1. Mind-Body Skills Program: 9-week 2-hours/week experiential course that provides students, faculty, and staff with self-care and reflection skills combined with group support to adaptively deal with stressors and build resilience. Faculty and staff facilitators are trained to lead groups during a 3-day immersive, experiential retreat. This course has trained faculty/staff in the Colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Allied Health, Law, DAAP, CCM, CECH, Arts & Sciences, Blue Ash, and CCHMC. Mixed method data collected pre-post 9 week program and at one-year follow-up.
2. 1. Novak, B. K., Gebhardt, A., Pallerla, H., McDonald, S.B., Haramati, A., & Cotton, S. (2020). Impact of a university-wide interdisciplinary mind-body skills program on student mental and emotional well-being. Global Advances in Health and Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1177/2164956120973983
3. Mindful Stress Reduction at the Free Store Food Bank Cincinnati COOKS! Program: 6-week group stress reduction program modified from the evidence-based Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program developed by Dr. Jon Kabat Zinn. This program has been piloted at Cincinnati COOKS!, a second-chance job training program offered through the Free Store Food Bank. Mixed method data collected pre-post each program series. 
4. College of Medicine Student Wellness Assessment: annual assessment of all College of Medicine medical students to develop and test a cross-institutional standard evaluation for student emotional and mental well-being. Currently we are on year 4 of longitudinal cohort data collection.
5. Build it Bites: BUILD-IT-BITES workshops created at Cincinnati Children’s by Dr Carina Braeutigam combines hands on teaching kitchen practices with mindfulness to avoid overall malnutrition and create positive culinary experiences for young children/adolescents with cancer and their families. Post-intervention mixed-method evaluations are collected.
6. Parkinson’s wellness program: To promote wellness through the prevention and treatment of Parkinson’s disease with lifestyle and behavioral approaches including nutrition, physical activity, stress reduction and connectivity, and evidence-based integrative therapies. All integrative health clinical programs are evaluated for feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effectiveness using a practice-based research approach.
7. Creating Caring Communities: 7-week 1-hour/week program that provides students, faculty, and staff with group support and encourages self-care and wellness. This program is designed to create an environment to connect in a safe, authentic setting that allows participants to speak freely about how they are adjusting professionally and personally in these virtual times and to share challenges, joys, and to be there for each other. 
   1. UC Creating Caring Communities Program: Additional Information (PDF)
   2. Evaluating ‘Creating Caring Communities’: A medical student pilot wellness program to aid in the transition to medical school during COVID 19 (PDF). Emily Williams, Harini Pallerla, MS Susan McDonald, MA, Laura Malosh PhD, Sonali Doshi, Sian Cotton PhD. Poster Presented at the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health Virtual Symposium. April 11-13, 2021.
8. Practice-Based Integrative Health Research: To promote wellness through the prevention and treatment of various diseases with lifestyle and behavioral approaches including nutrition, physical activity, stress reduction and connectivity, and evidence-based integrative therapies. All integrative health clinical programs are evaluated for feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effectiveness using a practice-based research approach.
   1. Integrative Medicine Modality Usage and Impact on Patients with Chronic Pain Conditions in an Urban Clinic Setting.
   2. Efficacy of Integrative Medicine Therapies on Chronic Headache Severity: A Retrospective Study.

Publications (*Senior Author)

1. Yang J, Lei D, Suo X, Tallman MJ, Qin K, Li W, Bruns KM, Blom TJ, Duran LRP, Cotton S., Sweeney JA, Gong Q, DelBello MP (2021 Nov). A preliminary study of the effects of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on structural brain networks in mood-dysregulated youth with a familial risk of bipolar disorder. Early Interv Psychiatry. Online ahead of print.
2. Qin K, Lei D, Yang J, Li W, Tallman MJ, Duran LRP, Blom TJ, Bruns KM, Cotton S., Sweeney JA, Gong Q, DelBello MP. (2021 Apr). Network-level functional typological changes after mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in mood dysregulated adolescents at familial risk for bipolar disorder: a pilot study. BMC Psychiatry. 28;21(1):213.
3. Novak BK, Gebhardt A, Pallerla H, McDonald SB, Haramati A, Cotton S.* (2020). Impact of a University-Wide Mind-Body Skills Program on Student Mental and Emotional Well-being, Glob Adv Health Med (9).
4. Wasson RS, Luberto CM, Murthi M, McDonald SB, Pallerla H, Novak BK, Cotton S.* (2020). Feasibility and acceptability of a community-based modified mindfulness-based stress reduction program for the under-resourced and unemployed. Glob Adv Health Med. Nov 8; 9:2164956120973636.
5. Hente, E., Sears, R., Siracusa, C., Filigno, S., Cotton, S., Pallerla, H., & Boat, T. (2020). A Pilot Study of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy to Improve Well-Being for Health Professionals Providing Chronic Disease Care, J Pediatr, Sept; 224:87-93.
6. Luberto, C.M., Hall, D.L, Park, E.R., Haramati, A., Cotton, S.* (2020). A Perspective on the Similarities and Differences Between Mindfulness and Relaxation. Glob Adv Health Med, (9): 1-13.

