Deepak Chopra
1946 -
Deepak Chopra, M.D., (born October 22, 1946 in New Delhi, India) is a medical doctor and writer extensively on spirituality and divrese topics in mind-body medicine. His main influences are two: the teachings of Vedanta and the Bhagavad Gita from his native India and quantum physics.
Chopra was educated in India and immigrated to the U.S. in 1970, becoming board-certified in internal medicine and endocrinology. He graduated from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in 1968, and after interning at a New Jersey hospital, trained for several more years at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Massachusetts and at the University of Virginia Hospital. He taught at Tufts University and Boston University Schools of Medicine, became the chief of staff at the New England Memorial Hospital and established a large private practice. He became a leader in the Transcendental Meditation movement, but later branched off on his own to pursue broader aims in mind-body treatment.
Chopra is Chief Executive Officer and Medical Director of The Chopra Center, which he founded in 1992 in San Diego; it is cureently located at La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, California with branches in New York City and elsewhere.
- Wikipedia, 2006