Staff and Klatt Research Lab
Dr. Maryanna Klatt, Ph. D.
The Ohio State University, College of Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine
Maryanna Klatt, Ph.D. is the Director for the Center for Integrative Health and a Professor in the College of Medicine at The Ohio State University in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. Her focus is the exploration of evidence-based Integrative Medicine. Dr. Klatt has been trained in Mindfulness Meditation, an approach that comes out of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, in addition to being a certified Integrative Yoga Therapy instructor. She combines yoga and mindfulness meditation, and diaphragmatic breathing in her practice, teaching, and research. Specifically, her research has shown that nurses working in a surgical intensive care unit reduced their stress by 40% (shown in their salivary amylase), university/hospital faculty and staff slept better, and bank employees significantly reduced their perceived stress, cancer survivors and their caregivers became significantly more resilient, while inner-city 3rd graders significantly improved in hyperactivity and cognitive inattention- behaviors often related to stress. Her goal is to reduce health care costs via preventative stress reduction worksite programming. She has shown that mindful awareness interventions produce an average of 4000.00 annual cost savings for participants up to 5 years post-intervention. Dr. Klatt has published several articles and book chapters, given a TED talk, and presented her work at national and international scientific conferences. Her stress reduction program has been a fully covered benefit for faculty and staff at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Klatt believes that there is an unexplored mine of low-cost, high-yield movement and meditation practices that have broad pragmatic value. Her research-based program has reached 700+ adults in need of stress reduction, demonstrating the real-world impact of translational research. Her goal is to expose people to yoga, meditation, and breathing techniques that can be utilized during the day, helping them achieve the life and balance they desire.
Jacqueline Caputo
Jacqueline Caputo is one of the Mindfulness in Motion Project Managers for Dr. Klatt’s program. She has been working with Dr. Klatt since 2021 and loves being able to connect with so many populations through the universal themes of mindfulness, breathwork, and meditation. Over the past year, she took the lead on developing the MIM app for the 8-week program and the Sickle Cell and Mindfulness program. She also assists Dr. Klatt with the research and analysis that evaluate how MIM is benefiting those we serve. Another passion in her job is leading the facilitator training with Dr. Klatt and Julie Patel that teaches and guides individuals how to successfully facilitate the program. Specifically, Jacqueline’s research interests focus on bringing a public health lens to MIM to implement the program in the best possible way across populations. She graduated from OSU in 2020 with a bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience. Currently, she is a second-year graduate student in the Health Behavior Health Promotion Public Health program. While not at work or school, she loves running, practicing yoga, being in nature, finding the best restaurants and coffee in Columbus, and reading all different types of books. Her favorite activity is spending time with her two cats, Snickers and Reese.
Kayla Daniel
Kayla is a two-time graduate of THE Ohio State University with a B.A. in Sociology, Minor in Integrative Approaches to Health and Wellness (2017) and M.A. in Bioethics (2022). She works in the Center for Integrative Health as the Administrative Assistant to Director Dr. Maryanna Klatt, and also serves as the Community Class Coordinator. Kayla additionally assists with marketing and outreach related to the Center, especially promoting clinical services and community class opportunities including Tai Chi, Qigong, Yoga, Reiki, and more! She is passionate about mindfulness and breathing, serving as a Mindfulness in Motion facilitator and seeking additional training in the Buteyko Breathing Method. Outside of work, Kayla enjoys outdoor adventures, sewing, reading, and playing with her cats!
Beth Steinberg
Beth, PhD, RN, NEA-BC is the Associate Director of Research for the Center for Integrative Health. With years of clinical and administrative nursing experience, her research focus is on the implementation and evaluation of evidence-based worksite interventions, especially those that may decrease stress and improve resilience of health care workers. She is a co-founder of Buckeye Paws, a therapy dog program developed to support the mental health and well-being of WMC staff, faculty and students.
Marcus Williams
As a former Ohio State football player, Marcus developed a special interest in the influence of lifestyle on both performance and health. This had led to a passionate professional pursuit aimed at equipping individuals with the tools they need to transform the way they pursue peak performance and experiences whole-person health.
Diane Brogan-Habash
She has been working and learning for over 37 years as a researcher, teacher and clinician. She began in pre-clinical testing of anti-neoplastic drugs for the government at Battelle Memorial Institute. After getting her MS and PhD in nutrition, metabolism and exercise, she developed and used a wide array of assessment procedures in those domains for the OSU Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) and managed the Bionutrition Core. She advised researchers in their study design and use of these methods for over 16 years. She has been a dietitian for 21 years and involved in translating health and research information to the every-day patient through research studies, consults and volunteer work at free clinics for the underserved. She currently serves on several non- or not-for-profit boards/committees in the Columbus community.
In 2013, she took on and continued to teach graduate, undergraduate and medical students about nutrition assessment and diet. She also teaches undergrads in health sciences about integrative medicine (i.e. the use and role of integrative/complementary therapies in society). In her role as associate director of education for the OSU Center of Integrative Medicine, she is helping the team of integrative clinicians to develop and implement the educational curricula for training healthcare professionals in many facets of integrative health. She is working with OSUWMC to integrate these therapies into the acute care setting.
While her overall personal mission is to impact the health of her community, especially the underserved, which she has been doing through leadership for five student organizations vested in this work. She is also developing the novel area of ‘narrative practice’ in medicine and health with competence in nutrition with students and dietetic interns. She truly believes that a person’s story is vital for both the clinician and patient in the path to achieve optimal health and healing. Through these collective interests and connections, she is hopeful to make contributions to grants and programs which ultimately impact members and the health of her community.
Yulia Mulugeta
Yulia works as a Clinical Research Coordinator in the Klatt Research Lab. She assists with all research projects in the lab but primarily coordinates the First Responders and Sickle Cell studies. She completed her Bachelor of Science degree in Neuroscience, at The Ohio State University. She enjoys reading, being out in nature, and spending time with friends and family.
Slate Bretz
Slate Bretz is a graduate of The Ohio State University with a B.A. in Biochemistry and a minor in Spanish (2023). She is currently working as a Project Coordinator for the Mindfulness in Motion program (MIM), and previously was an undergraduate research assistant in Dr. Klatt’s lab for two years. She is passionate about stretching and yogic movements related to injury prevention and sports medicine centered around mindfulness. She has been an assistant in various MIM cohorts over the past couple years and is currently facilitating her first cohort. She assists Dr. Klatt with research and app related questions and technologies for the program. She also is in charge of a research study looking to reduce preoperative anxiety through meditation with orthopedic patients. She is applying for medical school in the next year to become a future physician. Slate’s interested in a variety of sports, specifically running, biking, and volleyball. Her favorite activity is backpacking in nature, including hiking and tent camping. Fun fact about Slate is that she spent five months in Chile learning Spanish and working in a healthcare clinic abroad.
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