Posters/Presentations

1. MacVittie, K, Beucler, A, McGraw, M, Pallerla, H, Shewakramani, S, Freiermuth, C, Cotton, S. Impact of a Brief, Tailored Eight-Week Mindfulness Intervention for Emergency Department Personnel. Poster accepted for presentation at the International Congress on Integrative Medicine & Health; 2025; Seattle, WA, USA.
2. Trichy, N., Dillman, O., Pallerla, H., Funke, C., Cotton, S & Golubic, M. Efficacy of Integrative Medicine on Chronic Headache Severity: A Retrospective Study. Poster presentation at the 2024 International Congress on Integrative Medicine and Health, April 2024, Cleveland OH.  
3. Olulayole Adedeji, Conner Funke, Harini Pallerla, Mladen Golubic, Integrative Medicine Modality Usage and Impact on Patients with Chronic Pain Conditions in an Urban Clinic Setting presented at: 2023 Integrative Medicine and Health Symposium in Chicago, Illinois, USA (February 28 – March 2, 2023)
4. Conner D Funke, Harini Pallerla, Olulayole O Adedeji, Mladen Golubic A Retrospective Chart Review of Integrative Medicine Treatments for Patients with Chronic Headaches at an Urban Clinic poster presentation 2023 Integrative Medicine and Health Symposium in Chicago, Illinois, USA (February 28 – March 2, 2023)
5. Funke, C., McGraw, M., McDonald, S., Pallerla, H & Cotton, S.* “Impact of an 8-Week Mindfulness and Resilience Virtual Training on Stress and Burnout for University Faculty and Staff” poster presentation at the 2022 International Congress on Integrative Medicine and Health in Phoenix, Arizona, USA on May 23-26, 2022.   
6. Doshi, S., Klafter, S., Pallerla, H., McDonald, S., Malosh, L & Cotton, S*. “The Relationships Among Race, Gender, and Resiliency in Medical Students:  A Longitudinal Analysis” oral presentation at the 2022 International Congress on Integrative Medicine and Health in Phoenix, Arizona, USA on May 23-26, 2022. Travel award student first author.
7. Klatt, M., Steinberg, B., Colombini, L., Habash, D., Cotton, S., Fontaine, K., Lyle, K. “Moving Integrative Medicine towards INTEGRATED Medicine in Two Large Academic Medical Centers” oral symposium accepted for presentation at the International Congress on Integrative Medicine and Health in Cleveland, Ohio, USA on April 28-May 1, 2020
8. Hancock, J., D’Amico, C., Pallerla, H., Novak, B., Espay, A., Stecher, B., & Cotton, S.* (2020). “Developing an Integrative Health and Wellness Program for Parkinson’s Disease Patients.” Glob Adv Health Med, 9: 11.
9. Novak, B., Lyle, K., Pallerla, H., Moss, E., Sacco, J., & Cotton, S.* (2020). “A Short and Long-Term Evaluation of a University-Wide Interdisciplinary Mind-Body Skills Program” Glob Adv Health Med, 9: 101.
10. Novak, B., Lyle, K., Pallerla, H., Moss, E., Sacco, J., & Cotton, S.* (2020). “The Development and Evaluation of an Undergraduate Integrative Health Certificate Program” Glob Adv Health Med, 9: 124.
    

Harini is a Principal Research Associate with the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Cincinnati. Harini has a Master’s degree in Health Administration & Planning from the University of Cincinnati with a primary focus on Health Services Research.  Her specialization is in quantitative research methods, data analysis, database design, and application support.  She has over ten years of experience in managing research projects and assists UC faculty, residents, and medical students with their research.

Sian Cotton, PhD, founding director of the Osher Center for Integrative Health and the Turner Farm Foundation Chair at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, is a licensed clinical psychologist.  A Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and Division Director for Integrative Medicine, Dr. Cotton has an active research lab with ongoing clinical studies focusing primarily on mindfulness-based interventions and integrative medicine practice-based research. She is currently the Chair of the Board of Directors for the Academic Consortium of Integrative Medicine and Health, a group of over 85 leading academic health centers, and served as 1 of 8 Congress Co-Presidents for the 2^nd World Congress on Integrative Medicine in Rome, September 2023.  Dr. Cotton is often invited to speak with community organizations and businesses, healthcare audiences, and academics about mind-body medicine for stress reduction, and preventive and wellness-based approaches to healthcare.