Mauro Zappaterra obtained his MD and PhD from Harvard Medical School. He is board-certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation with a focus on optimizing human performance, increasing awareness and decreasing suffering.

He has been practicing mindfulness since 1998, and teaching mindfulness to patients with chronic pain since 2018. He is the Director of Multidisciplinary Care at Synovation Medical Group. He has led the Awakening Awareness Program and Inward Inquiry for the Emerging Sciences Foundation which can be found on YouTube.

He has published numerous scientific papers and medical book chapters on the cerebrospinal fluid, disability, and pain management. He has also published “I Am”, “All One”, and “All Love” which are three books exploring topics of awareness, primarily for kids, but really for people of all ages. He has also published “Close Your Eyes, What Do You See?” with his son, which is a story about imagination and intention. Recently he published “A is for Awarness: A Consciousness Expanding Alphabet”, a new alphabet book. These can all be found on Amazon.

He continues to create programs to help patients with chronic pain and investigate the cerebrospinal fluid and integrate new research to evolve the hypothesis of The Cerebrospinal Fluid and I Am.