About Us

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 health care workers. 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.

Dr. Bhat was president of The Biofeedback Society of California (2002) and a board member of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, www.aapb.org He has been a professor of Meditation at the University of Natural Medicine. Dr. Bhat's work has been cited in National TV, Time Magazine, Cardiology Today, Business Week, and India Currents. 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." He has shared his wisdom internationally with over 100,000 people.

In 2001 Dr. Bhat's presentation at Cambridge University, entitled "Time and Focus Management-Tools for Stress Control," earned him recognition as one of The 2000 Outstanding Scientists of the 21st Century.

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Kusum Bhat, Ph.D., is a physician assistant and a certified Biofeedback specialist, with a doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology, and specializes in behavioral medicine. She is currently the clinical director of the Cybernetix Medical Institute, as well as a mental health specialist at the Contra Costa County Hospital in Martinez, California. She has also previously interned at the Children's Hospital in Oakland, the Battered Women's Alternative, the Hume Center in Concord, and the Contra Costa County Hospital Psychiatric Emergency Service. Currently she is professor at the University of Natural Medicine for doctorate students. http://www.universitynaturalmedicine.org

Dr. Bhat has repeatedly demonstrated her expertise in the field of Biofeedback and Applied Psychophysiology. Her doctoral dissertation was on The Role of Biofeedback Assisted Anger Control in Reversing Heart Disease. Moreover, she has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and has held workshops all over the world on heart rate variability and anger control, "Emotional Intelligence by Self-disclosure", and "Do-able stress control for the 21st century".