Conversation with Center for Psychedelic Therapies and Research Staff

Join us for this exclusive conversation with Dr. Laura Pustarfi and Eric Bottelberghe, RN, MSN, CARN, and moderated by Dr. Fahad Khan, certificate graduate and mentor. This event is an opportunity to pose questions about the Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research Certificate training program to leadership staff. This event is free and open to everyone.

Meet our Center Staff

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Laura Pustarfi, Ph.D., is Director of the Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research Certificate Program and adjunct faculty in Philosophy and Religion at CIIS. As Director of the Certificate, she manages the communications, educational and technological administration, and program operations for the certificate. Her scholarly interests include plant studies, integral ecology, psychedelic philosophy, and environmental humanities, especially environmental philosophy, eco-phenomenology, and religion and ecology. She is currently working on a volume co-edited with Dr. David Macauley, The Wisdom of Trees: Thinking Through Arboreality, forthcoming from SUNY Press. Laura has presented at the several conferences on both plant studies and psychedelic-assisted therapy nationally and internationally.

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Eric Bottelberghe, RN, MSN, CARN, is a cis-gendered, heteroflexible, Caucasian, able-bodied person who believes in the values of Beloved Community and the ideals of transforming opposers into friends. He has made a commitment to be reflective and challenge the biases and privileges he holds. As a Registered Nurse, Eric has worked in the diverse fields of hospice, addiction, higher education and ketamine-assisted therapy. Eric earned his master’s degree in Nursing Education at Weber State University. He also holds three separate bachelor’s degrees in Nursing, Philosophy, and Religious Studies. He is a 2021 alumnus of the CPTR program. Eric is married, has 4 children, has an unhealthy passion for collecting books he never finishes, and a hunger to be in the Utah mountains as often as he can. As Instructional Associate with the Center for Psychedelic Therapies and Research, Eric works with and ensures trainees meet the certificate requirements of the program.

Meet our Moderator

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Fahad Khan, M.D., is a physician, researcher, and teacher. He graduated from medical school at NYU and trained there for residency and fellowship. He earned his first master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and his second master’s from the NYU Clinical and Translational Science Institute. He is licensed and certified in acupuncture from Harvard, yoga from Kripalu, sound meditation by ethnomusicologists, and both psychedelic therapy & sex therapy from CIIS. Over the past two decades he has presented on TV, radio, and at conferences like TEDx. A professor of anesthesiology & pain medicine at the NYU School of Medicine, he lives on the Brooklyn side of the bridge.

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