Andrew Kornfeld

Andrew Kornfeld, B.A., B.S. is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) where he studied both Neuroscience and Psychology. At UCSC, he co-founded and served as President of the Brain, Mind and Consciousness (BMC) Society, whose mission is to explore human cognition, behavior, and experience through student-led and -directed education. Under his leadership, the BMC has become one of the largest organizations at UCSC and attracted thousands of students through numerous events, two student-led seminars and a six day conference. For his accomplishments, he received an Award of Special Achievement from the Department of Psychology and the Dean’s Award in Undergraduate Education. While not teaching at Ubiquity, Andrew serves as Director of Communications and New Patient Services at Recovery Without Walls, an innovative and evidence-based medical program in the treatment of chronic pain and chemical dependency. Andrew is also an avid writer. He has co-authored an article on obscure drugs of abuse for the medical journal, Marin Medicine. He also previously co-authored a chapter in the the Wiley-Blackwell Handbook on Transpersonal Psychology on the neurobiology of psychedelic compounds, where he served as the only author without a graduate degree. He has published papers alongside his father, Dr. Howard Kornfeld, in the field of psychopharmacology. He wrote his undergraduate thesis on the neuroscience of psychological trauma and novel treatments.