Mission
Bridging the gap between science and practice.
Under the direction of neuroscientist Dr. Matthew X. Lowe, OPI’s Research Pillar is committed to advancing the scientific understanding of psilocybin and related compounds.
Grounded in rigorous methodology and ethical inquiry, our research aims to illuminate how psychedelics affect the brain, behavior, and healing. The ultimate goal of OPI's research is to optimize facilitation practices and outcomes.
Road Map
Bridging the gap between academic science and real-world practice.
Under the direction of neuroscientist Dr. Matthew X. Lowe, OPI’s Research Pillar is committed to advancing the scientific understanding of psilocybin and related compounds. Grounded in rigorous methodology and ethical inquiry, our research aims to illuminate how psychedelics affect the brain, behavior, and healing.
Team
Jaime Smith
Jaime Smith is a Certified Clinical Research Professional, a Research Program Manager in UC San Francisco’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and the Director of UC Riverside’s Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Community Responsive and Engaged Equity Research (CREER) in Mental Health Center.
Jaime has spent over seventeen years in clinical and research administration and coordination in health care and academia, ten of them working in substance use and behavioral health with a focus on vulnerable populations. She is skilled in leadership; project management; large and complex budgeting; contracts and grants composition, submission, and management; clinical research in industry, cooperative group, private, state, and federally supported trials from both a clinical coordinator and a research administrator perspective. Her research experience includes primary and secondary data collection, management, and analysis of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed
methods studies.
Jaime is a licensed Psychedelic Facilitator and a licensed Soccer Official. When not at work, Jaime enjoys spending time in nature, being active, joking with her husband, bonding with and answering music trivia questions from her teenage daughter, stopping her kittens from testing gravity, and trying to figure out what her dogs are telling her.
Current Research
Bridging the gap between academic science and real-world practice.
Under the direction of neuroscientist Dr. Matthew X. Lowe, OPI’s Research Pillar is committed to advancing the scientific understanding of psilocybin and related compounds. Grounded in rigorous methodology and ethical inquiry, our research aims to illuminate how psychedelics affect the brain, behavior, and healing.