Luminary: Deepak Chopra

Luminary: Deepak Chopra

“My country has been enriched by the contributions of more than a million Indian Americans, which includes Dr. Deepak Chopra, the pioneer of alternative medicine.” – President William Clinton, March 21, 2000 – State Dinner - India

Time Magazine heralds Deepak Chopra as one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century, and credits him as “the poet-prophet of alternative medicine.”     – Time Magazine, June 1999

“A renowned physician and author, Deepak Chopra is undoubtedly one of the most lucid and inspired philosophers of our time.”    – Mikhail Gorbachev, Citation of the Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Republic awarded by the Pio Manzu International Scientific Committee

Dr. Deepak Chopra is the Chairman and co-founder of Chopra Center for Wellbeing in Carlsbad, California. Chopra’s Wellness Radio airs weekly on Sirius/XM Stars, Channels 102 and 55, which focuses on the areas - success, love, sexuality and relationships, well-being, and spirituality. He is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and Washington Post On Faith and contributes regularly to Oprah.com, Intent.com, and Huffington Post.

Chopra is known as a prolific author of over fifty-five books with sixteen New York Times best sellers on mind-body health, quantum mechanics, spirituality, and peace. A global force in the field of human empowerment, Dr. Chopra’s books have been published in more than eighty-five languages in both fiction and non-fiction.  His New York Times best sellers, Peace is the Way won the Quill Awards and The Book of Secrets was awarded the grand prize at the 2005 Nautilus Book Award. His latest New York Times Bestseller, Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul, was released in October 2009 followed by The Ultimate Happiness Prescription in November 2009.

His innovative mobile programs “Stress Free” and “Yoga” iPhone applications provide an avenue to explore the world of Deepak Chopra.  Soon to be released on Mother’s Day 2010, the new multi-media project, “The Mother-Infant Bond: The Biology of Love”, produced by theVisualMD with a consortium of partners, will reveal never-before-seen scientific visuals depicting the extraordinary biological bond between mother and baby.

Deepak Chopra's popularity as an international presenter and keynote speaker is exemplified in an impressive list of honorariums. He participates annually as a lecturer at the Update in Internal Medicine event sponsored by Harvard Medical School, Department of Continuing Education and the Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center since 1997. Dr. Chopra is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, a member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, an Adjunct Professor at Kellogg School of Management and Senior Scientist with The Gallup Organization.

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