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Dilip G. Saraf, Participant with the South Asian Heart Center
Dilip G. Saraf is a Career and Life Coach and founder of Career Transitions Unlimited
(www.career-transitions-unl.com). Saraf is the author of five books: The 7 Keys to a Dream Job; Reinvention Through Messaging, Pathways to Career Nirvana; Rehired, not Retired; and Conquering the Workplace (expected December 2005). Saraf is also a contributing writer with CareerSource Magazine.
 
Dr. Enas Enas, M.D., F.A.C.C., Speaker and Cardiologist
Dr. Enas is a graduate of the University of Kerala, India. In the US, he was trained in Chicago Illinois at Weiss Memorial Hospital and Cook County Hospital. Dr. Enas is Board Certified in Cardiology. He is a member of the American Heart Association and the New York Academy of Science. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology. He is currently the Director of the CADI Research Foundation and Advanced Heart Lipid Clinic in Downers Grove, Illinois.

RESEARCH: Dr. Enas has the unique distinction of being the first physician to publicly address and scientifically prove a 4-fold higher rate of coronary artery disease (CAD) in Asian Indians in the US (compared to the general population). He is the principal investigator of the landmark CAD in Asian Indians (CADI) Study and the first physician to identify and report a genetic predisposition to CAD in Asian Indians, mediated through lipoprotein(a), a powerful risk factor for premature CAD in diverse populations. The adverse effects of Lp(a) are increased by a factor of 10 or more by the unfavorable concentrations of other lipoproteins also common among Asian Indians. His research has contributed greatly to the understanding of the ten-fold difference in CAD rates among people of diverse ethnic origin. (www.cadiresearch.com).

PUBLICATIONS: During the past 10 years, Dr. Enas has authored or co-authored more than 40 articles, including editorials and reviews in American, British, and Indian medical journals, highlighting the excess burden of CAD in young Asian Indians around the globe. He is on the editorial board of several medical journals including Cardiology Today, Asian Journal of Clinical Cardiology, Ethnicity & Health, and Asian American and Pacific Islander Journal of Health.
 
Padma Srinivasan, Practicing Physician in Hayward, California
Dr. Srinivasan is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Nephrology, and Past President of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin.
 
Naras Bhat, M.D., F.A.C.P., Author
Naras Bhat, M.D., F.A.C.P., is a physician, board-certified in Internal Medicine Immunology and Allergy, and also certified in Metabolic Cardiology and Stress Management. He currently teaches at the University of California, Berkeley and was a professor of behavioral medicine at Rosebridge College of Integrative Psychology. Dr. Bhat is the author of the internationally known book, How to Reverse and Prevent Heart Disease and Cancer. He also wrote a course book for his U.C. Berkeley class, Unlearning Test Anxiety and Stress and produced two popular videos, Uprooting Anger and Meditation Prescription. Born in India and educated in the West, Dr. Bhat connects Eastern disciplines with Western high-tech medicine using computer feedback systems known as cybernetics. Dr. Bhat is the founder and director of the Cybernetix Medical Institute, located in Concord, California. His active stress and heart disease reversal clinic has training programs for patients, physicians, and healthcare workers. His collaborating wife, Kusum Bhat, Ph.D., is the Institute’s clinical director. Their three daughters, Anita, Jyoti, and Joy, who are in the medical field, also contribute to Dr. Bhat’s various creative endeavors. (see http://www.newstresscontrolsecrets.com).

RESEARCH: Dr. Bhat has done extensive research on how stress affects the heart from the perspective of heart-centered physiology, called cardio-neuro-immunology. This work focuses on how the heart rate and blood pressure are changed by emotions, such as anger or loving kindness. To further his research, Dr. Bhat traveled to the Himalayas to study the physiology of spiritual sages during meditation by utilizing biofeedback technology. Dr. Bhat was president of The Biofeedback Society of California (2002) and a board member of the mind-body organization, Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback (www.aapb.org), professor of Meditation at the University of Natural Medicine, teaching doctorate students. (www.universitynaturalmedicine.org/Pages/FacultClinPsych.htm)

PUBLICATIONS: Dr. Bhat’s work has been cited in National TV, Time Magazine, Cardiology Today, Business Week, The Contra Costa Times and the San Francisco Examiner. India Currents also published an article about Dr. Bhat and his healing work. His photo was featured on the cover of the magazine. Medical Economics featured Dr. Bhat’s approach to stress control in Strategic Medicine. Dr. Bhat has conducted more than 500 seminars on "Do-able Stress Control for the 21st Century" "Reversing Heart Disease" and "Time Management by Attentional Intelligence.” Through these seminars, he has shared his wisdom internationally with over 100,000 people. His "Doctor’s Doctor" Program has taught thousands of physicians in North America, Europe, and Asia how to recover from the "wounded healer syndrome." In 2001 at England’s Cambridge University, Dr. Bhat’s presentation, "Time and Focus Management-Tools for Stress Control," earned the honor of being recognized as one of The 2000 Outstanding Scientists of the 21st Century.