Deepak Chopra

Deepak Chopra is an American author and a prominent advocate of alternative medicine. Born in New Delhi, he studied medicine in India and moved to the United States in 1970, completing his medical training in internal medicine and endocrinology. In 1980 he was appointed to lead the medical staff at New England Memorial Hospital in Massachusetts, and he went on to help found the American Association of Ayurvedic Medicine and to direct Sharp HealthCare's Center for Mind-Body Medicine in California. He also helped set up the Chopra Center for Wellbeing in 1996. A 1993 interview about his books on The Oprah Winfrey Show brought him a wide following, and Time magazine named him one of the 20th century's heroes and icons in 1999. He has written more than 80 books, among them The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, while medical and scientific professionals have regularly criticized his ideas as pseudoscience.