Helané Wahbeh, ND, is director of research at Institute of Noetic Sciences, an adjunct assistant professor in the department of neurology at Oregon Health & Science University, and president of the Parapsychological Association. Helané is clinically trained as a naturopathic physician, she has a master's degree in clinical research, and she also completed two post-doctoral research fellowships. She has published (and spoken internationally about) her studies on complementary and alternative medicine, mind-body medicine, extended human capacities, stress, post-traumatic stress disorder and its relationship to physiology, health, and healing. Helané is well known for her research about — and noetic approach to — channeling.