Dr. Basu Ray is currently a staff Cardiologist and Cardiac Electrophysiologist at the Memphis Veterans Medical Center in Memphis, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Memphis. He is a former faculty member in Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Basu Ray was appointed as an author of the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Statement on the role of meditation in cardiovascular risk reduction. He has delivered lectures on yoga at many premier institutes, including Harvard, MIT, Georgia Tech, Cleveland, and the Mayo Clinic. His research interests include use of AI data to predict emotional states like depression that can affect prognosis of cardiovascular disease, role of meditation, stress reduction and biofeedback on the mind-heart axis to prevent and treat cardiovascular pathology initiated in a stressed organism, and the study of Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) morphology to determine the factors that induce thrombus formation in patients with atrial fibrillation. His work has been published in leading journals, such as New England Journal of Medicine and Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine.