Dr. Kondwani has served as the meditation treatment provider in six randomized clinical control trials supported by the National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense, and the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Medicine. He developed Consciously Resting Meditation (CRM) and has taught CRM to thousands of individuals in hospitals, prisons, clinics, schools, corporations and low-income communities. Dr. Kondwani’s collaborative research has found improvements in mental clarity, anxiety and sleep function through meditation. In addition, he has investigated meditation’s effect on stress, blood pressure, diabetes, metabolic syndrome and other cardiovascular diseases such as left ventricular hypertrophy and arteriosclerotic plaque. These randomized clinical trials have consistently shown immediate and long-term benefits from meditation.
As the Principal Investigator of an NIH, Fogarty Global Health Fellows and Scholars Program, Dr. Kondwani collaborates with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Johns Hopkins University and Tulane University (UJMT). This UJMT collaborative, with mentoring and research training locations in seventeen countries in Africa, Asia, and South America, supports the development of competitively selected US medical students and post doctorates as well as in-country pre and post-doctorate candidates.
Over the past fifteen years, Dr. Kondwani has interacted with PROMETRA International, headquartered in Dakar, Senegal, to preserve African traditional medicine, culture and indigenous sciences. With Dr. Kondwani’s involvement, MSM has maintained a Memorandum of Understanding and other agreements that allow for collaborative investigations. Currently, the Andrew Young Foundation, MSM and PROMETRA are investigating the use of herbal compounds to treat diseases that can improve health equity for vulnerable populations.
Dr. Kofi A. Kondwani received his Bachelor’s, Master’s and Ph.D. in Psychophysiology (Mind/Body Medicine) from Maharishi International University, in Fairfield, Iowa.
