Deepak Chopra

Deepak Chopra’s Background

He is the author of more than seventy-five books translated into over thirty-five languages, including twenty-three New York Times bestsellers in both the fiction and nonfiction categories. His latest book, The Soul of Leadership, was mentioned as one of five best business books to read for your career by The Wall Street Journal.

He is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and Washington Post On Faith, and contributes regularly to Oprah.com, Intent.com, and The Huffington Post. He also serves as Co-Founder and Chairman of The Chopra Center for Wellbeing, Founder of The Chopra Well on YouTube, Adjunct Professor of Executive Programs at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, Columbia University, Assistant Clinical Professor, in the Family and Preventive Medicine Department at the University of California, San Diego, Health Sciences, Faculty, at Walt Disney Imagineering, Senior Scientist with The Gallup Organization.

GlobeIn acknowledges Chopra as “one of top ten most influential spiritual leaders around the world.” TIME magazine has described Dr. Chopra as “one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century and credits him as “the poet-prophet of alternative medicine.”

Deepak Chopra’s popularity as an international presenter and keynote speaker is exemplified in an impressive list of honorariums. Chopra is the recipient of the Police Athletic League Humanitarian Award, Rubin Museum of Art’s Mandala Award for Humanitarian Achievement, GOI Peace Award, Starlite Humanitarian Award, Art for Life Honoree, Oceana Partners Award, Ellis Island Medal of Honor presented by the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations Foundation, the Trailblazer Award by the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine, and the Einstein Humanitarian Award through Albert Einstein College of Medicine in collaboration with the American Journal of Psychotherapy.

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’s medical training is in internal medicine and endocrinology, and he is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, a member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, Adjunct Professor of Executive Programs at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and Senior Scientist with The Gallup Organization.