbreaking research on how psychedelic substances affect the brain and how they could be used as treatments for mental health issues such as depression. He is the Ralph Metzner Distinguished Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California San Francisco. Robin moved to UCSF in 2021. In April 2019, he founded the world’s first Center for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London, where he now holds an Honorary Professorship.

Robin's Profile

Stephen Lewis

Steve Lewis is a board certified healthcare chaplain at UC San Diego Health. In addition to offering spiritual and emotional support for patients and families across the life cycle, he is an investigator in research studies in critical care and palliative care contexts. He is the national co-convener of the Transforming Chaplaincy Psychedelic Care Network, a collective of over 300 educators, researchers, and spiritual care professionals. Through this network, he has led a working group to identify and publish professional competencies for spiritual health practitioners in psychedelic care.

Stephen's Profile

Candance Oglesby

Candace founded Jurnee Mental Health Consulting out of a pressing desire to move beyond the couch—channeling her decade-long experience as a psychotherapist to address the systemic roots of mental health inequity on a macro level. While therapy remains foundational, she grew disillusioned with how the mental health industrial complex continues to marginalize global majority communities. This led her to evolve into a mental health equity consultant, understanding that the healing expertise of clinicians is essential in boardrooms, community gatherings, policy work, and innovative mental health modalities (psychedelics).

Candace's Profile

Csaba Szilagyi

Csaba Szilagyi is the Director of Research and an Assistant Professor at Rush University Medical Center, Department of Religion, Health, and Human Values. In this capacity, he serves as the Director of the Transforming Chaplaincy program at Rush with the mission to “promote evidence-based spiritual care and integrate research into professional practice and education by fostering a culture of inquiry.”

Csaba's Profile

Matt Zemon

Matt Zemon helps everyday seekers and faith communities meet the Sacred directly through psychedelics, and make sense of what they find. Bridging science, spirituality, and law, he writes and speaks about mystical experience as something ordinary people can reach, and treats it with the reverence, preparation, and care such an encounter deserves.

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