Deepak Chopra Physician, Author, Philosopher

Indian born Deepak Chopra has earned fame as a great physician in the field of alternative medicine in the US. Dr. Chopra serves as the Director of Education at the Chopra Center, which offers training programs in mind body medicine. He has established a new life giving pattern which has a crucial  connection between mind, body, spirit and healing.  Chopra is also known as the prolific author of more than 35 books, 100 audio, video and CD-ROM titles, which have been translated into 35 languages with over 20 million copies sold worldwide.

Born in Delhi, India in the year 1947, Chopra was raised in a family infused with both Western Medicine and Traditional Hindu beliefs and practices. His father, Krishnan Chopra was a prominent cardiologist who served as the dean of a local hospital and a lieutenant in the British army and his grandfather was an Ayurveda ( Indian Medicine) practitioner. 

Following his father's career in medicine, Chopra graduated from the All India Institute of Medical Science in 1968. He went to United States in 1970 to serve an internship at a hospital in New Jersey. He got further training at the Lahey Clinic and University of Virginia Hospital.  In the early 1980s, he became the Chief of staff at New England Memorial Hospital and later the Chief at Boston Regional Medical Center and he also taught at Tufts University and Boston University Schools of Medicine.  Meanwhile Dr. Chopra built a successful endocrinology practice in Boston.

In 1981, a turning point occurred in Chopra's life when he met Dr. Brihaspati Dev Triguna, a famous Ayurvedic physician at New Delhi, who advised him to meditate. At first, he didn't give it much thought but eventually he was impressed by the sizable amount of research that proves that Transcendental Meditation (TM) reduces stress.  In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Chopra became a dedicated champion of TM thought and practice. In 1985 he met Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who invited Chopra to study Ayurveda. That year Chopra became the president of the American Association for Ayurvedic Medicine. He was later named medical director of the Maharishi Ayurveda Health Center for Stress Management and Behavioral Medicine.