Larry Dossey, MD

Dr. Larry Dossey is a physician of internal medicine.

He was a co-founder of the Dallas Diagnostic Association and is former Chief of Staff of Medical City Dallas Hospital. He served as a field battalion surgeon in Vietnam in 1968-9, where he was decorated for valor. He later completed his residency in internal medicine at the Veterans Administration Hospital and Parkland Hospital in Dallas.

Dossey lectures widely in the United States and abroad about the role of consciousness and spirituality in health. In 1988 he delivered the annual Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Lecture in New Delhi, India, at that time the only physician ever invited to do so.

Dr. Dossey is the former co-chairman of the Panel on Mind/Body Interventions, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health.

Dossey has published more than a hundred articles and is the author of thirteen books, including Space, Time & Medicine, Recovering the Soul, Healing Words, Reinventing Medicine, The Power of Premonitions, One Mind: How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Mind and Why It Matters, and, most recently, he is co-author of What Is Consciousness? His books have been translated into languages around the world.

Dr. Dossey lives in Santa Fe with his wife Barbara, who is a nurse-educator, consultant and the author of several award-winning books. Contact: www.larrydosseymd.com.