Bob Roth, Dr. Stuart Rothenberg, Dr. Taddy Blecher, and Professor Dennis Goodman
The Power of Transcendental Meditation to Change Our World!
Wednesday 27.05.2026
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Summary
Dr. Dennis Goodman, Professor of Medicine, Director of Integrative Medicine, NYU, leads this monthly medical series designed to encourage informed, confident engagement with one’s own healthcare. Grounded in the belief that wellness is not simply the absence of disease, but a proactive commitment to nutrition, movement, flexibility, sleep, and stress management. Each month, leading specialists will examine a specific medical condition, outlining its nature, current treatment approaches, and the practical steps that support prevention and long-term wellbeing.
This session brings together three distinguished leaders in the field of Transcendental Meditation: Bob Roth and Stuart Rothenberg of the David Lynch Foundation, and Taddy Blecher of the Maharishi Invincibility Institute. Together they explore TM’s growing influence in health, education, and community wellbeing. Drawing from scientific research and real-world implementation, they examine its potential impact on stress reduction, focus, resilience, emotional balance, and overall quality of life.
Bob Roth
Dr. Stuart Rothenberg
Stuart Rothenberg, MD is Chief Medical Officer of the Institute for Mental Health and Resilience of the David Lynch Foundation and national medical director of the Transcendental Meditation Health Professionals Association. A Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, he was a Pulitzer Scholar at Columbia College in New York and received his M.D. degree from New York University School of Medicine (1974).
Dr. Rothenberg was one of the first physicians in the U.S. to be trained as a teacher of the Transcendental Meditation technique. He pioneered the development of integrative mind-body approaches to the prevention and treatment of chronic disorders that include Transcendental Meditation. Dr. Rothenberg is co-author of several published studies documenting the effects of this program on chronic disorders and has presented these findings at leading medical schools and research centers both nationally and abroad.
Since April 2020, Dr. Rothenberg has headed up the “Heal the Healers Now” program, a national initiative which offers training in the TM-based Healthcare Provider Wellness Program to frontline healthcare workers. This program has been implemented in over 100 hospitals and medical centers nationwide and researched in 8 peer-reviewed published studies to date.
Dr. Taddy Blecher
Dr. Taddy Blecher is the CEO of the Maharishi Invincibility Institute, which facilitates university education for unemployed youth from 11 countries in Africa.
He also founded the Imvula Educational Empowerment Fund and, with the Rockefeller Foundation, started the Impact Sourcing Academy, HumanFirst, and Invincible Outsourcing, which provides theoretical and practical training in the business process outsourcing sector to unemployed youth, thereby bringing them into the economy.
Dr. Blecher is also the creator of the E3 initiative (Entrepreneurship, Employ ability, Education) for the national Department of Basic Education in South Africa. As a direct result of his work, 25,595 South Africans have been educated post-secondary school, found employment, and moved out of poverty into a more successful life.
Professor Dennis Goodman
Dennis Goodman MD, FACP, FACC, FCCP, ABIHM, is board certified Integrative cardiologist, Director of Integrative Medicine and Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Department of Cardiology and Preventative Medicine at NYU and Professor of Medicine at UCT, SA. He is board certified in Cardiology, Internal Medicine, Lipidology, Critical Care, Interventional Cardiology, Cardiac CT Imaging, and Integrative Medicine. He graduated Cum Laude with distinction from the University of Cape Town Medical School in Cape Town, South Africa.
Dr. Goodman completed his Internal Medicine residency and was Chief Medical Resident at Montefiore Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA, and completed his cardiology fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston TX. He is past Chief of Cardiology at Scripps Memorial in La Jolla, CA.
He is an international speaker and has been a visiting professor throughout South Africa, Asia, Israel and Europe.He has published many research articles in addition to many books on heart health, including Magnesium, Omega 3s and Vitamin K2. Dr Goodman teaches and conducts clinical research at New York University and NYU Langone Medical Center and is also a Talk show host on Sirius Dr Radio. He is founder of Preventative Medicine Lecture series at NYU. He has consistently been named as one of New York’s and USA Top Doctors.