Elena Gillespie is a research investigator in medicine at the university of Birmingham, UK. She has a B.S. in molecular biology and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Fielding Graduate University in Human Organizational Development with a focus on research in human consciousness.

She has completed a study on the effects of Reiki in the management of chronic pain in the complications of diabetes at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The results of this study are pending publication in the peer-reviewed journal, Diabetes Care in Spring 2007.

She has a wide variety of interests within the field of healing, which were widened into human consciousness studies when it became apparent that one's spiritual, emotional and physical status deeply affects one's ability to heal, cope, and evolve in one's life. These interests have involved energy therapies, the death and dying process from an energetic perspective, and the effects of music on group consciousness.

Her most recent achievement has been to be awarded a Fellowship in the Creativity, Longevity and Wisdom Initiative, where she will be analyzing aspects of medicine, neurophysiology, anthropology, sociology and energy medicine in reference to the uses and purpose of music in human consciousness development.

Elena Gillespie's Summary of Investigation (PDF)