Tenzin Namdul, T.M.D., Ph.D., was recently appointed Director of the Tibetan Healing Initiative at the Bakken Center for Spirituality and Healing. From 2020 to 2022 he was a postdoctoral scholar in the TRACT TL1 Program at CTSI. The TL1 training program integrates a mentored research experience, an individualized curriculum, and professional development activities that focus on team-based research and effective collaboration and communication with the larger community.
“In the CTSI TRACT TL1 program, we recruit scholars from a wide variety of disciplines and backgrounds to provide training and career development opportunities in team science, communicating science, community engagement and leadership to build their translational research skills,” said Jayne Fulkerson, program director.
Taking part in the training program during the height of the pandemic posed some unique challenges. “It was a challenge, but the CTSI faculty, especially Jayne [Fulkerson] and Angie [Angie Merrifield, program manager], and all the other team members, they did so well in making sure that we had not only regular Zoom meetings as a means of knowing each other's work, but also to provide enough support both socially and emotionally,” said Namdul.
His TL1 research project was an extension of his Ph.D. dissertation work, which focused on end of life care in a Tibetan Buddhist population where, as one would expect, most of the study participants were elderly. One of the findings that came out of his dissertation work was the really strong amount of resiliency, both physically and mentally, in that population…
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