Dr. Sheila Patel, MD, is Chopra’s Chief Medical Officer and a board-certified family physician who combines the best of conventional medicine with Ayurveda to help people achieve optimal mind, body, spirit well-being. She is a certified yoga, meditation, and Ayurvedic lifestyle teacher and is a lead educator in the Chopra certification programs. Dr. Patel teaches in a variety of settings and enjoys bringing light to the science and mechanisms of action of mind-body practices.